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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Love Boy
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'LeRoi has lost his mother. He is placed in a state care facility while his kinship placement is arranged. Here he meets Stevie, a troubled ward with not much to lose. Together, they are at the bottom and the only way up is down. Australian Aboriginal youth suicide rates are among the highest in the world. It is said that there is not enough hope to protect indigenous young people against ending their own lives. Love Boy is about finding that hope. ' (Source: National Play Festival 2013 website www.pwa.org.au)

Production Details

  • Commissioned by Platform Youth Theatre
  • Presented at the National Play Festival, State Theatre Centre, Perth Western Australia on 22 February,2013
  • Playwriting Australia developed Love Boy at the 2012 National Script Workshop following which Casey was awarded the 2012
    • Director: Susie Dee
    • Dramaturg: Jane Bodie
    • Cultural Consultant: Kerrianne Cox
    • Cast: Jessica Clarke, Katya Shevtsov, Heath Bergersen and Meyne Wyatt.

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Works about this Work

Finalists for White Prize Announced Steve Dow , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 April 2013; (p. 17)
Finalists for White Prize Announced Steve Dow , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 April 2013; (p. 17)
Last amended 17 Apr 2013 10:03:13
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