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FINEGAN KRUCKEMEYER (1981 - )
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Finegan Kruckemeyer has had 52 commissioned plays performed on five continents, and was an inaugural recipient of the $160,000 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. This year 20 works (including nine premieres) will play worldwide, with seasons in argentina, Australia (ten works in six states, with two at the Sydney Opera House and three at the Melbourne Arts Centre), China, England (three national tours), Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland - and the United States, at invited programmes New Visions New Voices (JFK Center for the arts, Washington), New Plays for Young audiences (New York University), and the IPaY American Showcase (his fourth consecutive IPaY work). Finegan and his work have received the 2011 Sidney Myer Fellowship, 2010 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights award, 2010 Best New Work Ruby award, 2009 Australian Writers Guild award (aWGIE) for Best Children's Play in Australia, 2009 Mystate Young Tasmanian artist award, 2009 Ruby award For Innovation, 2008 Best Children's Theatre Playwright Oscart, 2007 Best Playwright Oscart, 2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights award, and 2002 Colin Thiele Scholarship. Finegan has spoken at conferences/festivals in argentina, Australia, austria, Denmark, Scotland, Sweden, the UK and the US, with his paper The Taboo of Sadness published. He was one of 21 selected worldwide for the aSSITEJ Next Generation (international group of young leaders in children's theatre), and sits on Arts Tasmania's assistance to Individuals Panel, and Write Local, Play Global's (an international TYa network) Playwrights advisory Committee. Finegan was born in Ireland, and came to Adelaide at eight. In 2004, he moved with his wife Essie to Hobart, Tasmania, from which he now writes for national/international companies. He is committed to making strong and respectful work for children, which acknowledges them as astute audience members outside the plays, and worthy subjects within.
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Andrew Corder Thinks Twice At Sea, Staring Up Bastien Und Bastienne (Adapted Recitativo) Big Smoke Boats Books And Bites Boy With The Longest Shadow, The Boys Will Be Boys Company I Keep, The Con Artists Dancing Back Home Dinner Drums In The Night (Translation) Escape From Peligro Island Falling Room And The Flying Room, The Four On A Couch Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly, The Heartburn Hotel (Adaptation) Helena And The Journey Of The Hello Hip-Hop Monologues, The Holey Book, The Human Geography If I Jumped, I'd Fly If Only The Lonely Were Home I'll Show You Yours (Formerly: South Of The Border) Love Man Covets Bird Minister's Children, The Moving Mountains My Mother Told Me Not To Stare Night Places Plays For My Girlfriend Positions Vacant Queen Of The Snakepit Ruby Bruise Ruby Bruised Smackbeth Snapshot This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing This Much Of Me This Uncharted Hour Tragical Life Of Cheeseboy, The Trouble On Planet Earth We're All Going To Die Of Cancer Anyway When The Penny Drops When The Pictures Came When We Lived In Uncle's Hat WolfAndrew Corder Thinks Twice
Synopsis:
This man is andrew Corder. He doesn't own a car. He speaks some words of a second language, and hates the fact he used to know a lot more. He has deceptively strong arms, and walks to work the same way every day. andrew Corder does not think about Palestine every day. This morning, however, he does. 'a complex work that sparkles with a humorous nihilism and takes us directly into the white man's burden: choosing to connect with human suffering or to simply drink wine. . . Kruckemeyer's script is assured and a real treat' - The Mercury
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1st Produced:
Backspace Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania 2010
Company:
Tasmanian Theatre Company
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Music:
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adult theatre
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageAt Sea, Staring Up
Noah searches for his wife who one day flew away. Caleb swims oceans to impress Sylvia who can climb waterfalls and leap through time
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1st Produced:
- 2012
Company:
Jute Theatre Company
1st Published:
Currency press -
Music:
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Genre:
Avant Garde
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageBastien Und Bastienne (Adapted Recitativo)
Synopsis:
a newly adapted recitativo, for Mozart's first opera. Written when he was twelve, it is a look at the conflict between country and city ideals, in the context of a young love affair. Bastienne pines for her sweetheart Bastien, who has left for the city where he has been seduced by the glamour of both the bright lights and a wealthy lady. She complains to Colas, a magician, who advises her to arouse Bastien's jealousy, driving him to the brink of suicide. Following a lover's quarrel the two finally discard their pretences and reaffirm their mutual love for each other. 'This is a completely charming, whimsical, wonderful little gem. . . devised with a completely fresh view and witty new English dialogue' - Southern Times Messenger.
Notes:
Voted 'Best Opera' in the 2006 Lightyear Awards, And 'Best Double Bill' At the 2006 South Australian Oscarts. Adapted recitativo from the original by Mozart.
1st Produced:
The Opera Studio, South Australia 2006
Company:
Commissioned by the State Opera of South Australia
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Music:
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Genre:
Opera
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageBig Smoke
Synopsis:
Jimmy and Bethany live side by side on a street, under a bridge, in the middle of a giant city. When school is cancelled for the day, the pair has to go to work with Bethany's dad. Which is fine - unless Bethany has another one of her great ideas, and borrows dad's briefcase, and then gets it stolen, and has to make her way across the whole city and through rush hour and up the side of a building. and of course Jimmy refuses to join her. . . But of course he's coming along anyway.
