Dress Rehearsal

Rules are meant to be broken'This term we've had a bank robbery, an abduction and this crazy show. You kids are running wild, Lara. It's too much.'Lara Pearlman has an appetite for life.She loves acting, vintage clothes and her best friend Oggy. She flirts with Nathan but really likes Blake. She devours muffins with cream and chocolates by the box. Lara's mum says big girls shouldn't eat cream, but if rules are made to be broken then Lara's the girl to do it. Loudly and often.As the drama escalates, Lara realises that breaking the rules comes at a high price. Is it too much?

Zoe Thurner is a former high school drama teacher and a playwright. She was also commissioned by Greening Australia WA—an organization committed to protect and restore the health, diversity, and productivity of Australia’s unique landscapes—to write scripts for the primary school education package “Envirokids.”