NOELLE JANACZEWSKA   


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Plays by Noelle Janaczewska

NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
About Face
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Genre:
Youth Theatre 65 min
Youth Audience
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Male
3
Female
6
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In an abandoned gothic library adorned with gargoyles and grotesques, a group of young people meet - apparently for choir practice. Soon however, it becomes apparent that singing is merely a façade. For Tarwater and Jonah want to track down the missing Morgan Bequest. Some twenty thousand volumes donated to the university when the library closed. They want to reclaim the books, or if the university have destroyed them expose those who committed the ugly deed. But how? The enigmatic Haphazard suggests they need an act of God &
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Blood Orange
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One Act
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Butcher's Wife, The
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Mainstreet Theatre Company, South Australia
2000
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Play/Drama
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Male
1
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3
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When she married Luke Harris, Saren thought she'd escaped her past. Here she's Mrs. Harris, a country town butcher's wife, and Cambodia seems a long way away. Until Luke's mysterious disappearance prompts an investigation. And Gan, a local policeman, and his sister Callie enter the picture. Saren's response to her husband's disappearance puzzles Gan. Who seeks Callie's advice. Recently returned from a long and gruelling stint as an aid worker in Cambodia, Callie however, is struggling with her own ghosts. A situation exacerbated by having to deal with their astronomer mother's growing blindness. Meanwhile, Saren has an unexpected visitor. The Naga: a mythical water serpent who has assumed human form. Gan meanwhile, finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic Saren. While at home their mother's difficulty adapting to life without sight causes growing tension between brother and sister. And Callie begins to suspect there might be dark secrets in the butcher's wife's Cambodian past.
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Cold Harvest
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Genre:
Full-Length 85 mins
Play/Drama
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Connie And Kevin And The Secret Life Of Groceries
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Siren Theatre Company & Belvoir Street B Sharp, Sydney
2001
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Genre:
3 Act 75 mins
Play/Drama
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Male
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Female
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Set in the busy international food court of a city mall, the structure of Connie And Kevin And The Secret Life Of Groceries is essentially three different versions of the same event. In the first act, Connie, a young sandwich stall worker, fantasises a romance with a young man who works at the Korean food counter. While singing along to schmaltzy tunes in the style of her namesake, Connie Francis. Knowing nothing about him, not even his name, she calls him Ki-sung. In the second act, Ki-sung, the object of Connie's dreaming, is revealed to be Kevin. And, in between comments on Internet spam and racism in Australia, he now imagines an encounter with the sandwich stall girl. Not knowing her name is Connie, he calls her Coralie. In act three, fantasies meet reality, when Connie and Kevin finally connect. A topical and comic romance with a fantastical twist. A romantic fantasy with kimchi
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Crossing The Quince
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Play/Drama
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Imagine that in your pocket, you have a unique fruit, perhaps the last of its kind anywhere. You're starving, you're desperate. Of course you want to eat itbut if you do, you'll remove forever its DNA from the world's botanic lexicon. You're a scientist, you know the score. What do you do? CROSSING THE QUINCE, a highly visual contemporary theatre work for female actor, male dancer, a swarm of fruit-flies, a string of rats, and a rain of strawberries, explores this and other questions of individual choice. Winter 1942, and the city of Leningrad is under siege, surrounded by Nazi forces. At the Institute of Plant Industry, as food supplies dwindle, Vera, a botanist struggles with the consequences of the pact made by herself and her colleagues at the beginning of the blockade: to protect the collection - some of the world's most precious plant genetic resources. Inspired by true events, CROSSING THE QUINCE is the story of Vera's struggle with herself, as loneliness and guilt gnaw at a psyche made fragile by hunger and circumstance. Finally entering a mental landscape where reality and delusion become indistinguishable. Although set in the past, the themes of CROSSING THE QUINCE remain resonant today. As politicians legislate to control scientific inquiry, as hardline regimes continue to silence those whose views don't conform to the prevailing ideology, and creationists lobby to get their theological beliefs onto the school science curriculum. Robust language, striking imagery, anachronistic newsflashes and new media interventions are all integral to the dramatic unfolding of Vera's dilemma. As doubts, regrets - and eventually guilt - are counterpointed with unexpected humour, moments of joy, political send-up, flashes of scientific reverie, and of course, the appearance of Fred Astaire, as he tap-taps his way through the rats and files, and into Vera's arms.
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Historia
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A lesbian love affair between the Polish-born Zosia and the Australian Zoe invokes a powerful reconsideration of the boundaries placed around ethnicity and nationality, cyberspace and real time, and the past and the present.
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
History Of Water, The
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1994
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One Act
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adapted for radio
Synopsis:
In an engrossing interchange between a Vietnamese woman and an English-born Australian woman, the complexities of translating literally and physically to another culture are revealed. Includes English and Vietnamese text.
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Madagascar Lily
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Marie Curie Chat Show, The
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Genre:
75 mins
One Act
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Mrs Petrov's Shoe
1st Produced:
Theatre @ Risk, Melbourne
2006
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in Collection 7, Australian Script Centre, 2008
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finalist for the 2005 Griffin Playwriting Award, winner Queensland Premiers Literary Award 2006
Synopsis:
Anna Lubansky shoots to prominence with her first novel Mrs Petrov's Shoe, the emotional narrative of a 9-year-old girl's struggle to reconcile her Australian reality with her parents' Central European heritage. Promoted as heavily autobiographical, Anna's multicultural star shines brightly in the literary firmament - until the real fiction is exposed: Anna Lubansky is actually Ann Loxton. Is this reworking of her identity an act of post-modern bravado or simply fraud? Does it matter if the novel is a record of her own experiences, or the product of a vivid imagination? How did she manage to draw so many people into her invented world? Inspired by a number of recent Australian literary scandals, MRS PETROVS SHOE is a portrait of a complex and unstable psyche, structured in 4 parts, with each movement asking us to reconsider its predecessor.
