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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Cameron Creswell Agency |
Noelle Janaczewska is a multi-award winning Sydney-based writer whose plays, libretti, radio scripts, open texts, monologues, stand-up poetry, essays and on-line explorations have been performed, broadcast and published throughout Australia and overseas. After graduating with a BA (Honours) in Human Sciences from Oxford University, Noelle received a scholarship from the UK Social Sciences Research Council to study for a Masters Degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science. On completion of her Masters, she worked with - and co-established - -a number of theatre companies and contemporary arts groups, presenting work in Britain, Germany and The Netherlands, before moving to Australia in the late 1980s. Following 2 years as the Artistic Director of The Performance Space in Sydney, she returned to freelance practice. The recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award, Noelle obtained her doctorate from the University of Technology, Sydney in 1997. Recurring themes in Noelle's work are the history and philosophy of science, colonialism and its legacies, narratives of migration, and the exploration of language, and her work is acclaimed for its wit and inventiveness as well as for its creative and intellectual ambition. The author of some 30 produced plays, performance texts, monologues and radio scripts across fiction and non-fiction, Noelle's numerous nominations, grants and prizes include: the 2006 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Mrs Petrov's Shoe (Theatre @ Risk, 2006); the 2002 Griffin Playwriting Award and first prize in the 2001 Playbox-Asialink Playwriting Competition for Songket, produced by the Griffin Theatre Company and The Studio at the Sydney Opera House to a sell-out season in 2003; 4 AWGIE (Australian Writers' Guild) Awards for radio writing (in 2006 for the feature Let's Go Brazil, and in 2005, 2001 and 1999 for the dramas The Rush Hour Carillon, Glissando 24 and Slowianska Street, all produced by ABC Radio National); a Centenary Medal for radio scriptwriting; an Asialink Literature Residency in Korea, and Fellowships from the Theatre and Literature Boards of the Australia Council. Noelle is currently working on performance essays for the PowerPoint age. She presented the first of these, X-Words, at the 2006 Women Playwrights' International Conference in Indonesia. Noelle is a member of the 7-ON playwrights' group whose inaugural project The Seven Needs was part of the Griffin Theatre Company's 2007 season.
Plays by Noelle Janaczewska
About Face | ||
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Genre: | Youth Theatre 65 min Youth Audience | |||||
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Synopsis: | In an abandoned gothic library adorned with gargoyles and grotesques, a group of young people meet - apparently for choir practice. Soon however, it becomes apparent that singing is merely a façade. For Tarwater and Jonah want to track down the missing Morgan Bequest. Some twenty thousand volumes donated to the university when the library closed. They want to reclaim the books, or if the university have destroyed them expose those who committed the ugly deed. But how? The enigmatic Haphazard suggests they need an act of God & | |||||
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Blood Orange | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52479 | |||
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Genre: | One Act Youth Drama 50 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | This schools' touring version of Blood Orange explores the issues of body, health, identity in a loose narrative style. It was written to be performed in four languages; Vietnamese, Arabic, Italian and English. (Script is in English with language in which performed in brackets). Three characters, Kim, Nadya and Tessa meeting to plan the birthday celebration for an absent fourth friend, Krystyna. | |||||
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Butcher's Wife, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mainstreet Theatre Company, South Australia | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51311 | |||
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Genre: | magic realism 60 min | |||||
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Synopsis: | When she married Luke Harris, Saren thought she'd escaped her past. Here she's Mrs. Harris, a country town butcher's wife, and Cambodia seems a long way away. Until Luke's mysterious disappearance prompts an investigation. And Gan, a local policeman, and his sister Callie enter the picture. Saren's response to her husband's disappearance puzzles Gan. Who seeks Callie's advice. Recently returned from a long and gruelling stint as an aid worker in Cambodia, Callie however, is struggling with her own ghosts. A situation exacerbated by having to deal with their astronomer mother's growing blindness. Meanwhile, Saren has an unexpected visitor. The Naga: a mythical water serpent who has assumed human form. Gan meanwhile, finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic Saren. While at home their mother's difficulty adapting to life without sight causes growing tension between brother and sister. And Callie begins to suspect there might be dark secrets in the butcher's wife's Cambodian past. | |||||
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Cold Harvest | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52480 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 85 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Cold Harvest explores the rites of passage and dilemmas of an Australian-born second generation of migrants - those caught in the cross-fire between then and now, there and here, us and them. The play follows the negotiations Kasia and Yong-su make across culture, language, memory, family secrets and national histories as they attempt to understand the Cold War politics of their parents' generation; attempt to reconcile a polarised past with a culturally diverse present. | |||||
