Creative Experience and Awards

""As writer, director, and producer Boal embraced the zany nature of Wonderland, and it’s oppositional, often confrontational stylings, with realism smashing hard up against absurdism.""

""Boal has gone to great lengths to create a world that is entirely familiar and crackling with vitality. It is impressively done, and her ability to draw every detail of the world together creates a space that is breathtakingly real. Boal draws the audience along at a swift pace, pushing the cast through their paces relentlessly, while still managing to work in some beautiful slower moments, allowing every to breathe and absorb what they’ve witnessed.""

""As well as being the brilliant brain behind the writing and directing of this production, Elodie Boal also plays the saccharine, yet strong Alice. A stand out in this piece, Boal brings such beautiful, heartbreaking realism to an unrealistic character and scenario. The audience is instantly drawn to Alice from the moment she enters, exuding so much sweetness one wouldn’t require any sugar in their tea.""

""The key cog in this watch is the brilliant text, written by Elodie Boal. The script succeeds at being both witty, intelligent and cohesive; yet simple and completely scattered. Boal perfectly captures the duplicity of the human psyche within her script – the logical voice versus the creative.""

""Alice (Elodie Boal) is suitably saccharin and wide-eyed. Boal’s controlled, enunciated performance is a good counterpoint to the madness of the other characters""

""Alice may have grown up a little since she last met Hatter and the residents of Wonderland, but Boal’s Alice (and yes, Boal is the writer, director and Alice) is the perfect combination of wide-eyed wonder with a fast progress to realising that going to sleep may be final.""

""Boal has fashioned an accurate subculture depiction without defaulting to indulgent retro-esque nostalgia, and still gives her characters room to tell their own stories. In her hands, this “X-Stacy” is a compassionate story about trauma that not only entertains in a multitude of ways but also encourages new conversations about unfortunately still very relevant issues.""

""In Director Elodie Boal’s hands scene transitions to flashback and forward follow seamlessly, making it easy to follow the non-chronological storyline, even if some in-club conversations get lost its distinctive soundscape.""

""Solid direction shows in every aspect of a play. It’s obvious that director Elodie Boal has a well-formulated vision for this production of X-Stacy and she’s been able to impart it clearly to the cast and crew. Boal creates an immersive environment, using the entire space as her stage, including placing a ‘bouncer’ on the front door and giving everyone glow sticks as they enter.""

""Director, Elodie Boal, very successfully presented the audience with an absorbing night at the theatre where we were both entertained and challenged. The stage gave space for the hyper- active dancing to the pounding music of the rave scenes through the quietness of the home to the peace of the church. On top of that, she chose her cast well.""

""One of the funnier characters on stage was Gertie Cummings (Elodie Boal). She has attached herself to Curly, much to his chagrin, and her loud laugh was a hoot.""

""Playwright and director Elodie Boal has woven together gunshot dialogue and dynamic physicality to craft an entertaining, clever and adventurous production.""

""Elodie Boal’s script is quirky, well written and imaginative, with twists and turns all over the place and filled with dramatic impact. The characters are excellently drawn. It is funny and dark, very much a black comedy.""

""'Wondered' has now completed its run at the Brisbane Arts Theatre, but if it happens to be playing again it is worth the visit. While not suitable for children, it won over 40 awards on the South East Queensland Drama Festival circuit in 2015, and the performances of the Mira Ball ensemble clearly demonstrate why.""

""Elodie Boal was fabulous as Cherry, especially as she becomes smitten with Lewis and insists on making sure he was fed by shoving sandwiches in his mouth.""

""Elodie Boal plays Cherry, a woman with strong opinions (and feelings for Lewis) with Great Spirit and comedic timing – a true stand out in this production.""

""Everybody will have their favourite but I suspect for many audience members Elodie Boal will steal the show.""

""Elodie Boal as Gwendolen Fairfax... [was] outstanding and I could see why the men wanted to marry those characters.""

""Elodie delivered an intense performance, which highlighted her talent and passion for her craft.""

""The cast was large and impressive; many wonderful performances coming from the gaggle of boarding-school girls with notable performances by Elodie Boal (delightfully childish as Edith)...""

""... and Elodie Boal in the role of the youngest sibling, the petulant and impulsive, Lydia Bennett. I couldn't stop chuckling and laughing when any one of these actors was on stage and they all work beautifully together.""

""Elodie Boal, as Lydia Bennett, and Joshua Parnell as William Collins were utterly brilliant and the play simply wouldn’t have been the same without either of them. Their facial expressions and on point timing really brought the characters to life and lit up the stage." "

""Elodie Boal is natural and comical as both Lewis’s sister, Bev, and new migrant, Beatrice.""

""Elodie Boal (playing Lewis’s sister and a one-armed Dutch immigrant) showed great versatility.""