The Peach Season
# The Peach Season

The Peach Season is a play by the Australian playwright Debra Oswald. It premiered at Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company in March 2006. The play was short-listed for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

The Peach Season evokes the heat, scent and hard slog of a peach farm at harvest time. When a desperate brother and sister turn up looking for picking work, it triggers strong feelings, bad decisions and danger.

## Summary

Celia owns the farm. She left Sydney, with baby Zoe in her arms, sixteen years ago when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery. She has constructed a small haven, keeping her daughter safe from the dangers of the world. But Zoe is chafing against Celia's protectiveness.

This is a moving and suspenseful story about intoxicating first love and the burning love of a mother for a child. It's a story about our overwhelming desire to protect the people we love and the painful necessity to let children go out into the world.

## Details of Premiere Production

A Griffin Theatre Company production at the SBW Stables Theatre. Previewed 10–14 March 2006 and played 15 March-22 April 2006.

* Director David Berthold
* Designer Alice Babidge
* Lighting Designer Stephen Hawker
* Sound Designer Jeremy Silver
* CELIA Anne Looby
* ZOE Maeve Dermody
* SHEENA Alice Parkinson
* KIERAN Scott Timmins
* DOROTHY Maggie Blinco
* JOE John Adam
