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WILDCAT FALLING

by Alan Becher, Mudrooroo Nyoongah

Nineteen-year old anti-hero Wildcat has been released from Fremantle Jail after serving an eighteen-month sentence for juvenile offences. The play shifts from real time to memory as Wildcat re-experiences growing up in a small country town, being sent to Swanview Boys' Home and being a member of a bodgie gang in Perth in the late 1950s.

Wildcat Falling was adapted by the late Alan Becher from the novel by Mudrooroo.

Varaible cast size: 6-16

'There is certainly something of this "cool cat" beat style in Becher's often engaging, sparse, stylised and stylish production. The West Australian

StyleNon-linear narrative
Length90 minutes
Cast3 female, 3 male
Cast age16 to 18, 18+
Audience ageteen, young adult, adult
PublisherAustralian Script Centre