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Raimondo Cortese

RAIMONDO CORTESE  

 Nationality:    Australian
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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.

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 Blood Wedding         Borneo         Buried City         Dream Life Of Butterflies, The         Features Of Blown Youth         Fertility Of Objects, The         Holiday         Hotel         Inconsolable         Intimacy         Large Breast, The, Or The Upside-Down Bell         Lucrezia And Cesare         Room, The         Roulette         St Kilda Tales         Wall, The         Yet to Ascertain the Nature of the Crime

Blood Wedding

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Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Melbourne    21 Jul 2012

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre

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adaptation

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Borneo

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a psychotherapist befriends a young person on a flight from Borneo

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Buried City

Buried City
Late one night in the gutted facade of a building primed for redevelopment, a group of security workers, labourers, and a local teenager find themselves haunting the same territory. One by one they rule a line in the sand, and by dawn theyre set for a showdown over who builds the future and who gets to own it. Buried City is an ambitious new work about ever-changing cities like Sydney - where waves of immigrants make new lives on old land.

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Original concept And directed by Alicia Talbot

1st Produced:
Sydney Festival, Belvoir St Theatre    08 Jan 2012

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Presented by Sydney Festival, Urban Theatre Projects and Belvoir

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2012) >>>    978-0-86819-925-2

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Dream Life Of Butterflies, The

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Melbourne Theatre company    -

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Features Of Blown Youth

Features Of Blown Youth
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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Part of Melborne Tales

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in Melborne Stories, Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0-86819-629-9

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Fertility Of Objects, The

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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

Holiday
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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1st Produced:
Arts house, North Melbourne, Australia    2007

Organisations:
Ranters Theatre

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2009) >>>    978-0-86819-854-5

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Hotel

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Inconsolable

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Melbourne    -

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in "La Mama Collection", Currency Press, Sydney, 1997   -

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Intimacy

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1st Produced:
Malthouse Theatre, melbourne    2010

Organisations:
Melbourne International Festival of the arts

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Large Breast, The, Or The Upside-Down Bell

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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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Genre:
short play One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lucrezia And Cesare

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Room, The

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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

Roulette
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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1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia, June 2005   978-0868197654

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12 1 act plays One act

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St Kilda Tales

St Kilda Tales
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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1st Produced:
Ranters Theatre, Melbourne    -

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1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia, May 2001   978-0868196411

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Project

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Wall, The

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Yet to Ascertain the Nature of the Crime

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Set in Australia in late 2010, the script is structured around a compilation of statements by Indian students. Usually unseen and unheard in the public domain, they are both victims of violent attacks and witnesses to the Australian way of life through their jobs as taxi drivers, petrol station attendants and fast food workers. Verbatim statements from 25 interviews conducted by the cast and director also include comments from politicians, doctors, councilors, educators and other social commentators.

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written by Raimondo Cortese, Roanna Gonsalves and Damien Millar

1st Produced:
Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall , North Melbourne, VIC    23 Nov 2010

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

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Genre:
Documentary Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/94286

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