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Matt Cameron

MATT CAMERON

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Matt Cameron is a playwright, screenwriter and director based in Melbourne. His plays include Tear from a Glass eye which won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year award and was produced by Playbox in Melbourne and the Gate Theatre in London where he was nominated Most Promising Playwright in the evening Standard awards. the Lighthouse Keeper was produced by Griffin in Sydney, La Boite in Brisbane and won the aNPC/New Dramatists award, which led to a New York production with New York Stage & Film. Footprints on Water won the British Council International New Playwriting award and was produced by his company, Neonheart, for Griffin in Sydney, La Mama in Melbourne and aBC Radio. the eskimo was produced by Neonheart in Melbourne. a short play Whispering Death and the Balloonman, were produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was the co-creator, co-writer and director for the TV series Introducing Gary Petty (for which he won an aWGIe) and Small Tales & True for the Comedy Channel on Foxtel. Other credits include SeaChange for aBC TV.

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

         Art And Soul         Drowning the Eskimo         Eskimo Calling, The         Footprints On Water         Hinterland         Man the Balloon         Mr Melancholy         Pidjin Flamenco         Poor Boy         Requiem         Ruby Moon         Tear From A Glass Eye         Whispering Death

Art And Soul

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Melbourne writers Matt Cameron (Whispering Death), Aidan Fennessy (The Slaughterhouse), Joanna Murray-Smith (Untitled), Tee O'Neill (Homage to Rembrandt), Melissa Reeves (Ray's Painting), Glenn Shea (Masterpiece) and Tom Wright (At Last the Famous Artist is Dead) have each written a short play in response to the same painting: Homage to Rembrandt by Australian artist Garry Shead. The set design recreates the environment of the painting and during the play the characters mirror the composition of the artwork.

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic    18 Nov 2000

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
one act plays

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79761

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Drowning the Eskimo

Synopsis:
a solitary woman and an artist seek true love in the arctic. absurdism, confusion, lust and cannibalism.

Notes:
Commissioned by Griffin theatre Company, Sydney

1st Produced:
Australia    -

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company/City of Melbourne

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Music:
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Eskimo Calling, The

Synopsis:
the model. the photographer. the peddler. the widow. the hunter. In an icy, treacherous wilderness, a small town has lost its entire population of men. Minnie aodla is an object of desire; a fashion model living alone in the polar ice, where she orders household furniture items from a catalogue and seduces the delivery men. they are never seen again. enid dispatches the delivery men and waits for her lost husband to return. a photographer arrives to capture beauty. Pedro, a travelling peddler, ventures into the town to sell bottled emotions to the grieving widows. after another rejection, Pedro volunteers to deliver the last item Minnie has ordered. He sets off for her remote cabin in the ice, like the missing men before him. the eskimo Calling is a macabre and absurdly comic fable of lust, loss and consumerism.

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Footprints On Water

Footprints On Water
Sex. God. Hate. Desire. Floods. Faith. a tale of Noel, his ark, and the people who didn't make it on board. Noel is a boot maker and religious zealot who wills God to wipe out his morally corrupt village. This includes the brothel owner, his foreigner wife, the village idiot she is having an affair with, the prostitute who never has sex and the mad woman who is emptying the river with a bucket. Noel wants to start the world again, with himself as the chosen one. Footprints on Water is a darkly comic modern parable of exile, belief, belonging and judgment.

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Organisations:
La Mama Theatre

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Genre:
2 acts dark comic paable

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hinterland

Synopsis:
Afraid of the dark and plagued by power failure, Henry Quealy is living in the shadow of terror. Returning one day from his job as a door-to-door salesman selling doors, Henry discovers a hitherto hidden portal in the wall of his home. The government declares Henry a shadow of his former self  literally  and he is taken away through the mystery door. Hinterland is a satirical comedy about the divided self and the paranoia of the insular state.

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http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1587   -

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Genre:
Poetic/magic realism 90 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  recorded voices

Further Reference:
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Man the Balloon

Synopsis:
the local balloonman declares the outbreak of an alarming trend: citizens are spontaneously bursting. With its diminishing population, this is a town inhabited by not-quite-together people who are constantly in analysis. elliot, a hapless balloon enthusiast, struggles to uncover the cause of the random implosions and convince everyone they need help before they all disappear. Man the Balloon is a satirical and absurdly comic parable of an insecure, small-minded society unwittingly bent on self-destruction.

