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Sue Smith

SUE SMITH

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Sue Smith is an experienced screenwriter and script editor. Her credits include the ABC miniseries Bastard Boys, the feature film Peaches and the SBS miniseries RAN, which Sue co-wrote with John Alsop and Alice Addison. Other credits include the telemovies Temptation and The Road From Coorain, and, in partnership with John Alsop, the adaptation of My Brother Jack, the ABC series Bordertown and the multi-award-winning mini-series The Leaving of Liverpool and Brides of Christ. Her first stage play, Thrall, was produced by Tamarama Rock Surfers at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in July 2006.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/413412

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

         Bastard Boys         Brides of Christ         In the Violet Time         Kreutzer Sonata, The         Kryptonite         Machu Picchu         Rembrandt's Wife         Strange Attractor         Thrall         Winter

Bastard Boys

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Brides of Christ

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In the Violet Time

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Set in inner city Sydney in 1931, and narrated by 12-year-old Violet, In the Violet Time tells the story of the Harwich family. Violet's father, Liam, a Balkan immigrant, struggles to find work along the Hungry Mile of the Sydney waterfront. His efforts go unrewarded. When his wife, Lenie, meets Alex, the foreman at Pyrmont, she realises that there is one way she might help Liam find workand, perhaps, restore a modicum of his shattered self-esteem. She enters into a Faustian deal with the dark and damaged Alexshe will grant him her sexual favours if he gives Liam work. When Liam discovers the real reason why he, alone among his neighbours, is working, the family home erupts into violence. The impressionable Violet becomes haunted by dreams and phantoms. Locked into the grinding humiliation of Lenie's contract', Liam seeks some kind of pyrrhic redemption through politics: in association with the newly formed Unemployed Workers Movement, he refuses to pay the rent, and barricades the family house when it is besieged by the police. Violet, meanwhile, through her association with a teenage Chinese fruit-seller, learns her own cruel lessons about loyalty and betrayal. During the siege of her home, she achieves a personal epiphany, only to see her newfound joy robbed in a moment of brutal tragedy.

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1st Produced:
Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre, Woolloomooloo, Nsw     2008

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Tamarama Rock Surfers

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Genre:
naturalistic drama with fantasy elements 90 min

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/71443

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Kreutzer Sonata, The

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from work by Leo Tolstoy

1st Produced:
State Theatre Company Scenic Workshop, Adelaide , Sa     22 Feb 2013

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Adelaide Festival of Arts 2013

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adaptation

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/103226

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Kryptonite

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Kryptonite traces the fortunes of two students at a Sydney university as their careers and relationships intertwine, peak and implode. Dylan is a carefree, charming Aussie bloke and Lian a shy international student. Over the years their paths cross; he has become a politician whose career is solidly in ascendance while she has finally returned to China as a senior executive.

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1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, Nsw     11 Sep 2014

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State Theatre Company of South Australia,

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105578

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Machu Picchu

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Machu Picchu follows Paul and Gabby, two mid-life civil engineers who seem to have it all. After a horrifying car accident, Gabby walks away unscathed but Paul is badly injured and their lives are forever changed. Both are forced to reassess priorities, and re-evaluate long held dreams. They must also fight to maintain their personal connection, and, in many ways, learn not only how to love again, but also how to simply. . .be. Exploring mindfulness, altruism and the challenge of staying true to yourself, Machu Picchu slips back and forth over the history of an ordinary- and extraordinary-love story. Theatrically rich, bluntly human and wickedly humorous, it's a celebration of courage that explodes the belief that bad things only happen to other people. And asks a question: when catastrophe strikes, and the normal clutter of life is stripped away, can something purer and more precious be found?

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1st Produced:
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide     13 Apr 2016

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State Theatre Company of South Australia,

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Play/Drama 120 min

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Rembrandt's Wife

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Rembrandt's Wife explores the tragic relationships of one of the world's greatest painters: the death of his beloved wife Saskia, the madness of his lover Geertje and the haunting visions of his muse to be Hendrijke. A chamber opera, this work will reflect in words and music the light and colour that are the hallmarks of Rembrandt's style.

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1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, Vic     18 Apr 2009

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre

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opera

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80920

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Strange Attractor

Strange Attractor
Deep in Western Australia's mining country, against the blood-red landscape of the Pilbara, a cyclone has wreaked havoc in a remote railway construction camp. Now, a small team of employees anxiously await the arrival of 'the company man', sent up from Perth to do his own investigation before a coronial inquiry. Dog-tired and in search of drink, they do their best to distract themselves, coming together in a makeshift mess hall. But a stormy evening of shared memories soon takes a strange and unexpected turn. . .A gripping, contemporary tale of free-will and responsibility in the face of great temptation. With explosive characters and a wily sense of humour, Strange Attractor is a stunning portrait of small-team camaraderie in a globalised market.

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rehearsed reading Stables theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW (26 Aug 2008)

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, Nsw     23 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australian   978-0868198583

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/82761

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Thrall

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Kalgoorlie. Not a place for the faint hearted. Blinding white heat, blood red earth, infinite blue skies and secret hidden veins of gold. These are not the only hidden secrets. In this ancient and unforgiving land four people's lives collide to tell a story. A woman's body has been discovered in an abandoned mine shaft. It might be Indigo Nolan - a recent arrival to the town who startred work at the infamous Pink House brothel and has disappeared. But it mighy not be her at all. . .

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1st Produced:
Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre, Woolloomooloo, Nsw     03 Aug 2006

Organisations:
Tamarama Rock Surfers

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Genre:
romantic murder mystery

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/69241

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Winter

Winter
Over three years, Australia's new writing theatre, Griffin theatre Company, presented fourteen unique short plays across its mainstage season. Seen for one night only, the fates, Seasons and the Seven Needs were three play cycles provoked by the classical mythology of man's inescapable destiny, the seasonal patterns and Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs. Now , this eclectic and fascinating collection of ten minute plays by some of the country's most established and emerging playwrights becomes Short Circuit.

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/75115

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