Notes:
Tour: Regional South Australia. Inspired by discussion with hundreds of schoolchildren in the Riverland region, About their ideas of the city.
1st Produced:
The Renmark Institute, South Australia 2010
Company:
Commissioned by Riverland Youth Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Theatre (6+)
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageBoats
Synopsis:
In Jof's life at sea, he would lose three boats, tie a million knots and make one amazing friend. Jof is born on the waves, in a crow's nest. From the youngest age, he finds he possesses the sailor's craft, of knot tying. When a huge storm destroys the boat and leaves his parents working in a circus, Jof returns to the sea, learning from the greatest fisherman of all, Okinawa Yukio. Upon Yukio's death, he leaves everything to his pupil. But sometimes boats don't want to be given, and Jof is shipwrecked again, on an island with poor Nicholas, who has lived on land but dreamt of the sea. With his new friend, Jof begins the journey home, using knots to solve problems, songs to lift spirits, and a message in a bottle to remind him of the beautiful harpist, Eliza Turk. 'a zephyr of pure originality and lyricism flows through this work and one feels the hand of writer Finegan Kruckemeyer' - The advertiser
Notes:
2008 Tasmanian tour. 2009 Come Out Children's Festival And Wooden Boat Festivals. 2010 Victorian tour. 2011 Australian, Irish, New Zealand And US tours. 2012 Chinese tour.
1st Produced:
Goulburn St Primary School, Hobart, Tasmania 2008
Company:
Terrapin Puppet Theatre
1st Published:
Australian Script Centre -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's theatre (5-12): Magical Realism
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageBooks And Bites
Synopsis:
a live theatrical game show, developed especially for Come Out 09's literature program, Books and Bites divides the audience and popular children's authors into two teams to battle it out for ultimate victory. With an MC leading the teams through a series of readings, games, quizzes and challenges based on selected children's books written by the team of authors, the only question left to answer is. . . Whose team will you be on?
Notes:
Feature work of Come Out 2009, Australia's largest children's theatre festival.
1st Produced:
Dunstan Playhouse, South Australia 2009
Company:
Come Out Festival
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Interactive Game Show
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: - Other: Famous children's writers as guests
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Top of PageBoy With The Longest Shadow, The
Synopsis:
adam and atticus Brown have known each other since. . . forever. Since they sat in a belly together and waited to be born. and twins are all supposed to be the same. . . but they never are. When they wake in the morning, adam's hair is nice and ready for the day, but atticus' looks flat and stupid. When they catch the bus to school, adam sits up the back with the older kids, and atticus carries the books. When atticus goes to say something clever to a girl, adam always says it first, and better. and when they stand in the sun together, even though they're just the same height, even though they have been for every minute of their lives, adam always seems to cast the longest shadow. But atticus has a plan to change all that. . .
Notes:
atticus And Adam Are identical twins And can be played by either one Actor or two. 2012 Tasmanian tour.
1st Produced:
Friend's School, Hobart 2011
Company:
Commissioned by Tasmanian Theatre Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Theatre (7-12)
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageBoys Will Be Boys
Synopsis:
Seven 12-year-old boys are followed over the course of a week as they prepare for the end-of-primary-school dance. Knowing that they are on the cusp of a new life of high school and adolescence, they discuss the roles men play, their relationship with fathers present and absent, facial hair, football and girls. When you start becoming a man, what's the boy supposed to do?
Notes:
Winner of the Australian Government's $20,000 'Outstanding National Achievement in School Improvement Award'. Developed with A group of twelve year old boys in the Riverland, And performed by this ensemble.
1st Produced:
Chaffey Theatre, Riverland, South Australia 2003
Company:
Commissioned by Riverland Youth Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Childrens' Theatre (10-12)
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageCompany I Keep, The
Synopsis:
The Company I Keep takes on many forms. at a doorstep, ten people arrive and prepare for a first date. at a sink, a father teaches a son how to shave. On a bench, two people sit and leave it for us to know who they are, to each other. There are people with and without disabilities, just as there are people with and without brothers, or wives, or dancing partners, or company - the company I lack, and the company I keep: What you will know about me, is who I know. Who I am, is who I am to them. 'a sheer joy to experience. From tentative inclinations to sweeping gestures of passion, the exploration of human relationships takes on many forms. a strong and confidently performed work' - Write Response
Notes:
Second Echo is An integrated ensemble founded by Finegan And six original members, And made up of people with And without intellectual disabilities. It is supported by the Tasmanian Theatre Company And Cosmos Recreational Services.
1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania 2010
Company:
Second Echo Ensemble
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Integrated dance theatre
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageCon Artists
Synopsis:
Max and Millie are the orphaned children of the greatest con artist that ever lived, Maximilian Montague Morris. When they are caught stealing a gold watch in London, the pair finds themselves on a convict ship bound for Van Diemens Land, a prison colony at the end of the earth. Sent to opposite ends of the island and forced to work for the awful Guard Grisholm, all the pair can rely on, are their cons. Using various disguises, trickery, sneakery and pokery, follow the brave pair's exploits as they overcome cannibals, invent the Tasmanian Tiger, rescue poor Clumsy Jane, and eventually discover that what lies at the end of so much badness, may be more than they ever dreamed. 'The play is part fairytale, part neo-Dickensian epic, written with skill and a spirit of lightness' - The Mercury
Notes:
Terrapin's major schools touring work for 2007.
