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SAM ATWELL |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Sam's a Queensland writer living in Sydney. Bondi Dreaming' is Sam's first full-length play and last year his second one, The Chekhov Term' was lucky enough to receive a production at Sydney's New Theatre and he is hoping to remount it later this year. Sam is now adapting his play Bill' into a short film also to be made this year. His play Waiting for Gotterson' has been performed a number times in Sydney and he also wrote and directed a short film, Dog Without a Bone'. As well as working on a film version of Bondi Dreaming', Sam is also writing and directing television for Home and Away' and preparing to direct Three Sisters' at the Queensland University of Technology. Sam comes to writing from an acting and directing background and loves the whole process of uncovering Australian stories and characters to explore.
Plays by Sam Atwell
Bondi Dreaming | ||
| 1st Produced: | 45 min segment @ Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Australia | 15 Mar 2011 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99340 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two young Aussies await execution in a south-east Asian prison cell for drug smuggling. The prison cell swiftly disappears as they re-enact their lifes joys up to that point. When another young Aussie joins them, his guilt, fury and fear almost overwhelms the playful recollections. This is a poignant and moving evocation of lives really lived and lives pointlessly wasted. | |||||
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Chekhov Term, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre, Sydney | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125818 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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SET | ||
| 1st Produced: | NIDA, 215 Anzac Parade Kensington NSW 2033 | 25 Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138992 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | murder myster | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Taking us behind the scenes of an Australian TV soap opera, SET takes a satirical look at the glamorous world of celebrity and the cogs of the machine that makes it turn. | |||||
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