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Up Down Boy. Mudge met Harper when he ran a performance company for people with intellectual disabilities out of the Globe theatre in Palmerston North. “I was instantly caught by her unique perspective of the world and natural talent for performing. She brings an openness and huge desire,” Mudge said. Harper projects her own life experience to the story augmenting the original play with dance, song, skits and shadow play. “That process was led by Lily so what you see onstage is an ...

Theyve adapted it from British writer Sue Shields play  Up Down Boy. Harpers version tells the story of 19-year-old Mattie as she prepares to move out of home for the first time. She won best emerging actor at last years Central Regional Theatre Awards dreams of touring the play around the country, starting with Wellington. Ultimately she wants the cast of  Shortland Street to come to see it, not only as a devoted fan of the TV series but because it was a hurtful scene from the show that mad...