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David Atfield

DAVID ATFIELD

  
Nationality:    Australian
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David Atfield received a BA from UNSW in 1986, simultaneously studying acting at Hayes Gordon's Ensemble Studios. He helped form 'Shakespeare Where You Like It', bringing Shakespeare plays to schools, becoming its artistic director in 1990. In 1991 he completed the Directing Course at NIDA. While there he wrote An Honest Communist: The Story Of Meyerhold, which was performed at NIDA with David directing. David moved to Canberra in 1992 to work with Company Skylark, writing and directing plays for them, and later that year formed BITS (A Break In the Silence) Theatre Company. Between 1992 and 2000 he directed 9 productions for BITS including plays by Harold Pinter, Edward Albee and Maurice Maeterlinck and, at the Street Theatre, Furious by Michael Gow andSomething Cloudy, Something Clear by Tennessee Williams. In 1998 David wrote Lovely Louise, about silent film star Louise Lovely, which was accepted into the National Playwrights Conference. He directed a production of it at the Street in 1999. David then wrote Pink Triangles, a play about the Nazi persecution of homosexual men. In 2000 he directed a production of it, again at the Street Theatre. His directing work outside BITS includes: As You Like It on Aspen Island, an opera of The Ghost Sonata, Dial M For Murder at Canberra Rep, and, for the Street Theatre, Ship Of Fools by Andrew Bovell and Blackbird by David Harrower. He won the 1997 Canberra Critics' Circle Award for his direction of Furiousand, in 2009, the Best Production and Direction awards at the Short + Sweet Play Festival. His 2014 production of Scandalous Boy was named one of the top five productions of the year by The Canberra Times and the script was short-listed for the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Playwriting Award, New York

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

         Lovely Louise         Pink Triangles         Scandalous Boy

Lovely Louise

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Pink Triangles

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the persecution of gay and lesbian people by the Nazis.

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Scandalous Boy

Scandalous Boy
In the 21st Century the statue of the Ancient Roman God Antinous comes to life to reclaim his place in history. He is not just the shameless and scandalous boy' that Christian historians dismissed him as, and he's learnt a lot about life standing on his pedestal for 2,000 years. He begins to tell us about his mortal life and conjures up the characters from his story. We discover that, as a boy, he was chosen to be trained as an eromenos, a companion to an older man, and, as he grew into manhood, he survived by selling his body to Roman soldiers. Renowned for his beauty he finds himself, at the age of 16, the lover of none other than the 50-year-old Hadrian, the Emperor of Rome. His life becomes one of great wealth and luxury but he soon realises his continued prosperity is entirely dependent on his youth and beauty, and time is ticking on both. What's more he needs to deal with Sabina, Hadrian's politically manipulative wife, and with Lucius, Hadrian's former lover who jealously guards Hadrian's heart. To make things even more complex, Antinous meets a young man, Marcellus, with whom he falls in love, and Hadrian is falling in love with Antinous. Events begin to spiral out of control, but can Antinous use his intellect, rather than just his beauty, to survive?

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Gay full length

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