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Nathan Taylor chats with young theatre actress Eryn Jean Norvill about her role in the risqué new local production, ‘Truck Stop’…

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fantastic new production commissioned by the Q Theatre Company and developed in Penrith, ‘Truck Stop’, is set to open your eyes to a world where teenagers live their own lives – no matter how dangerous and risqué it may be.

‘Truck Stop’ centres around main characters Sam and Kelly who live and go to school in western Sydney.

The girls spend their lives waiting for texts, waiting for boyfriends and waiting for ‘those’ girls in Year 10 to leave school so they can have somewhere decent to hang.

Bored one recess and with double maths looming, the girls escape through a hole in the fence to hang out at a truck stop on the highway.

At the truck stop, the girls read graffiti, talk about everything from sex and prostitutes to their favourite popstars, all whilst checking out the truckies who race by, until eventually one truck pulls up.

Kelly and Sam’s hearts begin to race. The truck driver who stops is young and very good looking, so Sam issues Kelly a dare that could change her young life forever.

‘Truck Stop’ is a provocative, exciting and challenging new play that deals with an important and topical issue. It asks big questions about sexual awareness, gender identity, morality and growing up.

One of the stars of ‘Truck Stop’, Eryn Jean Norvill, who plays teen girl Sam in the production, describes her character as a misunderstood, angry individual, who acts as the ringleader of the group.

“Sam is 14 and can be fairly nasty and bitchy when she wants to be but deep down she loves her friends dearly,”

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Eryn said.

“I think Sam has a very warped sense of herself and her sexuality.

She can be pretty ‘skanky’ but I think she thinks she has a huge amount of power sexually, which she does but she doesn’t really know how to manage it as yet. Sam is brave and funny and you want to like her but at the same time you enjoy to loathe her.

“Sam is definitely the alpha-female of the group and she’s always at the helm of things. She can be a bit of a bully but also at the same time she’s great fun, kind of like a contradiction of all teenage kids teetering on the edges.”

The role of Sam, the schoolgirl prostitute, was a big one for Eryn, who said she felt quite “daunted” and “intimidated” at first due to the strong themes presented in the play. However it wasn’t too long before she felt more comfortable and in touch with her character.

“The play is so great and playwright Lachlan Philpott has written a text and created a world that is so current, I haven’t seen a script like this one ever,” she said.

“I was intimidated and daunted by the task at first but I was really excited to take on the challenge and I think the play does have some dark and confronting issues but I also think they are really worthwhile (issues) in this day of age.”

In 2011 ‘Truck Stop’ playwright Lachlan Philpott presented another popular and award winning play to local audiences called ‘Silent Disco’, which also dealt with teenagers in high school.

One year before ‘Silent Disco’ hit the stage, Lachlan pitched the Q Theatre Company the idea of ‘Truck Stop’.

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and commissioned Lachlan to write a script.

The play, which also stars former ‘Home and Away’ and ‘Underbelly’ starlet Jessica Tovey, is inspired by an incident that occurred at a NSW public high school.

In that incident a group of Year 9 girls prostituted themselves to truck drivers during recess and lunch at a truck stop adjacent to the school (note: this incident did not occur in western Sydney).

Playwright Lachlan worked in collaboration with director Katrina Douglas and dramaturge Fransesca Smith to research, develop and write ‘Truck Stop’ over a 10-month period.

Lachlan combined his intimate knowledge of school communities with material gained from in-depth interviews with school students, truck drivers, social workers, sexual health workers and the wider Penrith and Blue Mountains community.

“Lachlan’s a middle-aged man, a dashing one at that, but seems to find the voice of young people so well,” Eryn said.

“I think also he’s tackling these ideas and issues of young people and how they are influenced by sexualisation in

the media from such a young age.

“I don’t think a lot of people have the (guts) to tackle issues like that because it’s really kind of scary. Even for my generation I don’t really understand the influence and ‘that’ kind of world because it is changing so quickly, so I think this play is great because it’s attracting so much interest because this sort of stuff is happening right now and it’s something that needs to be unravelled and spoken about.”

Eryn said while the themes will be quite confronting for theatre-goers, important and real situations are being discussed that could quite possibly help someone they know get through a similar situation.

