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Finegan Kruckemeyer

FINEGAN KRUCKEMEYER

  (1981 - )

Nationality:    Australian
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Finegan has had 74 commissioned plays performed on five continents and translated into five languages, and was an inaugural recipient of the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. This year twelve works (including six premieres) are presented worldwide, with seasons in Australia, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, and throughout the United States. In Germany, he is represented by Rowohlt Agency. To date, Finegan's plays have had seasons in: over 70 international festivals; five IPAY North American showcases; all Australian states/territories; six US national tours; five UK national tours; and at the Sydney Opera House (six works), Ireland's Dublin Theatre Festival (two works), Scotland's Imaginate Festival (two works), Shanghai's Malan Flower Theatre, New York's New Victory Theater (three works) and NYU, and DC's Kennedy Center for the Arts (in the prestigious New Visions New Voices programme). As well as the 2011 Fellowship, Finegan and his work have received (among others) three Australian Writers Guild (AWGIE) Awards, two 2015 Tasmanian Theatre Awards (inc. an honorary award for Exceptional Writing), five 2014 Blue Room Awards (inc. Best Production and Audience Choice), the 2012 Helpmann Award for Children's Theatre, 2010 Rodney Seaborn Award, 2009 Mystate Young Tasmanian Artist Award, 2008 Best Children's Theatre Playwright Oscart, 2007 Best Playwright Oscart, 2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights Award, and 2002 Colin Thiele Scholarship. Finegan was Keynote Speaker at the 2013 One Theatre World North American TYA conference (USA), and has spoken at conferences/festivals in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Denmark, England, Scotland, Sweden and the US, with papers published. He was one of 21 selected worldwide for the ASSITEJ Next Generation (young leaders in children's theatre), and sits on the the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, and Arts Tasmania's Assistance to Individuals, Tasmanian Literary Awards, and Artsbridge panels. He was formerly a member of the Australian Script Centre board, among others. Finegan was born in Ireland, and came to Adelaide, Australia at eight. In 2004, he moved with his wife Essie to Hobart, Tasmania, from which he now writes for national/international companies. He is committed to making strong and respectful work for children, which acknowledges them as astute audience members outside the plays, and worthy subjects within. His son Moses was born in September.

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        Andrew Corder Thinks Twice         At Sea, Staring Up         Bastien Und Bastienne (Adapted Recitativo)         Big Smoke         Boats         Books And Bites         Boy at the Edge of Everything, The         Boy With the Longest Shadow, The         Boys Will Be Boys         Company I Keep, The         Con Artists         Dancing Back Home         Dinner         Drums In the Night (Translation)         Escape From Peligro Island         Falling Room And the Flying Room, The         Four On A Couch         Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly, The         Grumpiest Boy in the World         Heartburn Hotel (Adaptation)         Helena And the Journey Of the Hello         Hip-Hop Monologues, The         Holey Book, The         House That Jack Filled, The         Human Geography         If I Jumped, I'd Fly         If Only the Lonely Were Home         I'll Show You Yours (Formerly: South Of the Border)         Love         Man Covets Bird         Minister's Children, The         Moving Mountains         My Heart is a Hall         My Mother Told Me Not To Stare         Night Places         Plays For My Girlfriend         Positions Vacant         Queen Of the Snakepit         Ruby Bruise         Ruby Bruised         Shadow Dreams         She Beside Me, Sitting         She Would Walk the Sky         Simon's Final Sound         Smackbeth         Snapshot         Suzette Who Set to Sea         This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing         This Much Of Me         This Uncharted Hour         Tough Beauty         Tragical Life Of Cheeseboy, The         Trouble On Planet Earth         Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You, he         We're All Going To Die Of Cancer Anyway         When the Penny Drops         When the Pictures Came         When We Lived In Uncle's Hat         Wolf



Andrew Corder Thinks Twice

Synopsis:
This man is andrew Corder. He doesn't own a car. He speaks some words of a second language, and hates the fact he used to know a lot more. He has deceptively strong arms, and walks to work the same way every day. andrew Corder does not think about Palestine every day. This morning, however, he does. 'a complex work that sparkles with a humorous nihilism and takes us directly into the white man's burden: choosing to connect with human suffering or to simply drink wine. . . Kruckemeyer's script is assured and a real treat' - the Mercury

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1st Produced:
Bac Kspace Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania    2010

Organisations:
Tasmanian Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adult theatre

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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At Sea, Staring Up

At Sea, Staring Up
Emma the Greek will sail the seas alone to save her father; Noah will search for his wife who flew off a bridge; elise will fight the dragons snapping at her heels as she drives each night to lull her baby to sleep; Caleb, a curious misfit, will swim vast oceans to prove his love for Sylvia Wist.; Sylvia Wist can climb up waterfalls and jump time and space. She may not be ordinary but then neither is love. At Sea, Staring Up is a richly poetic magical relationship drama that follows the journeys of five characters all motivated by love. Set over three continents and one vast ocean this richly poetic, thought provoking play weaves together a world of people who have lost, or are looking for love.

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1st Produced:
Jute Theatre, Cairns    09 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Jute Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Avant Garde

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  with doubling

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Bastien Und Bastienne (Adapted Recitativo)

Synopsis:
a newly adapted recitativo, for Mozart's first opera. Written when he was twelve, it is a look at the conflict between country and city ideals, in the context of a young love affair. Bastienne pines for her sweetheart Bastien, who has left for the city where he has been seduced by the glamour of both the bright lights and a wealthy lady. She complains to Colas, a magician, who advises her to arouse Bastien's jealousy, driving him to the brink of suicide. Following a lover's quarrel the two finally discard their pretences and reaffirm their mutual love for each other. 'This is a completely charming, whimsical, wonderful little gem. . . devised with a completely fresh view and witty new english dialogue' - Southern Times Messenger.

Notes:
Voted 'Best Opera' in the 2006 Lightyear Awards, And 'Best Double Bill' At the 2006 South Australian Oscarts. Adapted recitativo from the original by Mozart.

1st Produced:
The Opera Studio, South Australia    2006

Organisations:
Commissioned by the State Opera of South Australia

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-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Opera

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Big Smoke

Synopsis:
Jimmy and Bethany live side by side on a street, under a bridge, in the middle of a giant city. When school is cancelled for the day, the pair has to go to work with Bethany's dad. Which is fine - unless Bethany has another one of her great ideas, and borrows dad's briefcase, and then gets it stolen, and has to make her way across the whole city and through rush hour and up the side of a building. and of course Jimmy refuses to join her. . . But of course he's coming along anyway.

Notes:
Tour: Regional South Australia. Inspired by discussion with hundreds of schoolchildren in the Riverland region, About their ideas of the city.

