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TOM HOLLOWAY |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd ANZ Agent HLA Management Pty Ltd |
Tom Holloway is originally from Tasmania and now lives in Australia and the UK. He attended the 2001 NIDA playwriting studio and was a featured playwright at the 2002 Australian National Playwrights' Conference. He attended the Royal Court's Introductory Playwright's Studio in 2004 and the Invitational Playwright's Course in 2006.
Plays by Tom Holloway
And No More Shall We Part | ||
| 1st Produced: | BlackBox Theatre, The Arts Centre, Melbourne | 30 Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | A Bit of Argy Bargy and Full Tilt for the Melbourne Fringe Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-904-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119460 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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| After a long and successful marriage, Pam and Don are still very much in love. But Pam is ill and has to make a heartbreaking decision that will transform both their lives. She does so in the only way she knows how - quickly, pragmatically, and resolutely. Don behaves in the only way he knows how - struggling to keep up but desperate not to lose touch. And No More Shall We Part follows Pam and Don's halting, humorous and devastating attempt at the impossible - to begin to say goodbye to each other after a lifetime together. | |||||
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Beyond the Neck | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 19 Jan 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playlab Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0908156924 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80920 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | In 2007 Beyond the Neck was one of ten plays chosen for the Royal Court Theatre's International Young Playwright s Festival, London. It was then produced at the Peacock Theatre, Hobart, 12-15 September 2007 and at the Earl Arts Centre, Launceston, 18-21 September 2007. Director: Ian Sinclair. Has been adapted for radio and aired in Australia in April 2010 | |||||
| Profoundly affected by the events at Port Arthur in 1996, Tom Holloway (who was 17 at the time) was moved to write this play. Based on in-depth interviews and years of research, the story is set ten years later and celebrates the power of community and recovery. Source: Is Theatre website, http://www.istheatre.com | |||||
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Bus, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #86203 | |||
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Notes: | Produced as part of St Martins Youth Arts Centre's Season of International New Plays, winner of the audience and cast award for best script, 2004. Produced as part of an International Young Playwright's Collaboration called Playgrounds at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2004. Short-listed for the Naked Theatre Company's 'Write Now' national young playwright's competition, 2005; | |||||
Synopsis: | Two boys trying to cope with life at home and primary school where they seem to be surrounded by violence so learn only one way to react. | |||||
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Don't Say the Words | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868198347 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86200 | |||
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Genre: | epic in minature | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted to radio for ABC Radio National Drama Program, April 16th 2006. | |||||
| The wheels in the gravel driveway. The door. Him coming home. I was waiting because I hadn't seen him in a long time. I hadn't been alone with him in so long. . . After a decade under siege a city has finally fallen. But ten years of rage have taken their toll. For an officer returning from this epic overseas campaign, it is time to put the horrors of battle behind him, and to take back his place at the family table. For the officer's wife, it is time to take her revenge. . . Tom Holloway's 'epic-in-miniature' is inspired by Aeschylus' Agamemnon and a truly contemporary Australian landscape - with breathtaking results. | |||||
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Faces Look Ugly | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arthus Teater, Denmark | 2011 | ||||
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 | #129854 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | winner the Max Afford Fellowship | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Fatherland | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gate Theatre, 11 Pembridge Road, Above the Prince Albert Pub, Notting Hill, London, W11 3HQ >>> | 10 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430449 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125055 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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| An innocent evening of ice-cream and DVDs derails quickly into dangerous territory. This is a story of a father who loved too deeply. | |||||
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Gambling | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Mar 2010 | |||||
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 | #113067 | |||
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Genre: | 50 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Raz Shaw and Georgina Lamb, text by Tom Holloway | |||||
Synopsis: | Gambling uses the experiences of three addicts to represent their class. We have a woman devoted (there is no other word) to slot machines, an Irishhabitue of bookies' seedy premises and a young man who likes the more pampered atmosphere of casinos. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Love Me Tender | ||
| 1st Produced: | Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) at PICA Performance Space | 24 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company with Company B Belvoir and ThinIce | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868198699 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112321 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | ensemble (the play is for any number of actors) | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Inspired by Iphigenia in Aulis | |||||
