Fourteen, the stage version of Shannon Molloy’s memoir of extreme bullying, is also touring other towns where its message of hope is needed most.
A devastating memoir of the persecution Molloy suffered at the hands of both students and teachers at a Catholic school in Yeppoon in 2000, the book proved a #MeToo moment for gay teenagers.
Soon the notes of thanks started flooding in: emails, Facebook messages, handwritten letters; from tiny Australian towns and as far away as Germany and the USA; from bullied kids, their parents and grandparents and, devastatingly, the bereaved. “It’s quite confronting to a lot of communities,” says Skubij. “Venues haven’t been able to present the show because they’re concerned about how the town will react.”Says Molloy: “We’ve had towns where we can’t give away tickets because the schools are terrified about even suggesting to parents that they come to a show with queer themes in it.
Molloy says his story could have easily had a tragic ending, like that of Tyrone Unsworth, a 13-year-old student of Aspley State High School who died by suicide in 2016 after years of bullying.
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