UPRISING

THIS AGE WANTED HEROES

Co-written with Patricia Cornelius, and the premiere directed by Susie Dee, Uprising was commissioned and workshopped with Monash Drama students, and explored what it takes and means to protest and challenge the status quo.  It is made up of two discreet short plays, - This age wanted heroes, by Melissa Reeves, and Got to start somewhere, by Patricia Cornelius.

This age wanted heroes, at the Tasmanian Theatre Company.

Monash University - 2016

Directed by Susie Dee

Tasmanian Theatre Co – 2018

Directed by Chrissie Best.

“In This Age Wanted Heroes by Reeves, seven university students hide an asylum seeker they rescued from the "place of horror". Reeves captures the authentic voices of the students and forces them to face the instability of their own morality as they argue philosophy and politics and forget why they are hiding and eating pizza in the middle of the night.” Anne-Marie Peard, The Sydney Morning Herald