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James Beaumont

JAMES BEAUMONT   

Nationality:   New Zealander    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  PlaymarketInc  

James originally studied fine arts and drama at Warrnambool Institute, Victoria in 1974. He received further training at NIDA, Sydney in 1975. He arrived in NZ in the late 1970s, attending Theatre Corporate. After serving as a company member at the Fortune Theatre for two years with Tony Richardson, he moved to Wellington to work with Depot, Circa, Centrepoint, Toi Whakaari and Bats. James has worked as a director, writer, script assessor, actor and currently works as an educator. He began writing and directing his own material in 1984. In 1990, he was employed at Taki Rua as the theatre´s first director-in-residence. Subsequently, he was awarded the Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Award. Returning to Australia in 1992, James worked as an actor for the Melbourne Theatre Company, co-directing Vis-a-vis Dance Canberra. He was also involved in script assessment and workshop directing for RAW at Playbox Theatre. Having returned to NZ in 1996, James directed for the Auckland Theatre Company and the Watershed, before taking academic tenure at Waikato University´s Drama Department in 1998. His field of interest is post-colonial and contemporary Aotearoa/NZ and Australian theatre. While at Waikato University, he has helped establish Te Awa, a new regional theatre company with the aim of establishing a professional theatre platform and touring circuit for the Waikato region.

Plays by James Beaumont

JAMES BEAUMONT

Black Halo

1st Produced:

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Company:

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Drama, full length

Parts:

Male

1

Female

3

Parts other:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

Ex-world big-wig Maggzo and her aging servant Lux, while roaming a devastated earth searching for enlightenment, stumble into the garden bower where Val and Ess live. The encounter is highly unusual yet instantly recognisable, side-splittingly funny, and genuinely moving.

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JAMES BEAUMONT

Blood For Tuppence

1st Produced:

Depot

1986

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playmarket,

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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#54042

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Genre:

Drama, full length

Parts:

Male

5

Female

5

Parts other:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

In a surreal sewing centre, 10 characters interact using language eccentric & lyrical. The story of Molly Mott and the death of blue mouse can be played out by either gender and can be read as an ironic response to AIDS and the 1980's.

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JAMES BEAUMONT

Close

1st Produced:

Circa

1992

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playmarket,

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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#54043

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Genre:

Drama, full length

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

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Synopsis:

A psychological thriller set in the 1930s. A brother and sister flee from their oppressive and isolated home following a family catastrophe

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JAMES BEAUMONT

Wild Cabbage

1st Produced:

Depot

1985

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playmarket,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#54044

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Genre:

Drama, full length

Parts:

Male

4

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

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Synopsis:

An exciting, innovative, drama about alienation and urban isolation. Spanning four decades it traces the efforts of two trend setting angels and the decrepit Mr G. to reconcile the Freak with her family.

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