1st Produced:
The Renmark Institute, South Australia    2010

Organisations:
Commissioned by Riverland Youth Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's theatre (6+)

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Boats

Synopsis:
In Jof's life at sea, he would lose three boats, tie a million knots and make one amazing friend. Jof is born on the waves, in a crow's nest. From the youngest age, he finds he possesses the sailor's craft, of knot tying. When a huge storm destroys the boat and leaves his parents working in a circus, Jof returns to the sea, learning from the greatest fisherman of all, Okinawa Yukio. Upon Yukio's death, he leaves everything to his pupil. But sometimes boats don't want to be given, and Jof is shipwrecked again, on an island with poor Nicholas, who has lived on land but dreamt of the sea. With his new friend, Jof begins the journey home, using knots to solve problems, songs to lift spirits, and a message in a bottle to remind him of the beautiful harpist, eliza Turk. 'a zephyr of pure originality and lyricism flows through this work and one feels the hand of writer Finegan Kruckemeyer' - the advertiser

Notes:
2012 Helpmann Award - Best Production for Children. 2013 Shanghai International Children's Festival Award - Most Excellent Show. 2008 Tasmanian tour. 2009 Come Out Children's Festival And Wooden Boat Festivals. 2010 Victorian tour. 2011 Australian, Irish, New Zealand And US tours. 2012 German translation and seasons. 2013 Chinese translation and seasons, US tour. 2014 Tasmanian tour.

1st Produced:
Goulburn St Primary School, Hobart, Tasmania    2008

Organisations:
Terrapin Puppet Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's theatre (5-12): Magical Realism

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Books And Bites

Synopsis:
a live theatrical game show, developed especially for Come Out 09's literature program, Books and Bites divides the audience and popular children's authors into two teams to battle it out for ultimate victory. With an MC leading the teams through a series of readings, games, quizzes and challenges based on selected children's books written by the team of authors, the only question left to answer is. . . Whose team will you be on?

Notes:
Feature work of Come Out 2009, Australia's largest children's theatre festival.

1st Produced:
Dunstan Playhouse, South Australia    2009

Organisations:
Come Out Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's Interactive Game Show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  Famous children's writers as guests

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Boy at the Edge of Everything, The

Synopsis:
In the middle of his over-scheduled 12-year-old life, Simon Ives dreams of a place where he can just stop and think. Meanwhile, at the farthest point of the universe, The Boy at the Edge of Everything lives by himself, lonely and bored. When Simon is rocketed into space (through an unlikely series of events involving "lots and lots of fireworks"), their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same. 'The Boy at the Edge of Everything has a canny, witty way of reflecting on worlds unknown, and day-to-day adolescent routines. At a matinee performance, a tween-age crowd listened up for every wisecrack and reflection in Kruckemeyer's snappy yet sincere dialogue' - Seattle Times

Notes:
Developed at DC's Kennedy Centre for the Arts DC (New Visions New Voices), New York's New Victory Theatre, Cleveland's Playhouse Square and San Diego's La Jolla Theater (DNA Series). 2014 NOVA season, Billings MT.

1st Produced:
Seattle Childrens Theatre, Usa    06 Mar 2014

Organisations:
Trusty Sidekick Theatre Company and Seattle Childrens Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Family

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Boy With the Longest Shadow, The

Synopsis:
adam and atticus Brown have known each other since. . . forever. Since they sat in a belly together and waited to be born. and twins are all supposed to be the same. . . but they never are. When they wake in the morning, adam's hair is nice and ready for the day, but atticus' looks flat and stupid. When they catch the bus to school, adam sits up the back with the older kids, and atticus carries the books. When atticus goes to say something clever to a girl, adam always says it first, and better. and when they stand in the sun together, even though they're just the same height, even though they have been for every minute of their lives, adam always seems to cast the longest shadow. But atticus has a plan to change all that. . .

Notes:
2012 and 2013 Tasmanian tours. 2013 German translation and seasons. 2014 German and Australian seasons. Please note: Adam and Atticus are identical twins, and can be played by either one actor or two.

1st Produced:
Friend's School, Hobart    2011

Organisations:
Commissioned by Tasmanian Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's theatre (7-12)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Boys Will Be Boys

Synopsis:
Seven 12-year-old boys are followed over the course of a week as they prepare for the end-of-primary-school dance. Knowing that they are on the cusp of a new life of high school and adolescence, they discuss the roles men play, their relationship with fathers present and absent, facial hair, football and girls. When you start becoming a man, what's the boy supposed to do?

Notes:
Winner of the Australian Government's $20,000 'Outstanding National Achievement in School Improvement Award'. Developed with A group of twelve year old boys in the Riverland, And performed by this ensemble.

1st Produced:
Chaffey Theatre, Riverland, South Australia    2003

Organisations:
Commissioned by Riverland Youth Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Childrens' theatre (10-12)

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Company I Keep, The

Synopsis:
the Company I Keep takes on many forms. at a doorstep, ten people arrive and prepare for a first date. at a sink, a Father teaches a son how to shave. On a bench, two people sit and leave it for us to know who they are, to each other. there are people with and without disabilities, just as there are people with and without brothers, or wives, or dancing partners, or company - the company I lack, and the company I keep: What you will know about me, is who I know. Who I am, is who I am to them. 'a sheer joy to experience. From tentative inclinations to sweeping gestures of passion, the exploration of human relationships takes on many forms. a strong and confidently performed work' - Write Response

Notes:
Second echo is An integrated ensemble founded by Finegan And six original members, And made up of people with And without intellectual disabilities. It is supported by the Tasmanian theatre Company And Cosmos Recreational Services.

1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania    2010

Organisations:
Second echo ensemble

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Integrated dance theatre

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Con Artists

Synopsis:
Max and Millie are the orphaned children of the greatest con artist that ever lived, Maximilian Montague Morris. When they are caught stealing a gold watch in London, the pair finds themselves on a convict ship bound for Van Diemens Land, a prison colony at the end of the earth. Sent to opposite ends of the island and forced to work for the awful Guard Grisholm, all the pair can rely on, are their cons. Using various disguises, trickery, sneakery and pokery, follow the brave pair's exploits as they overcome cannibals, invent the Tasmanian Tiger, rescue poor Clumsy Jane, and eventually discover that what lies at the end of so much badness, may be more than they ever dreamed. 'the play is part fairytale, part neo-Dickensian epic, written with skill and a spirit of lightness' - the Mercury

Notes:
Terrapin's major schools touring work for 2007.

