Girls In Boys Cars

Based on the novel by Felicity Castagna

National Theatre of Parramatta

Adapted and Directed by Priscilla Jackman

Creative team: Melanie Liertz (Set and Costume Designer), Morgan Moroney (Lighting Designer), Mark Bolotin (Multimedia Designer), Zac Saric (Sound Designer), Brittanie Shipway (Dramaturg), Lucy Clements (Associate Director)

With: Hannah Crane (Production Associate), Jaime Petersen (Stage Manager), Tim Dashwood (Fight Choreographer), Bayley Turner (Intimacy Coordinator).

Cast: Ziggy Resnick, Nikita Waldron, Suz Mawer, Ella Prince, Alex Stamell

Production and rehearsal photography: Phil Erbacher

Season dates: 19 th October – 3 rd November 2023

About the project:

A road trip, an unravelling mystery, a journey to self. Girls in Boys Cars is a play about two girls who dare take their narrative into their own hands, refusing to let their stories, or friendship, be defined for them. Rosa and Asheeka are both from Parramatta but have grown up in very different communities. Asheeka’s ferocious ability to command attention is as fine-tuned as Rosa’s awkward efforts to remain invisible.

Girls in Boys Cars is a play about the complexities of friendships between young women. It is about two girls’ inherent longing to choose and discover an alternate world beyond the social and cultural parameters in which they have grown up; in order to redefine who they are expected to be, and discover who they are. It is a play about writing your own story, understanding family, learning to laugh hard, and finding connections in the most obscure places.

Girls in Boys Cars is about the danger and courage of a friendships that empowers Rosa and Asheeka to drive forward into the unknown, crossing vast distances of Australia, in order to find their only way of getting back ‘home’.