title: The Peach Season
text: # The Peach Season
  
  The Peach Season is a play by the Australian playwright Debra Oswald. It premiered at Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company in March 2006. The play was short-listed for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.
  
  The Peach Season evokes the heat, scent and hard slog of a peach farm at harvest time. When a desperate brother and sister turn up looking for picking work, it triggers strong feelings, bad decisions and danger.
  
  ## Summary
  
  Celia owns the farm. She left Sydney, with baby Zoe in her arms, sixteen years ago when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery. She has constructed a small haven, keeping her daughter safe from the dangers of the world. But Zoe is chafing against Celia's protectiveness.
  
  This is a moving and suspenseful story about intoxicating first love and the burning love of a mother for a child. It's a story about our overwhelming desire to protect the people we love and the painful necessity to let children go out into the world.
  
  ## Details of Premiere Production
  
  A Griffin Theatre Company production at the SBW Stables Theatre. Previewed 10–14 March 2006 and played 15 March-22 April 2006.
  
  * Director David Berthold
  * Designer Alice Babidge
  * Lighting Designer Stephen Hawker
  * Sound Designer Jeremy Silver
  * CELIA Anne Looby
  * ZOE Maeve Dermody
  * SHEENA Alice Parkinson
  * KIERAN Scott Timmins
  * DOROTHY Maggie Blinco
  * JOE John Adam
  