Up Down Girl
The Up Down Project | Theatre
Overview
It's time to fly. Can you help us take off?
Mattie is off to college in an hour – and she’s left it to Mum to pack her case. Mum won’t miss the blaring music, slamming doors and massive phone bills. But Mattie is no ordinary teenager, and will Mum cope without her?
Up Down Girl is an honest and uplifting play about the extraordinary life of a person with Down syndrome and their mother’s humorous perspective on bringing them up.
Lily Harper is an actor. She also has Down syndrome. In 2020, our team presented Up Down Girl in Palmerston North in response to an insensitive storyline about the Down syndrome community on Lily's favourite TV show.
This was an unpaid, passion project for us but its sold out, fully accessible season highlighted the demand for experiences that uplift tāngata whaikaha (people with disabilities), prioritise their accessibility, and share their stories in mainstream spaces.
Up Down Girl is going to Wellington!
We are grateful to have the opportunity to present Up Down Girl at Circa Theatre in Wellington from 20 April to 1 May, but we need your help to do it. We were touched by how much Palmerston North embraced this project and, in hindsight, wish we had prepared for the potential to tour it.
We need your help to raise $2500.
This is a co-op venture, so the more people we can get to see Up Down Girl, the more income we get to pay our artists.
$1500 from this Boosted campaign will go towards our marketing costs to re-design our promo materials for the Circa season, print and distribute posters and flyers, and spread the word far and wide.
$1000 will help us create a touring pack with video content to promote the production to venues and presenters around the country. Our dream is to share this story with as many people as possible.
So, what happens when all the theatres in Aotearoa want to programme us? We tour!
If we're lucky enough to exceed our target, a stretch goal of $3500 will allow us to adapt the design elements of our show to be more tour-friendly and ensure we can get everything from A to B and back again.
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata.
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UP DOWN GIRL
Adapted from 'Up Down Boy' by Sue Shields with Myrtle Theatre Company
Produced by Nathan Mudge
Directed by Nathan Mudge and Michiel van Echten
Production Design by Ian Harman and Natala Gwiadzinski
Starring Lily Harper, Trudy Pearson, Mycah Keall and Michiel van Echten
Supported by Palmerston North City Council and Circa Theatre
Tickets available at circa.co.nz now.
Thank you for your support.
Donors
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Donald Armstrong
Go Up Town Girl
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April Phillips
Can't wait to see this.
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Catherine Crossley
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Anonymous
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Turid Revfeim
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