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http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1586   -

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Genre:
Poetic/magic realism 90 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  optional doubling

Further Reference:
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Mr Melancholy

Mr Melancholy
Three hermits, living in a lighthouse without a light, discover a runaway circus clown washed ashore.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Stables, Sydney    18 Apr 1995

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
absurd comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Pidjin Flamenco

Synopsis:
The plays are performed by an ensemble cast of five. Each cast member also directs one of the pieces. Silo (Fennessy): An old man recalls a boyhood leap of faith into a rural wheat silo; Requiem (Cameron): A death chamber for the staging of an indifferent man's rebirth; Seven Year Sleep (Theodorakis): A world of genetic breeding where adults put adolescents into deep-sleep to avoid dealing with puberty; Pidgin Flamenco (Dickins): The Eltham Ballroom dancing competition where a couple experience mid-life crisis; Thicker than Water (Saxby): An immortal vampire's restless nights are spent drinking with Zeus and the memory of his long dead wife and daughter.

Notes:
part of Rites of Passage: Silo / Requiem / Seven Year Sleep / Pidjin Flamenco / Thicker Than Water /

1st Produced:
St Martins Youth Arts Centre , South Yarra, Vic    21 Oct 1992

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/16989

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Poor Boy

Poor Boy
Jeremy Glass is an untroubled little boy until his seventh birthday, when he suddenly announces that he is really a grown man called Danny, who died some years before. How can his parents indulge his conviction that he must find his real family? and how can his eerie insistence on his true identity not resurrect painful memories for Danny's widow? With songs from Tim Finn adding expressionistic commentary on the action, Matt Cameron's Poor Boy delivers a supernatural story steeped in loss, anguish and redemption.

Notes:
by Matt Cameron And Tim Finn

1st Produced:
Sumner Theatre, Melbourne    2009

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia >>>    978-0-86819-850-7

Music:
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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  including 1 boy

Further Reference:
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Requiem

Synopsis:
The plays are performed by an ensemble cast of five. Each cast member also directs one of the pieces. Silo (Fennessy): An old man recalls a boyhood leap of faith into a rural wheat silo; Requiem (Cameron): A death chamber for the staging of an indifferent man's rebirth; Seven Year Sleep (Theodorakis): A world of genetic breeding where adults put adolescents into deep-sleep to avoid dealing with puberty; Pidgin Flamenco (Dickins): The Eltham Ballroom dancing competition where a couple experience mid-life crisis; Thicker than Water (Saxby): An immortal vampire's restless nights are spent drinking with Zeus and the memory of his long dead wife and daughter.

Notes:
part of Rites of Passage

1st Produced:
St Martins Youth Arts Centre, South Yarra, Vic    21 Oct 1992

Organisations:
Chameleon Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
short pieces

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/16989

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Ruby Moon

Ruby Moon
Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother who lives at the end of the street. She never arrives

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia, Sep 2005   978-0868197746

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Tear From A Glass Eye

Tear From A Glass Eye
an absurd tale of random fate, the inevitable crash and human debris, where the search is on for a black box to account for just what went wrong.

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1st Published:
Paddington, N.S.W. : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, 1998   978-0868195599

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Whispering Death

Synopsis:
On his last day, an old man - any man, every man - walks the streets - any streets, all streets - in search of the point of his existence. Zed is a filing clerk. He has just been retired and is faced with an empty day. He encounters emotions in human guises (and in alphabetical order) that have been long filed away. Whispering Death is an absurd burlesque journey of self-discovery and impending mortality.

Notes:
Melbourne writers Matt Cameron (Whispering Death), Aidan Fennessy (the Slaughterhouse), Joanna Murray-Smith (Untitled), Tee O'Neill (Homage to Rembrandt), Melissa Reeves (Ray's Painting), Glenn Shea (Masterpiece) and Tom Wright (At Last the Famous Artist is Dead) have each written a short play in response to the same painting: Homage to Rembrandt by Australian artist Garry Shead. the set design recreates the environment of the painting and during the play the characters mirror the composition of the artwork. event titled Art and Soul.

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre (Aust)    18 Nov 2000

Organisations:
Commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company in 2000

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
(20-25 minutes) One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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