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Justin Monjo

JUSTIN MONJO  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    RGM Artist Group  


Writer, Actor, Producer. Justin writes for film, theatre and television. His theatre credits include Romeo is Bleeding (performed in Australia and the United States), The Year I Started Believing in Vietnamese Fortune Tellers, That Eye, The Sky and Ray's Tempest. He has written for a number of television Drama series including Wildside, and FarScape, on which he was also an executive producer. Justin's stage adaptations of Tim Winton's novels That Eye, The Sky and Cloudstreet (with Richard Roxburgh and Nick Enright respectively) have been runaway successes worldwide.

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below is a list of Justin Monjo's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Cloudstreet         Ray's Tempest         Romeo is Bleeding         That Eye, The Sky         Year I Started Believing in Vietnamese Fortune Tellers

Cloudstreet

Justin Monjo
A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton's enormously successful novel of the same name. A huge success at the 1998 Sydney & Perth festivals, the story follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth. Both the novel and stage adaptation have proven to be major works and have each left an indelible mark on the Australian arts scene.

Notes:
Adapted by Nick Enright & Justin Monjo from the novel by Tim Winton

1st Produced:
Berth 9, Darling Harbour, Sydney    1998

Organisations:
Company B Belvoir and Black Swan Theatre

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia >>>, 1999   978-0868195896

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Genre:
3 act Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  doubling

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Ray's Tempest

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Romeo is Bleeding

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That Eye, The Sky

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It is the funny and moving story of young Ort Flack trying to come to terms with getting older, his father's near fatal car accident, a strange cloud that hangs over their Western Australia home, and a tormented stranger who might just be there for wicked purposes. . .

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Adapted (with Richard Roxburgh) from Tim Winton's novel. The play was nominated for Best Play by the Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle, the New South Wales Literary Board, And The Adelaide Festival Board, in 1995.

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-    1995

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Year I Started Believing in Vietnamese Fortune Tellers

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