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MATT CAMERON |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Matt Cameron is a playwright, screenwriter and director based in Melbourne. His plays include Tear from a Glass Eye which won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award and was produced by Playbox in Melbourne and the Gate Theatre in London where he was nominated Most Promising Playwright in The Evening Standard Awards. The Lighthouse Keeper was produced by Griffin in Sydney, La Boite in Brisbane and won the ANPC/New Dramatists Award, which led to a New York production with New York Stage & Film. Footprints on Water won the British Council International New Playwriting Award and was produced by his company, Neonheart, for Griffin in Sydney, La Mama in Melbourne and ABC Radio. The Eskimo was produced by Neonheart in Melbourne. A short play Whispering Death and The Balloonman, were produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was the co-creator, co-writer and director for the TV series Introducing Gary Petty (for which he won an AWGIE) and Small Tales & True for the Comedy Channel on Foxtel. Other credits include SeaChange for ABC TV.
Plays by Matt Cameron
Drowning The Eskimo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Australia | - - - | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company/City of Melbourne | |||||
| 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 | #7259 | |||
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Notes: | Commissioned by Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney | |||||
Synopsis: | A solitary woman and an artist seek true love in the Arctic. Absurdism, confusion, lust and cannibalism. | |||||
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Eskimo Calling, 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 | #5746 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The model. The photographer. The peddler. The widow. The hunter. In an icy, treacherous wilderness, a small town has lost its entire population of men. Minnie Aodla is an object of desire; a fashion model living alone in the polar ice, where she orders household furniture items from a catalogue and seduces the delivery men. They are never seen again. Enid dispatches the delivery men and waits for her lost husband to return. A photographer arrives to capture beauty. Pedro, a travelling peddler, ventures into the town to sell bottled emotions to the grieving widows. After another rejection, Pedro volunteers to deliver the last item Minnie has ordered. He sets off for her remote cabin in the ice, like the missing men before him. The Eskimo Calling is a macabre and absurdly comic fable of lust, loss and consumerism. | |||||
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Footprints on Water | ||
| 1st Produced: | Australia | 1997 | ||||
Company: | La Mama 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 | #5747 | |||
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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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sex. God. Hate. Desire. Floods. Faith. A tale of Noel, his ark, and the people who didn't make it on board. Noel is a boot maker and religious zealot who wills God to wipe out his morally corrupt village. This includes the brothel owner, his foreigner wife, the village idiot she is having an affair with, the prostitute who never has sex and the mad woman who is emptying the river with a bucket. Noel wants to start the world again, with himself as the chosen one. Footprints on Water is a darkly comic modern parable of exile, belief, belonging and judgment. | |||||
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Hinterland | ||
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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 | #89517 | |||
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Man The Balloon | ||
| 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 | #5748 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The local balloonman declares the outbreak of an alarming trend: citizens are spontaneously bursting. With its diminishing population, this is a town inhabited by not-quite-together people who are constantly in analysis. Elliot, a hapless balloon enthusiast, struggles to uncover the cause of the random implosions and convince everyone they need help before they all disappear. Man The Balloon is a satirical and absurdly comic parable of an insecure, small-minded society unwittingly bent on self-destruction. | |||||
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Mr Melancholy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | - - - | ||||
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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 | #5749 | |||
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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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | explores the dilemma of companionship versus solitude | |||||
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Poor Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sumner Theatre, Melbourne | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-850-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96056 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | including 1 boy | |||||
Notes: | by Matt Cameron and Tim Finn | |||||
| Jeremy Glass is an untroubled little boy until his seventh birthday, when he suddenly announces that he is really a grown man called Danny, who died some years before. How can his parents indulge his conviction that he must find his real family? And how can his eerie insistence on his true identity not resurrect painful memories for Danny's widow? With songs from Tim Finn adding expressionistic commentary on the action, Matt Cameron's Poor Boy delivers a supernatural story steeped in loss, anguish and redemption. | |||||
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Ruby Moon | ||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia, Sep 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868197746 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67172 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother who lives at the end of the street. She never arrives | |||||
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Tear From A Glass Eye | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Paddington, N.S.W. : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868195599 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5750 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | an absurd tale of random fate, the inevitable crash and human debris, where the search is on for a black box to account for just what went wrong. | |||||
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Whispering Death | ||
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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 | #5751 | |||
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Genre: | (20-25 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | On his last day, an old man - any man, every man - walks the streets - any streets, all streets - in search of the point of his existence. Zed is a filing clerk. He has just been retired and is faced with an empty day. He encounters emotions in human guises (and in alphabetical order) that have been long filed away. Whispering Death is an absurd burlesque journey of self-discovery and impending mortality. | |||||
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