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Marcel Dorney

MARCEL DORNEY

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown (Australia)Pty Ltd  

Marcel Dorney is a writer, director and performer. He was born in Brisbane, graduated from the University of Queensland, and currently practices in Melbourne. His work includes commissions by Queensland Theatre Company, Merrigong Theatre Company, Hothouse Theatre, La Boite, Brisbane Powerhouse, Backbone Youth Theatre, and Melbourne's Next Wave Festival, and has been published by Playlab Press. Marcel is a co-founder of Melbourne-based performance company elbow Room, who have received multiple awards for their work in several cities since 2008, including Best Performance at the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival for after all This. Marcel's play New Royal also received two Matilda awards in 2006, including Best New Work. Marcel has been as associate writer of Griffin Theatre and the Restaged Histories Project, as well as Melbourne's Red Stitch actors' Theatre. He received a 2002 BCC Lord Mayor's Performing Arts Fellowship to study with the Maly Theatre in St Petersburg, RussiA. He is currently completing a Masters by Research in Directing through the VCa at the University of Melbourne, as part of which his most recent play, Kassandra, was produced in May. Charcoal Creek, commissioned by Merrigong Theatre Company, will be produced in 2012.

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         Fractions         Harriers         Hypatia         If you think the system's working         Kassandra         Knowing Of Mary Poppins, The         New Royal         Omon Ra         Prehistoric         Thieves Like Us         Thousand And Flag

Fractions

Fractions
In Fifth Century alexandria, egypt  alexander the Great's namesake city  has ambitions to be the most powerful in the world. and knowledge is power. the great Library of alexandria houses the collected wisdom of the world  science, mathematics, astronomy and literature. One of its greatest scholars and inventors is Hypatia  a woman ahead of her time in a man's world. She's revered for her devotion to the search for knowledge. But the power politicking of one man, Kyril, starts a holy war in the city, which threatens to destroy the great library. Hypatia must find a way to protect it  and prevent civilization from sliding into the Dark ages. This thrilling play is based on the real-life events of one of history's most remarkable unsung heroines.

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Winner of the 2010 Queensland Premier's Drama Award

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Genre:
historical play 150 min

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Harriers

Synopsis:
the world of child soldiers

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Hypatia

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Hypatia the last librarian at the Great Library of alexandria

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If you think the system's working

Synopsis:
Four plays about Centrelink

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written by kara Beavis, Marcel Dorney, Shari Irwin, Robert kronk and Robert Mullins

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Queensland, Qld    06 Jun 2001

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short comedy

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/4001

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Kassandra

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University Of Melbourne    May 2011

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Knowing Of Mary Poppins, The

Synopsis:
the story of P L Travers and her most famous creation Mary Poppins

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Written by Marcel Dorney, Leah Mercer, Margi-Brown Ash, Stace Callaghan And Carol Schmidt

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New Royal

Synopsis:
an aspiring designer gatecrashes the opening of a new Arts Centre - and it changes her life

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received two Matilda Awards in 2006, including Best New Work.

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Black comedy

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Omon Ra

Synopsis:
Omon has always wanted to be an astronaut - to be a great heroic figure. When he gets the opportunity to be one he discovers that heroism has nothing to do with it

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Based on the book by Viktor Pelevin

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Restaged History Project

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Adaptation

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Prehistoric

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Brisbane in the later 1970s and the clashes between young people attending independent rock gigs and the police

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Elbow Room

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Thieves Like Us

Synopsis:
Someone's hacked into an important US Government computer system - but who? and why? as Shannon, Robert and his Mum play cat and mouse with an American government agent, some big questions get asked. Can you ever really own an idea? Can the immense power and reach of global corporations ever be a match for personal integrity and the strength of friendship? Source: Illawarra Performing Arts Centre website, http://www.ipac.org.au/ - Information extracted from austLit: http://www.austlit.edu.au

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Merrigong Theatre Co @ Ipac At Bruce Gordon Theatre, Wollongong    2008

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thriller

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Thousand And Flag

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