The perfectly timed death of an imaginary friend

Winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018Sara: Childhood is like a theme park, but there's no re-entry.

Once you're in the car park, you have to stay in the car park.Alex: A car park outside a theme park?

What a bleak conception of adulthood.Alex and Sara are worried.

Their daughter Lee starts school soon and they think her best friend Ernie is going to be a problem.It isn't that he is badly behaved or mischievous, the problem with Ernie is that he is imaginary.They hatch a plan to force their daughter to grow up and to get rid of Ernie.

But as the plan begins to work they learn a lesson that parents usually have to teach their children - Be careful what you wish for.