Playwright and comedian Vidya Rajan didn't grow up in Australia – so when she was asked to pitch her ideas for a stage adaptation of Looking for Alibrandi, she approached the task with the appropriate amount of irreverence.
"I didn't grow up with Alibrandi … I don't have the same relationship [to it] that some people have," Rajan says.
"In some ways, I think that was good, because there was a lot of pressure associated with it. I didn't even realise how much it meant to people."
