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Jane Bodie

JANE BODIE

  
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  ANZ agent Cameron Creswell agency

Jane Bodie is a writer, mentor and director. Her plays, including Music, This Year's Ashes, Hinterland, Ride, Fourplay, Still, Hilt and A Single Act have been performed worldwide. Jane was short-listed for The Ewa Czajor Memorial Award in 2000, nominated for the Patrick White Playwrights' Award in 2002 and won a Green Room Award for Outstanding Writing on the Melbourne Fringe in 2003 for Still. In 2007 she won the prestigious Louis Esson Prize for Drama awarded by Australia's Premier's Literary Awards for her play A Single Act, which was produced to critical acclaim at Hampstead Theatre in 2005 and at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2006. Jane worked at the Royal Court Theatre on the Young Writers Programme and was on attachment at The National Theatre Studio as a writer in the UK. She has also written extensively for TV and Radio, including The Secret Life Of Us, No Angels, Nearly Famous and Moving Wallpaper/Echo Beach and Well, for Radio 4 as well as several plays for ABC National. She is currently working on a feature screenplay adaptation of This Year's Ashes for Screen Australia. Jane was Head of Playwriting at NIDA from 2010 - 2012, Associate Artist at the Griffin Theatre in 2013 and is currently Artistic Associate at playwriting Australia

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/2094

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below is a list of Jane Bodie's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Face2Face         Fourplay         Hallelujah         Hilt         Hinterland         Music         Out Night One         Out Of Me         Ride         Right Message, The         Single Act, A         Speaking In Thongs         Still         This Year's Ashes         Through

Face2Face

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Play/Drama

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Fourplay

Synopsis:
Fourplay is a serendipitous love story, exploring the themes of obsession and communication. alice, a care attendant, is in a relationship with Tom, an actor. Tom is currently rehearsing for a role as the lover of Natasha -- and then there is Jack, a social misfit with whom alice works. as alice and Tom's relationship disintegrates, Tom begins to take his role as Natasha's lover too seriously. alice turns to Jack for comfort, not knowing that he has been stalking her for two years. as each relationship falls apart, new and unpredictable bonds form between the four characters, redefining their notions of love and drastically altering their futures.

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1st Produced:
Cromwell Road Theatre, South Yarra, Vic    16 May 2007

Organisations:
Act-O-Matic 3000

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http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
Full-Length 75 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/71725

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Hallelujah

Synopsis:
an english woman, an Irish woman and an estate agent walk into a funeral parlour. they are here for Frank and what he owes them. But Frank is literally dead broke. So who's going to pay the bill?

Notes:
Commissioned, written And rehearsed in under 2 months As part of 503's Rapid Write programme, Hallelujah is A black comedy About being in the red by Award winning writer Jane Bodie.

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hilt

Synopsis:
a cramped flat, a couple who are breaking up, or are they starting an affair? a love triangle, or a quartet?

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1st Produced:
Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2003

Organisations:
aS

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/61858

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Hinterland

Synopsis:
An ancient civilization is discovered in a forest. But why are there only four of them? And what can they teach us about how to live in a dying world, before they go? Hinterland is a breathtaking new play about humanity, language and the cost of intervention

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1st Produced:
Parade Atrium, Kensington, Nsw    14 Oct 2013

Organisations:
NIDA

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105517

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Music

Synopsis:
Two actors researching a theatre project befriend a seemingly quiet and ordinary man named Adam. In reality, Adams unexceptional existence is carefully calibrated  a precarious sideways tightrope-walk over his mental illness. Now, Adams new friends are at risk of throwing his life dangerously off balance. And theres every chance theyll go down with him. Music is a response to a society that fumbles and flinches over thorny subjects, grappling with one of the thorniest: mental illness. A surprising and surprisingly funny story of people connecting and colliding, it offers a sharp critique of the way mental illness is perceived today.

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45 min segment @ Riverside theatre, Parramatta, Australia 17 Mar 2011

1st Produced:
Griffin Theatre Company, Sbw Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, Nsw    02 Apr 2014

Organisations:
Stories Like these and Griffin Independent

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
90 min comedy drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Out Night One

Synopsis:
. . .a chronologically challenged look at what happens when six friends go in search of space and adventure'

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1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic    29 Mar 2001

Organisations:
The Other Tongue

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Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1442

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Out Of Me

Synopsis:
Four sweaty acts of sexual congress quickly followed by anticlimax

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Organisations:
National Youth Theatre in World's apart Season

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Ride

Synopsis:
Begins with a man and a woman waking up naked in bed together with no recollection of how they met. It would have been a night to remember if only one of them could; Over a period of 24 hours. . .provocative description of contemporary life in the singles lane of Melbourne. . .a kind of chamber piece with a number of similarities to music

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1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, Vic    04 Dec 2001

Organisations:
The Other Tongue

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/14498

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Right Message, The

Synopsis:
A group of friends, some from the inner circle, some from the outer circle, and others who exist in bubbles of their own, communicate and miscommunicate via text messages. A comedy about the misunderstandings that can occur through words that do not contain the tone of the human voice. What happens when all these forms of communication evaporate?

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1st Produced:
The Theatre Husk, Northcote, Vic    07 Apr 2011

Organisations:
Melbourne International Comedy Festival / Drama With A Difference

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Genre:
TYA

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/97945

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Single Act, A

Single Act, A
Scott and Michelle meet in a bar. On the other side of town, Neil returns home to find Clea still alive. But are any of them safe? Four separate trajectories. One single moment that will help to define them all.

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1st Produced:
[Reading] Wharf 2, Walsh Bay, Nsw    12 Jan 2005

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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2005
http://australianplays.org/   978-1854598844

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65749

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Speaking In Thongs

Synopsis:
about angst ridden twenty somethings getting ready for a party

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1st Produced:
Melbourne Comedy Festival    2004

Organisations:
Corrugated Iron Youth Arts

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Music:
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Genre:
one act comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/64271

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Still

Synopsis:
Still is a series of eight monologues exploring the nature of want. each character has a private story of desire, need and pain. From the personal humiliation of a failed sexual conquest to the agonizing state of denial that bumping into your ex-lover and his new partner in the supermarket causes. Still exposes the harsh truth and bloody mess of relationships with searing wit and empathy.

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1st Produced:
The Store Room, North Fitzroy, Vic    09 Oct 2002

Organisations:
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2002 / The Other Tongue

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
Black Comedy Monologue/s 75 mins

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20368

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This Year's Ashes

This Year's Ashes
Ellen lives a shiny life in the heart of a shiny city. She hates her office job, the alcohol isn't making her as drunk as it used to, and she seems to be allergic to the water. But there is always the company of strangers in this city - the stranger, the better. So she's doing fine. except, savage grief has ellen in its grip and it's getting tighter. and the anonymous guy she's going home with may not be so anonymous.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
romantic comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96431

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Through

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Newtown Theatre, Newtown, Nsw    14 Jan 2004

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Week 2

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79051

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