Shoelace Chaser

Being 17 is hard enough – hormones, homework, the looming question of what comes next. Add caring for your mum to the mix, and Thea’s juggling act is nothing short of Olympic.

Smart, self-sufficient and secretly just holding it together, she’s spent the last two years keeping her life under wraps. No one knows she’s a carer. Not even Syd, her endlessly chatty new running partner who pushes her to pursue a university athletics scholarship and dream of something more. But chasing that future means leaving her mum behind – and the last time Thea tried that, things didn’t quite go to plan.

Starring Leigh Lule (Trophy Boys) and Zoe Boesen (Abigail’s Party), Madelaine Nunn’s moving new play sensitively explores our responsibilities to those we love, the untold strength of care work and the courage to know when to lean on others for help. Directed by award-winning theatre maker Olivia Satchell, Shoelace Chaser is a warm and feel-good story for anyone who’s ever been a teenager.

***** ‘A brilliantly written work… Nunn is a consummate storyteller.’ - Australian Arts Review on Cactus

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CAST
Zoe Boesen
Leigh Lule
Elliot Wood

DIRECTOR
Liv Satchell

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
Bianca Pardo

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Thomas Roach

COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER
Tom Backhaus

Developed through Melbourne Theatre Company’s NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program, with the support of our Playwrights Giving Circle.

Photo: Jo Duck

Contains occasional coarse language and mature themes including depictions of chronic illness. Recommended for ages 12+ / Years 7+

Please note: A muscle pain relief spray will be used in the theatre before audience entry for olfactory effect purposes. It has a Deep Heat-style scent. Please speak to box office staff if you have any concerns.