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Tom Wright

TOM WRIGHT

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Tom Wright has been involved in Australian theatre since the early 1990s. In that time he has written or co-written a number of plays or adaptations, including The Trial, Ghost Train, as well as Babes in the Wood. Widely respected as a dramaturg, actor and director, he is currently Artistic Associate at Sydney Theatre Company. His most recent work is The Lost Echo based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, which he co-wrote with Barry Kosky.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/2779

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         Art And Soul         At Last the Famous Artist is Dead         Baal         Babes In the Wood         Black Diggers         Criminology         Drink Pepsi, Bitch!         Duel, The         Ghost Train         Histrionic, The         Journal of the Plague Year         Lorilei: A Meditation On Loss         Lost Echo Pat One, The         Lost Echo Pat Two, The         Medea         Odyssey, The         On the Misconception Of Oedipus         Optimism         Picnic at Hanging Rock         Tales from The Vienna Woods         This is a True Story         Trial, The         Wall Project, The         War of the Roses, The         Women of Troy, The

Art And Soul

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Melbourne writers Matt Cameron (Whispering Death), Aidan Fennessy (The Slaughterhouse), Joanna Murray-Smith (Untitled), Tee O'Neill (Homage to Rembrandt), Melissa Reeves (Ray's Painting), Glenn Shea (Masterpiece) and Tom Wright (At Last the Famous Artist is Dead) have each written a short play in response to the same painting: Homage to Rembrandt by Australian artist Garry Shead. The set design recreates the environment of the painting and during the play the characters mirror the composition of the artwork.

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic     18 Nov 2000

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
one act plays

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79761

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At Last the Famous Artist is Dead

Synopsis:
An artist tries to win back his muses after selling out to commercialism

Notes:
Melbourne writers Matt Cameron (Whispering Death), Aidan Fennessy (the Slaughterhouse), Joanna Murray-Smith (Untitled), Tee O'Neill (Homage to Rembrandt), Melissa Reeves (Ray's Painting), Glenn Shea (Masterpiece) and Tom Wright (At Last the Famous Artist is Dead) have each written a short play in response to the same painting: Homage to Rembrandt by Australian artist Garry Shead. the set design recreates the environment of the painting and during the play the characters mirror the composition of the artwork. Event titled Art and Soul.

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre (Aust)     18 Nov 2000

Organisations:
Commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company in 2000

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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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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Babes In the Wood

Babes In the Wood
Once upon a time, two native-born Australians, still wrapped in the robes of childhood, find themselves lost in the Unforgiving Bush. They meet a colourful cavalcade of colonial pantomimics and get caught up in a spiralling hallucination of disreputable tales. Tom Wright has hunted through our rich heritage of colonial pantomimes to create this triumph of rhyme over reason.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, Vic     26 Nov 2003

Organisations:
Playbox Theatre company

1st Published:
Currency Press   978-0868197098

Music:
-

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Genre:
Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/33062

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Black Diggers

Black Diggers
One hundred years ago, in 1914, a bullet from an assassin's gun in Sarajevo sparked a war that ignited the globe. Patriotic young men all over the world lined up to join the fight - including hundreds of Indigenous Australians. Shunned and downtrodden in their own country - and in fact banned by their own government from serving in the military - Aboriginal men stepped up to enlist. Undaunted, these bold souls took up arms to defend the free world in its time of greatest need. For them, facing the horror of war on a Gallipoli beach was an escape from the shackles of racism at home, at a time when Aboriginal people stood by, segregated, unable to vote, unable to act as their children were ripped from them. When the survivors came back from the war, there was no heroes' welcome - just a shrug, and a return to drudgery and oppression. Black Diggers is the story of these men - a story of honour and sacrifice that has been covered up and almost forgotten.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Playhouse, South Bank, Qld     24 Sep 2014

Organisations:
Queensland Theatre Company

1st Published:
Playlab   978- 1 921390 81 4

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105572

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Criminology

Synopsis:
1997: Princess Diana. Mother Theresa. Titanic. While disaster made headlines and the world hurtled towards the next millennium, a death almost went unnoticed in a quiet Canberra home. 'Law student Anu Singh held a "send off party" after declaring to her friends she had decided to take her own life. Afterwards, she drugged her boyfriend Joe Cinque's coffee and over the next two days injected him with lethal doses of heroin. What made the crime more shocking was that several of her party guests had known that she'd planned to take someone along for the ride. Incredibly, Singh's eventual sentencing to ten years in prison for manslaughter gave her the time to complete her Masters Degree in Criminology, exploring the causes of female crime. 'In 'Criminology', easy assumptions about guilt and innocence, and the value of life are shaken to the core. It is the chronicle of a death foretold, but not prevented. It is an erotic, arresting, adrenaline-fuelled ride into the dark blood of a killer.' Source: Malthouse theatre website, http://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/
http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=C%23G1q

Notes:
Written by Lally Katz And Tom Wright

1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Melbourne     03 Aug 2007

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre and Arena Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   978-0987392954

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/71315

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Drink Pepsi, Bitch!