1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Tasmania    2007

Organisations:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's theatre (5-12): Magical realism

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dancing Back Home

Synopsis:
Six outback stories uniting artists from Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. all revolve around the commanding central figure of a tree - it is at various times an anchor, a sentinel and a signpost pointing the way. 'the writing is intelligent, dark and humorous, and sucks the audience into a world unlike what most, we hope, experience at home. It's life, but with a very dark twist'. Cairns Post

Notes:
Dancing Back Home was A performance comprised of six scripts by different writers. This playwright's play was entitled 'a Suit That's Been Cut Just For You'.

1st Produced:
Jute Theatre, Cairns, Queensland    2010

Organisations:
Commissioned by JUTe Theatre and Mudlark Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adult theatre

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dinner

Synopsis:
Libby and Tom are going to dinner at Helen's. Helen is the new boss. She likes Libby's novelty. Libby is blind. Tom wants to protect her. So he hits her on the head. Dinner explores the nastiness behind the social niceties, the power play behind the political correctness. It's dinner - mind your manners.

Notes:
Selected As part of the Gorge '03 season, with subsequent productions by Melbourne And Tasmanian companies.

1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, For Gorge '03    2003

Organisations:
Commissioned by the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Drums In the Night (Translation)

Synopsis:
Written by Brecht when he was 24, and translated by me at the same age, Drums in the Night is 'a blistering and beautiful parable that says much about a world at war with terror'. With anna Balicke's love Kragler having left to fight in WWI five years earlier, her industrialist parents have decided the time has come for her to find a new suitor, namely the well-placed businessman Murk. But on the evening of her begrudging engagement, who should return but the poor soldier thought dead by all. With a Spartacist uprising brewing in the background, and the Schnapps flowing in the fore, the stage is set for all kinds of rebellion. 'a recent translation by Kruckemeyer might return this early work to prominence. Brecht and Kruckemeyer prove ideal collaborators for the Gang. . . a masterful adaptation of the play'. Jeff Favre, Daily Breeze, Los Angeles.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Brecht estate-approved translation. Selected As the opening work of the 2005 State theatre of South Australia season. Produced by the Actors' Gang in Los Angeles, USA, for A three month season 2006/7. Winner of the 2005 Adelaide theatre Guide 'Curtain Call Award for Best Show'.

1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Festival Centre, South Australia    2005

Organisations:
Commissioned by Brink Productions, for the 2005 State Theatre of South Australia season. Dir: Chris Drummond.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Escape From Peligro Island

Synopsis:
everything was normal on your flight over the ocean. . . until the plane went down and you crashed on an unknown island! Now there are vampires, time machines and superpowers to deal with, and any decision could mean life or death. the hardest part? It's the audience who decides! With your very own hand-held controller, you'll be steering the play. But think carefully before you make a choice - or you might end up on the island. . . forever! 'every bit the sort of classic story-telling of adventure comics and annuals of yore, complete with cliff-hanger scene endings' - the advertiser

Notes:
Premiered in the 2011 Come Out Children's Festival. 2012 Sydney Opera House And Melbourne Arts Centre. 2014 Argentinean season. Note: While the original production had a cast of 3, the play is a choose-your-own-adventure with myriad stories and 100 characters - as such, any cast size is fine.

1st Produced:
Forge Theatre, Marryatville, South Australia    2011

Organisations:
Windmill Theatre/the Border Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's theatre (8+)

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Falling Room And the Flying Room, The

Synopsis:
Samuel Paxton has to share a house with his very moody family. and he hates it. So he heads out to the shed, which is full of all the electrical things his family has ever broken and thrown away - and he knows how those things feel. . . So Samuel starts fixing. But there is boring fixing, where you make a thing be able to do what it did before. and there is magic fixing, where you make a thing better than it ever was. . . 'Pitched mainly at primary school kids, Kruckemeyer's funny, intelligent script keys straight into their capacity for slipping effortlessly in and out of make-believe mode. . . This exceptionally innovative show never loses sight of the power of a strong story, imaginatively told' - the Mercury

Notes:
Terrapin's major schools touring work for 2009. 2009 Tasmanian tour, 2011 Victorian tour.

1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Hobart, Tasmania    2009

Organisations:
Terrapin Puppet Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's theatre (8+)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Four On A Couch

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Rhino Room, South Australia    2000

Organisations:
Adelaide University Theatre Guild

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly, The

Synopsis:
This is the story of Peggy. and the packing. and the blizzard. and the boat. Peggy O'Hegarty and her parents were packers. each day someone would call with a job and a time. 'I want 17 foxes in boxes by breakfast', said the caller and all of the packers said: 'fine'. But one day the phone it forgot to keep ringing. and then all the boxes forgot to need stuffing. and then poor old Peggy, she forgot to keep singing. and she opened the curtains and found outside. . . nothing. Because all of the people in her city were gone. So Peggy went out to explore. . . 'Kruckemeyer has written an adventure fantasy rooted in domestic reality, like a daydream born beneath a dining room table. . . the entire show hums with nimble, exploratory intelligence, captivating attentions and keeping pace with restless imaginations; a story of ingenious packers that always boxes clever' - the Irish Times.

Notes:
2010 Irish nat. tour, Dublin Theatre Festival season (first children's play ever selected for the prestigious ReViewed programme). 2011 European festival tour. 2012 Cork Festival and Southbank (UK) season. 2013 US nat. tour. 2014 Australian nat. tour. 2015 English nat. tour.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the ark, a Cultural Centre for Children, and Theatre Lovett

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's theatre (7+)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Grumpiest Boy in the World

Synopsis:
Grumpy 7 year-old Zachary, is fed up with feeling average and journeys into a surreal and entrancing world to discover what makes him special. A host of hilarious characters combine with international award winning writer Finegan Kruckemeyers trademark sharp dialogue in this unique twist on an adventure tale. Alternately hilarious and deeply moving, audiences both young and old will love joining the furious Zachary in his desperate quest to discover difference.

Notes:
2012 US development as part of New York University (NYU) Plays for Young Audiences series. 2013 Pegasus Theatre, Oxford premiere. 2013 English national tour.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Paper Balloon

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Heartburn Hotel (Adaptation)

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-

Notes:
Terrapin's major schools touring work for 2006. Inspired by Jennifer Davidson's original.