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Connie And Kevin And The Secret Life Of Groceries | ||
| 1st Produced: | Siren Theatre Company & Belvoir Street B Sharp, Sydney | Sep 2001 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #51308 | |||
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Genre: | 75 min musical comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in the busy international food court of a city mall, the structure of Connie And Kevin And The Secret Life Of Groceries is essentially three different versions of the same event. In the first act, Connie, a young sandwich stall worker, fantasises a romance with a young man who works at the Korean food counter. While singing along to schmaltzy tunes in the style of her namesake, Connie Francis. Knowing nothing about him, not even his name, she calls him Ki-sung. In the second act, Ki-sung, the object of Connie's dreaming, is revealed to be Kevin. And, in between comments on Internet spam and racism in Australia, he now imagines an encounter with the sandwich stall girl. Not knowing her name is Connie, he calls her Coralie. In act three, fantasies meet reality, when Connie and Kevin finally connect. A topical and comic romance with a fantastical twist. A romantic fantasy with kimch'i | |||||
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Crossing The Quince | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #87024 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Imagine that in your pocket, you have a unique fruit, perhaps the last of its kind anywhere. You're starving, you're desperate. Of course you want to eat itbut if you do, you'll remove forever its DNA from the world's botanic lexicon. You're a scientist, you know the score. What do you do? CROSSING THE QUINCE, a highly visual contemporary theatre work for female actor, male dancer, a swarm of fruit-flies, a string of rats, and a rain of strawberries, explores this and other questions of individual choice. Winter 1942, and the city of Leningrad is under siege, surrounded by Nazi forces. At the Institute of Plant Industry, as food supplies dwindle, Vera, a botanist struggles with the consequences of the pact made by herself and her colleagues at the beginning of the blockade: to protect the collection - some of the world's most precious plant genetic resources. Inspired by true events, CROSSING THE QUINCE is the story of Vera's struggle with herself, as loneliness and guilt gnaw at a psyche made fragile by hunger and circumstance. Finally entering a mental landscape where reality and delusion become indistinguishable. Although set in the past, the themes of CROSSING THE QUINCE remain resonant today. As politicians legislate to control scientific inquiry, as hardline regimes continue to silence those whose views don't conform to the prevailing ideology, and creationists lobby to get their theological beliefs onto the school science curriculum. Robust language, striking imagery, anachronistic newsflashes and new media interventions are all integral to the dramatic unfolding of Vera's dilemma. As doubts, regrets - and eventually guilt - are counterpointed with unexpected humour, moments of joy, political send-up, flashes of scientific reverie, and of course, the appearance of Fred Astaire, as he tap-taps his way through the rats and files, and into Vera's arms. | |||||
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F.R.G.S. | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Aug 2007 | |||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Short Circuit: 14 short plays for the stage, Currency Press, Australia (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868198668 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106375 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
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| Over three years, Australia's new writing theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, presented fourteen unique short plays across its mainstage season. Seen for one night only, The fates, Seasons and The Seven Needs were three play cycles provoked by the classical mythology of man's inescapable destiny, the seasonal patterns and Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs. Now , this eclectic and fascinating collection of ten minute plays by some of the country's most established and emerging playwrights becomes Short Circuit. | |||||
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Historia | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Australian Women's Drama: Texts and Feminisms, Currency Press, Australia >>>, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87021 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A lesbian love affair between the Polish-born Zosia and the Australian Zoe invokes a powerful reconsideration of the boundaries placed around ethnicity and nationality, cyberspace and real time, and the past and the present. | |||||
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History Of Water, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #17925 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | adapted for radio | |||||
Synopsis: | In an engrossing interchange between a Vietnamese woman and an English-born Australian woman, the complexities of translating literally and physically to another culture are revealed. Includes English and Vietnamese text. | |||||
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Madagascar Lily | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #87022 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Marie Curie Chat Show, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52481 | |||
