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CHRIS SUMMERS |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Chris Summers is an Australian playwright. He has won the Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwright's Award, the St. Martin's National Playwriting Award, the Union House Theatre Script Development Award and been short listed for the R.E. Ross Trust Award. His commission from Union House Theatre, No Place Like, had a sell-out season in the Guild Theatre, May 2011. His commission from Platform Youth Theatre, Crossed, was featured in PlayWriting Australia's National Play Festival 2011 and produced at La Mama Courthouse in June 2011. Works in development include Rat (La Mama, March 2012), Roots and a mentorship with Arena Theatre Company's Chris Kohn, Ghost Train. Chris completed his Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) I Bachelor of Law at the University of Melbourne in December 2011 after studies on exchange in Austin, Texas, and will study for a Graduate Diploma in Playwriting at NIDA in 2012.
Plays by Chris Summers
Burnt | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-936-8 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137078 | |||
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Genre: | short monologue | |||||
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Notes: | Part of The Voices Project | |||||
| A short, sharp, evocative collection of monologues written by some of Australias leading young and established playwrights. Each piece is crafted for an actor aged between 16 and 20. Subtle, uplifting, poetic and funny, these pieces are as exciting and diverse as the young actors that perform them. | |||||
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Crossed | ||
| 1st Produced: | 45 min segment @ Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Australia | 16 Mar 2011 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125830 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Five initially disparate urban Australian lives intertwine and intersect, ultimately all leading to the police shooting of a young man in a kids playground. Cities tend to depersonalise grief and loss, yet most of us live with fear and frustration as a constant. When tensions boil over and we are face to face with incomprehensible rage, what would we do? Would we, could we, help? | |||||
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Ghost Train | ||
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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 | #137107 | |||
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No Place Like | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guild Theatre | May 2011 | ||||
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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 | #137108 | |||
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Rat | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia >>> | 22 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Two Blue Cherries Production | |||||
| 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 | #137109 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the 2008 St Martins National Playwriting Award | |||||
Synopsis: | RAT is a play about striving to be yourself, against the grain of expectation. Blistering, poetic and bleakly hilarious; previous development of the play has been supported by St Martins Youth Theatre and the City of Melbourne. A comic exploration of power RAT asks us to consider who we are and what we, and other people, want us to be? | |||||
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Roots | ||
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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 | #137110 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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