Synopsis:
Eddie Perfect's satirical attack-dogs are set on globalistion, materialism, anarchy and sex. He'll throw in drugs and conspiracy theories for free.

Notes:
written by Tom Wright and Eddie Perfect

1st Produced:
Cub Malthouse, Southbank, Vic     20 Sep 2005

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre. Melbourne Fringe Festival 2005

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/67933

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Duel, The

Synopsis:
Zosima is a young man who lives a life of debauchery where nothing is out of bounds. The night before a deadly duel, he wakes with an overwhelming sense of guilt and insight. This will be the event that transforms his life and leads him from the military to a monastery.

Notes:
adapted from novel by Fydor Dostoyevsky

1st Produced:
Wharf 2, Walsh Bay, Nsw     05 Jun 2009

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company Season 2007

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/84188

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Ghost Train

Synopsis:
the four characters travel to the city and into the future.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz

1st Produced:
Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, Vic     20 Jul 1995

Organisations:
Ariette Taylor Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/99844

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Histrionic, The

Synopsis:
Bruscon is a national treasure, intellect nonpareil, and finest living actor to grace the stage. But what happens when a talent that knows no bounds is dropped into a tiny hamlet more notable for the number of local pigs than its appreciation of the theatre?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Thomas Bernhard

1st Produced:
Malthouse Theatre, Southbank, Vic     02 Apr 2012

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/100646

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Journal of the Plague Year

Synopsis:
A great city, struck down by the plague. Men, women and children drop like flies while the King and Queen flee and hide in the countryside. Is this just a passing horror? Or has history come to an end?

Notes:
Based on the book by Daniel Defoe

1st Produced:
Cub Malthouse, Southbank, Vic     11 Apr 2005

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptor

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/66606

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Lorilei: A Meditation On Loss

Synopsis:
Lorilei Guillory's six-year-old son was killed by Ricky Langley, a paedopohile with a lengthy criminal record. . .what made this case remarkable was Guillory's determination, after his original murder conviction, to oppose the death sentence imposed on Langley.This short monodrama provides a glimpse of the horrific experience of Lorilei Guillory. . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     28 Oct 2003

Organisations:
Theatre Tarquin

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32243

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Lost Echo Pat One, The

Synopsis:
Barrie Kosky uses Ovid's "Metamorphosis" as his inspiration for a theatrical epic commissioned by the Sydney Theatre Company. These tales are the fundamental stories of human desire. Everything from sacred love to incest, forbidden love to psychotic madness - an odyssey on how and why we love.

Notes:
Written by Tom Wright And Barry Kosky. Based on Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay, Nsw     11 Sep 2006

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company Season 2006

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/68260

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Lost Echo Pat Two, The

Synopsis:
In the second part: tales of desire and the hunt. The seduction of Narcissus, the chase of Actaeon, the transformation of Daphne into a tree, the rape of Proserpina and the immortal sadness of Orpheus who searches for his lost beloved Eurydice through the most frightening regions of the imagination

Notes:
Written by Tom Wright And Barry Kosky. Based on Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay, Nsw     12 Sep 2006

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company Season 2006

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/68261

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Medea

Synopsis:
Daniel Schlusser's political, operatic and provocative production of this archetypical story of exile, jealousy, strangeness and vengeance.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Horti Hall Gallery, Melbourne, Vic     19 Oct 2002

Organisations:
Catastrophy; Melbourne International Festival of the Arts

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
translator

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  dancers

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/19981

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Odyssey, The

Synopsis:
A modern retelling of Homer's ancient tale which focuses on Odysseus, a man who must journey through death in order to reach life and eventually home. The various islands that Odysseus and his crew visit are conceived as distant images, tied together by a parallel reading that traces the story as a reurn to the south coast of Western Australia from the First World War. The action traverses the brutality of war, the seduction of oblivion and a home threatened by chaos.

Notes:
Based on Homer's epic

1st Produced:
The Malthouse Workshop, Southbank, Vic     06 Oct 2005

Organisations:
Melbourne International Arts Festival 2005

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/67596

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On the Misconception Of Oedipus

Synopsis:
How Laius and Jocasta met and married and conceived the child that was to cause so much havoc

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Melbourne     10 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Optimism

Synopsis:
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh' Voltaire (1694-1778). Turning a quizzical eye to the woes of the heart and reeking with scandal and scurrilous vice, Optimism transforms Voltaire's classic satire of enlightened insanity, Candide, into a cutting commentary on the no-worries bravura of the Australian swagger. Australian comedian Frank Woodley leads a wonderful bunch of clowns in this remarkable road trip. Religion, sex, disease and philosophy all cross our hero's path as he travels across five continents through a multitude of moods. Join the criminally cheerful Candide for an optimistic journey to Utopia and back.

