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SIMON GRATTON
Nationality: Australian
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Simon Gratton, a professional actor and musician/vocalist in a group called N.N.O (Nice n Offensive). Wrote his first play in 1985. It is titled Magpies Nest . It was developed with the financial support of the Elizabethan Theatre trust under direction of Peter Barclay. Later produced in 1987. In 1988 after seeing his second play Kickback , produced and directed by Peter Barclay. Gratton was involved in a serious head on motor vehicle accident. He has been writing since but not with the same desperation. Five plays later. He is as we speak writing a novel, with the dream of it becoming a screenplay. Biographical fiction, is there such a thing?
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Flick Off Kickback Magpie's NestFlick Off
Synopsis:
Reflects something of the predatory chaos that can be a secondary school
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1st Produced:
Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon, Act
08 Nov 1991
Organisations:
Murwillumbah Youth Theatre
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
TYA
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/16053
Top of PageKickback
Synopsis:
When the surreal becomes real. . .when you leave the theatre, you walk from reality to reality.
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1st Produced:
Cedar Room, Lismore, Nsw
02 Dec 1988
Organisations:
North Coast Theatre Company,
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1559
Top of PageMagpie's Nest
Synopsis:
This play is about prison, heroin addiction and the Father son relationship. It is also about the changes in prison, since the introduction of illegal hard drugs. Set in the 1980's. Hard hitting, hard language and not for the faint hearted. the theme music used as part of the suspense structure, was Lou Reed's Heroin .
Notes:
Directed by Peter Barclay twice, by two different companies. Once in Sydney And once in the A.C.T. At the Playhouse in the Canberra theatre centre. Both productions were critically Acclaimed. there was A production by A company in Perth W.a., it was performed without the Authors permission And was not the final draft. they were reviewed poorly And right whack
1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, ANZ >>>
21 Mar 1987
Organisations:
Oz content dept. the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Social realism Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 2 Other: voices off
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/128
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