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CHRISTIE NIEMAN
Nationality: Australian
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Christie Nieman's play Call Me Komachi had an extended sell-out season at Melbournes fortyfivedownstairs to critical acclaim and received a Green-Room Award nomination for Most Innovative Drama. She has had plays produced by Polyglot, Shopfront Theatre, and Lemon Tart Productions, and playscripts and fiction supported by the Australia Council, Theatre Works, and Playworks. Her fiction has been featured in Text and in Pan Macmillans Just Between Us: Australian Writers Tell the Truth about Female Friendship. She has held writers residencies with the Australian National Playwrights Centre and the Asialink Literature Program, the latter at Japans Nanzan University in Nagoya where she was writer-in-residence and a faculty research fellow. She has recently completed a young adult novel about teenage grief and an endangered Australian bird.
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Call Me KomachiCall Me Komachi
Synopsis:
Kinu, a young and innocent high school girl, has moved to the city, started at a new school and made a new friend, Reika. Reika, a young and not so innocent high school girl, has money to burn, and Kinus innocence is at stake when she discovers that Reika makes her cash through enjo kosaia sponsored relationship with an older businessman. But Kinus innocence may be the thing that saves them both. A contemporary teenage Geisha, Satoyuki, is disillusioned with the increasing emptiness, tourism and ignorance surrounding her profession. Her romantic fantasy of the pleasure quarters of the 1900s transports us to the actual life of a 1900s Geiko, where we find that the romantic fantasy does not match the reality. The suffocating restrictions and intense powerlessness that the poetic Mameyoshi experiences after she allows herself to become emotionally attached to her danna breaks first her heart, then her body, her unborn child and, finally, her mind.
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4 monologues written for 1 performer. Could be perfomed by more than one
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Monodrama 55 min
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