1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania    2006

Organisations:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre

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-   -

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-

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Helena And the Journey Of the Hello

Synopsis:
When Helena Bugosi was eight, her mother went to live inside a phone. and when she was nine, her Father went into the forest and befriended the foxes. and when she was ten, he got into a small boat and went out to sea, leaving her to sing songs by the side of the road. these are not bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are for your parents to tell you. these are morning time stories. and they are the best ones. This story begins. . . now. 'This compendium of great yarn spinning, horseplay and mock-opera is a winner' - the Mercury

Notes:
2009 Tasmanian tour, 2010 Sydney Opera House season, 2011 Australian national seasons

1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania    2008

Organisations:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

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-

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Children's theatre (7+): magical realism

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Hip-Hop Monologues, The

Synopsis:
Written and performed entirely in hip-hop, this work voiced young peoples' attitude towards life, both in and out of juvenile prisons. Through interviews and workshops, I wrote and recorded hip-hop pieces with young men and women in a juvenile detention facility. the same process was then entered into with young, multicultural rappers, b-boys, b-girls, and singers who were not detained, resulting in a live performance. the subsequent work toured high schools, creating a dialogue between people of the same generation, who live in remarkably different worlds. 'Hip Hop Monologues is raw performance art made by and for those who don't get the chance to speak out much' - dB Magazine.

Notes:
Commissioned work by the Australian Festival for Young People, for the 2005 Come Out Festival. Refunded for A second season in 2007.

1st Produced:
Magill Youth Centre, For The 2005 Come Out Festival.    2005

Organisations:
Commissioned by the Come Out Festival

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-   -

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-

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Hip-Hop, Monologues

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Holey Book, The

Synopsis:
the Holey Book' is a series of partial scripts, alluding to a larger narrative but only giving clues as to what this might be, and whom it might contain - a few lines or stage directions from each scene dotted across an entire play. On the night of each performance, both audience and actors receive the text for the first time. and after a short read, the show begins - the actors (aided by a director on side stage) take the structural and narrative offerings and craft full stories from them.

Notes:
Partially written by Finegan Kruckemeyer. Completed by whoever performs the work in each season.

1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart    2012

Organisations:
Rowan Harris' Imprognosis, assisted by Salamanca Arts Centre

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-   -

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-

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Improvised theatre

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House That Jack Filled, The

Synopsis:
Jack McNally's Hotel has thirteen rooms each one is occupied by some sort of eccentric. Lionel O'Brien and his son Little Lionel talk about nothing but trains. Mr Truro plays the spoons. Mrs Chelsea is old and doddery. Then there are the Italian twins and Melanie who dreams of the sea and Jack who dreams of Melanie

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-    -

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-

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Monlogue play

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Human Geography

Synopsis:
This city, like every city, is about geography - human geography. It's about where these humans are placed, and the effect this has on others. Where do they meet and where do they miss? Where does it matter? and through the middle of Wagga, weaving amongst the human geography, there flows a river. and for a long time it's been quiet - the water hasn't intruded. and the people have become seeds in a dry place, silent and patient, waiting. But on this day, a storm has arrived. and the river has filled, and the seeds are dampened and awoken. their husks break, their senses are shocked into action, and en masse, they come to life. they cease their silence. they grow and threaten to intrude upon one another, humans forgetting their geography. . . and between them all - carried on the water, sent on a journey over many miles - there rides the body of a man.

Notes:
Written for, And developed with, CSU's third year Acting students, this is A work with 23 equal roles.

1st Produced:
Riverina Playhouse, Wagga Wagga    2011

Organisations:
Commissioned by Charles Sturt University

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-   -

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-

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adult theatre

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If I Jumped, I'd Fly

Synopsis:
That moment of launching: It is the caterpillar coming out of the cocoon and discovering it has wings. It's the first fish stepping out of the water and taking a breath of something new. It's the old man looking back at his child self, and the tree remembering its beginnings as a seed. It is what we could all do, if we forgot the impossibility of it. 'there were no tricks, but a burning sincerity of purpose and a profundity in the very simplicity of what was going on. In a word it was a very moving show, and when I joined in the frenzied applause, one of my cheeks was wet. How annoying' - the Mercury

Notes:
Festivals: 2006 Amalgamation Festival, Tasmania And 2007 Awakenings Festival, Victoria. Tour: 2009 Tasmanian statewide tour. Second echo is An integrated ensemble founded by Finegan And six original members, And made up of people with And without intellectual disabilities. It is supported by the Tasmanian theatre Company And Cosmos Recreational Services.

1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania    2006

Organisations:
Second echo ensemble

1st Published:
-   -

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-

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Integrated dance theatre

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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If Only the Lonely Were Home

Synopsis:
the Lonely hasn't been seen for a long time. His house stands quiet, on the furthest edge of town. He won't come out. So everyone brings to his doorstep the things they love - a photo of the wind, a song you sing in cars, a feeling of ferris wheels, some lightning in a jar. the Lonely is ignoring them all. But one girl stands at his door and won't go away. . . 'the Tasmanian writer has a quirky, audacious, wonderfully unfettered way of looking at life that is fully in tune with children's thinking. His verbal imagery is delectable. . . a tale with charm, humour and real feeling' - the Stage

Notes:
2009 English national tour, 2013 University of Northern Carolina USA, 2013 Kambala High School Australia

1st Produced:
York Theatre Royal, York, England    2009

Organisations:
Tutti Frutti

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

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-

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I'll Show You Yours (Formerly: South Of the Border)

I'll Show You Yours (Formerly: South Of the Border)
If you're single, you chase it. If you've got it, you're constantly analysing it. If you don't analyse it. . . that's something nice.' Nine teenagers stand on a baseball diamond. Some are on first base, some have gone all the way home. But when the game finishes, the feelings remain. I'll Show You Yours sidesteps the familiar territory of teenage lust and reminds something equally sought after, but far more dangerous. Love.

Notes:
Selected As A touring work for the 2004 Adelaide Fringe Festival YeP Programme. Developed with young men And women, who then performed the work.

1st Produced:
The Arts Centre, South Australia, For The 2004 Adelaide Fringe Festival    2004

Organisations:
Commissioned by Southern Youth Theatre ensemble

1st Published:
Playlab Press   978-1921390036

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-

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Love

Synopsis:
Oslo Rogers has a very fun mum called Ruthy, and lives in a very fun town called Mellingong. But now a very unfun problem (called a big approaching storm) is forcing everyone to head for the Clondike, the big town hall on the hill. and they can only take a few important things each - 'love luggage', Ruthy calls it. But the thing is, Oslo's mum is a milk-lady, and owns a milk-float, and those can hold heaps of 'love luggage'. . . if you pack them right. So Oslo sets out to help the people of Mellingong, and to find out the things they love most, the things you would save from a storm. 'Love is an amazingly multi-layered piece of visual theatre. It could even be one of those rare shows that burn brightly forever in the memories of the young children who are lucky enough to see it, for there is much here that is memorable' - Write Response

Notes:
2011 Theatre Royal, Hobart, and Burnie Arts Centre. 2012 Hurricane Sandy benefit season, New York USA (Trusty Sidekick). 2014 US national tour, including many festivals.

