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DANIEL KEENE (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Daniel Keene's plays have been performed widely throughout Australia and overseas, especially in France. His plays, which include All Souls, Cho Cho San, Silent Partner, Low, Terminus, The Architect's Walk and The Ninth Moon, have received numerous literary awards. His collaboration with director Ariette Taylor - the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project - was critically acclaimed both locally and overseas. 'Fashioning language is Daniel Keene's trade, and the playwright approaches it with visceral intensity. You can almost imagine him pulling a red-hot word from a furnace, hammering it into shape and laying it down on the page to cool.' The Sydney Morning Herald
Plays by Daniel Keene
All Souls | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-431-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18834 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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| All Souls, or the Day of the Dead, is when the dead return to the world of the living. | |||||
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Architect's Walk, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide Festival | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Theatre Forum, Issue 36, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114603 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | chorus, singer | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The life of Alber Speer | |||||
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Cho Cho San | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | - - - | ||||
Company: | Handspan | |||||
| 1st Published: | Paddington, NSW : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company and Company B, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0868191736 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18835 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A boldly lyrical theatrical adaptation of Madame Butterfly. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Citizens | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Serpent's Teeth, Currency Press, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-838-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83918 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | companion piece to Soldiers | |||||
| Citizens is set at the dividing wall of an unspecified war-torn country. Over the course of the play, the fragility and nobility of the human spirit at its most vulnerable is carefully probed and laid bare.' (Publisher's blurb) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dog | ||
| 1st Produced: | Supper Room, Hawkes Bay Opera House, Hastings | 29 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Theatrecomrades | |||||
| 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 | #130851 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | I awoke bright & early that morning a young man at the cusp of his life the son of poor but honest parents & dressed by my bedside in prospect of breakfast alone in the small but tidy kitchen and then to work. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elephant People | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #114602 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Glass Of Twilight, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | NIDA, Sydney | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #46190 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about the beauty found in a world of urban "have nots". | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Half And Half | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-676-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114598 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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| Keene cracks the code of male communication in this compelling story of two half brothers physically separated but bound together by a shared mother and a deep longing for emotional connection. Absurd, comic and theatrical, Half and Half is a witty examination of the nature of language and the language of nature. | |||||
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Hour Before My Brother Dies, 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 | #18836 | |||
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Killing Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatro Circulo | 10 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | One Year Lease | |||||
| 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 | #125805 | |||
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Genre: | 80-minute dark comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This Beckett-style 80-minute dark comedy, inspired by the ancient story of Thyestes, envisions the end of the word and what violence may look like at its last gasp. When Evil retires, what does it do all day? Imagine the end of the world. Ancient, shrunken, and constantly bickering, twin brothers Cy and Ed perpetuate their existence through blood transfusions and organ transplants. As young men, their greed was so insatiable and their capacity for brutality so great, they destroyed an entire civilization. They left nothing behind but the people who care for them: a doctor, a nurse, their wives. They still control the universe, or what is left of it, until their long-dead children reappear. . . Cy and Ed are the darkly comic, modern counterparts of Atreus and Thyestes, two brothers who fought each other tooth and nail for the throne of Olympia. In the original story, their acts of treachery escalate, creating a mind-boggling and unending cycle of betrayal. In one infamous moment, Atreus kills Thyestes' sons and serves them to Thyestes for dinner. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Life Without Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sumner Theatre, Melbourne | 14 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-892-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122314 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | winner of the Drama Script (Stage) - Griffith University Creative Writing Program Award. | |||||
| If you don't know who you are and you don't know where you're headed, you might find yourself spiralling in ever-tightening circles until you come to rest in a nondescript part of town in a crummy two-star hotel, where the service is churlish, the lift doesn't work, the toast is burnt and the pot plants set off your allergies. But keep your expectations low, really low, and, who knows? - you might be pleasantly surprised by how everything works out. A hotel with reservations. Award-winning playwright Daniel Keene's play is an eccentric fable about taking up residence and trying to move on. | |||||
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Little City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brunswick Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Worker's Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #18837 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | over 50 artists | |||||
Notes: | additional text by Patricia Cornelius and Melissa Reeves; Music by Irine Vela | |||||
Synopsis: | The piece is epic, moving and stirs one to revolution. You can sell our property, dismantle our services and take our money, but you can never dismantle the spirit of the people | |||||
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Low | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122316 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Nightwatchman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-801-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70408 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| When Bill goes blind he has to move into sheltered accommodation. His son and daughter help with the packing up of the family home and are unhappy that their past is slipping away. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ninth Moon, 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 | #122317 | |||
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Share, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Fitzroy Hotel, Woolloomooloo | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122855 | |||
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Silent Partner | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122315 | |||
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Soldiers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Serpent's Teeth, Currency Press, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-838-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84099 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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| Soldiers has been commissioned for the STC Actors Company as a companion piece to Citizens. Set in an echoing Air Force hangar, family members gather to receive the bodies of their sons, brothers and friends lost in an unspecified conflict abroad. (Publisher's blurb) | |||||
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Somewhere In The Middle Of The Night | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #114601 | |||
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Telling, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | NIDA Theatre, Sydney | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #114600 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Terminus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Presented by DTC and East Coast Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #93393 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The last train. Inside one of the carriages is a young boy carrying a box. Several seats away, a man is sitting. He moves closer to talk to the boy. He wants to see what is in the box. The boy is not interested in showing him. This is the beginning of a remarkable journey, which takes place at the end of the line, the terminus, in an area where hope would have died were there not room for dreams and wondering. Each and every character encountered is searching, despite isolation and loneliness, for something better. Except the man. He can give succour and yet finds none for himself. Both murderer and lover, he gives life and he takes it away. He changes people without being changed himself. Or does he become changed after all? Do his victims teach him something from the other side of the grave? This is a play of subtlety, of transcendence - it takes you by the heart, and also through your mind, and it leaves you wondering. It is a work of art. | |||||
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To Whom It May Concern | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | - - - | ||||
Company: | poor theatre collaboration | |||||
| 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 | #114599 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | about an old man who finds he is dying of cancer, and who with increasing desperation, tries to find someone to look after his mentally disabled adult son. | |||||
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