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1001 Stories Collection

No Worries

1001 No Worries
Added on 06th October 2020

Playwright David Holman
First performed 1984
Theatre Magpie Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia

Family Identity and fairness Environment and nature
1001

A farming family move to the city because of draught - a story of displaced children.

Story

The plays tells the story of a displaced family forced to move from their outback farm to the city because of drought. The daughter Matilda finds it hard to settle until she makes friends with a Vietnamese refugee.

Why we chose it

David Holman is a leading playwright for children and young people.

Where it came from

David Holman started writing for Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre. He originally wrote mainly for schools but as his work became known his plays began to be produced across the world. Among others he was commissioned by the RSC and Bolton Octagon and No Worries was written for the State Theatre Company of South Australia.

Where it went next

No Worries won the 1986 Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Award for Best Children’s Drama

It was turned in to a film in 1993 which won an Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Award for Best Screenplay and Berlin Golden Bear for Best Children’s Film.

Associated stories

No Worries was one of a trilogy of plays written for the State Company of South Australia. The other two were The Small Poppies, the story of the first day at school and Beauty and the Beast, which tells the fairytale in an Australian context.

Added on 06th October 2020

Playwright David Holman
First performed 1984
Theatre Magpie Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia

Family Identity and fairness Environment and nature
1001