1st Produced:
Hobart Theatre Royal    2011

Organisations:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre

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-   -

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-

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Children's theatre (5-12)

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  6 (currently a two-hander)

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Man Covets Bird

Synopsis:
a boy wakes to finds he has grown. He recognises the stranger in the mirror, but his parents, his town do not. Outside his childhood bedroom he finds a bird that cannot fly and together the strangers embark on adventures. This is the story about their journey to the big city, what they find there, what they join in and what they make themselves. a story about flying from nests, birdsong, the nature of man and wild things and growing up. 'Finegan Kruckemeyer's poetic script is like a beautiful children's book, a treasured bedtime story with illustrations which come to life before our eyes. . . another truly magical, moving, all-encompassing world which is a mysterious as its title and enchants young and old alike' - the advertiser

Notes:
Recipient of the 2010 Best New Work Ruby Award, And the 2010 Best Show (Comedy) Adelaide theatre Guide Award. 2010 Adelaide Festival of Arts premiere season. 2012 Sydney Opera House And Melbourne Arts Centre seasons.

1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, For The 2010 Adelaide Festival    2010

Organisations:
Slingsby

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Minister's Children, The

Synopsis:
I watch this woman. and I recognise her. and it strikes me as mad. We're two normal-looking tired adults, about to hit fifty, couple of kids each, nothing to notice if you weren't looking for it. But we've both been there. We've both gone through a couple of the worst childhoods you could have. I bet we both have the same kind of nightmares, and the same reaction when we walk into small rooms, and the same scars on our bodies. I bet she had the same problems with getting naked for her partners as an adult. I bet she's not religious. I bet she holds her kids too tight when she hugs them, and I bet she hasn't told them why. and either of us could blend so easily into any crowd, but if we saw each other for a second, we could probably read the last forty years of each other's lives. and I wonder how many of us there are, how many thousands of people sitting in parks, or working in offices. That's all I'm left with, after seeing her - what are the numbers? Who else knows? Just how many of us are there?'

Notes:
a study of Abuse in care: Created As A response to An intensive six month media Analysis, And personal guardianship stories.

1st Produced:
Part Of 2005 National Child Protection Week.    2005

Organisations:
Commissioned by Budgie Lung Productions

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-   -

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-

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Biographical tragedy

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Moving Mountains

Synopsis:
every story has a hero. This one is a mountain. Over the 70 million years of Tasmania's existence, things have moved upon our shores - but not just the plants and animals. Right now the face of Mount Wellington is, ever so slowly, heading west. an entire mountain, migrating. Things have always moved this way, and the weather has moved with it. But now the climate is changing, faster than we, or our mountain, or the animals and plants that live around it, can deal with. In the rising seas, on the changing mountain, and upon the currents of antarctic air blowing to us - Tasmania's flora and fauna is feeling the heat. and our species is feeling it too. an exploration of what was, what is, and what can be. . . In a derelict wharf on Hobart's harbour, the Mountain Festival's feature work involved schoolchildren, dancers, musicians, puppeteers and professional actors, as they told the story of climate change and what it is doing to Mount Wellington - created from discussions with scientists and artists.

Notes:
Feature work of the 2008 Mountain Festival.

1st Produced:
Princes Wharf, Hobart, Tasmania    2008

Organisations:
the Mountain Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Community theatre

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Male:  5-25            Female:  5-25            Other:  -

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My Heart is a Hall

Synopsis:
A show told in word and movement, inspired by the stories we remember, and the community halls that remember us.??At the heart of every town, there sits a building - where your grandparents danced and your footy team celebrated. People kissed in that hall, and danced in that hall, and went off to war, and moved to big cities, but the hall stayed. They came back, and the hall was still there. Because a heart keeps beating, and my heart - my town's heart - it's a hall. 'Kruckemeyer's voice as a writer is quintessentially Australian, sublimely poetic, and universally heartfelt. It crosses generations, time, experience. It is a story that runs through us, because it is the story of place. Our place. We recognise it immediately. Myth, storytelling, theatre and poetry weave together like a dream that imprints and stays with us' - Write Response

Notes:
2014 Tasmanian statewide tour, which went to various community halls and sought to evoke the stories of each building performed in.

1st Produced:
Stompin    Mar 2014

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Community Theatre/Dance Theatre

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Ensemble performance - any number

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My Mother Told Me Not To Stare

Synopsis:
a deliciously dark operetta for curious children and their grown ups. Have you ever done things your parents told you not to do? Have you swallowed the pips of an apple and waited for a tree to grow in your belly? Have you made a face when the wind changed? Or turned your back on the sea? In Bobby Rogers' town everyone lives very normal lives. But Bobby has noticed that a child who was there one minute is gone the next. So he digs a hole through the earth, all the way to kangaroos and upsidedownness. and he may have stayed forever there, but vanishing kids does not seem fair, and there is nothing so fun as a grudge to bear, so one day Bobby Rogers returns to Upper Crumble to settle the score. . . 'Brave, innovative and breaking new ground with a disturbing, high-pitched Benjamin Britten-style Gothic opera. . . This should be the production, which gains theatre Hullabaloo and action Transport some international accolades' - the Northern echo

Notes:
Composd by Martyn Harry. 2010 English national tour. 2012 English national tour.

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Organisations:
Theatre Hullabaloo and action transport Theatre

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-   -

Music:
-

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90 min dark operetta Youth audience

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Night Places

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Produced by the ATYP, As A means of Accessing isolated young people on Tasmania's West Coast. Developed with, And performed by, this ensemble, touring regionally.

1st Produced:
Zeehan Town Hall, West Coast, Tasmania    2004

Organisations:
Commissioned by the Australian Theatre for Young People

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Teenage Drama

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Plays For My Girlfriend

Synopsis:
Nine women, from very different walks of life, present a monologue each. 'Kruckemeyer's sin is the beauty of his prose. He demonstrates his immense promise in this collage of Dramatised expressions' - the advertiser

Notes:
Selected As part of the 2002 Festival of One, An Annual one Act play season.

1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, For The 2002 Festival Of One.    2002

Organisations:
Festival of One

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Varied: monologues One act

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Positions Vacant

Synopsis:
a group of teenagers are caught in limbo. they've finished school and want to work, but jobs are scarce and the dole just seems easier. Written in hip-hop, Positions Vacant is an ode to the 'jobless masses, a mixed-up molasses of fellas and lasses. No time to be passive, let's get off our asses and head for our homes, 'cos tomorrow who knows, but I'm ironing my clothes and finding repose. . .'

Notes:
Developed with young men And women in Whyalla, regional Sa, And performed by this ensemble.

