Clementine

Christine hasn't seen her daughter in a year. Josephine hasn't set foot in the family campsite since she was a teenager. Now they're back... in the Australian bush, in the same spot they always came to, carrying a box neither of them knows how to put down, and absolutely no tent poles.

The bush is doing its own kind of recovery. Last year's fires came right up to the tree line, and the land is slowly finding its way back... new growth pushing up through the ash, controlled burns clearing space for what's next. It's the kind of place that has a way of cracking people open, whether they like it or not. Enter a campground manager with a dad joke for every occasion, a park ranger who has a deep love for gum trees, some genuinely terrible tea, and a dead sister who refuses to stop getting in everyone's business. Somewhere between the sibling banter, the bad puns and the things nobody wants to say out loud, this chaotic chosen family figures out how to laugh again.

Clementine is a story about the mess of mother-daughter relationships, the family you choose, and how the land teaches us to survive the unsurvivable.

A staged reading - the next chapter of a story three years in the making, born out of La Mama's Pathways program.