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Therese Radic

THERESE RADIC  (1935 - )

 Nationality:    Australian
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therese Radic is currently an Associate Professor and Hon.Principal Research Fellow in the Faculty of the VCA and Music at the University of Melbourne and has been an Australian Research Council Fellow at Monash University as well as a member of the Australia Council. She has published several biographies of Australian musicians including Melba, Heinze and Marshall-Hall, two on Australian folk music, edited diaries, contributed to dictionaries and encyclopaedias of music, reviewed Theatre books, film scripts,novels and music for major newspapers and journals, written innumerable articles for music journals on Australian subjects as well as chapters for other people's books including autobiography, and has been a consultant for major events, film and television, as well as a radio commentator. She has sat on far too many committees. Her plays include: Some of My Best Friends are Women (with L.Radic); 40Watt; Sisters-in-Law; A Whip Reound for Percy Grainger; Cinders; MAdame Mao; A Committed Adultery; Talking Back; Marvellous Melba; Peach Melba; the Emperor Regrets; Long March to New Gold Mountain; Book talk; Shanghai Sisters; George and the Dragon; and Cafe Scheherazade.

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         40 Watt         Booktalk         Cafe Scheherazade         Cinders         Committed Adultery, A         Emperor Regrets, The         George And the Dragon         Long March To New Gold Mountain         Madame Mao         Marvellous Melba         Peach Melba         Shanghai Sisters         Sisters-in-Law         Some Of My Best Friends Are Women         Talking Back         Whip Round For Percy Grainger, A

40 Watt

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Public reading, PraMFActory, Melbourne    1977

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Booktalk

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1st Performed by the Melbourne Writers' theatre As founder-guest commission in the 1995 'Squib Fest@

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Carlton Courthouse Theatre, Melbourne    1995

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Cafe Scheherazade

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In St Kilda there was once the legendary Cafe Scheherazade run by Avram and Masha Zeleznikow, a haven for Jewish refugees in the Melbourne of the 1960s. This play picks up on the stories told by its clientele to a journalist come to write an article about the cafe but who stays to write a book. In the process he finds a wall of distrust and fear which he finally penetrates to discover the hidden stories of his subjects, their urge to speak out one last time as they face death and the closure of the cafe, and their struggles to ensure they are telling thim the truth. Memories betray them, friendships unravel, nostalgia overcomes them. In the face of it all it is their courage and their honesty that inspires the writer to follow them into the world of the immigrant and the terrors of their pasts.

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This play is based on the best seller novel of the same name by Arnold Zable. the first 3 week season was sold out And A second 3 week season will begin on 20th August this year. Ozscripts will shortly publish it on the web.

1st Produced:
45dpwnstairs Flinders Lane Melbourne    08 Mar 2011

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45downstairs Flinders Lane Melbourne

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Australian Script Centre   -

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Play/Drama 90 min

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  2 Klesmer musicians

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Cinders

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Public workshop production by the Melbourne Writers' theatre    1985

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Committed Adultery, A

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written 1988

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Public reading by Theatre Works, Melbourne    1992

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Emperor Regrets, The

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Subject: Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-

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Directed by Barrie Kosky, founder of Gilgul, the first Australian Jewish theatre. Starring Anthony Wong (Matrix) As the Emperor Hirohito. Published by Currency Press in their Current theatre Series 1992. Queensland University of Technology production 9-13

1st Produced:
the Merlyn Theatre in the Malthouse Theatre Complex, Melbourne    1992

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Playbox Theatre Company

1st Published:
Paddington, NSW : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre of Monash University, 1992   086-8193437 ((pbk)

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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George And the Dragon

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Assisted by Playbox theatre Co. development grant from Playbox Acquitted 2003. Short listed, one of five for the Asialink Australian Asian Playwriting Competition 2003. Workshop-reading by Playbox, Melbourne, 11 May 2004 with Lewis Fiander, Will Gluth, Pa

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Workshop-reading by Playbox, Melbourne    2004

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Long March To New Gold Mountain

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In progress. A Creative Development Grant from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council enabled research for this play to be undertaken in China in 1989.

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Madame Mao

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Directed by Robert Draffin. First English production Liverpool Playhouse 1990, directed by Peter Oyston. starring Tsai Chin. First production in America, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, by theatre Nepean in the inaugural International theatre Trainin

1st Produced:
Playbox Theatre Company with Circus Oz, Melbourne    1986

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Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company Melbourne, 1986   086-8191531

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  5 players

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Marvellous Melba

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Commissioned by the Performing Arts Museum, Melbourne, in conjunction with A Melba exhibition running for three months in 1987 At the Museum. Directed by George Fairfax. Peter Caroll As one of the voices.

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Performing Arts Museum, Melbourne    1987

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Genre:
Audio-visual play for voices

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Peach Melba

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Sub-titled Melba's Last Farewell. Commissioned by singer-actress Helen Noonan (with grants from the Australia Council, the Victorian Ministry for the Arts And the Melbourne theatre Company.) First produced by the Playbox theatre Company, Melbourne, 1990,

1st Produced:
Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne    1990

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Currency Press in the Current Theatre Series, 1990   -

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Shanghai Sisters

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Assisted by Playbox theatre Co.development grant 1997. Workshop, Playbox theatre Co. Melbourne, Workshop-reading 13-14 April 2000, co-ordinated by Aubery Meller And with Will Gluth, Catherine Wilkin, Vicki Eagger And Mary Sitarenos. Short listed, one of 1

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Workshop-reading by Playbox, Melbourne    2000

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Sisters-in-Law

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adapted fro radio 1987

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Some Of My Best Friends Are Women

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an anthology of writings, speeches, songs and documents by or about Australian women

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written by therese And Leonard Radic. Subsequent productions: Breadline theatre Company, Hobart 1984; Flinders University (Drama Discipline) November 1984; Sienna College, Adelaide 1987; Wavel High School, Nundah, Queensland September 1991

1st Produced:
Melbourne Theatre Company    1976

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Yackandandah Playscripts, 1983   -

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia

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Talking Back

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Radio Play

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Whip Round For Percy Grainger, A

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Previous public readings: Nimrod theatre Company,Sydney 1980; PraMFActory, Melbourne 1980 And 1981.

1st Produced:
Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne    1982

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1st Published:
Yackandandah Playscripts (now revised), 1984   -

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