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PAUL GALLOWAY (1961 - ) |
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Nationality: British/Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Paul Galloway has worked as a copy-writer, journalist, publicist, dramaturg and playwright. He currently writes and edits Melbourne Theatre Company publications and is on their repertory committee. From 1995 to 2002, he wrote a weekly theatre column for Brisbane News. He has also written for The Bulletin, The Courier-Mail and The Age. His play Great Leaders of the Twentieth Century won the 2001 QTC/Courier-Mail George Landan Dann Award and was subsequently presented in a rehearsed reading at the 2001 Brisbane Writers' Festival. In 2002, his play, Low Sunday, about the anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was presented as part of Brisbane's Cathedrals Week. Realism, produced by MTC in 2009, won the 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Award and the 2008 Wal Cherry Award. His adaptation of Moliere's Malade Imaginaire, titled The Hypochondriac, was produced by Brink Productions in Adelaide in 2009.
Plays by Paul Galloway
Hypochondriac, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Space, Adelaide festival Centre | 05 Aug 2009 | ||||
Company: | Brink Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Phoenix Education, Aug 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-921586-12-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115957 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere. A free adaptation of Imaginary Invalid. | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of Moliere's play about the miserly Argan, who believes he is always sick when he is not. He follows all directions from his doctor and pharmacists who take full advantage of his hypochondria. Argan wants his daughter Angelique to marry a doctor so he can get free medical care, even though she is already in love with Cleante. | |||||
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Realism | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sumner Theatre, Melbourne | 04 Apr 2009 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-852-1 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106537 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Realism won the 2007 Wal Cherry Award and the 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Drama. It was also shortlisted for 2009Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Drama. | |||||
Synopsis: | In the summer of 1939 in a small Moscow theatre a company of actors begins rehearsals of a new play to commemorate Stalin's sixtieth birthday. It's a tough gig, because for Soviet artists working towards the Radiant Future the old showbiz maxim 'the show must go on' is an order you can't refuse. Another opening, another show trial! Realism is a comedy of nerves, a backstage farce set in a pressure cooker. It's about the spirit that makes art live and the forces that want to crush it. | |||||
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