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BENEDICT ANDREWS (1972 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: RGM Artist Group represented by Annabelle Sheehan |
Benedict Andrews is one of the most sought after Australian theatre directors of his generation. Dividing his time between Sydney and Berlin, he is a regular guest at the Sydney Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir, and the Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz. He is known for startling adaptations of works from the classical repertoire alongside plays by contemporary dramatists such as Marius von Mayenburg, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, and Caryl Churchill. His marathon adaptation of the Shakespeare's history plays, The War of the Roses, was the theatrical highlight of the 2009 Sydney Festival. In 2009, this production received six Helpmann awards including Best Play and Best Direction of a Play, as well as five Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Direction and Best Mainstage Production.
Plays by Benedict Andrews
Every Breath | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir Street Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, Sydney, ANZ >>> | 28 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Belvoir | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-929-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #140000 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| A family under threat - from what, we don't know - hires a young security guard, Chris. He spends long hours, day and night, by the pool, watching. One by one, in their private universes of plate glass and good food, each family member is drawn to Chris. A dangerous game of fantasy and privilege begins. Every Breath is an extraordinary debut written by a theatre-maker at the top of his game. Darkly funny, sweetly eerie, and strangely familiar, this is about what happens when prosperity gives us the licence to see the world as we want to see it. | |||||
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Seagull, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir Street Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, Sydney, ANZ >>> | 04 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-898-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129014 | |||
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: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| In a letter to his friend Alexei Suvorin, in 1895, Chekhov wrote that he was working on a new play: "A comedy - three females, six males, four acts, a landscape (a view of a lake), much conversation about literature, little action, and five tons of love." The Seagull is Chekhov's extraordinary gathering of a group of bruised and incandescent dreamers who cannot, no matter how they try, get what they want. It is also one of the masterpieces of theatre about theatre; an exploration of how telling stories and coining symbols interacts with life. Benedict Andrews' adaptation brilliantly reawakens the spirit of Chekhov's great play. Set in a world which is at once Russia then and Australia now, this new version is charged with all the good faith and natural poetry of Chekhov's original. | |||||
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