INTERVIEWEES: Alice – Lead Artist, Writer, Director Rossa – Actor (Kate, Sam), Set, Props Chloe – Actor (Hannah, Pip) Summer – Actor (Sister Catherine) Lucy – Actor (Madi) scene go straight into a really sad confession. The whole narrative of the show is about building community through confession. And so we want to keep the audience up where [we] can. That informs what we select. As for the confessions that are just in the show every single night, it’s probably worth acknowledging that for every iteration of the show, there have been different confessions each time. And that’s the actors that pick those confessions. We had sections that were great and worked awesome in Perth, and then this time they weren’t picked by the actors. That’s interesting as the writer because I’m like, “oh my god, but wait, that one’s so funny.” But then also, [the choice belonging to the actors] is really important. The heart of the show is the show belonging to everyone, and everybody feeling like it’s been crafted by all of us. It’s an ensemble effort because the whole show is about community. Rossa: With all of the confessions in the play, because they’re all verbatim, we also really try to honour that that’s someone’s real confession, someone’s real words. And yeah, some of them are crazy, some of them are really out there and wild, but that’s kind of the beauty of it. We’ve tried to be the opposite of judgmental about all those confessions because we all have crazy stories that we’re scared to admit to other people, you know, strange, juicy things. And what’s great is that a lot of audience members come up afterwards and go, “oh, wow, I’ve actually done something similar” or “I so relate to that confession”, and that’s kind of the exciting part of the show. Josh: What character did you relate to the most? Lucy: I’ve definitely been a Georgie at some point in my life. Maybe not quite to the extent that she goes to, but kind of feeling like, “oh, I think this guy really likes me.” And then at the end, you’re just like, “oh, I’m such an idiot.” Every time she says that line, it really gets me. I’m like, I have said those words before. And the lovely thing is that she’s got this wonderful friend to pick her up at the end of that. I also relate to having wonderful friends to pick me up at the end. Chloe: I actually am the same. It’s genuinely been an interesting experience, because in Perth I played Georgie, and at that point in my life it was genuinely a comfort to [realise] everyone’s a Georgie or everyone knows a Georgie. And now I’m playing Pip, her best friend, who owns her shit and who’s there for her friends. I’m really trying to enter that period of my life right now. Life imitates art, guys. I find a lot of myself in Georgie… but I think there’s also a lot of Pip in me as well. The play’s such a beautiful place for that because it really does mirror all the aspects of girlhood and who you can be… one day you might be 11
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