The rehearsal
By: by Eleanor Catton
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Wellington [N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780864735812
Subjects: Actors; Fiction; Acting
Description: A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve.
Notes: Novel.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards, NZSA Best First Book Award for Fiction, 2009
Table of contents: title: "The acclaimed first novel by the author of The Luminaries"; title: cover.-"Best first book winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Award at the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards ; 2009 Betty Trask Award Winner from UK Society of Authors"; title: back cover.-A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve ...