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Wendy Blaxland

WENDY BLAXLAND

  (1949 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Wendy Blaxland is passionate about storytelling in any form, but she lost her heart to playwriting from an early age, being the daughter of parents who met while acting as young people at the Independent Theatre in Sydney under Doris Fitton. She has written fourteen plays for children aged three to ten which are performed by Marian Street Theatre for Young People, a not-for-profit Theatre company based at Marian Street Theatre in Killara, with paid professional staff and young actors who have a professional attitude to their work. Wendy is also President of the Board of MSTYP. Some of her children's plays are contemporary adaptations of classic books such as alice in Wonderland, fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast and the Ugly Duckling, while others use original plots, often based in the natural world and underpinned by mythology. While teaching at the University of New england in armidale she also wrote three adult musical plays performed in appropriate venues such as a historic country woolshed, the regional art museum and a restored mill. Wendy has also published over a hundred children's books, fiction and non-fiction, from beginning readers to secondary texts. Her Penguin aussie Nibble the Princess and the Unicorn has been published in england and read on BBC2TV as part of the Jackanory Junior series, and her first interactive CDRom with her latest non-fiction series has just been published by Macmillan education AustraliA. Wendy self-published three of her children's plays and her three adult plays while teaching at UNe. She also writes poetry, reviews, and articles published worldwide in magazines and newspapers from the Guardian to the Washington Post, the age and the Australian. Wendy lives with her husband, three grown children, two cats, one dog, assorted fish and an amazing array of native birds, animals and insects from water dragons like miniature dinosaurs to kookaburras, king parrots and Hairy Mary caterpillars among the tall gums and lower passionfruit vines, on the edge of a national park above a creek in the outer suburbs of Sydney, from where she travels widely. She believes that your principles inform whatever you do, from baking bread to welcoming people to the Theatre, from writing to loving.

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         Black Prince, The

Black Prince, The

Synopsis:
Three adult cicadas (named for cicada species common around Sydney) are taken back through their life journey from cicada nymphs underground learning about life above the ground and find themselves climbing to the surface of the earth to transform into flying insects driven to find their way against the dangers of birds, wasps and human children to safety in the Great Scribbly Bark, where the life cycle of cicadas will begin again. audience members are also 'cast' as cicadas and encouraged to participate to save the Black Prince from incarceration and death.

Notes:
Doubling possible with several parts. Original songs Are An integral part of the script, As is Audience participation. Suitable for families with children Aged between 3 And 10.

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Organisations:
Marian Street Theatre

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Genre:
Children's musical play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  Parts can be cast against gender

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