Big Yikes! by Madeleine Border is a coming-of-age story that explores boundaries, decision making and autonomy while asking the big questions like “what is my purpose?”, “what should I do with my life?” and “why does my housemate leave lentils in the fridge to rot?” This piece is written largely without pronouns and for a cast of any gender.
SYNOPSIS
Meet Lorrie. Sorry… Loxie. Loxie is cooler. She’s rebranding so as not to be mistaken with a load-bearing truck. She wouldn’t want you to know that though – she doesn’t like being ‘perceived’.
Loxie is leaving school, starting her first job, moving out of home, and waiting for Uni offers. She’s entering her adulting era. ‘Finding yourself’ is hard when you’re searching in a rundown share house, the situationship you THINK you have with your coworker, and under the constant nagging of your divorced parents.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Big Yikes! was produced by Playlab Theatre and premiered at the The Underground Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse from the 13 March – 23 March, 2024.
ISBN: 978 0 908156 12 2
Big Yikes! Madeleine Border
Additional information
Weight
1.5 kg
Dimensions
21 × 15 × 0.5 cm
CURRICULUM LINKS
DRAMA
Unit 1: Share (Linear)
Students explore the importance of drama as a means to tell stories and share understandings of the human experience …Students study this unit with the purposes of empowering and informing audiences through storytelling as a dramatic form.
Unit 2: Reflect (Realism)
Students explore the power of drama to reflect lived experience with the purposes of informing and challenging audiences, understanding and empathising with the truth of others’ experiences, and chronicling/documenting and celebrating what it is to be human.
DRAMA IN PRACTICE
Unit D: Commentary (Commenting on Social Issues)
Students explore theatre practitioners and the commentary made in their works through viewing live productions. Through the study of the work of real-world practitioners, students explore theatre-making processes to build understanding of how drama comments on contemporary issues.
Students establish a basis for further education and employment. It allows them to manage change, to be resilient and adaptive, and to develop strategies so that they can cope with the demands of the post-school transition period.
HEALTH
Unit 4: Respectful Relationships in Post School Transitions
Students investigate the role of respectful relationships in the post-schooling transition. They propose justified strategies to enhance the diffusion of those innovations for their Year 12 cohort to support a successful post-schooling transition.
ENGLISH
Unit 1: Perspectives and Texts
Students explore individual and/or collective experiences and perspectives of the world through engaging with a variety of texts.
Unit 3: Textual Connections
Students explore connections between texts by examining representations of the same concepts and issues in different texts. In doing so, they consider how the textual constructions of the same concepts and issues in different texts resonate, relate to, and clash with one another.
Publication l Big Yikes! by Madeleine Border
$25.95
THEMES: Coming-of-age, Anxiety, “What’s my purpose?”
LENGTH: 90 Minutes, no interval
CHARACTER AGES: 18-30
NO. OF CHARACTERS: 20 (Large Cast)
SUITABLE FOR: Middle & Senior Years, Adults
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Description
Big Yikes! by Madeleine Border is a coming-of-age story that explores boundaries, decision making and autonomy while asking the big questions like “what is my purpose?”, “what should I do with my life?” and “why does my housemate leave lentils in the fridge to rot?” This piece is written largely without pronouns and for a cast of any gender.
SYNOPSIS
Meet
Lorrie. Sorry… Loxie. Loxie is cooler. She’s rebranding so as not to be mistaken with a load-bearing truck. She wouldn’t want you to know that though – she doesn’t like being ‘perceived’.Loxie is leaving school, starting her first job, moving out of home, and waiting for Uni offers. She’s entering her adulting era. ‘Finding yourself’ is hard when you’re searching in a rundown share house, the situationship you THINK you have with your coworker, and under the constant nagging of your divorced parents.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Big Yikes! was produced by Playlab Theatre and premiered at the The Underground Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse from the 13 March – 23 March, 2024.
ISBN: 978 0 908156 12 2
Big Yikes! Madeleine Border
Additional information
CURRICULUM LINKS
DRAMA
Unit 1: Share (Linear)
Students explore the importance of drama as a means to tell stories and share understandings of the human experience …Students study this unit with the purposes of empowering and informing audiences through storytelling as a dramatic form.
Unit 2: Reflect (Realism)
Students explore the power of drama to reflect lived experience with the purposes of informing and challenging audiences, understanding and empathising with the truth of others’ experiences, and chronicling/documenting and celebrating what it is to be human.
DRAMA IN PRACTICE
Unit D: Commentary (Commenting on Social Issues)
Students explore theatre practitioners and the commentary made in their works through viewing live productions. Through the study of the work of real-world practitioners, students explore theatre-making processes to build understanding of how drama comments on contemporary issues.
SOCIAL & COMMUNITY STUDIES
Core Topic 1-3 (Personal, Interpersonal & Citizenship)
Students establish a basis for further education and employment. It allows them to manage change, to be resilient and adaptive, and to develop strategies so that they can cope with the demands of the post-school transition period.
HEALTH
Unit 4: Respectful Relationships in Post School Transitions
Students investigate the role of respectful relationships in the post-schooling transition. They propose justified strategies to enhance the diffusion of those innovations for their Year 12 cohort to support a successful post-schooling transition.
ENGLISH
Unit 1: Perspectives and Texts
Students explore individual and/or collective experiences and perspectives of the world through engaging with a variety of texts.
Unit 3: Textual Connections
Students explore connections between texts by examining representations of the same concepts and issues in different texts. In doing so, they consider how the textual constructions of the same concepts and issues in different texts resonate, relate to, and clash with one another.