1st Produced:
Middlebac K Theatre, Whyalla, South Australia    2003

Organisations:
D Faces Theatre of Youth

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Teenage Drama/Hip-Hop

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Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  10

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Queen Of the Snakepit

Synopsis:
Queen of the Snakepit is a theatrical collage of Flinders Island, and the women who have shaped it. "the men go out to sea each day. and their life is tough, but at least they have that. It's the women who stay. and sometimes it's hard to see a thing from the inside. So you send them away - you send them away, not forever, just so they can look back". This is one woman's reflections on those who have come before her: Myrtle and her cats, the girl Rosie standing at the window, and the matriarch Queenie, sitting in the back of the bar, in the Snakepit, there where the wind won't touch her. In here, the bar is always open, and there's a secret waiting at the bottom of every glass. 'Through the sketches of these women's stories, we get to experience the fragility and wonder of this island life. . . a powerful impression stayed with me long after the show' - the Mercury

Notes:
Selected As part of the international 2007 Ten Days on the Island Festival. Inspired by the biographical reminiscences of Cheryl Wheatley, A fourth generation Flinders Islander, And the original performer of All the play's characters.

1st Produced:
Bac Kspace Theatre, Ten Days On The Island Festival, Tasmania    2007

Organisations:
Commissioned by Is Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Biographical Drama

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Ruby Bruise

Synopsis:
Ruby Bruise is magic, superheroic, invincible: she can read others' thoughts, outrun her own reflection and see through walls. a lush landscape of madness, laughter, revelation, heartache and body fluids, this new work by the Misery Children examines one woman examining herself. Sometimes, when there are no bruises to show your life's journey, you make your own. 'Written with shades of dark and light, Kruckemeyer explores into a deeper darkness than your children's stories aught, as in the dark the pains and heartaches of Ruby's life are lain out before us. But in the light, if you look around at the faces of your fellow audience members, you look into the faces of pure unadulterated joy'. Australian Stage Online

Notes:
Named Best Play of 2010 on No Plain Jane. Devised with Daisy Brown. Any number of Actors can perform the work.

1st Produced:
Riverside Theatre, Port Adelaide    2010

Organisations:
Co-produced by the Misery Children and Vitalstatistix

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Ruby Bruised

Synopsis:
Ruby was magic. at aged 4, she discovered she spoke twelve languages. Her favourite game was to ring people in other countries, and find out what their hobbies were. . . at 12, Ruby found she could clone herself as she saw fit. In her first school photo, she took up eight of the twenty-one seats. . . Ruby Bruised could see through walls. By the time she was 16, she had seen her parents have sex over a thousand times. . . at 18, Ruby discovered jealousy and decided she wanted what everyone else had. For one day in June, she possessed all the world's sickness. . . at 22, Ruby found a magic lamp, and rubbed it. the genie that came out saw her and all her power - and he told her what he wished for. . . at 27, Ruby Bruised completed the life-long construction of a metal skin, borne from an early desire to protect an aching heart. On its debut wearing, her boyfriend dumped her. By the following morning, her cheeks had rusted. . . at 30, Ruby Bruised lost her reflection. No one noticed. . . at 34, Ruby Bruise told herself the truth - and all her powers were gone. . .. . . Come meet Ruby.

Notes:
Devised with director Daisy Brown, Sarah Johns And third year performing Arts students, who performed the work. Ruby Bruised has become the inspiration for A new work being developed for 2009.

1st Produced:
Ait Arts, South Australia    2004

Organisations:
Commissioned by aIT Arts

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Shadow Dreams

Synopsis:
Dale has one life, living on a hill in the bush. Pete has another, living on a hill in the city. Both boys are eleven. One boy is Aboriginal. Both have a best friend. One has a scooter. Both keep their hands down in class, because they never know what to say. One fishes, one sails. Both sleep, both dream. This story is about what happens when two boys, in two different parts of Australia, go to bed one night and accidentally have each other's dreams. It's about waking up with pictures of someone else's life, in your head. It's about the adventures this can lead to. Two boys. Two cultures. Two sleep. One dream. 'The concept of theatre as a group of performers onstage has been blasted out the window. . . Parents and children flocked to the theatre to see the show, along with the big kids at heart. Very special. . . This is a fantastic performance' - The Advocate, Launceston

Notes:
Using the National Broadband high-speed internet Network, the show premiered in two cities at the same time, with half the actors and musicians in each, communicating 'through' giant screens. Included stories of Tasmanian Aboriginal people, and was supported by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Elders Council, with indigenous content dramaturged by Fiona Hamilton.

1st Produced:
Conservatorium Of Music, Hobart, And Earl Arts Centre, Launceston    May 2013

Organisations:
Terrapin Puppet Theatre/Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Family

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She Beside Me, Sitting

Synopsis:
A woman waits calmly in a car. A man arrives, nervous. Their first meeting and furtive conversation belies something illicit and titillating. And at the point of what seems to be the certainty of new love, it becomes apparent that this is something else entirely, something dark.

Notes:
Ten-minute play performed in a car, with three audience members sitting in the back seat. Part of 'The Car Plays', an event within La Jolla Theater's WOW Festival.

1st Produced:
The Car Plays, Wow Festival, La Jolla Theater, Usa    Aug 2013

Organisations:
La Jolla Theater, San Diego USA

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-   -

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Adult

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She Would Walk the Sky

Synopsis:
Open up a clock, you will find cogs. Open up the world (the way we work, the things we do, the tides that rise and fall) and you will find them. A birdlike troupe who perch on wires, and fall from heights, and ruffle feathers, and walk on hands - who challenge gravity so we don't have to. Theirs are the tricks that keep our time. But when a bird takes flight, a trick is missed, a cog goes missing, then things they start to crumble. Our clocks begin to stop. A show of disbelief, of gasps and subtle grandeur, She Would Walk The Sky is an epic poem told in grand circus, raw sound and sparse word. 'This dreamlike flight of fancy, framed within the brick and metal once industrial space of the Powerhouse, is sure to delight. . . Visually engaging, graceful and frenetic theatre that blends the best of circus, music and prose - Australian Stage Online

Notes:
Commissioned as a new work for the 2014 World Theatre Festival. 2014 Circus Fest (Roundhouse theatre, London). Future seasons in Brazil and Russia.

