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ELIZABETH BENNETT
Nationality: Australian
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Elizabeth Bennett has had six plays broadcast by ABC Radio National and ABC Classic FM: 'Pilgrim's Portrait', 'In the Public Domain', 'Aunt Branwell's Teapot', 'Boundaries', 'I'm Home' and 'Theresa's Garden'. Her short story, 'This Wild Life', was broadcast on BBC radio. Her monologue, 'Homeless', was broadcast on ABC TV's Coast to Coast. Elizabeth's short theatre piece, 'Zone', was commissioned by the Australian Script Centre in 2004, and dramaturged by Playworks. 'Zone' was performed as a rehearsed reading in Hobart and Launceston, and in Cairns as part of the JUTE Playwright's Conference. It was also performed as 'Exclusion Zone' in the Sydney "Short and Sweet Festival" in 2005 and was published by Playworks as part of their online magazine "Slice". Elizabeth was Playwright in Residence at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 2006. Her play 'Spiderwoman: a dozen lairs for Louise Bourgeois', written during this residency, was performed as part of Playworks Invisible Boxes Festival in Sydney in May. Her series of four short monologues, 'Un-Still Life', was performed as part of Living Writers' Week in the Museum in August. Her main project for the residency, a full-length play about women artists, 'Dirty Women', commissioned by the Australian Script Centre, was performed as a rehearsed reading in the Museum in November
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Dirty Women Spiderwoman Un-Still LifeDirty Women
Synopsis:
Louise Bayle sees herself as a sculptor with a hideous piece of public art to live down. The art establishment, however, insists on remembering her only as a painter from the 1970s and a member of the group called the Dirty Women. But that was thirty years ago, and for Louise painting is as dead and gone as the other two original Dirty Women: Vi and Sarah. Now someone has started to revive Louise's 1970s career. The dead and gone, it seems, are still capable of making a mess. On the market, her old paintings are suddenly bringing in big money. Louise is desperate to make one last sculpture, but all she has is a daughter who wants to catalogue her, a shed the Council wants to evict her from, and a graffiti-writer friend who thinks he's the only one ever to fight the filthy capitalists by making art for nothing.
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Non-naturalistic comedy/drama with art installation 50 min
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Louise Bourgeois, perhaps the most famous woman artist alive today, has been involved since the 1940s in creating works about the spaces that confine and define women. It's all about boxes, invisible and visible, where she acts out her past. For Louise, her childhood has 'never lost its mystery, it has never lost its drama'. Her Papa, her Mama, and her English Tutor, Sadie (who was also her father's mistress) join her as she recreates her ever-present past and the sculptures it has inspired. 'Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.'
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Non-naturalistic dramatised biography with element 25 min
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Four very different characters react to a row of three almost identical paintings showing a dead hare and a dead pheasant, painted by W.B Gould. "Oh my hat and ears! Is this someone's idea of a joke?" The March Hare, now retired and living in Hobart, is outraged and deeply offended. Mr Brewer wants to buy one of the paintings for his wife. Alice Liddell knows exactly how the pheasant felt, and the artist's wife just wishes Gould would go out in the sunshine more often.
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Monologues 25 min
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