Description
Based on extensive Central Desert mob consultation and support, Alana Valentine’s Head Full of Love is an unsentimental, humorous and deeply moving portrait of the complexity of cross-cultural relationships rewoven, like a beanie, into a simple and humble beauty.
Synopsis
The Annual Alice Springs Beanie Festival is fast approaching and Tilly Napuljari is out of time to finish her new creation to enter it for judging. Nessa Tavistock, a Sydneysider, has run away to the red centre to escape her own problems back in the big smoke.
Head Full of Love is the story of the unlikely but inspiring friendship which forms between them.
Production History
Head Full of Love was first produced by the Darwin Festival, at Brown’s Mart Theatre on 23rd August, 2010. The play was nominated for a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Play in 2011. It was remounted by the Queensland Theatre Company, at the Cremorne Theatre QPAC, Brisbane, on 7th July, 2012. It was also produced by Alana Valentine for broadcast on ABC Radio National’s Airplay on 25th November, 2012.
This radio adaptation was nominated for an AWGIE Award in the category Radio (Adaptation) in 2013.
ISBN: 978 1 921390 50 0
Head Full of Love by Alana ValentineÂ