“I think ‘Truck Stop’ will be really confronting for audiences and I think people may at first might not believe the story or want to believe that this actually happened somewhere,” she said.

‘Truck Stop’ premieres at the Q Theatre on Tuesday, May 22 and will run till Saturday, June 2. Tickets are $48 for adults and $43 for concessions.

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n works by four great composers of the 19th century, the next performance in Penrith Symphony Orchestra’s 2012 concert season, titled ‘Music For Eternity’, explores four vastly different perspectives on the afterlife.

From the sublime to the ghoulish, there’s something on the program for everyone.

The concert opens with the ‘Russian Easter Festival Overture’ of Rimsky-Korsakov, in which the composer evokes the transition from the gravity and mystery of the evening on Passion Saturday to the unbridled pagan-religious celebrations of Easter Sunday morning.

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‘Totentanz’, by Liszt, is also inspired by a dance of death. In this pianistic showpiece, the orchestra will be joined by the Conservatorium High School’s 2011 Outstanding Student of the Year, the young and incredibly gifted, Cowley Fu. In contrast with such varied and arguably eccentric responses to death is one of the bestloved of all 19th century choral works – Gabriel Faure’s setting of the ‘Requiem Mass’. This work will conclude the concert with an altogether, more serene and uplifting, view of the afterlife.

The sublime ‘Pie Jesu’ will be sung by gifted local boy soprano Matthew Phillips (pictured).

‘Music For Eternity’ takes place at the Joan next Saturday, May 26 at 8pm.

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One of the world’s most sensational and acclaimed violinists, Luca Ciarla, makes his Sydney debut leading a quartet whose instrumentation transcends the boundaries among genres to create an innovative musical path between improvisation, traditional and contemporary music.

Part of the fascination with this group is that leader and violin virtuoso Ciarla inspires his

musicians with a technique always at the service of the music.

Ciarla’s unique style has led him to successfully perform in countless festivals and concert series of jazz, classical and world music festivals in more than 30 countries on every continent.

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Now the Luca Ciarla Gypsy Quartet will perform at some of the most prestigious festivals in Oceania including shows at Melbourne, New Zealand, Sydney and right here at Penrith’s Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre.

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IT’S TIME TO PLAY

Massive paintball giveaway for every single Weekender & FYI reader

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inistry of Paintball is regarded as the world’s largest paintball company.

There are more than 20 locations in Australia, with nine action-packed locations in the NSW area alone, including Blacktown, Windsor, Concord West, Yarramundi and Camden.

Every location offers exciting multiple-mission scenarios and professional and friendly staff to help make the most of the day.

Entry is normally $45 per person, which includes all the gear to make you look and feel the part, masks, coveralls, hood and battlepack.

Also included is a free semi-auto gun with unlimited gas refills to keep the action flowing all day. Please note, paintballs are not included.

You also get access to all Australian locations

and a bonus free lunch at most locations.

FYi has eight free entries to give away to every reader to play at Ministry of Paintball venues. The entries are fully transferable, which means you can use all eight at one time, go twice with four people, go eight times on your own, give them to friends or even use them to raffle off as a fund-raiser as eight entries are valued at $360.00.

All entries are valid for booking until July 11, however play can be any time this year. This means there is plenty of time to round up a crew of friends, a bunch of work colleagues or a selection of your social group and go and have fun shooting balls of paint at each other.

You can book your day out by using the coupon on this page with the unique booking code.

So be quick to take advantage of this extremely generous offer with Ministry of Paintball.

It’s time to play!

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Advanced bookings are essential and are subject to availability.

When you book in, each player will be required to pre pay for their first 200 paintballs in advance at $50.00 per player or first 100 paintballs at $25.00 per player. Please check www. ministryofpaintball.com.

If a player fails to attend the event they will lose their prepayment and are no longer entitled to receive their first 200 or 100 paintballs.

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Paintballs are not included in this offer. After your initial pre-purchase additional paintballs may be purchased from the paintball arena on the day.

Minimum ages vary between states, it is 16 in NSW. Please check www. ministryofpaintball.com Not valid in conjunction with any other promotions.

Please use booking code when booking online or over the phone.

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