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Genre: | 75 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 20 | ||
Parts other: | Variable cast. Originally done with 4 actors, can use up to 29. Could use all-female or mixed cast | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Marie Curie Chat Show explores the theme of women and science. It takes an oblique, and sometimes surreal, look at the history and philosophy of science to raise questions about the ways we construct value and gender forms of knowledge. What are the relationships between fact and fiction, rationality and intuition, science and poetry? And what have been the contributions and roles played by female scientists- past and present, locally and internationally? | |||||
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Mrs Petrov's Shoe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre @ Risk, Melbourne | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Collection 7, Australian Script Centre, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51312 | |||
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Genre: | Innovative form drama with elements of comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Also suitable for larger cast (up to 18) | |||||
Notes: | finalist for the 2005 Griffin Playwriting Award, winner Queensland Premier's Literary Award 2006 | |||||
Synopsis: | Anna Lubansky shoots to prominence with her first novel Mrs Petrov's Shoe, the emotional narrative of a 9-year-old girl's struggle to reconcile her Australian reality with her parents' Central European heritage. Promoted as heavily autobiographical, Anna's multicultural star shines brightly in the literary firmament - until the real fiction is exposed: Anna Lubansky is actually Ann Loxton. Is this reworking of her identity an act of post-modern bravado or simply fraud? Does it matter if the novel is a record of her own experiences, or the product of a vivid imagination? How did she manage to draw so many people into her invented world? Inspired by a number of recent Australian literary scandals, MRS PETROV'S SHOE is a portrait of a complex and unstable psyche, structured in 4 parts, with each movement asking us to reconsider its predecessor. | |||||
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Mysteriyaki | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #51310 | |||
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Synopsis: | Life is not going smoothly for Teruko. Her boyfriend has turned into Cardigan Man. She's lost her job managing the laundromat. Her dream of becoming a private detective seems increasingly remote. And the bills are piling up. So Teruko becomes Mysteriyaki: a telephone fortune-teller with an organisation called Dial-a-Clairvoyant. Meanwhile, across the hall, tragedy strikes. Brigitte Bardot has disappeared. Could this be Teruko's lucky break? Soon she's got a clue - several, in fact - but instead of them leading her to BB, Teruko finds herself caught in a tangle of friends and lovers, questions of faith, suspect financial dealings and a disappearing lawn. | |||||
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Pitch Black | ||
| 1st Produced: | ABC Radio National's Airplay | 2008 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #84093 | |||
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Genre: | radio play | |||||
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Synopsis: | A smoky basement someplace. Late night jazz. And propping up the bar: Bruno McCoy. A drifter, a tour guide to the global city -- a man on the brink. A portrait of Australian values at the beginning of the 21st century, Pitch Black is an idiosyncratic cocktail of music, song, spoken word performance, stand-up comedy, and philosophical rave. As Bruno drowns his sorrows, re-lives his joys and conjures up his various lovers -- male, female, real, imaginary and electrical appliances -- we can't help but wonder just how reliable a narrator he is. A compulsive liar? A singer with a strange line in patter? Or simply an inebriated misfit looking for the real McCoy?' Source: ABC Radio National website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/ - Information extracted from AustLit: http://www.austlit.edu.au | |||||
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Redheads | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queensize Productions with Tamarama Rock Surfers, Sydney | 2007 | ||||
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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 | #51313 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Ruth loves Frank - who lives with Brigid; Joanna is in love with Guthrie who's married to Vienna; Australia has been devoted to America for decades. REDHEADS is about hyprocrisy and delusion, deception and self-deception. About our desire to fall in love, to be in a relationship, and our willingness to rush in even when all the signs are indicating: This really isn't such a great idea. | |||||
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River Skaters, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Centre for Performance Studies, Sydney University (workshop presentation) | 2003 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #87023 | |||
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Genre: | Music-theatre script | |||||
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Notes: | Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin; Director: Sally Sussman | |||||
