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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 My Robot
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'When Ophelia moves with her family to the seaside, she’s not impressed. She doesn’t like the beach, misses her old home and thinks the people in this town are pretty strange. While unpacking her room she discovers a mysterious box full of gadgets, parts and pieces, and a strange note that reads ‘You. Make. Me.’ Her curiosity gets the better of her and she spends all night assembling the objects into Olivetti, a robot with a typewriter chest and an alarm clock heart. Made up of pieces, but more than the sum of her parts.

'Together Ophelia and Olivetti take on the local bully and make friends with a child so worried about allergies that he never leaves the house, all while trying to keep her dad from discovering that Olivetti is really a robot. But a bigger challenge is coming – can the pair save their friend and reunite him with his mother?

'My Robot takes audiences of all ages on a rambunctious adventure filled with robot antics, laughter, daring rescues and bewildered parents, all told with the care and artistry synonymous with Barking Gecko’s award winning shows. Children will discover that we’re all just made from pieces, and that when we feel less than whole we can find – or make – a part that fits!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Production Details

  • Premiered at Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, 11-25 November 2017.

    Produced by Barking Gecko Theatre Company.

    Director: Matt Edgerton.

    Cast: St John Cowcher, Arielle Gray, and Sarah Nelson.

    Set & Costume Designer: Isla Shaw.

    Lighting Designer: Chris Donnelly.

    Composer & Sound Designer: James Luscombe.

    Producer: Anna Kosky.

    Robot Designer: Steve Berrick.


    Performed at Studio Underground State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, Perth: 1-14 July 2019

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon For We The Young For We the Young : Five Plays Finegan Kruckemeyer , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2020 19588678 2020 selected work drama children's

    'In For We The Young, a collection of plays by one of Australia’s most beloved writers of theatre for young people, Finegan Kruckemeyer offers a glimpse into worlds of quiet sorrow and deep joy, daring feats and ingenious leaps. His quirky humour and surprising stories release the imagination and let it run wild, trailing images and words behind like so many footprints in the snow.

    'In My Robot, pieces of junk and pieces of people form the cure to a young inventor’s homesickness. In Love, a big-hearted boy tries to save the most precious things in his town from a huge storm. In The Snow, a ‘tiny child’ tackles mean birds and deep darkness to find a way through the mountain of snow that has cut off his village. In This Girl LaughsThis Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing, three sisters traverse the globe to find their true selves. And in the dystopian world of Where Words Once Were, our hero learns the damage words can do, along with their power to heal.'

    (Source: publisher's blurb)

    Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2020

Works about this Work

Marlanie on Centre Stage for Barking Gecko Show 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 3 July no. 704 2019; (p. 37)
'Nyikina woman Marlanie Haerewa, from Derby, Western Australia, is starring in Barking Gecko's production of children's play My Robot.'
Marlanie on Centre Stage for Barking Gecko Show 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 3 July no. 704 2019; (p. 37)
'Nyikina woman Marlanie Haerewa, from Derby, Western Australia, is starring in Barking Gecko's production of children's play My Robot.'

Awards

2018 winner AWGIE Awards Stage Award Theatre for Young Audiences
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