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NORMAN PRICE |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Norman Price, (playwright/director/actor/theatre scholar), graduated from NIDA (Acting) in 1961. Norman has worked for over 30 years in the theatre industry both in Australia and overseas. He lectured in Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne as well as the Universities of Paris 8, Frankfurt, Giessen and Bari. In April 1996 his play The Other Mother was performed in Europe, and in 1998 his play Barking Dogs was performed at Experimetro (Metro Arts) after being workshopped in Paris in 1997. Barking Dogs was published by Playlab Press in 2002. A multimedia project, Hand Luggage, was performed in Brisbane in June 2002, and a community-based performance project The Sugar Mill Project was presented in Nambour, QLD in November 2001. His play Urban Dingoes, commissioned by La Boite Theatre, was performed at the Roundhouse Theatre in 2004 in association with the Energex Brisbane Festival. Urban Dingoes was published by Playlab Press in 2004. In 2005 his play Kitchen Diva was commissioned by LaBoite Theatre and produced in 2008. Pineapple Queen was produced by La Boite in 2009 with Lisa O'Neill in the title role. Together with his work in the theatre industry Norman continues to teach in Performance Studies.
Plays by Norman Price
Barking Dogs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Experimetro (Metro Arts) | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playlab Press, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | 090815674X | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73737 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Three sisters come together for one final remembrance of their dead father. As much younger women, they made a promise to each other, and it is time to lay their father, and their past lives, to rest. Barking Dogs is a poetic work of profound depth and complexity from an author who challenges the conventions of the traditional theatre and makes an important new contribution to Australian performance writing. With an introduction to the work of Norman Price by the director of the first production, Markus Wessendorf, this volume examines the familial and cultural inheritances embedded in the Australian psyche. | |||||
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Hand Luggage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane, Australia | Jun 2002 | ||||
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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 | #133411 | |||
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Genre: | multi media | |||||
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Kitchen Diva | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
Company: | La Boite Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playlab Press, The La Boite Theatre Company 2007/08 Season Bundle. | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0908156771 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133409 | |||
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Genre: | musical drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A three course feast of cooking, music and mayhem! With a repertoire of favourites from Shirley Bassey, Barbara Streisand, Tom Jones, George Gershwin and Elvis Presley comes "Kitchen Diva" - a sassy and witty kitchen cabaret, underpinned by the dark layer that make up the relationship triangle between Joe, his mother and Megan. | |||||
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Other Mother | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | Apr 1996 | ||||
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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 | #133410 | |||
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Pineapple Queen | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2009 | ||||
Company: | La Boite 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 | #133413 | |||
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Sugar Mill Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nambour, QLD | Nov 2001 | ||||
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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 | #133412 | |||
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Genre: | community-based performance project | |||||
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Urban Dingoes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roundhouse Theatre | 2004 | ||||
Company: | La Boite Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playlab Press, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73738 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Claire is in her old age, but you wouldn't know it. She sees herself so differently from her children, who have grown up to be mean and full of bile. The children descend upon the family home like carrion dogs to deal with the matter of their ageing mother once and for all. They have come to tear Claire and her world to pieces and feast upon the remains of her life and home. However, Claire has prepared a surprise party for them of Gothic proportions. Urban Dingoes is darkly comic, with a macabre twist at the end. Exorcism of the living, not the dead, an expiation of memory, and attachment are all explored in this deeply poetic play that continues the author's examination of the familial and cultural inheritances embedded in the Australian psyche. | |||||
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