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Scott Rankin

SCOTT RANKIN

  
Nationality:    Australian
email:    Click here to contact     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Cameron Creswell Agency  

Scott Rankin is a writer, director and creative director of the renowned Arts organisation, Big hART. Scott wrote the highly acclaimed works B ox the Pony for Leah Purcell, Riverland for Wesley Enoch and Ngapartji Ngapartji for Trevor Jamieson. Big hART is Scott's passionate contribution to the Arts and society  the company has won eight Coalition of Australian Governments (COAG) Awards, the 2008 Myer Performing Arts Group Award as well as an AFI Award and a World Health Organisation Award. He has received many high accolades and awards including: two Premier's Literary awards, three Green Room Awards including Most Innovative Production and Best Direction, as well as a Human Rights Award (arts). He has been awarded the Ros Bower Award for outstanding achievement in services to community cultural development, and has received a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.

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

         Beasty Girl         Box the Pony         Career Highlights of the Mamu, The         Certified Male         Kissing Frogs         Leaves Falling at Midnight         Light On The Hill         Namatjira         Ngapartji Ngapartji         Nyuntu Mgali         Riverland         Three Men Walk Into A Bar

Beasty Girl

Synopsis:
the secret life of Errol Flynn and the last remaining Thylacine. A tale of extinction told by Flynn's unacknowledged, illegitimate daughter.

Notes:
Rankin's writing is original And fantastical. . . innovative Australian Drama. the Age. Winner: 3 Green Room Awards 2003: Best Innovative Production, Best Director, Best Female Lead. "Beasty Girl is exceptionally layered for A one person performance piece.

1st Produced:
Mpp     2003

Organisations:
Big ART Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Box the Pony

Box the Pony
Semi-autobiographical story of Leah Purcell - or her alter ego Steff - which traces the events of her life growing up in a Queensland mission town. the youngest of 7 children and daughter of a white Father and black mother, Steff's life is teeming with lively characters. there is her Nanna, crippled with arthritis, who teaches her the stories and language of her ancestors. there is her mother, who lives it up each pension day. Above all, there is her Grandfather's pony, Steff's vehicle for temporary escape that characterises Steff's life, from her Nanna's prediction that she'll fly away like a Blue Crane - Bungabura - her aboriginal name, to the many tragedies she manages to avoid. Despite poverty, violence, lack of education and opportunity, Steff's spirit is nurtured through her ingenuity and resourcefulness (in the midst of her family's unspoken love). Box the Pony contains devastating humour, piercing insight, raw energy and emotion as it tackles many of the pressing issues of our times.

Notes:
written by Scott Rankin And Leah Purcell

1st Produced:
Playhouse (Sydney Opera House), Sydney, NSW     12 Sep 1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Hodder Headline Australia 1999   978-0733610691

Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11617

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Career Highlights of the Mamu, The

Synopsis:
the story of the Spinnafex people driven from their lands by the atomic tests in the 1950s, their survival and return

Notes:
written by Scott Rankin & Trevor Jamieson using A community process, the work toured Perth And Adelaide Festivals And to Germany.

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Organisations:
Big ART Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
indigenous

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Certified Male

Certified Male
Four executives are sent to a tropical island to discuss their firm's restructuring. they take this opportunity to appraise their lives so far

Notes:
Written by Scott Rankin And Glynn Nicholas

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording Middle Eight Music

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Kissing Frogs

Kissing Frogs
Boy meets girl. Boy looses frog. Girl ignores boy. Girl's boyfriend beats up boy. Girl feels sorry for boy. And then there is the psycho policeman

Notes:
Written by Scott Rankin And Glynn Nicholas

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording Middle Eight Music

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Leaves Falling at Midnight

Synopsis:
An environmentally friendly love story. An eccentric man who collects autumn leaves meets a young activist and try not to fall in love.

Notes:
written by Scott Rankin & Glynn Nicholas. Sell out seasons in Perth And Sydney. Leaves falling At Midnight is brilliantly funny, moving And A visual feast.

1st Produced:
Ache     2001

Organisations:
Glynn Nicholas Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Light On The Hill

Synopsis:
Right outside the theatre is the Northcott Housing Commission estate. The vision for the building was majestic. A kind of utopia. An answer to the trauma of world wars and the depression. Today, however, the estate has become something of a war zone. Still in many ways a strong community, it is also the home of many horrific stories and high drama. Light on the Hill takes simple details from everyday life at Northcott to create a prism through which we glimpse Australia emerging through the struggles, wars, migration and politics of the twentieth century.

Notes:
written by Vanessa Bates, Briony Dunn, Dominic Grenot, Bronwyn Purvis, Scott Rankin and Christopher Saunders

1st Produced:
[Rehearsed Reading] Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, Nsw     19 Jul 2004

Organisations:
Company B Belvoir

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78600

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Namatjira

Namatjira
Elea was born in the desert in Arrernte country, Central Australia, in 1902. Two years later he was baptised Albert. Thirty one years after that, at his first solo exhibition of watercolour landscapes, he signed his work with his father's surname for the first time: Albert Namatjira. Half a century after his death, Belvoir and Big hART have invited some of his descendants - third generation watercolour artists - to spend six weeks filling the Belvoir St corner with a huge drawing of Namatjira's country. Each night as they draw, the charismatic Trevor Jamieson will retell Namatjira's extraordinary life. At the height of his fame, Albert Namatjira's shows sold out within minutes. If you didn't own one of his paintings you probably had a print in your loungeroom. He also supported over six hundred members of his community, lost two of his ten children to malnutrition, was forbidden to own land, imprisoned for having a drink with his friends, and died a broken man.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Big hART

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia   978-0868199160

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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Ngapartji Ngapartji

Ngapartji Ngapartji
Taking its name from the Pitjantjatjara concept of exchange and reciprocity, Ngapartji Ngapartji is a deeply affecting experience of Indigenous history. Exploring themes of dispossession and displacement from country, home and family, the play tells the story of a Pitjantjatjara family forcibly moved off their lands to make way for the testing of British Atomic bombs at Maralinga.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Melbourne International Arts Festival     01 Oct 2006

Organisations:
Big hART

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  12 performers, choir, musicians

Further Reference:
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Nyuntu Mgali

Synopsis:
the future in the Australian outback. Two teenagers are on the run from their families because the girl is pregnant

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Windmill And Stc    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Riverland

Synopsis:
In 1956, the River Murray flooded causing chaos. Sheep and cattle drowned, houses were washed away and trees felled. Riverland juxtaposes the story of this historic flood with the lives of a contemporary urban indigenous family. the once mighty river and the lives of three generations of family become bound together in a shared history. Riverland is the story of 13-year-old Luke and his family who go camping beside the river his Nana remembers swimming in as a girl before the flood. the river has changed - the cod do not swim there any more and the children live in the city. the audience is invited to come camping in a world of storytelling and play, where the real and the imagined combine, where the past and present are one.

Notes:
Using text, song And visual imagary A beautifull, moving And funny story unfol

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Windmill

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Narrative

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  children

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Three Men Walk Into A Bar

Synopsis:
rootless declassed people who live in bed sitting rooms or small flats alienated by their cultural diversity

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Canberra Theatre Courtyard Studio, Australia     1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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