1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Tasmania 2007
Company:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Theatre (5-12): Magical realism
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageDancing Back Home
Synopsis:
Six outback stories uniting artists from Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. all revolve around the commanding central figure of a tree - it is at various times an anchor, a sentinel and a signpost pointing the way. 'The writing is intelligent, dark and humorous, and sucks the audience into a world unlike what most, we hope, experience at home. It's life, but with a very dark twist'. Cairns Post
Notes:
Dancing Back Home was A performance comprised of six scripts by different writers. This playwright's play was entitled 'a Suit That's Been Cut Just For You'.
1st Produced:
JUTE Theatre, Cairns, Queensland 2010
Company:
Commissioned by JUTE Theatre and Mudlark Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
adult Theatre
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageDinner
Synopsis:
Libby and Tom are going to dinner at Helen's. Helen is the new boss. She likes Libby's novelty. Libby is blind. Tom wants to protect her. So he hits her on the head. Dinner explores the nastiness behind the social niceties, the power play behind the political correctness. It's dinner - mind your manners.
Notes:
Selected As part of the Gorge '03 season, with subsequent productions by Melbourne And Tasmanian companies.
1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, for Gorge '03 2003
Company:
Commissioned by The Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageDrums In The Night (Translation)
Synopsis:
Written by Brecht when he was 24, and translated by me at the same age, Drums in the Night is 'a blistering and beautiful parable that says much about a world at war with terror'. With anna Balicke's love Kragler having left to fight in WWI five years earlier, her industrialist parents have decided the time has come for her to find a new suitor, namely the well-placed businessman Murk. But on the evening of her begrudging engagement, who should return but the poor soldier thought dead by all. With a Spartacist uprising brewing in the background, and the Schnapps flowing in the fore, the stage is set for all kinds of rebellion. 'a recent translation by Kruckemeyer might return this early work to prominence. Brecht and Kruckemeyer prove ideal collaborators for the Gang. . . a masterful adaptation of the play'. Jeff Favre, Daily Breeze, Los Angeles.
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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Brecht Estate-approved translation. Selected As the opening work of the 2005 State Theatre of South Australia season. Produced by The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles, USA, for A three month season 2006/7. Winner of the 2005 Adelaide Theatre Guide 'Curtain Call Award for Best Show'.
1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Festival Centre, South Australia 2005
Company:
Commissioned by Brink Productions, for the 2005 State Theatre of South Australia season. Dir: Chris Drummond.
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- -
Music:
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Genre:
Translation
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageEscape From Peligro Island
Synopsis:
Everything was normal on your flight over the ocean. . . until the plane went down and you crashed on an unknown island! Now there are vampires, time machines and superpowers to deal with, and any decision could mean life or death. The hardest part? It's the audience who decides! With your very own hand-held controller, you'll be steering the play. But think carefully before you make a choice - or you might end up on the island. . . forever! 'Every bit the sort of classic story-telling of adventure comics and annuals of yore, complete with cliff-hanger scene endings' - The advertiser
Notes:
Premiered in the 2011 Come Out Children's Festival. 2012 Sydney Opera House And Melbourne Arts Centre seasons. While the original production had A cast of three, the play is A choose-your-own-adventure with myriad stories And over A hundred characters - As such, Any cast size is suitable.
1st Produced:
Forge Theatre, Marryatville, South Australia 2011
Company:
Windmill Theatre/The Border Project
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Theatre (8+)
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageFalling Room And The Flying Room, The
Synopsis:
Samuel Paxton has to share a house with his very moody family. and he hates it. So he heads out to the shed, which is full of all the electrical things his family has ever broken and thrown away - and he knows how those things feel. . . So Samuel starts fixing. But there is boring fixing, where you make a thing be able to do what it did before. and there is magic fixing, where you make a thing better than it ever was. . . 'Pitched mainly at primary school kids, Kruckemeyer's funny, intelligent script keys straight into their capacity for slipping effortlessly in and out of make-believe mode. . . This exceptionally innovative show never loses sight of the power of a strong story, imaginatively told' - The Mercury
Notes:
Terrapin's major schools touring work for 2009. 2009 Tasmanian tour, 2011 Victorian tour.
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Hobart, Tasmania 2009
Company:
Terrapin Puppet Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Theatre (8+)
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageFour On A Couch
Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rhino Room, South Australia 2000
Company:
Adelaide University Theatre Guild
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageGirl Who Forgot To Sing Badly, The
Synopsis:
This is the story of Peggy. and the packing. and the blizzard. and the boat. Peggy O'Hegarty and her parents were packers. Each day someone would call with a job and a time. 'I want 17 foxes in boxes by breakfast', said the caller and all of the packers said: 'fine'. But one day the phone it forgot to keep ringing. and then all the boxes forgot to need stuffing. and then poor old Peggy, she forgot to keep singing. and she opened the curtains and found outside. . . nothing. Because all of the people in her city were gone. So Peggy went out to explore. . . 'Kruckemeyer has written an adventure fantasy rooted in domestic reality, like a daydream born beneath a dining room table. . . the entire show hums with nimble, exploratory intelligence, captivating attentions and keeping pace with restless imaginations; a story of ingenious packers that always boxes clever' - The Irish Times.
