Everything They Ever Said With Fingers Crossed Behind Their Backs

Developed and Commissioned by Say Arts for Dream Big Children's Festival.

Over the course of one strange week (when Australia’s experiencing a political coup, and the world is hiding from a relentless virus, and a coded series of beeps is being picked up by a distant satellite, and the cows are dying, and snow is falling, even though it’s summer, even though the snow never falls here, whatever the season) a group of teenagers will try to navigate the space between what they are told, and what they are.

Breaking the rules is one thing. Discovering the rules don’t exist… is something else entirely.

“The world tells teenagers what life is about (in a parent’s advice, a school’s lesson, a society’s demands) but then teenagers – so excellently – do their own decoding. They’re only ever given some of the information, and like keen-eyed detectives they unearth the rest. In this way, they discover some things to be real and some false, and then unravel truths and lies of their own – about society, about structures, about themselves.” Fin Kruckemeyer

Director: Clara Solly-Slade

Say Arts Executive Director: Bec Pannell

Playwright: Finegan Kruckemeyer,

Choreographer & Assistant Director: Timothy Mackie

Lighting Designer: Sue Grey-Gardner

Designer: Meg Wilson

Graphic Designer & Digital Artist: Stu Nankivell

Composer: Henry Allen

Stage Manager: Nam Nguyen

Kindred Ensemble: Oona Stephan, Kate Wooding, Cormac Lee, Isaac Higgins, Jonah Stewart, Mila Ellery, Josh Cheeseman, Astrid Whetton, Ethan Miotti, Henry Allen.

Commissioned by Dream BIG for KINDRED. Photos by Jamie Hornsby. Creative Development Claire Glenn.