| I think it is the best time to bring a little girl in to the world.' On a simple stage - a dreamed-up version of the Australian backyard - five actors tease out the story of a father and his daughter. Blurring character and perspective, their fluid accounts morph seamlessly between observation and intention, postulation and provocation, cajolement and confession. By the story's end, a dream of modern life has become a searing tragedy of leadership and sacrifice. Love Me Tender is formally inventive, rich in beauty and emotional power. Inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis | |||||
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No More Shall We Part | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Centre, BlackBox, Melbourne | 30 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | A Bit of Argy Bargy | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-904-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86201 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| After thirty years of marriage, what is there left to say? This production is the world premiere of another exquisitely wrought play by Tom Holloway (Red Sky Morning, Beyond the Neck). And No More Shall We Part follows the denouement of a 30-year relationship due to terminal illness and the decision to euthanise. For this, Holloway's most mature work to date, Director Martin White has crafted a sparse domestic tableau in which the everyday and ordinary become loaded with portent. Holloway's understated depiction of the ultimate relationship crisis deftly avoids adopting a moral stance, and eschews sentimentality in a moving and often humourous portrayal of the minutiae of a marriage. | |||||
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Pathetique And The Papers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52459 | |||
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Genre: | 40 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Forsythe is a belt and braces cop investigating the death of an underground artist, Van. But when he arrives at Van's small apartment in the middle of the monstrous city, his investigation goes horribly wrong. This is 21st Century 1950s now. A Country Practice has gone. The wombats are dead. The future is anyone's guess. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Red Sky Morning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Stitch Theatre, East St Kilda, Melbourne | 29 Aug 2008 | ||||
Company: | Red Stitch Actors Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-905-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112870 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Red Sky Morning is the Winner of the 2009 Green Room Award for Best New Australian Writing and the 2007 R. E. Ross Trust Development Award. | |||||
| Three family members, three monologues, one day, and a heartbreaking tragedy of miscommunication. | |||||
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Revelator | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #52052 | |||
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Notes: | It was developed in 2002 as part of Playbox Theatre's In the Raw programme and performed at the Australian National Playwright's Conference and again in 2004 by Sleeping Dogs Performance Company, Hobart. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in a dessert roadhouse, this piece uses a hyper-realistic world of smoothies and flaking skin to express a man's struggle to find his place in a wild and ancient environment. | |||||
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Snapshot | ||
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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 | #86202 | |||
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Notes: | Collaboration between three playwrights and two animators, this piece looks at the effect the war on terror and its rhetoric of fear is having on suburban Australia. Won Best Ensemble Performance at the Melbourne Festival Fringe, 2005. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Stones In My Passway | ||
| 1st Produced: | SBW Stables Theatre | - - - | ||||
Company: | Naked Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52460 | |||
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Genre: | 30 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play is a psychological piece about 3 disparate characters who find each other in their way. Based on the myth behind Blues legend Robert Johnson, the play deals with issues such as self belief and the threat of complacency. | |||||
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Suicide Show, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Centre, BlackBox, Melbourne | 30 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | A Bit of Argy Bargy | |||||
| 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 | #115489 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Created by Martin White with Mark Jones, Tom Holloway and Stephen Taberner | |||||
Synopsis: | Masculinity will never be the same. Darkly comic and profoundly tragic, self-deprecating and visceral, The Suicide Show challenges the unacknowledged phenomenon of men's mental health and the alarming Australian male suicide rate. Performers include some of the hottest cabaret artists in town from the Beautiful Losers, Vulgargrad, Beautiful Rubble to Plastic Palace Alice. Gleefully using every art-form available to them, A Bit of Argy Bargy have created a vital new performance experience that blends traditional cabaret with new writing by Tom Holloway, physical theatre, contemporary dance, live music and sound, video projection, stand-up and art. Music will cover the gamut of Queen, Slipknot, John Lennon, Randy Newman, the Coldwar Kids, Nick Cave, Nirvana, Bob Marley, Gnarls Barkley, Paul Kelly, Bananarama and Lou Reed. The Suicide Show will stay with you long after the band has stopped playing. | |||||
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Terror 2011 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Oct 2011 | |||||
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 | #133095 | |||
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Genre: | short horror | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The UKs only annual season of horror theatre returns for its 8th year. A controversial event that has consistently sold out and divided critics, prepare to be both terrified and thrilled by an evening of twisted tales, cabaret and Halloween oddities. | |||||
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