Notes:
2010 Irish national tour And Dublin Theatre Festival season (the first children's play ever selected for the prestigious ReViewed programme). 2011 European festival tour.
1st Produced:
Company:
The ark, a Cultural Centre for Children, and Theatre Lovett
1st Published:
Australian Script Centre -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Theatre (7+)
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageHeartburn Hotel (Adaptation)
Synopsis:
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Notes:
Terrapin's major schools touring work for 2006. Inspired by Jennifer Davidson's original.
1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania 2006
Company:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Theatre (5-8): Puppetry adaptation
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageHelena And The Journey Of The Hello
Synopsis:
When Helena Bugosi was eight, her mother went to live inside a phone. and when she was nine, her father went into the forest and befriended the foxes. and when she was ten, he got into a small boat and went out to sea, leaving her to sing songs by the side of the road. These are not bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are for your parents to tell you. These are morning time stories. and they are the best ones. This story begins. . . now. 'This compendium of great yarn spinning, horseplay and mock-opera is a winner' - The Mercury
Notes:
2009 Tasmanian tour, 2010 Sydney Opera House season, 2011 Australian national seasons
1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania 2008
Company:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre
1st Published:
Australian Script Centre -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's theatre (7+): magical realism
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageHip-Hop Monologues, The
Synopsis:
Written and performed entirely in hip-hop, this work voiced young peoples' attitude towards life, both in and out of juvenile prisons. Through interviews and workshops, I wrote and recorded hip-hop pieces with young men and women in a juvenile detention facility. The same process was then entered into with young, multicultural rappers, b-boys, b-girls, and singers who were not detained, resulting in a live performance. The subsequent work toured high schools, creating a dialogue between people of the same generation, who live in remarkably different worlds. 'Hip Hop Monologues is raw performance art made by and for those who don't get the chance to speak out much' - dB Magazine.
Notes:
Commissioned work by the Australian Festival for Young People, for the 2005 Come Out Festival. Refunded for A second season in 2007.
1st Produced:
Magill Youth Centre, for the 2005 Come Out Festival. 2005
Company:
Commissioned by The Come Out Festival
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Hip-Hop, Monologues
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageHoley Book, The
Synopsis:
The Holey Book' is a series of partial scripts, alluding to a larger narrative but only giving clues as to what this might be, and whom it might contain - a few lines or stage directions from each scene dotted across an entire play. On the night of each performance, both audience and actors receive the text for the first time. and after a short read, the show begins - the actors (aided by a director on side stage) take the structural and narrative offerings and craft full stories from them.
Notes:
Partially written by Finegan Kruckemeyer. Completed by whoever performs the work in each season.
1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart 2012
Company:
Rowan Harris' Imprognosis, assisted by Salamanca Arts Centre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Improvised Theatre
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: 5+
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Top of PageHuman Geography
Synopsis:
This city, like every city, is about geography - human geography. It's about where these humans are placed, and the effect this has on others. Where do they meet and where do they miss? Where does it matter? and through the middle of Wagga, weaving amongst the human geography, there flows a river. and for a long time it's been quiet - the water hasn't intruded. and the people have become seeds in a dry place, silent and patient, waiting. But on this day, a storm has arrived. and the river has filled, and the seeds are dampened and awoken. Their husks break, their senses are shocked into action, and en masse, they come to life. They cease their silence. They grow and threaten to intrude upon one another, humans forgetting their geography. . . and between them all - carried on the water, sent on a journey over many miles - there rides the body of a man.
Notes:
Written for, And developed with, CSU's third year Acting students, this is A work with 23 equal roles.
1st Produced:
Riverina Playhouse, Wagga Wagga 2011
Company:
Commissioned by Charles Sturt University
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
adult Theatre
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 18 Other: -
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Top of PageIf I Jumped, I'd Fly
Synopsis:
That moment of launching: It is the caterpillar coming out of the cocoon and discovering it has wings. It's the first fish stepping out of the water and taking a breath of something new. It's the old man looking back at his child self, and the tree remembering its beginnings as a seed. It is what we could all do, if we forgot the impossibility of it. 'There were no tricks, but a burning sincerity of purpose and a profundity in the very simplicity of what was going on. In a word it was a very moving show, and when I joined in the frenzied applause, one of my cheeks was wet. How annoying' - The Mercury
Notes:
Festivals: 2006 Amalgamation Festival, Tasmania And 2007 Awakenings Festival, Victoria. Tour: 2009 Tasmanian statewide tour. Second Echo is An integrated ensemble founded by Finegan And six original members, And made up of people with And without intellectual disabilities. It is supported by the Tasmanian Theatre Company And Cosmos Recreational Services.
