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SCOTT RANKIN |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Cameron Creswell Agency |
Scott Rankin is a writer, director and creative director of the renowned arts organisation, Big hART. Scott wrote the highly acclaimed works B ox The Pony for Leah Purcell, Riverland for Wesley Enoch and Ngapartji Ngapartji for Trevor Jamieson. Big hART is Scotts passionate contribution to the arts and society the company has won eight Coalition of Australian Governments (COAG) Awards, the 2008 Myer Performing Arts Group Award as well as an AFI Award and a World Health Organisation Award. He has received many high accolades and awards including: two Premiers Literary awards, three Green Room Awards including Most Innovative Production and Best Direction, as well as a Human Rights Award (arts). He has been awarded the Ros Bower Award for outstanding achievement in services to community cultural development, and has received a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Plays by Scott Rankin
Beasty Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | MPP | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Big ART Productions | |||||
| 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 | #38951 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Rankin's writing is original and fantastical. . . innovative Australian Drama. The Age. Winner: 3 Green Room Awards 2003: Best Innovative Production, Best Director, Best Female Lead. "Beasty Girl is exceptionally layered for a one person performance piece. | |||||
Synopsis: | The secret life of Errol Flynn and the last remaining Thylacine. A tale of extinction told by Flynn's unacknowledged, illegitimate daughter. | |||||
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Box The Pony | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Bite 200 Heads Up | |||||
| 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 | #51350 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell | |||||
Synopsis: | Semi-autobiographical story of Leah Purcell - or her alter ego Steff - which traces the events of her life growing up in a Queensland mission town. The youngest of 7 children and daughter of a white father and black mother, Steff's life is teeming with lively characters. There is her Nanna, crippled with arthritis, who teaches her the stories and language of her ancestors. There is her mother, who lives it up each pension day. Above all, there is her Grandfather's pony, Steff's vehicle for temporary escape that characterises Steff's life, from her Nanna's prediction that she'll fly away like a Blue Crane Bungabura her aboriginal name, to the many tragedies she manages to avoid. Despite poverty, violence, lack of education and opportunity, Steff's spirit is nurtured through her ingenuity and resourcefulness (in the midst of her family's unspoken love). Box The Pony contains devastating humour, piercing insight, raw energy and emotion as it tackles many of the pressing issues of our times. | |||||
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Career Highlights of the Mamu, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Big ART Productions | |||||
| 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 | #38952 | |||
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Genre: | indigenous | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Scott Rankin & Trevor Jamieson using a community process, the work toured Perth and Adelaide Festivals and to Germany. | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of the Spinnafex people driven from their lands by the atomic tests in the 1950s, their survival and return | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Certified Male | ||
| 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: | OCR-certified | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording Middle Eight Music | doollee no | #104245 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Scott Rankin and Glynn Nicholas | |||||
| Four executives are sent to a tropical island to discuss their firm's restructuring. They take this opportunity to appraise their lives so far | |||||
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Kissing Frogs | ||
| 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: | OCR-kissing | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording Middle Eight Music | doollee no | #104246 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Scott Rankin and Glynn Nicholas | |||||
| Boy meets girl. Boy looses frog. Girl ignores boy. Girl's boyfriend beats up boy. Girl feels sorry for boy. And then there is the psycho policeman | |||||
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Leaves Falling at Midnight | ||
| 1st Produced: | ACHE | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Glynn Nicholas Group | |||||
| 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 | #38953 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Scott Rankin & Glynn Nicholas. Sell out seasons in Perth and Sydney. Leaves falling at Midnight is brilliantly funny, moving and a visual feast. | |||||
Synopsis: | An environmentally friendly love story. An eccentric man who collects autumn leaves meets a young activist and try not to fall in love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Namatjira | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Sep 2010 | |||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-916-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119796 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Elea was born in the desert in Arrernte country, Central Australia, in 1902. Two years later he was baptised Albert. Thirty one years after that, at his first solo exhibition of watercolour landscapes, he signed his work with his father's surname for the first time: Albert Namatjira. Half a century after his death, Belvoir and Big hART have invited some of his descendants - third generation watercolour artists - to spend six weeks filling the Belvoir St corner with a huge drawing of Namatjira's country. Each night as they draw, the charismatic Trevor Jamieson will retell Namatjira's extraordinary life. At the height of his fame, Albert Namatjira's shows sold out within minutes. If you didn't own one of his paintings you probably had a print in your loungeroom. He also supported over six hundred members of his community, lost two of his ten children to malnutrition, was forbidden to own land, imprisoned for having a drink with his friends, and died a broken man. | |||||
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Ngapartji Ngapartji | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Trevor Jamieson | |||||
| 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 | #132096 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Riverland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Windmill | |||||
| 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 | #38954 | |||
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Genre: | Narrative | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | children | |||||
Notes: | Using text, song and visual imagary a beautifull, moving and funny story unfol | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1956, the River Murray flooded causing chaos. Sheep and cattle drowned, houses were washed away and trees felled. Riverland juxtaposes the story of this historic flood with the lives of a contemporary urban indigenous family. The once mighty river and the lives of three generations of family become bound together in a shared history. Riverland is the story of 13-year-old Luke and his family who go camping beside the river his Nana remembers swimming in as a girl before the flood. The river has changed - the cod do not swim there any more and the children live in the city. The audience is invited to come camping in a world of storytelling and play, where the real and the imagined combine, where the past and present are one. | |||||
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Three Men Walk Into A Bar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canberra Theatre Courtyard Studio, Australia | 1996 | ||||
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 | #28849 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | rootless declassed people who live in bed sitting rooms or small flats alienated by their cultural diversity | |||||
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