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Simon Stone

SIMON STONE

  (1984 - )
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Stacey Testro International, 26a Dow Street, South Melbourne, VIC

Simon Stone is an award-winning actor, writer and director. A graduate of the VCA he was the Founding Artistic Director of the Hayloft Project. He has adapted/directed many productions including the Suicide, the Only Child (after Ibsen's Little Eyolf), Platonov, Spring Awakeningwhich won the Sun Herald's Best Independent Production of 2008and the acclaimed the Wild Duck, seen at Belvoir St Theatre in 2011. Simon was identified as one of Australia's 10 emerging leaders in culture by the Weekend Australian's NEXT 100 series.

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

         3xSisters         Baal         Cherry Orchard, The         Face To Face         Miss Julie         Only Child, The         Platonov         Spring Awakening         Suicide, The         Thyestes         Wild Duck, The         Yerma

3xSisters

Synopsis:
A playful and inventive deconstruction of Chekhov's elegiac tale of love, despair and the longing for change, seen through the eyes of three of Melbourne's best young directors: Simon Stone, Mark Winter and Benedict Hardie. Each director has been given a third of the original Three Sisters text, the same cast, the same designers and this challenge: to stamp one of theatre's greatest plays with a bold and original vision.

Notes:
adapted by Simon Stone, Mark Winter and Benedict Hardie

1st Produced:
Arts House Meat Market , North Melbourne, VIC     24 Apr 2009

Organisations:
Hayloft Project

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/81564

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Baal

Synopsis:
Meet Baal. Outsider poet, schizophrenic singer/songwriter, middle-class bum. With an insatiable appetite for sex and booze, Baal lives his life for the moment. From strip joint to sewer he leaves a trail of devastation and recklessly dispensed lyricism in his wake. Bertolt Brecht's first play, Baal, rages with the fire of youth. Nothing escapes young Brecht's burning wit and self-immolating irony here. An anti-hero and cult artist at odds with the world, Baal indulges in fleshy decadence spewing surreal poetry and bawdy libretto.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Adapted by Simon Stone and Tom Wright

1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, Vic     02 Apr 2011

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90347

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Cherry Orchard, The

Synopsis:
Ranevskaya returns to the family estate seeking refuge from a failed love affair and impending bankruptcy to face the prospect of losing their beloved cherry orchard. Fortunately, the grocer's son, now a successful property developer, has a cunning plan. Will Ranevskaya embrace the winds of change, or is the pull of the past too strong?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, London     18/2013

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Face To Face

Synopsis:
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Notes:
A film by Ingmar Bergman adapted for the stage by Andrew Upton and Simon Stone.

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre, Millers Point, NSW     07 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105426

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Miss Julie

Synopsis:
We love watching plays about couples tearing each other to pieces: George and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elyot and Amanda in Private Lives, Jean and Julie in Miss Julie. the difference, though, is that Julie is still in her teens. She is rich because her Father is rich. Jean is not rich - he works for the family, in a lowly way - but he would quite like to be. they have this much in common: they would both like to rule their own lives, they both think they can get that from each other, and they both think sex is the way to do it. August Strindberg's masterpiece has been hovering in the wings at Belvoir for a while now, waiting for the right people: Leticia Caceres and Brendan Cowell both know how to combine tender and brutal to devastating effect. Simon Stone joins them with a rewrite of the play in the fashion of his the Wild Duck. This is a red-blooded new Miss Julie about men and power, about extreme privilege, about freedom and about how cruel we can be to each other in the interests of self-preservation.

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Only Child, The

Synopsis:
they were the golden couple, the couple most likely to. they were happy and in love. Flash forward. Rita is an imperfect mother. Alfred has withdrawn from his wife and their relationship has degenerated into a mess of resentment, sexual frustration and misdirected fury. When their son goes missing, they're forced to make unexpected adjustments to their life together. Worlds will implode and walls may crack. This is a portrait of their marriage - mercurial, malicious, tender and honest.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Written by Simon Stone with Thomas Henning; inspired by Henrik Ibsens Little Eyolf

1st Produced:
Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, The Edge, Auckland     26 Aug 2011

Organisations:
Silo Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Platonov

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Cub Malthouse, Melbourne     15 Feb 2008

Organisations:
Hayloft Project

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Spring Awakening

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind

1st Produced:
Meat Market, Melbourne     24 Apr 2009

Organisations:
Hayloft Project

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Suicide, The

Synopsis:
Semyon Semyonovich has a terrible row with his wife when she refuses to let him have a sausage for a midnight snack. He runs naked from the house and into the night. the wife is convinced that he has gone off to kill himself. When the neighbours hear about this they prepare a big party to see him off

Notes:
Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman

1st Produced:
Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, Sydney     18 Mar 2010

Organisations:
Hayloft Project

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Thyestes

Thyestes
If you mess with the Ancient Greeks, beware a little blood. In the charnel house of Greek legend one room is forever reserved for that most ferocious of tales - Thyestes, the deposed king whose sons were slaughtered and served as a feast to their unwitting father. Treating mythological atrocity as contemporary reality, fast-track director Simon Stone retells this Greco-Roman epic as a series of domestic scenes exploring the mundanity of violence. Terrifyingly observed, savagely comic and ultimately heartrending, Thyestes is a modern journey through the darkest of legends.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Seneca. Adapted by by Simon Stone, Thomas Henning, Chris Ryan And Mark Winter

1st Produced:
(Malthouse Theatre) Tower Theatre, Southbank, VIC     16 Sep 2010

Organisations:
Hayloft Project

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90540

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Wild Duck, The

Synopsis:
Hjalmar Ekdal's Father was rich until scandal cast the family into poverty. Now he lives in a tiny flat with his father, his wife Gina, and his daughter Hedvig. And a duck. And there's about to be a new member of the household who could just shatter the little world Hjalmar has built around himself. A bittersweet portrait of family dysfunction, deception and denial in a radical reworking of an Ibsen classic.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. Written by Simon Stone with Chris Ryan

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Yerma

Yerma
The extraordinary Billie Piper plays Her, a woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Simon Stone creates a radical new production of Lorcas achingly powerful masterpiece.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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