Day 3 in Brisbane - 'Popping Lead Balloons'

Popping Lead

In Popping Lead Balloons, Liz Skitch and Bridget Boyle of DeBase Productions are developing a show to give high-school students a look at female bullying. This reading showed how Skitch and Boyle plan to use humour, pathos, and reflections on high-school bullying from a ‘queen-bitch’ character who has since grown up to become a stand-up comic, to show the way bullying behaviour impacts on both bully and bullied.

In the feedback session, facilitated by Saffron Benner, the group talked about the value of humour in reaching a high school audience, the value of this sort of work in raising students’ consciousness of what to do when bullying happens, as well as some of the interesting ways in which Popping Lead Balloons was tapping into new forms of bullying for a techno-savvy generation.