1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania 2006
Company:
Second Echo Ensemble
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Integrated dance theatre
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageIf Only The Lonely Were Home
Synopsis:
The Lonely hasn't been seen for a long time. His house stands quiet, on the furthest edge of town. He won't come out. So everyone brings to his doorstep the things they love - a photo of the wind, a song you sing in cars, a feeling of ferris wheels, some lightning in a jar. The Lonely is ignoring them all. But one girl stands at his door and won't go away. . . 'The Tasmanian writer has a quirky, audacious, wonderfully unfettered way of looking at life that is fully in tune with children's thinking. His verbal imagery is delectable. . . a tale with charm, humour and real feeling' - The Stage
Notes:
Toured extensively throughout England, with international seasons planned.
1st Produced:
York Theatre Royal, York, England 2009
Company:
Tutti Frutti
1st Published:
Australian Script Centre -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Childrens' Theatre (4+)
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageI'll Show You Yours (Formerly: South Of The Border)
If you're single, you chase it. If you've got it, you're constantly analysing it. If you don't analyse it. . . that's something nice.' Nine teenagers stand on a baseball diamond. Some are on first base, some have gone all the way home. But when the game finishes, the feelings remain. I'll Show You Yours sidesteps the familiar territory of teenage lust and reminds something equally sought after, but far more dangerous. Love.
Notes:
Selected As A touring work for the 2004 Adelaide Fringe Festival YEP Programme. Developed with young men And women, who then performed the work.
1st Produced:
The Arts Centre, South Australia, for the 2004 Adelaide Fringe Festival 2004
Company:
Commissioned by Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble
1st Published:
Playlab Press 978-1921390036
Music:
-
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Teenage Drama
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 6 Other: 2
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Top of PageLove
Synopsis:
Oslo Rogers has a very fun mum called Ruthy, and lives in a very fun town called Mellingong. But now a very unfun problem (called a big approaching storm) is forcing everyone to head for The Clondike, the big town hall on the hill. and they can only take a few important things each - 'love luggage', Ruthy calls it. But the thing is, Oslo's mum is a milk-lady, and owns a milk-float, and those can hold heaps of 'love luggage'. . . if you pack them right. So Oslo sets out to help the people of Mellingong, and to find out the things they love most, the things you would save from a storm. 'Love is an amazingly multi-layered piece of visual theatre. It could even be one of those rare shows that burn brightly forever in the memories of the young children who are lucky enough to see it, for there is much here that is memorable' - Write Response
Notes:
2011 Hobart Theatre Royal subscription season premiere. 2012 Melbourne Arts Centre season.
1st Produced:
Hobart Theatre Royal 2011
Company:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Children's Theatre (5-12)
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 6 (currently a two-hander)
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Top of PageMan Covets Bird
Synopsis:
a boy wakes to finds he has grown. He recognises the stranger in the mirror, but his parents, his town do not. Outside his childhood bedroom he finds a bird that cannot fly and together the strangers embark on adventures. This is the story about their journey to the big city, what they find there, what they join in and what they make themselves. a story about flying from nests, birdsong, the nature of man and wild things and growing up. 'Finegan Kruckemeyer's poetic script is like a beautiful children's book, a treasured bedtime story with illustrations which come to life before our eyes. . . another truly magical, moving, all-encompassing world which is a mysterious as its title and enchants young and old alike' - The advertiser
Notes:
Recipient of the 2010 Best New Work Ruby Award, And the 2010 Best Show (Comedy) Adelaide Theatre Guide Award. 2010 Adelaide Festival of Arts premiere season. 2012 Sydney Opera House And Melbourne Arts Centre seasons.
1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, for the 2010 Adelaide Festival 2010
Company:
Slingsby
1st Published:
Australian Script Centre -
Music:
-
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-
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageMinister's Children, The
Synopsis:
I watch this woman. and I recognise her. and it strikes me as mad. We're two normal-looking tired adults, about to hit fifty, couple of kids each, nothing to notice if you weren't looking for it. But we've both been there. We've both gone through a couple of the worst childhoods you could have. I bet we both have the same kind of nightmares, and the same reaction when we walk into small rooms, and the same scars on our bodies. I bet she had the same problems with getting naked for her partners as an adult. I bet she's not religious. I bet she holds her kids too tight when she hugs them, and I bet she hasn't told them why. and either of us could blend so easily into any crowd, but if we saw each other for a second, we could probably read the last forty years of each other's lives. and I wonder how many of us there are, how many thoUSAnds of people sitting in parks, or working in offices. That's all I'm left with, after seeing her - what are the numbers? Who else knows? Just how many of us are there?'
Notes:
a study of Abuse in care: Created As A response to An intensive six month media Analysis, And personal guardianship stories.
1st Produced:
Part of 2005 National Child Protection Week. 2005
Company:
Commissioned by Budgie Lung Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Biographical tragedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageMoving Mountains
Synopsis:
Every story has a hero. This one is a mountain. Over the 70 million years of Tasmania's existence, things have moved upon our shores - but not just the plants and animals. Right now the face of Mount Wellington is, ever so slowly, heading west. an entire mountain, migrating. Things have always moved this way, and the weather has moved with it. But now the climate is changing, faster than we, or our mountain, or the animals and plants that live around it, can deal with. In the rising seas, on the changing mountain, and upon the currents of antarctic air blowing to us - Tasmania's flora and fauna is feeling the heat. and our species is feeling it too. an exploration of what was, what is, and what can be. . . In a derelict wharf on Hobart's harbour, the Mountain Festival's feature work involved schoolchildren, dancers, musicians, puppeteers and professional actors, as they told the story of climate change and what it is doing to Mount Wellington - created from discussions with scientists and artists.
