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Melita Rowston

MELITA ROWSTON  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Melita Rowston is a writer, director and Dramaturge. She graduated from NIDA with a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Arts - Directing - in 2000 and is currently working as a Dramaturge on the literary staff at the Griffin Theatre. In 2002 she received the ANPC's Hot Spot mentorship grant to develop her play Solitude in Blue for production as part of the Stablemates season, sponsored by Griffin Theatre. In 2001 she received a Playworks Imminent Productions grant for swing girl which was staged at the SBW Stables Theatre to critical acclaim. In 1999 she received a Playworks development grant for Night Reflections, a play which was originally written and performed in 1998 at Melbourne Uni.. This outing received a Melbourne University Creative Development grant, and attendance at the International Festival of Young Playwrights 1999. In 2000, Night Reflections was restaged after development as part of the NIDA Director's Projects season. In 1999 she first wrote Solitude in Blue, which was staged at PACT Theatre, NSW. - http://www.ozscript.org/playwright400.php

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/233923

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

         Crush         Diver, The         Night Reflections         Six Degrees of Ned Kelly         Solitude In Blue         SPEW         Sugarbomb         Swing Girl         Woman Without a Shadow, The         Wonder from DownUnder, The: Gippslands Giant Worm

Crush

Synopsis:
On December 12, 1988, Sunny Girl Susie turned sweet sixteen. Her boyfriend Jason, gave her a Poison t-shirt, her best friend, Kelly, gave her a name necklace and Kellys boyfriend, Dazza, gave her a handful of pills. That night Susie Greene disappeared. Her body and kidnapper were never found. Twenty-two years later, the blood splattered t-shirt of the missing schoolgirl is unearthed from the Australian scrub and her best friend Kelly is reluctantly drawn back to her childhood home. Together with Dazza and Jason, once the most important men in her life, Kelly faces the bleakest of high school reunions. As the police dig deeper, Susies classmates are forced to confront memories of a night theyd hoped to leave buried in their adolescence forever. An acerbic and fast-paced Gen X tale, a murder mystery/who-dunnit, revelling in the current 80s retro zeitgeist, Crushed explores the sinister violence that lurks beneath the sun-bleached facade of our shell be right culture.

Notes:
aka Crushed. Part of Queen Street Studios Off the Shelf residency Aims to breathe life into those scripts that have been written but never produced; put up on A shelf somewhere, Amidst old Penguin Classics And tattered unused text­books, to get dusty And mouldy And lifeless. . .
http://blog.queenstreetstudio.com/?tag=melita-rowston

1st Produced:
Queen Street Studio, Darlinghurst, Australia    Nov 2010

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1st Published:
Australian Script Centre   -

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Genre:
Drama, dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Diver, The

Synopsis:
an initially funny but ultimately disquieting monologue by a strange, geeky man obsessed with Sydneys monorail and photographic colour-codes, but hiding some obscured trauma and possibly disastrous intent.
http://www.Australianstage.com.au/reviews/sydney/short--sweet-sydney--gala-final-1152.php

Notes:
Short & Sweet Sydney Week 5

1st Produced:
Seymour Downstairs Theatre, Chippendale, NSW    11 Feb 2008

Organisations:
Platform 19

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Genre:
short monologue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80206

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Night Reflections

Synopsis:
Explores Melbourne painter Clarice Beckett's life. Using dance, slide proections and music, it's also an attempt to bring her back to life

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1st Produced:
University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC    27 Aug 1998

Organisations:
Glass Theatre

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Genre:
biographical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60515

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Six Degrees of Ned Kelly

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1st Produced:
Time Machine Festival@Serial Space    2012

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Genre:
theatrical monologues/lecture

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Solitude In Blue

Synopsis:
It's Melbourne 1930, and a murderer of young women is stalking the city. Meanwhile, a bohemian artist and ambitious writer discover love and art on the mean streets.

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1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW    04 Dec 2002

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Genre:
drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/24970

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SPEW

Synopsis:
Better out than in! Sometimes life's just gotta get messy..... Our anthem was ?come as you are?, get an education and you?ll find your perfect niche in life. We?re pushing 30 and we still don't know what that is. SPEW - Sometimes life?s gotta get messy.

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Organisations:
In the raw Festival

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65325

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Sugarbomb

Synopsis:
Melita Rowston's play delves into crime-ridden 1950s Sydney where there's a poisoning epidemic going down

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1st Produced:
Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre, Woolloomooloo, NSW    08 Sep 2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/64484

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Swing Girl

Synopsis:
Evie is desperate to become a star of the musical stage but her parents disapprove. She tries to rise above their disapproval - but is she strong enough?

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1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW    21 Nov 2001

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1st Published:
Australian Script Centre   -

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Genre:
music theatre 70 mins

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17557

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Woman Without a Shadow, The

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1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, VIC    11 Mar 1998

Organisations:
Glass Theatre

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Genre:
dance drama adaptation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32502

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Wonder from DownUnder, The: Gippslands Giant Worm

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1st Produced:
Melbourne    Aug 2013

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Genre:
theatrical monologues/lecture

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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