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Benedict Andrews

BENEDICT ANDREWS

  (1972 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    RGM Artist Group  represented by Annabelle Sheehan. UK representative Judy Daish Associates Ltd

Benedict Andrews is one of the most sought after Australian Theatre directors of his generation. Dividing his time between Sydney and Berlin, he is a regular guest at the Sydney Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir, and the Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz. He is known for startling adaptations of works from the classical repertoire alongside plays by contemporary Dramatists such as Marius von Mayenburg, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, and Caryl Churchill. His marathon adaptation of the Shakespeare's history plays, the War of the Roses, was the theatrical highlight of the 2009 Sydney Festival. In 2009, this production received six Helpmann awards including Best Play and Best Direction of a Play, as well as five Sydney Theatre awards for Best Direction and Best Mainstage Production.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/2043

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

         Every Breath         Geronimo         Gloria         Life Is A Dream         Like A Sun         Maids, The         Seagull, The         Stars, The         Three Sisters

Every Breath

Every Breath
a family under threat - from what, we don't know - hires a young security guard, Chris. He spends long hours, day and night, by the pool, watching. One by one, in their private universes of plate glass and good food, each family member is drawn to Chris. a dangerous game of fantasy and privilege begins. every Breath is an extraordinary debut written by a theatre-maker at the top of his game. Darkly funny, sweetly eerie, and strangely familiar, this is about what happens when prosperity gives us the licence to see the world as we want to see it.

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Organisations:
Belvoir

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/10441

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Geronimo

Geronimo
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1st Published:
The White Review, No 10, April 2014
Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783199457

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gloria

Gloria
Gloria is on the brink of making her triumphant return to the stage. A celebrated actor  a star, a celebrity  shes played every iconic role in the canon of theatrical greats: Nina, Hedda, Hamlet, Clytemnestra. Shes burnt into our eyes, our heart, our imaginations. Playing the real-life survivor of a sadistic crime, Gloria must immerse herself in the horror of her characters reality. As Gloria falls further into the abyss, the unravelling of her mind is reflected by the breakdown of order around her. Through Gloria, we see a portrait of Australia afraid to acknowledge the widening gap.

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1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW     26 Aug 2016

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783199457

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/118234

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Life Is A Dream

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca. 1634 play, freely adapted by Benedict Andrews and Beatrix Christian.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/23322

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Like A Sun

Like A Sun
a sprawling epic about an alpha-male and the collapse of his world

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783199457

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  extras 1b 1g

Further Reference:
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Maids, The

Synopsis:
Two maids, Claire (Cate Blanchett) and Solange (Isabelle Huppert) indulge in sexual fantasies, taking turns playing the role of their mistress (Elizabeth Debicki) who has enslaved them. Both maids dream of freedom but do either of them have the nerve to actually kill their mistress when she returns? The Maids is an adaptation by Andrew Upton and Benedict Andrews of the 1947 play by Jean Genet which is loosely based on a real life murder, carried out by maids. Genet was quite the devious individual himself. He was made a ward of the state before he was one year old and became a thief and prostitute during his early adult life. Jean-Paul Sartre read one of his first novels, and lobbied for his release from life in prison, declaring him a thug of genius. So began Genet's career as a writer. The Maids is both a piece of absurdist theatre and a psychological character study. This house is the maids' life. They know the outside world only in shadowy fragments. They are simultaneously grateful for the kindness of their mistress and repulsed by the way she has enslaved them .

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Genet. Translated by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay     04 Jun 2013

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Seagull, The

Seagull, The
In a letter to his friend alexei Suvorin, in 1895, Chekhov wrote that he was working on a new play: "a comedy - three females, six males, four acts, a landscape (a view of a lake), much conversation about literature, little action, and five tons of love." the Seagull is Chekhov's extraordinary gathering of a group of bruised and incandescent dreamers who cannot, no matter how they try, get what they want. It is also one of the masterpieces of theatre about theatre; an exploration of how telling stories and coining symbols interacts with life. Benedict andrews' adaptation brilliantly reawakens the spirit of Chekhov's great play. Set in a world which is at once Russia then and Australia now, this new version is charged with all the good faith and natural poetry of Chekhov's original.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Organisations:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Stars, The

Stars, The
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783199457

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Three Sisters

Three Sisters
In a remote Russian town, Olga, Masha and Irina yearn for the adrenaline rush of life in Moscow - but their plans go nowhere. Disaster, deception, meaningless self-sacrifice - in Chekhov's heartbreaking masterpiece, each new twist of fate sees the sisters' control over their destiny slip away. In a new version of a well known Chekhov play, by this visionary young director Benedict Andrews

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. version by Benedict Andrews from literal translation by Helen Rappaport

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     07 May 2001

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849435031

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2630

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