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MICHAEL BERESFORD
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Michael Beresford has written several plays that have been professionally produced in North Queensland over recent years. His produced plays include 'Persona non grata 2', 'Dump', 'Body Parts', 'Ginger Boy' and 'Snap'. Michael was Artistic Director of HardSun Theatre Company in Townsville, and is currently Associate Professor of Theatre at University of Tasmania.
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Body Parts CrackleSnapPop Dump Ginger Boy Persona non grata 2 Snap Tiptoe Unconfirmed SightingsBody Parts
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Top of PageCrackleSnapPop
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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.
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short plays written by Kathryn Ash, Michael Beresford and Susan Price
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Jute Theatre, Cairns, Qld 09 Nov 2005
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three short plays
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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79217
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Top of PageGinger Boy
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Billy is 10 years old. He is lying on the slab in a city morgue. He has just been killed. Earlier, he was sexually abused by his brother, Tom, in a garden shed. Then Tom bundled Billy into his car and pushed him out onto the road as he drove towards the mountains. We hear Billy's story within the time space of his landing and dying on the bitumen. His disbelief at his own death and his awareness of the diminishing living space he holds form the drama of this short monologue.
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Realist/imagist dramatic monologue 20 min
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Top of PagePersona non grata 2
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Top of PageSnap
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Iris and Brian are itinerants who live rough. Iris is much older than Brian and knows more about him than he does himself. Brian is prone to epilepsy and is not the full quid. He doesn't remember a lot of things. His most precious possessions are his photos that he often plays as a game of Snap with Iris. This gives some order to his life's history.
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Realistic/imagist/expressionist black comedy 30 min
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When visiting visual artist, Emma Lee, is commissioned to construct a public art piece in Charters Towers, she uncovers the past and the mysterious disappearance of Tiptoe, a local vagrant. Michael Beresfords darkly humorous and intriguing play follows Emmas dangerous quest to discover the truth.
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Mystery, Australian Gothic full length
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Top of PageUnconfirmed Sightings
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Two brothers crash their car in the desert. It was the stones that did it. Billy had found first stones under his house. He became their Keeper and had nursed them in his knapsack. For Billy the stones gave him strength and a new way of seeing. But the stones have a mission and have infinite primal power. They wanted to stop the car and they did. Now Perry is unconscious, and Billy has to go for help. But the stones have the power and set the path for Billy's journey. The stones move Billy into a world past the desert fringe where Billy meets Lou, the last Night Parrot, who takes him beyond the Shore Line on an odyssey into the inner recesses of Billy's soul. Here Billy confronts his deceased mother, Violet Bread and his cat Pearl as he struggles to fulfil a lasting relationship with his (br)other Perry before the primacy of the first stones eventually assert their clarity. This is a play about brotherly love and daring to fall outside the line. It is a play about seeing things you shouldn't see and going to places where others haven't gone. It is a play about a world of rocks, animals and sand and about a species that is dying..
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Poetic Drama 80 min
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