Poor Boy

Jeremy Glass is an untroubled little boy until his seventh birthday, when he suddenly announces that he is really a grown man called Danny, who died some years before. How can his parents indulge his conviction that he must find his real family? And how can his eerie insistence on his true identity not resurrect painful memories for Danny's widow?

With songs from Tim Finn adding expressionistic commentary on the action, Matt Cameron's Poor Boy delivers a supernatural story steeped in loss, anguish and redemption.

MATT CAMERON is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, his plays include Tear from a Glass Eye, winner of Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award, Footprints on Water, winner of British Council International New Playwriting Award, Mr Melancholy, winner of ANPC/New Dramatists Award, Ruby Moon, nominated for Queensland Premier's Literary Award, and The Eskimo Calling. For the Melbourne Theatre Company, Cameron wrote Poor Boy, featuring the songs of Tim Finn, nominated for Victorian Premier's Literary Award and co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company, Hinterland, nominated for NSW Premier's Literary Award, Man the Balloon, nominated for Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and a short play Whispering Death. Cameron's screen credits include Seachange, Crashburn, Newstopia script editor for Kath & Kim and co-creator/co-writer/director of AWGIE award-winning Introducing Gary Petty.