The Story.
Every year Andy’s school holds a short story competition and every year Andy writes an awesome, amazing, captivating, TERRIFYING story. But every year Andy is robbed of winning, thwarted by some dumb story about kittens and sunshine. How is that possible?!
Because Mr Rowe is against him - the game is rigged! Mr Rowe wouldn’t know a good story if it jumped off the page and bit him on the bum. What kind of person doesn’t like action and monsters and explosions and aliens and all the things a story needs to keep it from being a BORING SNOOZE FEST!? Like the kind of story Tanya Shepherd writes. Blurgh...
Who cares that technically Andy's been banned from entering the competition after last year’s ... incident. There wasn’t that much vomit and the two kids taken to hospital were totally fine! Well, mostly fine.
Anyway, that’s all in the past. This year Andy knows that the prize is within his grasp. All he has to do is write the most INCREDIBLE story the world has ever read! Easy!
With the help of his best friend Danny, the love of his life Lisa (but if you tell anyone he said that, he’ll feed you to a giant slug!), his somewhat trusty dog Sooty and a lifetime of crazy, shocking, doomed, stupid and just plain DISGUSTING experiences, Andy sets out on a night that will ensure a flawless victory. As long as his brussels sprouts farts don’t poison them all before morning!
JUST (tricking, annoying, stupid, crazy, disgusting, shocking, doomed) LIVE ON STAGE! takes on the wonderful world of the JUST book series by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton, vividly and hilariously bringing them to life on the stage with everything from invisibility pills and Mudmen, to vomiting dogs and death defying balloon rides.
JUST (tricking, annoying, stupid, crazy, disgusting, shocking, doomed) LIVE ON STAGE! Definitely not for the faint farted...we mean hearted!
The Team.
Adapted from the JUST book series written by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton
Produced by Red Line Productions
Lenore Robertson and Vanessa Wright—Lead Producers
Arts on Tour—Tour Coordinators
Robin Goldsworthy—Playwright
Iain Sinclair—Director
James Browne—Set and Costume Designer
Matt Cox—Lighting Designer
Daryl Wallis—Sound Designer and Composer
Bella Thompson—Production Manager and Assistant Stage Manager
Eleanor Weller-Brown—Stage Manager
Simon Rippingale —Animation
Nigel Poulton —Choreography
Sherydan Simson —Props assistant
Performers
Philip Lynch, Madeline Marie Dona, Ben Huntley
About
Red Line
Red Line Productions has presented over 20 exclusively commissioned new Australian works, including the World Premieres of This Much is True by Louis Nowra, Degenerate Art by Toby Schmitz & King of Pigs by Steve Rogers. Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined, inspired by Reg Livermore’s Betty Blokk-Buster Follies of 1975, headlined the 2020 Sydney Festival to critical acclaim. Red Line Productiona have received over sixty nominations and over twenty wins, including being awarded the Hayes Gordon Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to Australian Theatre.
As custodian of the Old Fitz Theatre, the company has presented hundreds of productions in 9 years, presenting and co-presenting Australian Premieres of timely international works, new Australian works, and landmark revivals. These include: Angels in America, Anatomy of A Suicide, The Wolves, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Krapp’s Last Tape, Doubt, A View From The Bridge, The Humans, The Aliens, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, 4 Minutes 12 Seconds, Stalking The Bogeyman, I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright and many more. Productions have transferred to Belvoir St, Ensemble Theatre Company, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Newcastle Civic Theatre & Glen St Theatre.
In 2020 Red Line innovated in the face of the global pandemic to become world leaders in presenting live-streamed theatre readings and live-streamed theatre seasons across the world. Close to 20,000 people tuned in live streamed performances of: Orphans by Lyle Kessler starring Alec Baldwin; Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph starring Rose Byrne and Ewen Leslie, with live music by John Butler; Elenoa Rokobaro’s Live in Concert and Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) featuring Toby Schmitz.
In 2022 Red Line Produced a revival of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus starring acclaimed Welsh actor Michael Sheen. The production received 5 star reviews in the major Australian press and played to sold out capacity of 2000 a night, as the headline production of the 50th Anniversary of the Sydney Opera House.
Red Line Productions cannot wait to bring you JUST (tricking, annoying, stupid, crazy, disgusting, shocking, doomed) LIVE ON STAGE! With a National Tour happening in 2023, this is one of the silliest and most fun shows we have ever worked on, and we will be coming to a theatre near you!