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Chris Aronsten

CHRIS ARONSTEN  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Chris Aronsten is a graduate of the AFTRS (BA, Screenwriting) and the NIDA playwriting studio. His short film, Call Waiting , won the Best Screenplay Award at the 1998 British Short Film Festival. His television credits include Going Home (SBS) David Tench Tonight (Ten) and Comedy Inc.  The Late Shift (Nine). Between 2005 and 2007 Chris wrote a satirical advice column for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2005, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research writers' theatres in the UK, Ireland and the USA. In 2006, his play Human Resources was staged at the Darlinghurst Theatre (Siren Theatre Co, directed by Kate Gaul) and was shortlisted for both the Premier's Literary Award and the Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award. Human Resources was also staged at the Dog Theatre, Footscray in 2009.

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

 Human Resources         Lunch Hour, The         Malice Toward None

Human Resources

Synopsis:
Human Resources is a three-part look at the psychology, graft and sexual politics of working in an office. In Dave's Lunchtime Dos and Don'ts, Steven revels in his easy manipulation of a lonely, sexually frustrated, wealthy older man - until his plan goes horribly wrong. In Brian Meets His Match, a pack of office workers all use the same internet dating service. Their obsessive rules of engagement are challenged by the arrival of the new boy - plain old Brian. In Fiona's Functions, we discover how an older and near untrainable box office worker deals with the encroachment of technology and her seemingly pre-pubescent new boss. When you're having the humanity modernised out of you, can you fight back? In the manufactured world of internet dating, can we make meaningful connections? and in the real world, what happens when we get what we ask for? These characters are funny, tragic and very human.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Siren Theatre Co. in association with the New Mardi Gras Festival.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Lunch Hour, The

Chris Aronsten
The Lunch Hour is set in a box-office call centre. A bunch of would-be artists are secretly writing a play about Martin, their boss - and nemesis - in the hope of winning a playwriting competition. But Martin has penned his own play about his dysfunctional staff and their thwarted lives, which he leaves on their desks as a parting gift and wake up call. The Lunch Hour is all about what we all do to get through the day  the games we play, the distractions we create and the pain of failure. We see ourselves in these characters and recognise sometimes the hardest part about starting or finishing anything in life is being ready. A spectacular, searing and sexy comedy -ambitious, dark and hilarious.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Siren Theatre Co

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2012) >>>    978-0-86819-960-3

Music:
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Genre:
comedy satire

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  doubling possible

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Malice Toward None

Synopsis:
'Meet Kathy, the shoplifting junky who thinks she's an actress; Pete the drug dealing pensioner with Alzheimer's; and Jane, whose mother Janet is addicted to carrots. Malice Toward None is three hilarious, insightful and virtuosic monologues about self-delusion, out-running the past, and how mothers always get what they want.' (Source: Australian Stage website.)

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1st Produced:
The Old Fitzroy Theatre, 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, Australia    25 May 2012

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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