Crash - 2008 & 2011

Jared is irresponsible, reckless and always in a hurry. And he’s just been given a turbo-charged Commodore for his twentieth birthday.

His sister, by contrast, is the local school captain who has just finished year 12 with flying colours. The two of them have next to nothing in common until their father asks Jared to pick up Simone from the after-party of the school formal.

Goat Track Theatre Company’s play, by Andrew Wright, explores the events leading up to a tragic car crash and the dire consequences that emerge for the individuals, families, friendships and close community of Tamborine Mountain. “Crash” is a visceral, intelligent play that richly deserves the attention of young people, their parents and the wider community. It does not moralise, nor does it “let us off the hook.” It is a play exploding with ideas about personal responsibility that challenges its audience to reconsider the very notion of where their involvement in things begins and ends.

This production was the first community cultural development project undertaken by Goat Track Theatre and the first community production took place in August of 2008. The show was so successful that it was remounted in 2011 as a professional production that toured Regional Queensland and SouthEast Queensland.