I’ve been teaching it ever since and it is consistently successful because students are both enthralled and appalled by its contents. I’ve been hopelessly in love with this brilliant play ever since I saw it at the Belvoir Theatre in 2016. There are several other creative reinterpretations - such as ones involving a dead-Laura-ghost, watermelon pips, and the one-inch punch - all of which add beauty and poignancy to the story. It also cleverly reimagines some parts.Įxample #1: In her adaptation, it is Eliza that tells Charlie about Baniszeswki and the Likens sisters, giving a depth to Eliza’s own sisterly conundrum (whereas in the original, Charlie simply reads about this in the library).Įxample #2: Mulvany adds Jasper to a certain car crash that is pivotal to his Jasper’s identity (whereas in the original, Jasper wasn’t a passenger in that car). While the script for Mulvany’s play tightly follows Silvey’s novel, it does much more than just condense it. The shared experience of a community, of listening to each other’s stories with an open mind and empathetic ear, is what these towns can do best and what we can all do better.” This quote encapsulates the power of Mulvany’s adaptation. The ails of society are often magnified in small towns, but so are the cures. They are a petri dish of the bigger picture. She also writes: “We can learn the ways of the world from these small communities, these contained universes. In her “Adaptor’s Note” at the beginning of the book, Mulvany mentions that she and Silvey both come from small West Australian towns. In this particular adaptation of Craig Silvey's 2009 iconic novel, Mulvany vibrantly brings to life the Aussie classic that has sold half a million copies. Kate Mulvany’s stage productions of Jasper Jones have been performed in several major Australian cities. Whether you know the book or not, this piercing adaptation is very much worth seeing for the way it depicts – and shows ways across – some of the deep and enduring divides in our society." - Jason Blake SMHĪn Adept Adaptation that Captures the Vivacity of the Original. A coming-of-age story, Jasper Jones interweaves the lives of complex individuals all struggling to find happiness among the buried secrets of a small rural community. Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Craig Silvey’s award-winning novel is wise and beautiful. He needs every ounce of Charlie’s bookish brain to help solve this awful mystery before the town turns on Jasper. Jasper has stumbled upon a terrible crime in the scrub nearby, and he knows he’s the first suspect – that goes with the colour of his skin. But when 16-year-old, constantly-in-trouble Jasper Jones appears at his window one night, Charlie’s out of his depth. Overseas, war is raging in Vietnam, Civil Rights marches are on the streets, and women’s liberation is stirring – but at home in Corrigan Charlie Bucktin dreams of writing the Great Australian Novel. It’s summer 1965 in a small, hot town in Western Australia.
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