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JANIS BALODIS (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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JANIS BALODIS was born in Australia of Latvian parents who settled in North Queensland after the Second World War. He majored in drama at Townsville Teachers' College, and worked as a primary school teacher until 1972. After a varied acting and directing career based in Brisbane and later in London where he was a director and tutor at E15 Acting School, his first play, Backyard, was workshopped at the Australian National Playwrights' Conference and produced by Nimrod Theatre in 1980. Other plays include Happily Never After, Beginning of the End, Summerland, Heart for the Future, and Double Take. Currency has published Wet and Dry and, in 2006, Perfect Skin his adaptation of Nick Earl's novel as well the The Ghosts Trilogy , premiered by the Melbourne Theatre Company, which comprises Too Young for Ghosts, No Going Back and My Father's Father and draws on his Latvian heritage. Balodis has also written for television and radio. He was an Associate Director of Melbourne Theatre Company (1988-93), and Dramaturg-in-Residence and Artistic Associate at Queensland Theatre Company (1995-6). He currently lives on the North Coast of NSW.
Plays by Janis Balodis
Backyard | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1980 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1730 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Beginning Of The End | ||
| 1st Produced: | Darwin | 1982 | ||||
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| 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 | #1731 | |||
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Engine | ||
| 1st Produced: | Star Court Theatre, Lismore, NSW | 29 Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | NORPA | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-889-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125974 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | multiple doubling and chorus | |||||
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| Every week somewhere in Australia news headlines proclaim yet another tragedy of young lives lost in a car wreck. Communities are shocked, politicians duck for cover and families are torn apart. . . the same story again and again. Set a month after the crash, Engine is the story of 'Grumpop' who lost a grandson and Natasha who lost a brother. Engine is a highly charged theatrical event about family, friends and cars and of fixing what's broken and celebrating life. | |||||
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Happily Never After | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1732 | |||
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Genre: | Stage play 2 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Music by Frank Millward | |||||
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Heart For The Future | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1989 | ||||
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 | #1733 | |||
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My Father's Father | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Ghost Trilogy", Currency Press, Sydney, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1734 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | part of The Ghost Trilogy | |||||
| Written over a period of ten years, this trilogy began in 1985 with Too Young for Ghosts. It follows the lives of a group of young Latvians who emigrate to north Queensland in 1948. The chronicle of their struggles over forty-five years is paralleled by the narrative of the unsuccessful journeys made by German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Queensland in the years 1845-6. | |||||
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No Going Back | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Ghost Trilogy", Currency Press, Sydney, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1735 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | part of The Ghost Trilogy | |||||
| Written over a period of ten years, this trilogy began in 1985 with Too Young for Ghosts. It follows the lives of a group of young Latvians who emigrate to north Queensland in 1948. The chronicle of their struggles over forty-five years is paralleled by the narrative of the unsuccessful journeys made by German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Queensland in the years 1845-6. | |||||
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Perfect Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129634 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
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| Adapted from Nick Earls novel, Perfect Skin is a witty, moving and highly original snapshot of what it is to be thirty-something in a post-Duran Duran world. | |||||
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Red Cap | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playlab Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73708 | |||
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Synopsis: | The Mount Isa mining dispute of 1964 arose from a struggle for better wages and work conditions but escalated into a no-holds-barred battle. The miners, their wives and the whole city rose up and pitted themselves against their Company and union, the media and the Government, who were all determined to break their will to fight. A leader emerged. His name was Pat Mackie (with his distinctive red cap) who, in his own words, was "an old wobblie-minded worker with a shit-stirring touch". A tale of community triumph over rampant authoritarianism, Red Cap is an exciting and original music-theatre experience that captures the Aussie battler's fight for dignity, self-determination, and the quintessential right to a 'fair go'. | |||||
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Summerland | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1984 | ||||
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 | #1736 | |||
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Too Young For Ghosts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Ghost Trilogy", Currency Press, Sydney, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1737 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The Ghost Trilogy | |||||
| Written over a period of ten years, this trilogy began in 1985 with Too Young for Ghosts. It follows the lives of a group of young Latvians who emigrate to north Queensland in 1948. The chronicle of their struggles over forty-five years is paralleled by the narrative of the unsuccessful journeys made by German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Queensland in the years 1845-6. | |||||
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Wet And Dry | ||
| 1st Produced: | Darwin | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1738 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| A modern comedy about ancient emotions which confronts us with the clinical indignity and loneliness of modern life and the hard truths about sex, love and parenthood for the first generation to take for granted that they have the right to choose. | |||||
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