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STEPHEN CARLETON |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Stephen Carleton is a Darwin-raised and Brisbane-based practitioner. He is the winner of the 2004/5 Patrick White Playwrights' Award with his play 'Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset', which was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award (QTC), and produced by the company in July 2006. In 2007, the play was also nominated for an AWGIE and the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. 'The Narcissist' was nominated in the same category. 'Constance' was also produced by Stablemates at Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney in October, 2006; and Darwin Theatre Company, JUTE (Cairns) and Tropic Sun (Townsville) in 2007. His play 'The Narcissist' played at La Boite Theatre Company in March 2007, and played an extended season at the Sydney Opera House for STC in September 2008. He is co-Artistic Director of Knock-em-Down Theatre in Darwin and has written and produced a number of plays and political cabarets for the company over the past ten years, including important collaborations with JUTE, 'Surviving Jonah Salt' (2004) and 'The Seven Deadly Aussie Sins' (2008). He is also the winner of the 2006 New York New Dramatists' Award. Stephen convenes the Drama Major at the University of Queensland.
Plays by Stephen Carleton
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| 1st Produced: | 45 min segment @ Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Australia | 18 Mar 2011 | ||||
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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 | #125820 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | An epic melodrama of life lived at the edges of Australian identity that spans 1967 to 2001 in PNG and Darwin all through the eyes of cabaret artiste Russell. Exuberant and charming. | |||||
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Bullets With Dragonfly Wings | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52303 | |||
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Genre: | 55 mins Play/Drama music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | An 'in-ya-face' schoolyard drama. The play deals with bullying, harassment and youth suicide. A Greek chorus narrates us through the lives of eight 'friends' at school, all of whom have to navigate their way through a minefield of issues - self-esteem, self-image, work, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol and boredom - to discover what the really important values in friendship are. Not as grim as it sounds. Variable cast. Could use more than 12. | |||||
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Choking In The Comfort Zone | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52304 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | t is the turn of the millenium and Darwin is enshrouded in a pall of smoke that drifts south from bushfires in Indonesia. A spate of horrific sexual crimes has swept the city. Spiritual, ecological and emotional forces spiral out of control, and collude to create chaos in the northern tropical capital. The violence descends and centres on a group share household, and the fall-out is catastrophic | |||||
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Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset | ||
| 1st Produced: | Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney | Oct 2006 | ||||
Company: | Stablemates | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playlab Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 09-08156987 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73711 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the 2004 Patrick White Playwrights Award | |||||
| It is 1899 and only the resolve of Lady Constance Drinkwater has kept the Far North Queensland settlement of Somerset from crumbling. Beset by storms, ill-luck and a mysterious disease that has killed all but two of Constance's children, it is the arrival of strangers - anthropologist Professor Cornelius Crabbe and his companion, Mr Hop Lee - that sets in motion the final catastrophic days of Somerset. Stephen Carleton's award-winning new play is a post-colonial melodrama, hilarious and sad in equal measure, and a proud addition to the growing genre of Australian gothic. | |||||
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Forbidden Tongues Whispered In A Night Of Desert Rapture | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52305 | |||
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Genre: | 25 mins Black comedy with surrealistic elements | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two young men travelling to Darwin find themselves transformed after an eerie celestial light display in the night sky above the roadhouse they are trapped in. The past catches up with them in a twist that inextricably links them to the roadhouse's hard-bitten proprietor. | |||||
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Gate Crasher, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playlab Press, Australia | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128441 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | part of I Will Kiss You In Four Places. The four plays contained in this collection are the result of a unique collaboration between Griffith University's Applied Theatre Department, Playlab Press and four prominent playwrights, whose brief was simple - the plays could be no longer than 20 minutes and the cast, no fewer than six. Subject matter, up to the playwright. The end result is four stunning theatrical experiments - the lyrical and apocalyptic 'A Contemporary Hymn' by Linda Hassall, the physical and sophisticated 'Beetle-Eyed' by Helen Howard, the gothic and sexy 'The Gate Crasher' by Stephen Carleton, and the exuberant and hilarious 'Never For Ever' by Daniel Evans | |||||
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Narcissist, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Boite Theatre Company | 01 Mar 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playlab Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0908156993 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73710 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Xavier is a narcissist. He is a jaded, single, urban professional living in New Farm for whom middle age looms, and the prospects of finding a psychosexually well-adjusted partner are beginning to fade. Enter Bronwyn, an equally committed boozy malcontent and his best friend who challenges Xavier to a duel - "Six weeks to bag a man! No ifs, no buts, no limits, no boundaries and no rules!" The gloves are off - whoever scores first, wins. The Narcissist is a riotous and politically incorrect post-modern comedy of manners infused with the joy of popular culture | |||||
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Pretty Fly (For A Mala Guy) | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52306 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min satirical musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 12 | ||
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Synopsis: | The ethnically diverse students of an Australian public school must overcome their cultural differences to participate in the school's rock eisteddfod. A surprise intervention from a federal politician ups the stakes for the group, who are determined to subvert their daggy music teacher. Pretty Fly (For A Mala Guy) is the third in a trilogy of plays for secondary students. The other two plays are Smells Like Impulse and Bullets With Dragonfly Wings. Variable cast with a minimum of 15. | |||||
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Seven Deadly Aussie Sins, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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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 | #130660 | |||
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Smells Like Impulse | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52307 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min Comedy/Music/dance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | variable | |||||
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Synopsis: | A deliriously tacky comedy about stereotypes in the schoolyard, embracing self-image and taking control of your own school life. Written for Darwin High School students with lots of local references. Great opportunity for kids to put their own cultural references in. Also opportunities for them to choose and play the music, and choreograph the dances | |||||
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Surviving Jonah Salt | ||
| 1st Produced: | JUTE (Just Us Theatre Ensemble) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Co-produced by JUTE (Just Us Theatre Ensemble) and Knock 'Em Down Theatre, Darwin | |||||
| 1st Published: | (Flutter & Surviving Jonah SaltPlaylab Press, Australia, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42977 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | , by Kathryn Ash, Stephen Carleton, Gail Evans and Anne Harris | |||||
Synopsis: | Jonah is dumped in the Outback desert by his alcoholic mother. There he runs into three women who each seem bent on sending him mad under the brutal Australian sun. This is a road trip, a mystery, a psychotic folly, a singular account of dying alone. | |||||
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