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KATHRYN ASH
(1962 - )Nationality: Australian
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Kathryn Ash was born in 1962 in the Queensland country town of Goondiwindi, where she spent the first seventeen years of her life. She lived in Japan as an exchange student, and later complete a BA Honours degree in Japanese language at the University of Queensland. After graduating, she took up the study of acting at the Australian Theatre For Young People in Sydney, and has performed in number of professional acting roles. In 1991 she moved to Cairns where she became one of the founding members of the Just Us Theatre Ensemble (JUTE). Five of her full length plays have been produced, as well as three adaptations from Shakespeare.
Research: http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/246702
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Bag O' Marbles CrackleSnapPop Flutter Latitudes Seven Deadly Australian Sins Slave Surviving Jonah Salt ThievesBag O' Marbles
Stanley has dominated the hostile landscape of his outback farm and his family for over 50 years. His youngest daughter, Samantha, returns for a family celebration after many years of living in the city and, amid the squabbling of chooks and howling of dogs, plans to plant her feet firmly in protest of the past. But how clearly does she see the past, and what subtle, hused tragedies has she overlooked? Bag O' Marbles powerfully evokes the distance Australians have travelled in the past fifty years - from the innocent chauvinism of the 1950's, to the current reality of globalism and social change. With ironic humour, insight and toughness, Kathryn Ash paints a vivid picture of a quintessentially Australian family. Originally developed by Just Us theatre Ensemble in Cairns, Bag O' Marbles is not simply regional theatre at its best, it is a fine example of contemporary Australian drama.
Notes:
Winner of national Australian Award: New York New Dramatists' exchange, 2002
1st Produced:
Jute (Just Us Theatre Ensemble) 30 May 1994
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playlab Press, Australia, 2002 908156723
Music:
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Genre:
2 act 130 mins Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 4 Other: male doubling
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/24888
Top of PageCrackleSnapPop
Synopsis:
In Crackle, Macca comes home to his 'donga' to find wife Irene in what could be construed as a compromising situation only it's not. She's called in Trevor to send off their live-in poltergeist, but there is something Irene and Macca are not telling the ghost buster! In Snap, South Park meets Commedia when we are confronted with three characters from the underbelly of society. Through the card game SNAP, played with photographs from their lives, the game reveals the potent power of the powerless. In Pop, Imogen has had a nervous "breakthrough" and left her celebrity chef life behind.
Notes:
short plays written by Kathryn Ash, Michael Beresford and Susan Price
1st Produced:
Jute Theatre, Cairns, Qld 09 Nov 2005
Organisations:
JUTe (Just Us Theatre ensemble)
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Genre:
three short plays
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79217
Top of PageFlutter
Vic had always been a mysterious kid, but he's home for the Christmas holidays to his parents' failing cattle station in the Outback, and he's acting more weird than ever. Through a series of disturbing provocations, he manages to not only perplex his father, terrify his mother and infuriate his sister, but also evoke magical afflictions upon them and the entire district. He is peeling back the flesh of his family to reveal the reality of their crumbling lives.
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1st Produced:
Jute (Just Us Theatre Ensemble) 08 May 2004
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1st Published:
(Flutter & Surviving Jonah Salt, Playlab Press, Australia, 2004 908156820
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79218
Top of PageLatitudes
Synopsis:
A Cairns busker plays her music on the Esplanade and observes the passing parade with brutal humour. A Sydney entreprenuer returns to Cairns in a blaze of highflying. A Brisbane woman treats us to a slide night of her unusual holiday to the shambling side of Far North Queensland. Each of these stories are woven together by character and place, each of them presenting a different view of Cairns and the region.
Notes:
one act plays by kathryn Ash, Mark Gaal and Michael Gow
1st Produced:
Cairns Civic Theatre, Cairns, Qld 12 Jun 2003
Organisations:
JUTe (Just Us Theatre ensemble)
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Music:
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Genre:
one act plays
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79219
Top of PageSeven Deadly Australian Sins
Synopsis:
It's a wicked world isn't it? We've all been a little wicked at times, it spices up our lives. Luckily, wickedness never goes out of fashion and 7 writers and performers from the furthest corners of the Australian continent have come together to create a carnivalesque cabaret extravaganza exploring just a few of the great sins of the modern world. In a world gone mad, Josh is accused of Un-Australian behaviour - he's a vegetarian at a B-B-Q, so he's off to hell. Workers at a local banana processing factory take greed to its full extent in order to get the best deal from the new work agreement
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written by Kathryn Ash, Melissa Cantwell, Stephen Carleton, Gail Evans, Robert Jarman, Merrilee Mills and Maryanne Sam
1st Produced:
Jute Theatre, Cairns, Qld 10 Sep 2008
Organisations:
Theatre To the Edge Touring Production
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Genre:
comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78533
Top of PageSlave
Synopsis:
Family bonding takes on new meaning in a cleverly devised new play- written for the 20th anniversary of International Women's Day
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1st Produced:
Cairns Civic Theatre, Cairns, Qld Apr 1995
Organisations:
JUTe (Just Us Theatre ensemble)
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/28590
Top of PageSurviving Jonah Salt
Jonah is dumped in the Outback desert by his alcoholic mother. there he runs into three women who each seem bent on sending him mad under the brutal Australian sun. This is a road trip, a mystery, a psychotic folly, a singular account of dying alone.
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by Kathryn Ash, Stephen Carleton, Gail Evans and Anne Harris
1st Produced:
Jute (Just Us Theatre Ensemble) 2004
Organisations:
Co-produced by JUTe (Just Us Theatre ensemble) and Knock 'em Down Theatre, Darwin
1st Published:
(Flutter & Surviving Jonah Salt) Playlab Press, Australia, 2004 0908156820
Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/101711
Top of PageThieves
Synopsis:
Are you seriously expecting me to believe you've never in your life been the happy recipient of a five fingered discount? Deb and Vin are hapless, ordinary drop-kicks doing battle in the grubby world of an inner suburbs bottleshop. It's not an enviable life for someone who thinks big. When there's a chance for escape and payback they must decide whether to steal their way to the top. Hilarious, macabre, gothic and explosive, Kathryn Ash's new play asks are we are all thieves of one sort or another?
Notes:
part of National Play Festival.
1st Produced:
Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh Nsw 2015 13 Jun 2014
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Genre:
Play/Drama 60 min
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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