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ANDREW BOVELL (1962 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: HLA Management Pty Ltd |
Andrew Bovell is an award-winning writer for theatre, film and television. His AWGIE award-winning play Speaking in Tongues has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as Lantana. Both the play and screenplay have been published by Currency along with After Dinner, Holy Day, Scenes from a Separation (written with Hannie Rayson) and Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, written with Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irene Vela. He currently lives in South Australia.
Plays by Andrew Bovell
After Dinner | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press in association with Griffin Theatre, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4113 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A black comedy about being single and eating in restaurants. Five people converge on a suburban nightspot to enjoy their meal and the after dinner entertainment. A bitter sweet farce about human vulnerability. | |||||
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Ballad Of Lois Ryan | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Published in "Australasian Drama Studies", Focus Issue No. 2. October, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4114 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | musician(s) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Lois is a textile worker in a small country town. Life for Lois revolves around the factory, the supermarket and home. The play is about Lois' struggle to free herself from the traps that bind working mothers. Lois wins her struggle but not without paying a price. | |||||
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Confidentially Yours - Jane And Paula | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4115 | |||
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Distant Lights Dark Places | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #4116 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fever | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52267 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gulliver's Travels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1992 | ||||
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 | #4117 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from Jonathan Swift novel | |||||
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Holy Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | State Theatre Company of South Australia | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, Sydney in association with Playbox, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4118 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | When a child disappears tensions and vulnerabilities are exposed within a tenuous community on the frontier of white settlement. Elizabeth, the devout wife of a missionary is suspected of being involved in her own child's demise. But the men who sit in judgment can't fathom the reason why a woman would take the life of her own child. Only the women understand the dark place a mother can go. Linda, a local aboriginal woman knows what happened at the mission on the night the child disappeared. But she maintains her silence. She refuses to recognise the authority of European justice. By doing so she casts herself as a political prisoner and European settlement as a hostile act of occupation by a foreign power. Holy Day is about two defiant women who refuse to account for the unaccountable. It depicts a white community locked in a moral crisis, unable to liberate itself because it cannot face its dark truths. | |||||
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Like Whisky on the Breath of a Drunk You Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1992 | ||||
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 | #4119 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's hot. The moon is full. There's not a breath of wind and the air is full of something. . . it smells like melting tar, like fumes from a petrol station, like the backyards of restaurants, like whiskey on the breath of a drunk you love. . . It's heady, pungent, illicit, like desire. No, desire is sweet. It's unfulfilled desire, sort of sour . . . a kind of lust . . . an unforgiving lust. Sonja meets Pete in a bar and they go back to a cheap motel room. Meanwhile Christine meets Tony in a bar and they also go back to a cheap room. The catch? Sonja is married to Tony and Christine is married to Pete. A double infidelity. Two scenes of seduction and betrayal are played out, each superimposed on the other. | |||||
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Ocean Out Of My Window, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canberra | 1986 | ||||
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 | #4120 | |||
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Piccolo Mondo | ||
| 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 | #39059 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Three women over lunch realise the implications of one's affair with a married man. The other two soon come to realise that the man she is having the affair with is, in fact, one of their husbands. | |||||
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Scenes From A Separation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4121 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | by Hannie Rayson & Andrew Bovell | |||||
Synopsis: | There are two sides to every separation. Two truths. A fascination collaboration between two of Australia's most exciting writers. A story which will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost. Mathew and Nina have been married for twelve years. He is forty; a successful publisher. Always in control, his pace is enormous and his path is littered with the discarded souls of those who tried to keep up. Nina's thirty-eight; a journalist. she hasn't worked since the birth of the children. She's restless; looking for something. So when Mathew suggests she takes on the biography of Lawrence Clifford, tycoon, philanthropist and now Australian of the Year, she throws herself into the project with an all-consuming enthusiasm. A play about love and betrayal, about sex, sacrifice and survival, of break-up and break-down. | |||||
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Shades Of Blue | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #4122 | |||
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Ship Of Fools | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1987 | ||||
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 | #4123 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A medieval journey for a new dark age, this parallels two journeys separated by time and space. The first journey tells the story of the fools of Basle, who in 1492 were rounded up and set adrift down the River Rhine. The second journey tells the story of eight unemployed and contemporary Australians who are rounded up and sent into the Australian desert on a work-for-the-dole scheme. The play is an exploration of society's treatment of the individual and reveals that little has changed over the centuries. | |||||
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Speaking in Tongues | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Stables, Sydney | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868197111 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4124 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 70 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | This play brings together two earlier works, 'Like Whisky on the Breath of a Drunk You Love' and 'Distant Lights from Dark Places' with a new play commissioned by the Griffin Theatre Company (Sydney) especially for this production. Adapted for the screen as Lantana. | |||||
| Sometimes you can be too careful. Sometimes you just want to say something quickly, without reserve without self-censorship, without shame. Sometimes the way some thing is said is more revealing than what is being said. There's a danger in that. It's the tyranny of form over content. But there's a kind of wonderful freedom in constraint. It can lead to an unwitting truth. | |||||
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State Of Defence | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1987 | ||||
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 | #4125 | |||
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When the Rain Stops Falling | ||
| 1st Produced: | Scott Theatre, Adelaide, Australia | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Brink productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420342 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83983 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | (4f 3m possible) | |||||
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| An epic play spanning four generations and two continents, When The Rain Stops Falling moves from the claustrophobia of a 1950s London flat to the windswept coast of Southern Australia and into the heart of the Australian desert. The play weaves together a series of interconnected stories, as seven people confront their mysteries of the past in oder to understand their future, revealing how patterns of betrayal, love and abandonment are passed on, until finally, well into the future, as the desert is inundated with rain, one young man finds the courage to defy the legacy. | |||||
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Who's Afraid of the Working Class | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Published as "Melbourne Stories", Currency Press, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4126 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | doubling poss | |||||
Notes: | written with Andrew Bovell/Patricia Cornelius/Melissa Reeves/Christos Tsiolkas and Irene Vela. Part of Melborne Tales | |||||
Synopsis: | Melbourne at the end of the twentieth century - modern economic miracle or a society imploding with savage politics and despair? The story is of fringe-dwellers, living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly out of work, and politically uninterested, they work at survival. A gritty portrayal of real life in an urban wasteland. | |||||
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