1st Produced:
World Theatre Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse    Feb 2014

Organisations:
Lady Torpedo and Brisbane Powerhouse

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-   -

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-

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Circus Theatre

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  Potential for any number to perform

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Simon's Final Sound

Synopsis:
Simon is going deaf, and longs to visit an island of childhood memory where music abounds, and needs a boat. Michael has a bank job, and a wife who dislikes him, and a strange man who's going deaf and is asking for a loan because he longs to visit an island, and needs a boat. Ginny has a husband that she doesn't dislike, but that she just doesn't feel surprised by anymore. Until he surprises her - by teaming up with a strange man who's going deaf and longs to visit an island, and needs a boat. Claude is an idiot - he has a boat. 'Bravado, anarchy and loads of laughs. . . Audiences have been rewarded with some of the most riotously comedic moments you are likely to experience in the theatre' - The Mercury, Hobart

Notes:
2015 national regional tour.

1st Produced:
Theatre Royal Backspace, Hobart    Dec 2013

Organisations:
Blue Cow Productions

1st Published:
-   -

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-

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Adult Comedy

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Smackbeth

Synopsis:
We know their actions, their regicide, their infamy. But it is in watching the events behind closed doors - when it is only a man and a woman, slowly growing apart - that we meet them as a couple. Smackbeth explores the domestic breakdown that is the impetus for a king's death, an unraveling which can only end with two people laid bare. 'Playing theatrical games with Shakespeare can be disastrous, but this play works very well, with beautiful writing, and some very funny and clever exchanges of dialogue' - Leader Messenger

Notes:
Selected As part of the 2005 Festival of One season.

1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, South Australia, For The 2005 Festival Of One    2005

Organisations:
Commissioned by Queenbitchery

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-   -

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-

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Black Comedy

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Snapshot

Synopsis:
Combining six works by three playwrights and two animators, Snapshot looks at the effect the war on terror and its rhetoric of fear is having on suburban Australia.

Notes:
Part of the international 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Commended: 'Best ensemble Performance' At the Fringe Awards.

1st Produced:
The Foundry, Victoria, For The 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival    2005

Organisations:
Sleeping Dog Productions

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-   -

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-

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Black comedy

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Suzette Who Set to Sea

Synopsis:
In a small seaside village where men build boats and women do not, young Suzette knows she is different - she longs for the sea and believes she is meant for something greater than just a life on land. So when a mysterious event occurs, Suzette is forced to do that most difficult thing - prove herself worthy of her destiny. Loading her loved ones onto a boat she has secretly built, Suzette, she sets to sea. What follows is an adventurous, imaginative tale exploring courage, community and the possibility that sometimes it only takes the actions of a single person to change everything.

Notes:
Commissioned as the La Jolla's 2014 POP Tour. Over eight weeks, performed throughout San Diego schools to 20,000 children.

1st Produced:
La Jolla Theater, San Diego Usa    Jan 2014

Organisations:
La Jolla Theater, San Diego

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-   -

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-

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Children's Theatre

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This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing

Synopsis:
Triplet sisters are left in the middle of a forest by their woodcutter father. From this fairytale beginning, three resolutions are made - one sister will walk one way, one the other, and the third will stay right where she is. Twenty years later, having circumnavigated the globe, fought battles, crossed oceans, tamed wilds, braved horrors and achieved greatness, they meet again as women. 'the quality of the text and the parable about growing up, drawn on the three different paths, calls without didacticism to a deep thought about diversity of people and circumstances, about confrontation and tolerance. and about the permanence of affection' - La Nacion, Buenos aires

Notes:
Winner: 2010 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award. Finalist: 2012 Australian Writers Guild Best Work for Children. 2010 premiere, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2011 ASSITEJ World Children's Theatre Festival reading, Denmark. 2011 University of Pittsburgh, USA. 2012 Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2012 Imaginate Festival reading, Scotland. 2012 Australian national tour. 2012 Lakes High School, USA. 2013 Pennsylvanian state tour, USA. 2013 Western Australian tour. 2014 Theaterhaus Frankfurt, Germany. Studied in various American Universities and the subject of papers.

1st Produced:
Campo Salles Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina    2011

Organisations:
amarGinados Grupo Teatral

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-   -

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-

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theatre for Young audiences (8+)

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This Much Of Me

Synopsis:
I would show you this much of me - when I want to impress you. When I want to frustrate you. When I feel I trust you. We are constantly choosing how much we want to give away, unveiling too much, or too little. Cold in jumpers, outside in a kitchen, alone with a group, ten performers play a game of show and tell. 'In this latest work, [the ensemble] has reached a new level of maturity. . . With satisfying complexity, the work is tight yet fresh. . . there is also a great deal of honesty and integrity in this piece' - the Mercury

Notes:
Tour: Tasmanian statewide tour. Second echo is An integrated ensemble founded by Finegan And six original members, And made up of people with And without intellectual disabilities. It is supported by the Tasmanian theatre Company And Cosmos Recreational Services.

1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania    2008

Organisations:
Second echo ensemble

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-   -

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-

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Integrated dance theatre

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This Uncharted Hour

Synopsis:
Luka is going to get coffee, when he hits and kills a dog. Trying to find its owner, he catches the eye of an unknown woman. and suddenly he is remembering his mother, and the looks she gave, and the brother that came before him, who was gone before him, who he should have been. and now he is driving back to the family house. . . 'Intriguing and affecting theatre. . . Lingers like a disconcerting but instructive dream' - the Australian

Notes:
Winner of the 2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights' Award, And the 2007 Best Playwright Oscart. 2007 premiere in the State theatre of South Australia season (Brink Productions). 2011 Hobart theatre Royal season (Tasmania Performs).

1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Festival Centre, State Theatre Company Of South Australia Season    2007

Organisations:
Commissioned by Brink Productions

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/: the Collection 7, 2008   -

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-

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Tragedy

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Tough Beauty

Synopsis:
There's the girl who's new. There's the quiet girl. There's the girl with no boyfriend. And the one with too many. There's the girl who looks different, the girl who's asking for it. And there's the girl who's just. . . just looking at me wrong. She doesn't even know she is - but she is. And then there's me. The girl who's scared of nothing. The girl they say rumours about. Like the time she put Stef Chamber's head through the screen door, or the time she got caught carrying a knife, or the time a massive year 12 hit her in the mouth, and the blood ran between her teeth, and she just smiled. She smiled like it was just someone saying hello. And then she said hello back. 'Tough Beauty deals with a heavy, but important issue, teen girl violence. . . The play is not preachy, and it certainly doesn't come at you with a message, agenda or stance. It merely presents the story of these girls and attempts to show why they are the way they are' - Dinner and a Show, Sydney

Notes:
2014 Monkey Baa subscription season, Darling Wharf, Sydney NSW. Written in consultation with teenagers at Sir Joseph Banks HS.

