In the early 1970s Gerry, a young film-maker, begins to track the lives of five
young Australians. All he asks of them is a day out of each year of their lives,
a day when he will follow them with a camera, charting their growth and
development by interviewing and observing them. But as the years roll on,
and the annual instalment of Five Children becomes a national chronicle, their
lives becomes his. Are they his subjects or his children? Or his creations?
This play takes place over twenty-eight years in two locations: in Australia
during the last quarter of the twentieth century, and in the mind of the filmmaker.
Published Currency Press 2003
Premiered Sydney Theatre Company 2002