Synopsis: | In an imaginary country somewhere between Eastern Europe and Northeast Asia, Communism arrives with a blaze of fireworks, slogans and wild optimism. As high school students, Veronika and Tae-song imagine bright futures for themselves and their nation: he's going into medicine; she plans to study music with a well-known composer. But rats appear in the Workers' Paradise. The dream begins to disintegrate, a climate of fear and duplicity soon prevails, and their lives go in very different directions. Tae-song to the Mausoleum to tend the mummified body of the Glorious Leader and Veronika to a series of prison cells. Over two decades later, amid the collapse of the Communist regime, they meet again. In a very different environment. As politicians in the new world order plan the return and reburial of the country's most famous modern composer. Part macabre burlesque, part revolutionary opera, part love story, THE RIVER SKATERS is an epic music-theatre tale of seduction and political change across a quarter of a century. | |||||
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Slowianska Street | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52482 | |||
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Genre: | 25 mins One Act Radio | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Smashed | ||
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129673 | |||
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Genre: | documentary drama 15 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | plus ensemble of 6-17. | |||||
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Synopsis: | Maxine Novak is arrested following a drunken brawl. The story hits the headlines. The champion swimmers future hangs in the balance. Everyone has an opinion and something to say about teenage drinking. But investigative reports, government initiatives and academic research tell only a part of the story of Australias uneasy relationship with alcoholand its nexus with sport. SMASHED explores the different attitudes of young people to their use of alcohol and the phenomenon the media have dubbed binge drinking. | |||||
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Songket | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Australia | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company and The Studio of the Sydney Opera House | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868198309 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51307 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | optional pianist | |||||
Notes: | winner Griffin Playwriting Award 2002 and Playbox Asialink Prize 2001 | |||||
| What happens when one person's culture is another's crime? Ten years ago in north-eastern Laos, Klaudia ran out on Hayden. Now they meet up again when Hayden needs an anthropologist to be his expert witness in the trial of Koua Neng Vang, a Hmong migrant accused of raping Chan, a young textile designer. Was it sexual assault? Or did Koua recognise, in Chan's confused signals, the enduring rituals of courtship? Songket is about different notions of love and how the law does, or doesn't, accommodate cultural diversity | |||||
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Third Person | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #129674 | |||
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Notes: | short listed for the 2011 Griffin Award. | |||||
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This Territory | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Australia | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) in association with Powerhouse Youth Theatre and The Sydney Opera House | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868198309 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87020 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | voices | |||||
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| This Territory was developed in the wake of the 2005 Cronulla riots through a 6-month research and consultation process with young people across Sydney. The play centres on a violent incident witnessed by a large group of young people, but they disagree about its details and their significance. In trying to get the story straight, the characters start to navigate relationships across the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, education and prejudice. They are Australia - a hotbed of cultures, and they are on fire. | |||||
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Unrequited | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide Festival Centre, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide | 2007 | ||||
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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 | #87025 | |||
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Genre: | Performance Essay | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Korea captured my imagination in 1993 and has held it ever since. I've tried on several occasions to escape into other countries in the region, but it's Korea-South, North, and the diaspora-which figures most prominently and most often in my writing. From a car crash in Pyongyang on an afternoon so cold the wind blew the words back down my throat, to an encounter with Chekhov in a Busan bar, UNREQUITED attempts to understand this rather one-sided love affair. | |||||
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| 1st Produced: | WIPC, Indonisia | - - - | ||||
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 | #129675 | |||
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Yungaburra Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52483 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 75 mins poetry music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In words, rhythms and song, Yungaburra Road explores the ways violence (and the silence that surrounds it) touches and shapes the lives of six people who live and work on Yungaburra Road in Sydney's West. A music theatre piece, Yungaburra Road's poetic form is centred on Rita da Costa's Cafe Mundo, her customers and friends, and their stories. | |||||
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