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CATHERINE FARGHER (1961 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown (Australia)Pty Ltd |
Catherine Fargher is a performer, writer and teacher working in radio, contemporary performance, new media, television and theatre. As a writer, Catherine has had over twenty scripts produced for companies including the Sydney Opera House, Sidetrack Theatre, Vitalstatistix, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, the Jessica Wilson Company and the Australian National Broadcasting Corporation. Her bioethical fable Dr Egg and The Man with No Ear was adapted for new a media/puppetry production at the Opera House in July 2007 and will tour to Chicago (REDMOON) in 2008 and New York (New Victory Childrens Theatre) in 2010.. Her performance/Installation BioHome will be performed at the Experimental Art Foundation (SA) Art and Biotechnology Event in October 2008. Catherine has performed widely in cabaret and contemporary performance in Australia. In 1998 she toured with other Australian, UK and New York artists for 'It's Queer up North' in Manchester, Glasgow, Warwick and London as well as WOW Cafe New York. In 2002 she was funded by the Australia Council New Media Fund for the Motherload project, exploring genetic science and human reproductive futures with performance writers Maude Davey and Heather Grace Jones. She is currently teaching at University of Wollongong School of Creative Arts in writing for performance and radio production. She has recently completed her Doctorate of Creative Arts at UOW, under supervisors Merlinda Bobis and Brogan Bunt. Her plays The Violin Player and The Jetty are currently under commission to ABC radio national Airplay
Plays by Catherine Fargher
Body Ophelia - Installation Texts, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52391 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 75 mins Play/Drama | |||||
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Body Ophelia, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52392 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 75 mins Play/Drama | |||||
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Dr Egg and The Man with No Ear | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Opera House | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Jessica Wilson Productions, Sydney Opera House, Chicago Redmoon theatre | |||||
| 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 | #86618 | |||
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Genre: | Puppetry/New Media | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A sad man has lost his ear and his wife in an unfortunate accident with a snappy bull terrier. His wife dead, he tries to live a happy life with his young daughter, but he cannot overcome his craving for a new ear. One day he locates a mysterious scientist, Dr Egg, and is offered a previously unthinkable possibility; Dr Egg can try to grow him a new ear. But first he needs a small piece of flesh from his precious daughter. The Man refuses to harm her, but is increasingly tortured by his desire for the ear. Finally his curious daughter breaks out of this protective shield and finds her way to Dr Egg's laboratory to give him the flesh herself. Before their very eyes, the ear grows, but it does not stop there. A new life is made. And it looks a lot like her. Should her creation live or die? Dr Egg, the daughter and the sad man are faced with a dilemma. | |||||
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Marigold Hour, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vitalstatistix National Womens Theatre Company, Port Adelaide, S.A | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Vitalstatistix | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52393 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue/s 75 mins Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Is it the smell of a Lily that makes it alluring before you have even laid eyes on it? The strong scent drifting towards you on the hot summer night air, making you no more than a sensual beast, drawn dumbly forwards to sniff it's nectar moist insides, to fondle it's pollen doused stamens? Welcome to the monstrous gorgeous gardens of desire, home of assorted hothouse flowers, delicate pansies, and the hardened succulents of the lesbian and gay underworlds. You might even meet the ghost of Don Dunstan! The Marigold Hour is a luscious, comic and erotic performance monologue by cabaret and performance artist Catherine Fargher, who has previously created work for cLUB bENT, Taboo Parlour, It's Queer up North (UK) and WOW Cafe (New York), Sidetrack Performance Group, Theatre of the Deaf and Death Defying Theatre. On the road to FEAST 2000, don't forget to smell the roses. | |||||
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Succulent | ||
| 1st Produced: | Peacock Theatre, Hobart, | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Terrapin Puppet Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #86620 | |||
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Genre: | Puppetry | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Puppetry and video | |||||
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Woman Who Knitted Herself A Child, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | ABC Radio National Airplay | 2004 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #86619 | |||
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Genre: | Radio | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 6 | |||||
Notes: | Recorded at ABC Radio Audio Arts Studios, November 14-17th 2004. First Broadcast Dec 19th 2004. Repeat Broadcast Nov 14 2005. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Woman Who Knitted Herself a Child' follows a woman scientist as she does an extraordinary thing: she is knitting herself a child. The piece explores the reveries of a woman as she tries to make sense of a changing and highly technological world of new genetic futures. Working at the 'coalface' of genetic research, cloning transgenic organisms, she explores the possibilities she is creating through her work and the miraculous futures promised by cloning, IVF, stem cell technology and dolly the sheep. In her inner world, the mitochondrial/ subconscious space, she knits together the ancient knit and purl stitches, and the constantly evolving strands of DNA double helix. Throughout the play, memories of her past emerge, as a child and as a pregnant teenager making a decision on her reproductive future, and finally the growing wish for her own child. The play incorporates original composition and soundscapes by Matthew Fargher and Jane Ulman, creating a sense of enchantment and menace as she creates these new 'beings'. | |||||
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