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PAUL DWYER
Nationality: Australian
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Paul Dwyer is Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Sydney University. He has published in various journals including: New Theatre Quarterly, Research in Drama education and australAsian Drama Studies. Paul is also Dramaturg for the contemporary performance ensemble Version 1.0 (www.versiononepointzero.com) with whom he has created a number of critically acclaimed verbatim/documentary productions, including a Certain Maritime Incident, the Wages of Spin and Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue.
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Beautiful One Day Bougainville ProjectBeautiful One Day
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Beautiful One Day is a theatrical documentary about the irrepressible life and times of Palm Island. Three theatre companies (Belvoir, Ilbijerri, and version 1.0) came together in 2011 over a shared sense of outrage at the injustices surrounding a death in custody in 2004. But, prompted by the Palm Island community, Beautiful One Day looks for a way to turn outrage into real understanding and new possibilities. At its heart is a determined struggle to understand the persistent heavy-handedness of white Australia.
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devised by Sean Bacon, Magdalena Blackley, Kylie Doomadgee, Paul Dwyer, Eamon Flack, Rachael Maza Long, Jane Phegan, Harry Reuben and David Williams
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Belvoir Street Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW
17 Nov 2012
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Writer, academic and performer Paul Dwyer retraces three journeys made by his father, Dr allan Dwyer, a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, who visited Bougainville during the 1960s, healing dozens of crippled children. Family stories become entwined with the larger narrative of Australias colonial enterprise in the years following: the opening of the giant Panguna copper mine, environmental devastation and Bougainvillean resistance, a war that cost the lives of up to 20,000 people. Since 2004, Paul Dwyer has been making his own journeys to Bougainville, conducting research on the post-war reconciliation process and following the impact of those encounters between his Father and the Bougainvillean children. This is politics and performance at its most personal
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National Multicultural Festival Fringe, Canberra
Feb 2009
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