Rocket Boy by Kendall Feaver

Hold onto your hat and watch out world as Kendall Feaver is about to debut at the Adelaide Fringe Festival with Rocket Boy.
Kendall is an extremely talented young lady who is very determined to make it to the top, I am very privileged to be the first to review her work. Kendall is currently studying at Macquarie University and has already written and directed two Musicals for Dunmore Lang College where she is currently residing. Rocket Boy however, is her first accomplished play.
The play is quirky and very very funny. It tells the story, narrated by Andrew Jackson, about a young girl, Jessica played by Kaitlyn Mahoney and a young boy, Lieutenant played by Julian Webster. Jessica has just moved from the city to a very quiet street, too quiet. She stumbles upon the Lieutenant who is building a rocket ship to escape earth and the painful choice he has to make about where to live, as his parents are about to separate. The play revolves around their relationship and the awkwardness of those first days when you realise that you like them, especially at aged 10, what do you do? Jessica does the obvious, phones her friend Ivy, played by Lauren Farquhar. Ivy has an older sister who has done it all, and she has a supply of teenage magazines which hold all the answers. The Lieutenant is also at a bit of a loss to how he feels and finds the book Men from Mars and Women from Venus. There is a very funny scene where the Lieutenant reads that he should listen and interject with 'um' 'ar ah' etc. which he tries out. I think both men and women can relate to this as of much of the play, it takes you back to when you were young and innocent, when holding hands was slightly embarrassing and your first kiss was a big deal.
The play is very well cast as well as well written. The actors all make the characters very believable and Julian plays the Lieutenant partiularly well, giving the character just the slight hint that he is bordering on edge of reality.
Rocket Boy is produced by Andrew Jackson with Assistant Producer Jamie Drake.
If you are in Adelaide during the festival go and see this show, you will leave with a big grin on your face!