Notes:
Feature work of the 2008 Mountain Festival.
1st Produced:
Princes Wharf, Hobart, Tasmania 2008
Company:
The Mountain Festival
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Community Theatre
Parts:
Male: 5-25 Female: 5-25 Other: -
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Top of PageMy Mother Told Me Not To Stare
Synopsis:
a deliciously dark operetta for curious children and their grown ups. Have you ever done things your parents told you not to do? Have you swallowed the pips of an apple and waited for a tree to grow in your belly? Have you made a face when the wind changed? Or turned your back on the sea? In Bobby Rogers' town everyone lives very normal lives. But Bobby has noticed that a child who was there one minute is gone the next. So he digs a hole through the earth, all the way to kangaroos and upsidedownness. and he may have stayed forever there, but vanishing kids does not seem fair, and there is nothing so fun as a grudge to bear, so one day Bobby Rogers returns to Upper Crumble to settle the score. . . 'Brave, innovative and breaking new ground with a disturbing, high-pitched Benjamin Britten-style Gothic opera. . . This should be the production, which gains Theatre Hullabaloo and action Transport some international accolades' - The Northern Echo
Notes:
written by Finegan Kruckemeyer And composed by Martyn Harry
1st Produced:
Unicorn Theatre, London, EUR >>> 17 Mar 2010
Company:
Theatre Hullabaloo and action transport Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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90 min dark operetta Youth audience
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageNight Places
Synopsis:
-
Notes:
Produced by the ATYP, As A means of Accessing isolated young people on Tasmania's West Coast. Developed with, And performed by, this ensemble, touring regionally.
1st Produced:
Zeehan Town Hall, West Coast, Tasmania 2004
Company:
Commissioned by The Australian Theatre for Young People
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Teenage Drama
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 10 Other: -
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Top of PagePlays For My Girlfriend
Synopsis:
Nine women, from very different walks of life, present a monologue each. 'Kruckemeyer's sin is the beauty of his prose. He demonstrates his immense promise in this collage of dramatised expressions' - The advertiser
Notes:
Selected As part of the 2002 Festival of One, An Annual one Act play season.
1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, for the 2002 Festival of One. 2002
Company:
Festival of One
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Varied: monologues One act
Parts:
Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PagePositions Vacant
Synopsis:
a group of teenagers are caught in limbo. They've finished school and want to work, but jobs are scarce and the dole just seems easier. Written in hip-hop, Positions Vacant is an ode to the 'jobless masses, a mixed-up molasses of fellas and lasses. No time to be passive, let's get off our asses and head for our homes, 'cos tomorrow who knows, but I'm ironing my clothes and finding repose. . .'
Notes:
Developed with young men And women in Whyalla, regional Sa, And performed by this ensemble.
1st Produced:
Middleback Theatre, Whyalla, South Australia 2003
Company:
D Faces Theatre of Youth
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Teenage Drama/Hip-Hop
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 7 Other: 10
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Top of PageQueen Of The Snakepit
Synopsis:
Queen of the Snakepit is a theatrical collage of Flinders Island, and the women who have shaped it. "The men go out to sea each day. and their life is tough, but at least they have that. It's the women who stay. and sometimes it's hard to see a thing from the inside. So you send them away - you send them away, not forever, just so they can look back". This is one woman's reflections on those who have come before her: Myrtle and her cats, the girl Rosie standing at the window, and the matriarch Queenie, sitting in the back of the bar, in the Snakepit, there where the wind won't touch her. In here, the bar is always open, and there's a secret waiting at the bottom of every glass. 'Through the sketches of these women's stories, we get to experience the fragility and wonder of this island life. . . a powerful impression stayed with me long after the show' - The Mercury
Notes:
Selected As part of the international 2007 Ten Days on the Island Festival. Inspired by the biographical reminiscences of Cheryl Wheatley, A fourth generation Flinders Islander, And the original performer of All the play's characters.
1st Produced:
Backspace Theatre, Ten Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania 2007
Company:
Commissioned by Is Theatre
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Biographical Drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: 9+ Other: -
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Top of PageRuby Bruise
Synopsis:
Ruby Bruise is magic, superheroic, invincible: she can read others' thoughts, outrun her own reflection and see through walls. a lush landscape of madness, laughter, revelation, heartache and body fluids, this new work by The Misery Children examines one woman examining herself. Sometimes, when there are no bruises to show your life's journey, you make your own. 'Written with shades of dark and light, Kruckemeyer explores into a deeper darkness than your children's stories aught, as in the dark the pains and heartaches of Ruby's life are lain out before us. But in the light, if you look around at the faces of your fellow audience members, you look into the faces of pure unadulterated joy'. Australian Stage Online
Notes:
Named Best Play of 2010 on No Plain Jane. Devised with Daisy Brown. Any number of Actors can perform the work.