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Mysteriyaki
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Life is not going smoothly for Teruko. Her boyfriend has turned into Cardigan Man. She's lost her job managing the laundromat. Her dream of becoming a private detective seems increasingly remote. And the bills are piling up. So Teruko becomes Mysteriyaki: a telephone fortune-teller with an organisation called Dial-a-Clairvoyant. Meanwhile, across the hall, tragedy strikes. Brigitte Bardot has disappeared. Could this be Teruko's lucky break? Soon she's got a clue - several, in fact - but instead of them leading her to BB, Teruko finds herself caught in a tangle of friends and lovers, questions of faith, suspect financial dealings and a disappearing lawn.
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Pitch Black
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ABC Radio National's Airplay
2008
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radio play
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A smoky basement someplace. Late night jazz. And propping up the bar: Bruno McCoy. A drifter, a tour guide to the global city -- a man on the brink. A portrait of Australian values at the beginning of the 21st century, Pitch Black is an idiosyncratic cocktail of music, song, spoken word performance, stand-up comedy, and philosophical rave. As Bruno drowns his sorrows, re-lives his joys and conjures up his various lovers -- male, female, real, imaginary and electrical appliances -- we can't help but wonder just how reliable a narrator he is. A compulsive liar? A singer with a strange line in patter? Or simply an inebriated misfit looking for the real McCoy?' Source: ABC Radio National website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/ - Information extracted from AustLit: http://www.austlit.edu.au
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Redheads
1st Produced:
Queensize Productions with Tamarama Rock Surfers, Sydney
2007
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Genre:
full length
Play/Drama
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Male
3
Female
2
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Ruth loves Frank - who lives with Brigid; Joanna is in love with Guthrie who's married to Vienna; Australia has been devoted to America for decades. REDHEADS is about hyprocrisy and delusion, deception and self-deception. About our desire to fall in love, to be in a relationship, and our willingness to rush in even when all the signs are indicating: This really isn't such a great idea.
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
River Skaters, The
1st Produced:
Centre for Performance Studies, Sydney University (workshop presentation)
2003
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Genre:
Music-theatre script
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Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin; Director: Sally Sussman
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In an imaginary country somewhere between Eastern Europe and Northeast Asia, Communism arrives with a blaze of fireworks, slogans and wild optimism. As high school students, Veronika and Tae-song imagine bright futures for themselves and their nation: he's going into medicine; she plans to study music with a well-known composer. But rats appear in the Workers' Paradise. The dream begins to disintegrate, a climate of fear and duplicity soon prevails, and their lives go in very different directions. Tae-song to the Mausoleum to tend the mummified body of the Glorious Leader and Veronika to a series of prison cells. Over two decades later, amid the collapse of the Communist regime, they meet again. In a very different environment. As politicians in the new world order plan the return and reburial of the country's most famous modern composer. Part macabre burlesque, part revolutionary opera, part love story, THE RIVER SKATERS is an epic music-theatre tale of seduction and political change across a quarter of a century.
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Slowianska Street
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25 mins
One Act
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NOELLE JANACZEWSKA
Songket
1st Produced:
The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Australia
2003
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Griffin Theatre Company and The Studio of the Sydney Opera House
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optional pianist
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winner Griffin Playwriting Award 2002 and Playbox Asialink Prize 2001
Songket
What happens when one person's culture is another's crime? Ten years ago in north-eastern Laos, Klaudia ran out on Hayden. Now they meet up again when Hayden needs an anthropologist to be his expert witness in the trial of Koua Neng Vang, a Hmong migrant accused of raping Chan, a young textile designer. Was it sexual assault? Or did Koua recognise, in Chan's confused signals, the enduring rituals of courtship? Songket is about different notions of love and how the law does, or doesn't, accommodate cultural diversity
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This Territory
1st Produced:
The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Australia
2007
Company:
Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) in association with Powerhouse Youth Theatre and The Sydney Opera House
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8
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9
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voices
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This Territory
This Territory was developed in the wake of the 2005 Cronulla riots through a 6-month research and consultation process with young people across Sydney. The play centres on a violent incident witnessed by a large group of young people, but they disagree about its details and their significance. In trying to get the story straight, the characters start to navigate relationships across the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, education and prejudice. They are Australia - a hotbed of cultures, and they are on fire.
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Unrequited
1st Produced:
Adelaide Festival Centre, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide
2007
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Genre:
Performance Essay
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Korea captured my imagination in 1993 and has held it ever since. I've tried on several occasions to escape into other countries in the region, but it's KoreaSouth, North, and the diasporawhich figures most prominently and most often in my writing. From a car crash in Pyongyang on an afternoon so cold the wind blew the words back down my throat, to an encounter with Chekhov in a Busan bar, UNREQUITED attempts to understand this rather one-sided love affair.
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Yungaburra Road
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Genre:
2 Act 75 mins
Play/Drama
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