1st Produced:
Casula Powerhouse, Sydney Nsw    Aug 2013

Organisations:
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

1st Published:
-   -

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-

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Genre:
Teen Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  Various characters via multimedia

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Tragical Life Of Cheeseboy, The

Synopsis:
a beautiful, dark and funny theatre show. Inside a magical traveling theatre tent, discover a storyteller who shares an enchanting and timeless tale. Cheeseboy's home planet has been reduced to a bubbling fondue. Where are his parents? How did he become marooned on earth? and where has the tide gone? Edward Scissorhands meets Oedipus and the Little Prince. 'the Tragical Life of Cheeseboy (*****) is so achingly magical and charming, so full of whimsicality and merry eccentricity that when the reality of Cheeseboy's situation begins to strike home. . .those with iron self-control will just swallow very hard. the rest of us will try to forage quietly for a hankie. . . a marvel of exquisite theatre-craft' - the Herald, Scotland.

Notes:
Winner of the 2009 Australian Writers' Guild (aWGIe) Award for Best Children's Play in Australia. Winner of the 2008 Best Children's theatre Playwright Oscart. Has toured for four years, to four continents And eleven major festivals. Conceived by Andy Packer.

1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia    2008

Organisations:
Commissioned by Slingsby

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Children's theatre (10+): magical realism Youth audience

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Trouble On Planet Earth

Synopsis:
a choose your own path show, the audience votes its way through innumerable scenarios and genres. Jane Douglas is the eighth in a long line of Douglas women to leave the familial farm and go it alone. But before long you (for you are now her) find yourself in a car accident, a man's briefcase your only point of reference, but your memory gone. Do you: Go to the nearby phonebox and call a half-remembered number; head into the forest and break open the case; or flag down the car that is approaching? With hundreds of scenes through which to pass, your every decision is crucial. 'Four and a half stars out of five. . . it is, in fact, incredibly cool. . . Because the play has 24 possible endings, more than 60 possible characters. . . and a myriad of possible plot twists based on the audience's decisions, you can see it more than once and enjoy it all over again. Fresh, slick, modern and so sharp it could have your eye out' - Petra Starke, the Messenger Review

Notes:
Written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, devised with/conceived by the Border Project. Winner of the Ruby Award for Innovation, the Adelaide Critics Circle Award for Innovation, the Advertiser Fringe Award And the Bank Sa Support Act Fringe Award in 2008.

1st Produced:
Crumpet Theatre, Fringe Factory, 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival    2008

Organisations:
Commissioned by the Border Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Many: depending on audience choice

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Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You, he

Synopsis:
It started around the time he turned 16. Everyone and everything started grating on Connor's nerves. His mum, his dad, his teachers, even his best mate. Lately he just can't help picking fights, slamming doors and flipping desks. Then his parents decide to dump him alone in a forest for a week. As unpredictable as Connor himself, The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You tackles the ticking time bomb of teenagerdom. Behind its sly and smart-arsed exterior is a searching exploration of adolescent anger, bound to strike a dissonant chord with anyone who's ever caught a whiff of teen spirit. 'Pitched at an audience around Connor's age, Kruckemeyer's play explores teen angst in a way that is funny without being patronising, and serious without seeming earnest. Connor's imperviousness to adult reasoning is made to seem both ridiculous and righteous' - Eight Nights a Week

Notes:
2013 premiere, Riverside Theatre, Sydney. 2014 Griffin Theatre subscription season.

1st Produced:
Riverside Theatre, Sydney Nsw    Nov 2013

Organisations:
Siren Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Teen Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1 or 2            Other:  Potential for less doubling, more roles

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We're All Going To Die Of Cancer Anyway

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Part of the 2000 Open Space programme.

1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, For The Open Space Season.    2000

Organisations:
Fish Kiss Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Black Comedy

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When the Penny Drops

Synopsis:
an exploration of gambling addiction among 18-24 year olds. 'engaging, funny, yet hauntingly intelligent understanding of a destructive cycle' - dB Magazine.

Notes:
Part of the international 2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Selected As one of the Top 20 of the Fringe by the Adelaide Advertiser, And one of dB Magazine's Top 10 for the year.

1st Produced:
Carclew Ballroom, For The 2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival.    2002

Organisations:
Commissioned by Urban Myth

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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When the Pictures Came

Synopsis:
Four people sit in four rooms and try to make themselves better: the opera singer wants to sing louder; the strongman wants to be stronger; the martial artist wants to be more artful; and the kid wants to play with them all. But one day two deliverymen arrive. and in their arms is a box. and in the box is a machine. and in the machine. . . are the pictures. When the pictures came, they sucked in stories, and secrets, and four characters with no idea what they were in for - they spat out revelations, and magics, and impossibilities. Now the pictures are here, tastes can be heard, sounds can be seen, heads will roll (literally), and shadows abandon their bodies. Now the pictures are here, once upon a times will happen twice, and happy ever afters be gone in the blink of an eye.

Notes:
a co-production between Chinese, Australian And English companies. 2010 Chinese premiere. 2011 Australian Ten Days on the Island And Come Out Festivals.

1st Produced:
Malan Flower Theatre, Shanghai, China    2010

Organisations:
Commissioned by Terrapin Puppet Theatre and the Childrens' art Theatre of China

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Children's theatre (8+)

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When We Lived In Uncle's Hat

Synopsis:
This is a play about how walls don't make a house, and doors don't make a house. It's a play about how a family makes a house. and it doesn't matter where you live - whether it's an up house or a down house, or an outhouse or a townhouse - who you live with is the important bit. 'aimed at children, while being smart and strange enough to please adult audiences. . . Kruckemeyer's adaptation captures the innocence of the source material. But it's far from sugary, there's also moments of sadness and loss as their travels unfold. . . Great fun. the hour's running time just rockets past'. the Stage, england

Notes:
2010 English national tour. Adapted from the children's book by Peter Stamm And illustrated by Jutta Bauer. Set to be Adapted As An iPhone Application.

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Organisations:
Commissioned by Tutti Frutti Productions (Leeds, england)

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-   -

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-

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Children's theatre (5-9)

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Wolf

Synopsis:
If we don't confront our fears, will they come and get us anyway? Our hero finds herself falling from her waking life into a dense forest; the stuff of fairy tales and horror films. alone, afraid, she senses something is circling in the deep dark. Is it as bad as she imagines? Or worse? If she can outrun it, she'll never find out what she was fleeing from. . . 'Right up there with the very best. . . the school children who formed most of the large audience were held spellbound, like everyone else, and the applause was loud, long, and absolutely genuine' - the advertiser

Notes:
Premiered in the 2009 Come Out Festival, Australia's largest children's theatre festival. 2011 Sydney Opera House season. Written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, devised by Slingsby.

1st Produced:
Come Out Festival, Mount Gambier, South Australia    2009

Organisations:
Slingsby

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's theatre (10+)

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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