1st Produced:
Riverside Theatre, Port adelaide 2010
Company:
Co-produced by The Misery Children and Vitalstatistix
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageRuby Bruised
Synopsis:
Ruby was magic. at aged 4, she discovered she spoke twelve languages. Her favourite game was to ring people in other countries, and find out what their hobbies were. . . at 12, Ruby found she could clone herself as she saw fit. In her first school photo, she took up eight of the twenty-one seats. . . Ruby Bruised could see through walls. By the time she was 16, she had seen her parents have sex over a thoUSAnd times. . . at 18, Ruby discovered jealousy and decided she wanted what everyone else had. For one day in June, she possessed all the world's sickness. . . at 22, Ruby found a magic lamp, and rubbed it. The genie that came out saw her and all her power - and he told her what he wished for. . . at 27, Ruby Bruised completed the life-long construction of a metal skin, borne from an early desire to protect an aching heart. On its debut wearing, her boyfriend dumped her. By the following morning, her cheeks had rusted. . . at 30, Ruby Bruised lost her reflection. No one noticed. . . at 34, Ruby Bruise told herself the truth - and all her powers were gone. . .. . . Come meet Ruby.
Notes:
Devised with director Daisy Brown, Sarah Johns And third year performing Arts students, who performed the work. Ruby Bruised has become the inspiration for A new work being developed for 2009.
1st Produced:
aIT arts, South Australia 2004
Company:
Commissioned by aIT arts
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Parts:
Male: 8 Female: 8 Other: -
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Top of PageSmackbeth
Synopsis:
We know their actions, their regicide, their infamy. But it is in watching the events behind closed doors - when it is only a man and a woman, slowly growing apart - that we meet them as a couple. Smackbeth explores the domestic breakdown that is the impetus for a king's death, an unraveling which can only end with two people laid bare. 'Playing theatrical games with Shakespeare can be disastrous, but this play works very well, with beautiful writing, and some very funny and clever exchanges of dialogue' - Leader Messenger
Notes:
Selected As part of the 2005 Festival of One season.
1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, South Australia, for the 2005 Festival of One 2005
Company:
Commissioned by Queenbitchery
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageSnapshot
Synopsis:
Combining six works by three playwrights and two animators, Snapshot looks at the effect the war on terror and its rhetoric of fear is having on suburban Australia.
Notes:
Part of the international 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Commended: 'Best Ensemble Performance' At the Fringe Awards.
1st Produced:
The Foundry, Victoria, for the 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival 2005
Company:
Sleeping Dog Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Black comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageThis Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing
Synopsis:
Triplet sisters are left in the middle of a forest by their woodcutter father. From this fairytale beginning, three resolutions are made - one sister will walk one way, one the other, and the third will stay right where she is. Twenty years later, having circumnavigated the globe, fought battles, crossed oceans, tamed wilds, braved horrors and achieved greatness, they meet again as women. 'The quality of the text and the parable about growing up, drawn on the three different paths, calls without didacticism to a deep thought about diversity of people and circumstances, about confrontation and tolerance. and about the permanence of affection' - La Nacion, Buenos aires
Notes:
Winner of the 2010 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award. 2011 premiere in Argentina (amarginados, Buenos Aires). 2011 US season (Pitt Arts, Pittsburgh). 2012 Australian tour (Barking Gecko/Casula/Q Theatre). Assisted by Australian Latin American Foundation.
1st Produced:
Campo Salles Theatre, Buenos aires, argentina 2011
Company:
amarGinados Grupo Teatral
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Theatre for Young audiences (8+)
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageThis Much Of Me
Synopsis:
I would show you this much of me - when I want to impress you. When I want to frustrate you. When I feel I trust you. We are constantly choosing how much we want to give away, unveiling too much, or too little. Cold in jumpers, outside in a kitchen, alone with a group, ten performers play a game of show and tell. 'In this latest work, [The ensemble] has reached a new level of maturity. . . With satisfying complexity, the work is tight yet fresh. . . There is also a great deal of honesty and integrity in this piece' - The Mercury
Notes:
Tour: Tasmanian statewide tour. Second Echo is An integrated ensemble founded by Finegan And six original members, And made up of people with And without intellectual disabilities. It is supported by the Tasmanian Theatre Company And Cosmos Recreational Services.
1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania 2008
Company:
Second Echo Ensemble
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Integrated dance theatre
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageThis Uncharted Hour
Synopsis:
Luka is going to get coffee, when he hits and kills a dog. Trying to find its owner, he catches the eye of an unknown woman. and suddenly he is remembering his mother, and the looks she gave, and the brother that came before him, who was gone before him, who he should have been. and now he is driving back to the family house. . . 'Intriguing and affecting theatre. . . Lingers like a disconcerting but instructive dream' - The Australian
Notes:
Winner of the 2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights' Award, And the 2007 Best Playwright Oscart. 2007 premiere in the State Theatre of South Australia season (Brink Productions). 2011 Hobart Theatre Royal season (Tasmania Performs).
1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Festival Centre, State Theatre Company of South Australia season 2007
Company:
Commissioned by Brink Productions
1st Published:
Australian Script Centre: The Collection 7, 2008 -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Tragedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageTragical Life Of Cheeseboy, The
Synopsis:
a beautiful, dark and funny theatre show. Inside a magical traveling theatre tent, discover a storyteller who shares an enchanting and timeless tale. Cheeseboy's home planet has been reduced to a bubbling fondue. Where are his parents? How did he become marooned on Earth? and where has the tide gone? Edward Scissorhands meets Oedipus and The Little Prince. 'The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy (*****) is so achingly magical and charming, so full of whimsicality and merry eccentricity that when the reality of Cheeseboy's situation begins to strike home. . .those with iron self-control will just swallow very hard. The rest of us will try to forage quietly for a hankie. . . a marvel of exquisite theatre-craft' - The Herald, Scotland.
