Overview
A 16-year-old girl called Rose and an 18-year-old Eric met at a lake by the daffodils and fell in love, the exact same place where Eric’s parents met 20 years earlier. Without grasping for easy sentimentality, the play is a bittersweet emotional punch that carefully turns over and investigates the day-in day-out nuances of romance, set here in New Zealand.
Written by Rochelle Bright, Daffodils was inspired by her parents story - gathered from private letters, interviews with relatives and her own family folklore heard after a few tipples. The play unfolds against a backdrop of 1960s Kodak stills, fashion photography, Super8 home movies, accompanied by a soundtrack of New Zealand’s greatest hits performed by Todd Emerson (the upcoming Outrageous Fortune prequel, Westside Story), Colleen Davis (Chicago, Jesus Christ Superstar) as well as a live three-piece band led by Silver Scroll Award-winning artist Stephanie Brown (LIPS).
Pack some tissues; pack your entire tissue box. Daffodils will be showing at the Q Theatre from April 8 till 12.
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