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ANGELA BETZIEN |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: HLA Management Pty Ltd |
Angela Betzien is an internationally recognized writer for children and young people and she is co founder of the company, Real TV. Her plays Children of the Black Skirt and Hoods have been published by Currency Press. Both plays have toured widely across Australia and in 2010 Hoods toured internationally to Vienna, Austria and Bolzano, Italy. Hoods was awarded a 2007 Australian Writers Guild Award for Theatre for Young Audiences as well as the inaugural Richard Wherrett Prize for Excellence in Playwriting. Angelas numerous other plays have had professional and independent productions including Playboy of the Working Class (2001) The Orphanage Project (Queensland Theatre Company, 2003) The Kingswood Kids (La Boite Theatre, 2000) The Suitcase (Real TV & Stage X, 2001) Princess of Suburbia (Real TV, 2001) Girl Who Cried Wolf (Arena Theatre & Sydney Opera House, 2008) The Teenage Alchemist (ATYP & Camp Quality, 2008) and The Dark Room (Black Swan, 2009). Angela is currently developing a libretto based on her play, The Orphanage Project supported by an R.E. Ross Trust grant and is under commission with Graffiti Theatre, Ireland. Angelas latest play, War Crimes (a Sydney Opera House:Ed and Regional Arts Victoria commission) will premiere in 2011. Angela has recently returned from the United States where she developed two projects in Washington D.C (New Visions/New Voices) and New York City (NYU play development program). Her latest play The Very True and Unusual Life of Chook was short-listed for the 2010 Kit Denton Fellowship. In 2011 The Dark Room, nominated for a 2010 AWGIE award will be presented by Belvoir.
Plays by Angela Betzien
Children of the Black Skirt | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queensland Arts Council and Real TV | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-760-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115602 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | Cast of 3 possible with doubling | |||||
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| A gothic fairytale for young people. Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and learn a history of Australia through the spirits of children who have lived there, from convict times, through to World War Two, the Stolen Generation and beyond. | |||||
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Dark Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Swan | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playlab Press | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130615 | |||
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Genre: | psychological thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set on the border of a military town, six unlikely characters converge late one night at a run-down motel. A teenage boy from a nearby country town waits for a stranger. Pregnant Emma waits for her husband, a country cop, wasted after his best friend's wedding. Anni, a government youth worker accompanied by a withdrawn and violent fourteen year-old girl, waits for the dawn. As the night draws on, each of them becomes trapped in dark and dangerous territory, each of them searching for a way out | |||||
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Dog Wins Lotto | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queensland Theatre Company | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52247 | |||
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Genre: | 30 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Girl Who Cried Wolf | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arena Theatre | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130614 | |||
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Genre: | black comedy 50 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Laura is an awkward eleven year old suffering the pain of growing up different in a brand new housing estate where everyone appears to think and act the same. Two sudden, out-of-the-ordinary events catapult Laura into a journey of discovery: the arrival of her estranged father, a damaged gulf war veteran who has recently moved to a caravan park on the outskirts of the estate; and the sudden disappearance of the most popular and talented girl at school, Catriona Dijon. With the shocking news of Catrionas disappearance, the suburb goes into emergency lock down, fear and hysteria gripping the community. While wandering on a neighbouring development site, Laura discovers that all is not what it seems. Catriona has in fact run away and has been hiding out in a half finished development house. Over the next few days an unlikely connection between two very different girls develops as they collude in the construction of a gigantic lie. | |||||
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Hoods | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Opera House:Ed and Regional Arts Victoria | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-800-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79580 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| Each night two hoods ride a train to a wrecking yard on the outskirts of the city. Here, in this cemetery of stories, they are storytellers with the power to fast forward, pause and rewind. Tonight, they tell the story of three kids left in a car. Rewind . . . It's Friday, KFC night and the last day of school before Christmas. Kyle, Jessie and baby brother Troy are waiting in the car for their mum. As night approaches the car park takes on a dark and sinister aspect filled with strange and familiar characters. The shopping centre closes, Mum still hasn't returned and the baby won't stop crying. Exploring issues of poverty and family violence, Hoods is a suburban tale of survival and solidarity against the odds. | |||||
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Kingswood Kids, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Boite Theatre | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52248 | |||
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Genre: | 50 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's Friday, KFC night, and the last days of school before Christmas. Kyle, Jessie and baby brother Troy are waiting in the car for their mum. Kyle broods in the front seat with visions of Sony Playstations dancing in his head while Jessie begs him for a game of I Spy and a trip to the toilet. As night closes in, the shopping centre shuts down, their mum still hasn't come and the baby just won't stop crying. | |||||
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Motel | ||
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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 | #105149 | |||
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Orphanage Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queensland Theatre Company | 2003 | ||||
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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 | #115603 | |||
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Playboy of the Working Class | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queensland Theatre Company | 2001 | ||||
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 | #115604 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A man gambles away everything he has - wife, car, house | |||||
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Princess of Suburbia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Real TV | 2001 | ||||
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 | #130613 | |||
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Suitcase, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Real TV/Stage X Festival | 2001 | ||||
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 | #130612 | |||
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Teenage Alchemist, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camp Quality | 2009 | ||||
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 | #130616 | |||
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Very True and Unusual Life of Chook, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #130627 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | short-listed for the 2010 Kit Denton Fellowship | |||||
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War Crimes | ||
| 1st Produced: | On tour with Regional Arts Victoria | 01 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-918-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130611 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Set in a regional coastal town, War Crimes tells a powerful story of five disenfranchised young women who are fighting for respect, railing against authority and struggling to form an identity in a small town with limited opportunities. The relocation of an Iraqi refugee family to the town provokes a climate of hostility and tension that threatens to violently explode. War Crimes continues Real TV's trademark technique of using real events as pretexts for the creation of relevant and provocative contemporary Australian drama. | |||||
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