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Winner of the 2009 Australian Writers' Guild (aWGIE) Award for Best Children's Play in Australia. Winner of the 2008 Best Children's Theatre Playwright Oscart. Has toured for four years, to four continents And eleven major festivals. Conceived by Andy Packer.
1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia 2008
Company:
Commissioned by Slingsby
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Children's theatre (10+): magical realism Youth audience
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageTrouble On Planet Earth
Synopsis:
a choose your own path show, the audience votes its way through innumerable scenarios and genres. Jane Douglas is the eighth in a long line of Douglas women to leave the familial farm and go it alone. But before long you (for you are now her) find yourself in a car accident, a man's briefcase your only point of reference, but your memory gone. Do you: Go to the nearby phonebox and call a half-remembered number; head into the forest and break open the case; or flag down the car that is approaching? With hundreds of scenes through which to pass, your every decision is crucial. 'Four and a half stars out of five. . . it is, in fact, incredibly cool. . . Because the play has 24 possible endings, more than 60 possible characters. . . and a myriad of possible plot twists based on the audience's decisions, you can see it more than once and enjoy it all over again. Fresh, slick, modern and so sharp it could have your eye out' - Petra Starke, The Messenger Review
Notes:
Written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, devised with/conceived by The Border Project. Winner of the Ruby Award for Innovation, the Adelaide Critics Circle Award for Innovation, the Advertiser Fringe Award And the Bank Sa Support Act Fringe Award in 2008.
1st Produced:
Crumpet Theatre, Fringe Factory, 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival 2008
Company:
Commissioned by The Border Project
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Many: depending on audience choice
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageWe're All Going To Die Of Cancer Anyway
Synopsis:
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Notes:
Part of the 2000 Open Space programme.
1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, for the Open Space season. 2000
Company:
Fish Kiss Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Parts:
Male: - Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PageWhen The Penny Drops
Synopsis:
an exploration of gambling addiction among 18-24 year olds. 'Engaging, funny, yet hauntingly intelligent understanding of a destructive cycle' - dB Magazine.
Notes:
Part of the international 2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Selected As one of the Top 20 of the Fringe by the Adelaide Advertiser, And one of dB Magazine's Top 10 for the year.
1st Produced:
Carclew Ballroom, for the 2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival. 2002
Company:
Commissioned by Urban Myth
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 7 Other: -
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Top of PageWhen The Pictures Came
Synopsis:
Four people sit in four rooms and try to make themselves better: the opera singer wants to sing louder; the strongman wants to be stronger; the martial artist wants to be more artful; and the kid wants to play with them all. But one day two deliverymen arrive. and in their arms is a box. and in the box is a machine. and in the machine. . . are the pictures. When the pictures came, they sucked in stories, and secrets, and four characters with no idea what they were in for - they spat out revelations, and magics, and impossibilities. Now the pictures are here, tastes can be heard, sounds can be seen, heads will roll (literally), and shadows abandon their bodies. Now the pictures are here, once upon a times will happen twice, and happy ever afters be gone in the blink of an eye.
Notes:
a co-production between Chinese, Australian And English companies. 2010 Chinese premiere. 2011 Australian Ten Days on the Island And Come Out Festivals.
1st Produced:
Malan Flower Theatre, Shanghai, China 2010
Company:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre and the Childrens' art Theatre of China
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Top of PageWhen We Lived In Uncle's Hat
Synopsis:
This is a play about how walls don't make a house, and doors don't make a house. It's a play about how a family makes a house. and it doesn't matter where you live - whether it's an up house or a down house, or an outhouse or a townhouse - who you live with is the important bit. 'aimed at children, while being smart and strange enough to please adult audiences. . . Kruckemeyer's adaptation captures the innocence of the source material. But it's far from sugary, there's also moments of sadness and loss as their travels unfold. . . Great fun. The hour's running time just rockets past'. The Stage, England
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2010 English national tour. Adapted from the children's book by Peter Stamm And illustrated by Jutta Bauer. Set to be Adapted As An iPhone Application.
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Commissioned by Tutti Frutti Productions (Leeds, England)
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Synopsis:
If we don't confront our fears, will they come and get us anyway? Our hero finds herself falling from her waking life into a dense forest; the stuff of fairy tales and horror films. alone, afraid, she senses something is circling in the deep dark. Is it as bad as she imagines? Or worse? If she can outrun it, she'll never find out what she was fleeing from. . . 'Right up there with the very best. . . The school children who formed most of the large audience were held spellbound, like everyone else, and the applause was loud, long, and absolutely genuine' - The advertiser
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Premiered in the 2009 Come Out Festival, Australia's largest children's theatre festival. 2011 Sydney Opera House season. Written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, devised by Slingsby.
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Come Out Festival, Mount Gambier, South Australia 2009
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Slingsby
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