‘Everyone Has An Awkward Phase, But This Is Just Unreal’ First-time feature director Rosemary Myers’s GIRL ASLEEP, based on the stage play of the same name, is a coming of age story about a chronically shy girl who is privately falling apart.
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll (Bethany Whitmore). On the cusp of turning fifteen she can’t bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott (Harrison Feldman), until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she’s flung into a parallel place; a world that’s weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous – only there can she find herself.