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Mary Anne Butler

MARY ANNE BUTLER

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Mary Anne Butler is a playwright who trained as an actor at the Victorian College of the Arts. She has been a peer advisor to the Australia Council's Literature Board, was the inaugural chair of the Varuna Fellowships selection committee, and was awarded a 2010 Bundanon residency for playwriting. Her play 'Broken' won the 2014 NT Literary Awards Browns Mart best script category, and is shortlisted for the 2014 Griffin Award. Her feature screenplay 'Hopetown' won the 2012 NT Literary Awards Birch Carroll and Coyle Screenwriting Award, and 'Dragons' won the 2010 NT Literary Awards Darwin Festival Script Award. Mary Anne's first play 'Half Way There' toured the NT and Queensland in 2009. 'Highway of Lost Hearts' premiered at the 2012 Darwin Festival to a sold out season, with a repeat season in 2013 and a 2014 national ten-week tour funded by Playing Australia. Mary Anne holds a Master of Philosophy [Creative Writing] from the University of Queensland, and a Master of Arts Education [Theatre in Education]. She lives and writes in Darwin.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/255395

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         . . .I Am. . .         Alice In Wonderland         Broken         Button Game, The         Dragons         Drive         Half Way There         Heaven On A Stick         Highway of Lost Hearts         Restless Damned, The         Sound of Waiting, The
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1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic     15 Dec 2007

Organisations:
Short and Sweet 2007 Wildcard

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/76119

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Alice In Wonderland

Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carrolls whirling, fantastical masterpiece is faithfully and beautifully recreated as a non-stop, madcap theatrical adventure for the whole family. This classic kids tale is now an all-new Australian adaptation by multi award-winning playwright Mary Anne Butler.

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1st Produced:
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Australia     05 Jan 2018

Organisations:
Sydney Festival

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  extras (doubling possible)

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Broken

Broken
Midnight. Central desert. A Troop-Carrier rolls through the bush, trapping its sole occupant - Ash - upside-down, inside the car. Ham - a local SES volunteer - comes across the accident. He CBs into Alice for an ambulance and goes into emergency response: cutting Ash loose from the car, stabilising her, administering CPR. . . In a house on a rural block outside Alice Springs, Mia is gripped by grinding stomach cramps; enough to bring a woman to her knees. She's alone way out here, trying to hang on to the tiny life growing inside her. Ash finally gasps her way back to life - broken, but intact. Ham waits for the ambulance to arrive and does what he's trained to do: bandages her bleeding head, splints her broken leg, lights a fire to ward off the night. He keeps her talking, cracks bad jokes, takes her mind off herself. Makes her feel warm, and safe. Mia hangs on to her baby with everything she's got. If her husband were here, he'd know how to help. He's trained for it. But he's not here. And she has no idea where he is. Her body finally makes its own choice, and Mia watches her baby slip out of her - too premature to survive. She crumbles, racked by grief and loss. As a single fraught night unfolds, time shifts on its axis and three worlds collide: from the past to the present, and back again - scattering broken pieces of empty along the way. Broken wrestles with matters of chance, choice, hope and fate. It poses the question: "When you find yourself empty, how do you start again?"

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1st Produced:
Knock-em-Down theatre, Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin     17 Mar 2015

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Genre:
Naturalistic drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/119881

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Button Game, The

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Genre:
Full-Length 60 mins Play/Drama

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Dragons

Synopsis:
Dragons explores the past as one woman, Dora, tries to deny memories she'd rather forget.

Notes:
part of "On The Book: Mary Anne Butler Double Bill"

1st Produced:
[Reading] Wesleyan Church, Darwin, Nt     25 Aug 2010

Organisations:
Darwin Festival 2010

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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/84460

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Drive

Synopsis:
I could just die for some ice cream!

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1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic     03 Dec 2008

Organisations:
Short & Sweet 2008 Top 20 Week 1

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78214

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Half Way There

Synopsis:
Half Way There is a darkly funny play with its roots firmly set in the remote outback of the Northern Territory. Half Way is the half waypoint between here and there, where you can drive for half a day and see nothing. In the middle of this remoteness Harriet and Wes keep a pub ticking over. But there?s something not quite right. There are things unspoken; truths concealed. She's trapped in the landscape; he's got a plan

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1st Produced:
Jute Theatre, Cairns, Qld     05 Aug 2009

Organisations:
Theatre To The Edge

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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/84380

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Heaven On A Stick

Synopsis:
Heaven on a Stick is a brothel. When one of the women who worked there is found bound and weighted in a nearby river there are a number of suspects none of whom have alibis

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Highway of Lost Hearts

Synopsis:
A woman. A dog. A campervan. And 4,500 kms of wide open road. Mot wakes up one morning to find that her heart is missing from her chest. She can breathe; she has a pulse-but she feels. . .nothing. So, she decides to go and look for it. With her Dog enlisted as co-pilot, Mot heads down the Highway of Lost Hearts: into the deepest core of the Australian outback-navigating red dirt landscapes, fire and flood, brittle dry-ness, vast salt lakes, age-old mountains and murky waters filled with lost souls. An allegory for a country that's lost its heart, Highway of Lost Hearts is half gritty road journey, half magic realism and all heart. It leaves you pondering the question: when your heart goes missing, what lengths will you go to, in order to find it again?

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1st Produced:
Darwin Festival     2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Currency press, Australia   

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/104054

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Restless Damned, The

Synopsis:
Caravan" takes us on a colourful journey from the jostling chaos of Mindil markets to the stark loneliness of the night in the outback. From holidays in the dunes to demons in the desert, powerful themes of and dislocation collide with the fun of the carnival and the yearnings of youth. Through it all, there is the sense of the Northern Territory - its vastness; its transience; its laid-back joy of living and its stubborn self-confidence

Notes:
part of "Caravan"

1st Produced:
Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin, Nt     25 May 2005

Organisations:
Darwin Theatre Company Season 2005

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/69661

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Sound of Waiting, The

Synopsis:
The Sound of Waiting is a journey deep into the heart of the essence of a life lived and lost.

Notes:
part of "On The Book: Mary Anne Butler Double Bill"

1st Produced:
[Reading] Wesleyan Church, Darwin, Nt     25 Aug 2010

Organisations:
Darwin Festival 2010

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/84460

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