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Jodi Gallagher

JODI GALLAGHER

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Jodi Gallagher's previous plays include Banshee, Web, The Method and Victory Girls. Elegy was written with the assistance of a grant from Arts Victoria and developed at Playbox in 199899, produced there in 2000, and received an honourable mention in the 2000 Victorian Premier's Awards. Her libretto Remembering Rosie was performed by Oz Opera/Musica Viva in Melbourne, 2001. She recently completed a Masters in Creative Writing and is now working on a PhD on nineteenth century witches at Melbourne University. This work will take the form of a novel.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/230045

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

         Banshee         Elegy         Gathering         Method, The         Not Quite Anais         Palace Revolution         Redemption         Victory Girls         Web

Banshee

Synopsis:
'Banshee' is set in the academic and bohemian world of Australia in the 1920s. Its central character is Colum O'Fallon, a sort of two-bob Yeats who could be modelled on anybody from Christopher Brennan to Vincent Buckley. He is convinced he's a poet and everybody - including his family - must sway to his will and wear his arrogant scorn.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Carlton Courthouse, Carlton, VIC    15 May 1996

Organisations:
La Mama Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
120 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/27675

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Elegy

Elegy
Two sisters, unalike, yet sharing a lust for life. When one dies, the other finds herself in the void that can only be created by the loss of a loved one. a tender by frank account of a family tragedy

Notes:
part if Inside 2000

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, VIC    05 Apr 2000

Organisations:
Playbox Inside 2000 program

1st Published:
in Inside 2000, Currency Press, Australia,    978-0868196213

Music:
-

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Genre:
Family Tragedy 120 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/77529

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Gathering

Synopsis:
Set in 1917, Gathering follows the journey of Ellen Eagleton, a classical scholar who is frustrated by her attempts to advance her theories in Europe, and heads for Australia to find a connection to the mystical beginnings of humanity through a study of Indigenous Australians. She is accompanied by her lover, the much younger James Priest, and all the prejudices of early anthropology. She arrives in Melbourne careless of the potential scandal her domestic arrangements might cause in an unsophisticated small town and convinced she can trace the beginnings of the human spirit. She begins by interrogating her Koori domestic servant Estelle. Estelle has little knowledge of her heritage, and wants none and Ellens questions are unwelcome  as is James collection of Indigenous skulls. Ellen and James encounter the local scholar Penniman and his daughter Mary. James proposes marriage to Mary  and leaves Ellen feeling betrayed and abandoned. Ellen and Estelle build a relationship as Ellen struggles to come to terms with James betrayal.

Notes:
Gathering was the subject of an Eleanor Dark Fellowship at Varuna, the Writer's House in 1998. Submitted in total fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne 2005

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Genre:
drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Method, The

Synopsis:
Marnie and Katerina attend an acting class that is more than it seems. When they decide to work on Genets The Maids, all hell breaks loose.

Notes:
As well as productions at La Mama and Playbox, The Method has been performed at several 1 Act festivals around Australia. A side-splitting satire on the process of learning to act.

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Genre:
comedy 40 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Not Quite Anais

Synopsis:
a surreal comedy of nightmare images and very weird words; Almost intimate revelations from a woman in her thirties.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Melbourne Comedy Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/99687

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Palace Revolution

Synopsis:
Jake was the perfect sixties revolutionary married to the perfect feminist partner. Between them Jake and Camilla embody all that was apparently good about the boomer generation  and all of its lost promise. Their children Simone and Alex absorbed sixties ideology with their morning organic muesli  and have gone in very different directions. Alex is a chef and lives his life in perfect hedonistic indifference, Simone works for an NGO in South East Asia. When Simone returns home unexpectedly after 911 and the protests in Melbourne that eerily happened just one year before, the family is set for a reunion that will explode family mythologies and finally make Alex take a stand.

Notes:
Palace was commissioned by Playbox and workshopped as well as shown in theatre in the raw in November 1992. Director: Tom Healey, Cast: Scott Brennan, Brian Lipson, Sarah Norris, Genevieve Picot

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Genre:
drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Redemption

Synopsis:
Redemption is a performance for two which subtly explores the complicated nature of commitment to an ideal. The play is set entirely within the restructed space of a confessional where a woman is seeking comfort, solace and reassurance for her act of terrorist and political passion. The confessor, at first theoretically and then theologically, becomes involved in examining his own responses to his ideals and life-stance.

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1st Produced:
Carlton Courthouse, Carlton, VIC    17 Jun 1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/16159

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Victory Girls

Synopsis:
Naomi is an installation artist who has reached a crossroads in her life  her relationship with Peter seems to be going nowhere, and her work has stalled. She is intensely caught up in the drama of her family history  her strongest relationships are with her brother Miles and her enigmatic grandmother Violet  once a music hall artist, now living alone in a flat haunted by the spirit of her dead husband, Naomis grandfather. As Naomi comes closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of her grandfathers life, the family begins to fall apart and the malevolence of her grandfathers spirit begins to be felt in the daylight world. Digging into a past that traces the damage done by two world wars, Naomi uncovers a truth that allows her to move forward with her life  but not without a terrible cost.

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1st Published:
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Genre:
drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Web

Synopsis:
Martin is a demagogue on the rise, a man whose dangerous fascination is matched by an underlying lack of definition. Louise and Lissa, childhood friends, are both in love with him, or in love with the idea of him, or in love with the idea of being in love with him. And then there's Fergus... When is sex politics and when is politics sex? When is fighting for the common good just looking out for yourself? Where does friendship begin and end? Web makes some powerful, thought-provoking observations on how the love/sex/politics dynamic operates, not just in politics, but in all our relationships.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
La Mama Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
drama 80 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/27819

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