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RAIMONDO CORTESE |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: RGM Artist Group |
Raimondo Cortese graduated from the VCA School of Drama in 1993 and is a founding member of Ranters Theatre, of which he was the Artistic Director from 1994 to 2000. His plays include: Lucrezia and Cesare, The Room, The Large Breast or the Upside-Down Bell, The Fertility of Objects, Features of Blown Youth, Roulette, St Kilda Tales and The Wall. A collection of short stories, The Indestructible Corpse (Text Publishing), appeared in 1998. He has also written for film, television and radio. Cortese has exhibited in group exhibitions of visual texts in Australia and overseas, with solo shows in Melbourne and Pisa, Italy. He has also designed textual installations, including 'Salivate', for the Melbourne City Library.
Plays by Raimondo Cortese
Borneo | ||
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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 | #44131 | |||
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Buried City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Festival, Belvoir St Theatre | 08 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | Presented by Sydney Festival, Urban Theatre Projects and Belvoir | |||||
| 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 | #133977 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Original concept and directed by Alicia Talbot | |||||
Synopsis: | In a gutted building primed for development, a group of security workers, labourers and a local teenager are getting set for a showdown over who builds the future and who gets to own it. | |||||
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Features of Blown Youth | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Melborne Stories, Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-629-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7895 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Melborne Tales | |||||
| Melbourne at the end of the twentieth century. . . modern economic miracle or a society imploding with savage politics and despair? The characters in these plays have been crushed, frustrated, isolated, as well as battered by the grim consumerism of the 1990s. But they are survivors, resilient to the end. This collection presents a gritty portrayal of real life in an urban wasteland. | |||||
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Fertility Of Objects, 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 | #7896 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Have you ever looked deeply into the eyes of your obsession and sworn you would do anything to possess it? Bob and Insatiable stand before a great shiny object of desire for which they will do or sacrifice anything | |||||
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Holiday | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts house, North Melbourne, Australia | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Ranters Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-854-5 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96053 | |||
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| A holiday. A time for conversation and distraction, a time to wind down and to dream. . .In a moment of relaxation and quiet reflection, two men unwittingly engage. Spontaneous, unaffected and thrillingly real, innocent discussion becomes an exploration of private fantasy, hidden anxiety, personal mythology and the most inexplicable behaviour. What lies behind the most unconscious gesture? How do power struggles play out in the politest of exchanges? Is there hope in the blank spaces between strangers? An extraordinary blend of performance, humour, sound, video installation and baroque song, Holiday is theatre at its most inspirational. | |||||
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Hotel | ||
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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 | #44132 | |||
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Inconsolable | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "La Mama Collection", Currency Press, Sydney, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7897 | |||
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Large Breast, The, or The Upside-Down Bell | ||
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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 | #7898 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A vignette in which a man and a woman meet in a park and their idle small-talk belies a mysterious relationship and sublimated attraction. The play uses contemporary urban surrealism to convey a sense of disjointedness, and there's a nod to absurdism in its dialogue | |||||
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Lucrezia and Cesare | ||
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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 | #96054 | |||
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Room, 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 | #7899 | |||
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Synopsis: | The Room is a play for one actor which unfolds within the claustrophobic dimensions of a room, surrounded on all sides by a projected landscape of the man in the room's eerie imaginings. The man interacts with various 'ghosts' from his past and ritualizes his obsessions with the few remaining objects left at his disposal. His situation becomes increasingly more bizarre until he is engulfed by madness. The play is non-naturalistic. It is a metaphysical journey into the central characters soul. Meaning slowly disintegrates, rationality slowly crumbles, past and present are fused into a continuous verbal monologue. | |||||
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Roulette | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia, June 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868197654 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7900 | |||
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Genre: | 12 1 Act plays One Act | |||||
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Parts other: | 2 actors | |||||
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| The approximate running time when completed will be between 6 - 7 hours. All the plays are set in different locations throughout a city. The plays do not have overlapping characters or storylines, but are linked through contemporaneity and juxtaposition. | |||||
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St Kilda Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ranters Theatre, Melbourne | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia, May 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868196411 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7901 | |||
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Genre: | Project | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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| St Kilda Tales was inspired by real people who live around the vibrant suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, where the writer and various members of Ranters Theatre have lived for a number of years. But while the St Kilda milieu inspires the production, St Kilda Tales is not an attempt to represent St Kilda on the stage; in fact St Kilda's heterogeneous community is the springboard into a contemporary urban ritual. The project is entirely non-representational, and utilises the anarchic energy of the performers in an organic framework to explore and celebrate the complex diversity of urban life. St Kilda Tales strips away literary excesses, theatrical conventions and technical distractions to create a unique experience for the audience. | |||||
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Wall, 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 | #96055 | |||
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