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STEPHEN SEWELL (1953 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Currency Press, Australia |
Well-known for his film and theatre work, including his AFI Award winning script of 'The Boys' as well as plays such as 'The Blind Giant is Dancing', 'The Secret Death of Salvador Dali' (Best Show of the Adelaide Fringe, 2001) and 'Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scenes' (Playbox Theatre, State Theatre Company of South Australia, June-July 2003; The Orange Tree Theatre, London 2004), Sewell is one of the most celebrated and experienced writers in Australia. Sewell chaired the Australian National Playwrights Centre for a number of years and is the recipient of numerous awards, including a two year Australian Council Literary Fellowship and the prestigious ANPC Award for Significant Contribution to Australian Theatre (2004) His first major musical piece, Three Furies - Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon opened to enormous acclaim as one of the featured productions of the Sydney Arts Festival and continues to tour internationally. His play, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster was awarded both the 2004 Green Room Award, both the New South Wales and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and the Australian Writers Guild Award for Best Play, making it the most awarded play in Australian history. His subsequent two plays, 'It Just Stopped' and 'The Gates of Egypt' are now in production. AWARDS: Australian National Playwrights Award Significant Contribution to Australian Theatre (Lifetime Award, 2004). Australian Writers' Guild Award for Best Play (Myth, propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scenes, 2004). Victorian Premier's Award for Literature (Myth, propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scene, 2004). New South Wales Premier's Award for Literature (Myth, propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scene, 2004). Victorian Green Room Award for Best New Play, (Myth, propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scene 2004). Adelaide Fringe Arts Festival Award for Best Show (The Secret Death of Salvador Dali, 2003). New South Wales Film and Television Office Writers' Fellowship (1 YEAR). Australian Arts Council Literary Fellowship (2002-2004). Victorian Green Room Award for Best Production (Dreams In An Empty City, 1990). Victorian Green Room Award for Best New Australian Play, 1989 (Hate, 1989). Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Screenplay from an Adapted Source (The Boys, 1998). Film Critics Circle Award (The Boys, 1998). New South Wales Premier's Literary Award (The Blind Giant Is Dancing, 1985). Australian Writers Guild Award (The Blind Giant Is Dancing, 1985)
Plays by Stephen Sewell
Anger's Love | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #31367 | |||
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Genre: | Political satire musical | |||||
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Blind Giant is Dancing, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31368 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sewell's passionate examination of the way political power can corrupt the individual and society at large is now published in a radically revised edition following its revival at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney in 1995. | |||||
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Boys, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31369 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay | |||||
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Notes: | The play of TheBoys is also available | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the controversial stage playby Gordon Graham, The Boys is an unflinching analysis of the violence that lurks in Australian society. Returning home from prison, Brett sets about re-establishing control over his wayward brothers as he searches for an act the three brothers can participate in jointly, and thereby violate norms. | |||||
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Burn Victim | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1983 | ||||
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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 | #31370 | |||
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Notes: | written with others | |||||
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Dreams in an Empty City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1986 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31371 | |||
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Genre: | Urban Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 11 | ||
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Synopsis: | Examines the nature of human corruption against the background of international high finance | |||||
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Dust | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31372 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 9 | ||
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Notes: | part of trilogy the "Garden of Fartkhly Delights" | |||||
Synopsis: | A man and his daughter, grappling with grief, guilt and a desire for a better world, search their dreams for one another in the debris of a broken civilisation | |||||
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Father We Loved On a Beach By the Sea, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31373 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | a powerfully felt study of an ordinary family caught up in the sudden depression of the late 1950s; and of the effects of that experience upon the children | |||||
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Garden of Granddaughters, The | ||
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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 | #87033 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Max, a world-renowned Australian conductor, returns unexpectedly to Melbourne with his wife Moriley for a family reunion. Their three daughters are in various stages of decline, success and reproduction; their granddaughters are full of hope and dreams. Most of life's questions are evaded, avoided and ignored in this compassionate comedy. | |||||
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Gates of Egypt | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir Street Theatre, 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 | #112949 | |||
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Hate | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1988 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31374 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | One of Australia's richest men and a political force of the far right believes in a leaner, harder Australia. | |||||
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Identity By Helen Demidenko | ||
| 1st Produced: | Junction Theatre, Adelaide | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Ace Productions | |||||
| 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 | #31375 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | an old fashioned revue on the theme of human identity | |||||
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In the City Of Grand-Daughters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31376 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Comparisons between the generations | |||||
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Isabelle Eberhardt | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
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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 | #31377 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay | |||||
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It Just Stopped | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868198170 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79581 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| This savage comedy of manners explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell's play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions - what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival? | |||||
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King Golgrutha | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31378 | |||
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Notes: | part of trilogy the "Garden of Fartkhly Delights" | |||||
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Miranda | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1989 | ||||
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 | #31379 | |||
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Myth, Propaganda & Disaster In Nazi Germany & Contemporary America | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868197050 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43496 | |||
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Genre: | Political Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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| This tough political thriller, based in the Liberal Arts department of New York University, is no play for the timid. But its violent language and extreme brutality, brilliantly choreographed, are essential elements for an enthralling study of a polarised world turned backto-front - a Kafka-esque nightmare of state terrorism condoned by liberty lovers in defence of the Land of the Free. | |||||
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Secret Death Of Salvador Dali, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe | 2002 | ||||
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 | #31380 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | musician | |||||
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Synopsis: | 14/888 | |||||
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Sick Room, The | ||
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Company: | Malthouse Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868195855 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31381 | |||
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| brings together three generations of a family under the one roof to care for a terminally ill teenager. As she faces impending death, the other family members find themselves confronting their own lives | |||||
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Sisters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1991 | ||||
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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 | #31382 | |||
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Three Furies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Opera House | 2005 | ||||
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 | #46837 | |||
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Genre: | Play with songs Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's just before the Paris retrospective that would anoint the celebrated Anglo-Irish artist Francis Bacon as the greatest figurative painter of the twentieth century. On the eve of the exhibition Bacon's model, muse and lover, George Dyer, commits suicide. An exploration of the sexy, stormy and dangerous relationship between the couple, using drama, dark poetry and satire. | |||||
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Traitors | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31383 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in Russia in 1927 against the background of unrest at the dawn of Stalinism, Traitors charts the triumph of paranoia and betrayal over truth and innocence, as it simultaneously examines conflicts between the personal and the political. | |||||
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United States of Nothing, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stables Theatre, Sydney | 2006 | ||||
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 | #46838 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Part satire, part biting political critique, this Katrina-inspired play focuses on a small white family left behind in the rush to leave Louisiana ahead of a hurricane. Set in a Superdome, the play takes an irreverent look at an America knee deep in trouble as it tries to bring democracy to the Arabs when it can't even evacuate hospital patients from a storm. Playwright Sewell peels away layers from initial caricatures to reveal humanity beneath Chip and Jackie and their children, Randy and Ashley. | |||||
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Welcome the Bright World | ||
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| 1st Published: | Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31384 | |||
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Why We Hate You | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Theatre In Decay | |||||
| 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 | #124111 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Notes: | Originally performed as part of "All Of Which Are American Dreams" | |||||
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