Notes:
After Voltaire

1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, Vic     22 May 2009

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company Season 2006

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80918

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

Synopsis:
Picnic at Hanging Rock / has haunted the Australian psyche for over a century. One summer's day in 1900, three schoolgirls and a teacher inexplicably vanished, never to be seen again. The trip was supposed to be a Saint Valentine's Day treat. They were supposed to be home for dinner. In Tom Wright's chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel, five performers will struggle to solve the mystery of the missing girls and their teacher. Euphoria and terror will reverberate throughout Appleyard College, as the potential for history to repeat itself becomes nightmarishly real. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a story that defies explanation, a story that / proves that horror is a warm, sunny day.

Notes:
Tom Wright adapted from Joan Lindsays novel

1st Produced:
The Coopers Malthouse is located at 113 Sturt Street, Southbank, Melbourne     02 Mar 2016

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation 90 min one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Tales from The Vienna Woods

Synopsis:
The people are happy - there's great music, fine views, rich wine, wild nighclubs, horse racing, good swimming, games, romance. And. . ..a sense of disquiet in the air. It's 1931 and central Europe confronts a new political force - persuasive idealism, handsome patriotism, and promises of an unfettered homeland. But there's not much bite to it out here in the Danube valley west of Vienna, with its sharp hills, quaint baroque villages, strains of sentimental Strauss waltzes and timeless beauty.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     19 Nov 2007

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company Season 2007

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
translator

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/70523

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This is a True Story

Synopsis:
This is a True Story is just that - a true story. In 1982 in Mississippi, a man was sentenced to death for the murder of his brother and two nieces. An illiterate man. . ..Waiting on Death Row he began to learn to read and write, and in a struggling hand has recorded fragments of his story . . . he remains on Death Row today.

Notes:
written by Tom Wright and Nicholas Harrington

1st Produced:
Carlton Courthouse, Carlton, Vic     15 May 2001

Organisations:
Theatre Tarquin

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
one person show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1630

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Trial, The

Synopsis:
The poor old bank clerk Joseph K who wakes on his birthday to find he is being arrested by two officers . . . this is a production that barely misses a beat.

Notes:
adapted from book by Franz Kafka

1st Produced:
Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, Vic     07 Oct 1994

Organisations:
Theatre Tarquin

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/26139

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Wall Project, The

Synopsis:
A collaborative writing project looking at the idea of a wall and its metaphors. 'Ellis uses the Middle East as a setting, in a scene where a boy has a bomb strapped to his body, in what Bendall says is a snapshot of community reaction to a wall appearing in the middle of a zoo. Wright deals with convicts being transported to Botany Bay while O'Neill examines the global sex trade in a thriller setting, with questions about the divide between the first and third worlds. . ..Her script examines the plight of an East European sex slave, inspired by a story she heard while a Drama student in London 20 years ago.' 'tearing Down the Walls', the Age, 31 May 2005.
http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=C%23F$q

Notes:
written by Tee O'Neill, Tom Wright and Ben Ellis

1st Produced:
Theatre@Risk Company In Melbourne     01 Jun 2005

Organisations:
theatre@risk

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
five scenes

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/67990

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War of the Roses, The

Synopsis:
The culmination of their three years together, Sydney Theatre Company's renowned resident ensemble, the STC Actors Company, presents The War Of The Roses, an audacious epic of language and history. Joining the STC Actors Company is STC Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett, on stage in Australia for the first time in almost five years, as well as Robert Menzies, making a welcome return to the Company. Over eight hours, The War Of The Roses spans eight of Shakespeare's history plays, from the elegance and melancholy of Richard II through to the barbarity and catastrophe of Richard III,

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay, Nsw     06 Jan 2009

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company Season 2007

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78561

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Women of Troy, The

Synopsis:
One of the most powerful and compelling anti-war plays ever written, Euripides' tragedy reels with the consequences of destruction. By distilling the essence of this masterpiece to reveal a disturbing visceral chamber work, the award-winning team of Barrie Kosky and Tom Wright will once again focus their unique scrutiny on the realm of mythology illuminating its enduring connection to the contemporary world.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides. Adapted by Barrie Kosky and Tom Wright

1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, Nsw     22 Sep 2008

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company Season 2006

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/74682

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