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Sam Atwell

SAM ATWELL  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Sam's a Queensland writer living in Sydney. Bondi Dreaming' is Sam's first full-length play and last year his second one, The Chekhov Term' was lucky enough to receive a production at Sydney's New Theatre and he is hoping to remount it later this year. Sam is now adapting his play Bill' into a short film also to be made this year. His play Waiting for Gotterson' has been performed a number times in Sydney and he also wrote and directed a short film, Dog Without a Bone'. as well as working on a film version of Bondi Dreaming', Sam is also writing and directing television for Home and away' and preparing to direct Three Sisters' at the Queensland University of Technology. Sam comes to writing from an acting and directing background and loves the whole process of uncovering Australian stories and characters to explore.

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

 Bondi Dreaming         Chekhov Term, The         Set

Bondi Dreaming

Synopsis:
Two young aussies await execution in a south-east asian prison cell for drug smuggling. The prison cell swiftly disappears as they re-enact their lifes joys up to that point. When another young aussie joins them, his guilt, fury and fear almost overwhelms the playful recollections. This is a poignant and moving evocation of lives really lived and lives pointlessly wasted.

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1st Produced:
45 min segment @ Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Australia    15 Mar 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Australian Script centre   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Chekhov Term, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
New Theatre, Sydney    -

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Music:
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Play/Drama

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Set

Synopsis:
Taking us behind the scenes of an Australian TV soap opera, SET takes a satirical look at the glamorous world of celebrity and the cogs of the machine that makes it turn.

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1st Produced:
NIDa, 215 anzac Parade Kensington NSW 2033    25 Apr 2012

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Genre:
murder myster

Parts:
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