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CATHERINE ZIMDAHL |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: RGM Artist Group |
Catherine Zimdahl is a playwright and screenwriter. Her play Clark In Sarajevo premiered at the Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney in 1998. In 1998, Clark In Sarajevo received the Legal & General Umbrella Award for Best New Australian Writing, and in 1999 won the Louis Esson Prize for Drama at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and the ANPC/New Dramatists Exchange to New York
Plays by Catherine Zimdahl
Clark In Sarajevo | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #38760 | |||
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Genre: | 2 acts (approx 80 minutes) Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 - 8 cast (variable, equal male/female division. Has been performed with 2 males, 4 females, with some doubling) | |||||
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Synopsis: | traces the journey of Clark Cant, a mild-mannered reporter, who in an effort to cast off his ordinariness reinvents himself as a war correspondent in Sarajevo. It is a play about the gaze of the West as it follows Clark's fall from a flat disengaged spectator/voyeur of the siege, to a man who comes to embody the complex emotions of an uncomprehending witness to a catastrophe. | |||||
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Day Too Great, A | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99561 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Joss is 22 years old, she's tried and failed to kill herself but is determined in her own chaotic way to try again. A Day Too Great charts the night of her suicide watch. In her flat, her boyfriend and best friend are with her - watching, waiting, increasingly terrified and exhausted. Through the night the pain yelps out of Joss - she has the impulse to cut and crush those dearest to her, to cast out every demon thought, to wrestle with her murderous god as she tests the limits of love, spinning those in her orbit on a darkening trajectory... A Day Too Great is a searing portrait of psychic pain. It examines the fragile bonds that hold us all in place, blowing away the comforting aphorisms and asks the question what part of the self needs to be killed in order to live? | |||||
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Family Running For Mr Whippy | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #38761 | |||
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Genre: | 20 mins One Act experimental | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | chorus mixed | |||||
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Synopsis: | Family Running For Mr Whippy is a reverie into the outer suburbs in one woman's inner world. It is a world which is haunting and hilarious, where imagination and memory intermingle ominously, where the narrator struggles to find her way through it, to go above it, to find a way, out, and to see. . . | |||||
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Left Breathless A Question | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 May 2007 | |||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Short Circuit: 14 short plays for the stage, Currency Press, Australia (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868198668 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106399 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
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| Over three years, Australia's new writing theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, presented fourteen unique short plays across its mainstage season. Seen for one night only, The fates, Seasons and The Seven Needs were three play cycles provoked by the classical mythology of man's inescapable destiny, the seasonal patterns and Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs. Now , this eclectic and fascinating collection of ten minute plays by some of the country's most established and emerging playwrights becomes Short Circuit. | |||||
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Moonfleet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Windmill National Children's Theatre and Mainstreet Theatre Company | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126745 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | stage adaptation of John Meade Falkner's classic nove | |||||
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Wharf At Wooloomooloo, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #38762 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 120 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | co-commissioned by Playworks and SGLMG | |||||
Synopsis: | It is 1946 and Peggy is an expressionist artist in a Sydney that doesn't yet understand. But it matters not for on one fateful night she meets the young, rich and powerful art patrons, the Huxleys. She swoons, she falters, she falls in love but does love really look like this? | |||||
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