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Andrew Bovell

ANDREW BOVELL

  (1962 - )

Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    HLA Management Pty Ltd  

Andrew Bovell (Born: 23 Nov 1962 Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) is the winner of numerous awards during his career, Andrew Bovell has utilised a variety of styles and contexts, as well as performance venues, since he began writing professionally in the late 1980s. His works are also largely concerned with social and political issues. He has also written extensively for film, radio and television, and worked as a critic. After completing his secondary schooling at Scotch College, Perth, Bovell graduated with a BA from the University of Western Australia and then completed a Diploma in Dramatic Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts. Bovell was the recipient of a Literature Board Fellowship in 1985, and two years later began his long association with the Melbourne Workers Theatre as writer-in-residence. His play State of Defence was staged by the company. Arguably Bovell's best-known play from his early career is After Dinner, which premiered at La Mama (Melbourne) in 1988. By the end of 1991 After Dinner had been produced at least twelve times both in Australia and New Zealand. Another play the Ballad of Lois Ryan also premiered in 1988 under the auspices of the Melbourne Workers Theatre. This play perhaps presents Bovell's clearest socio-political theme - the exploration of the public and private in the lives of trade union activists. He has since turned both the Ballad of Lois Ryan and After Dinner into novels. Another play from this period is Ship of Fools (1988). In 1989 Bovell became writer-in-residence for the Melbourne Theatre Company. the company staged his adaptation of Gulliver's Travels in association with Handspan Theatre in 1992. He also later undertook the same position with the Darwin Theatre Company (1991), and at the Edith Cowan University in Perth (1994). In 1997 Bovell collaborated with several writers on a music Theatre piece devised by Diedre Rubenstein. Confidentially Yours, co-written with Janis Balodis, Nick enright, Michael Gurr, Daniel Keene, Joanna Murray-Smith, Debra Oswald, Alan John (music) and Alison Croggon (lyrics), was staged the following year by Playbox (qq.v.). He contributed the pieces 'Jane' and 'PaulA.' Among Andrew Bovell's many career achievements are his co-authored screenplays for the Baz Luhrmann film Strictly Ballroom, and Head On (an adaptation of Christos Tsiolakas' 1995 novel dealing with modern urban life from the perspective of a young Greek man). He also wrote the television screenplay for Piccolo Mondo and episodes for the series Naked and the Seven Deadly Sins). His play Speaking in Tongues saw him awarded a 1997 AWGIe, and was later adapted into a screenplay as LantanA. the film scooped the 20001 AFI awards and Bovell was named 2001 Harpers Bazaar AFI Scriptwriter of the Year. His radio adaptation of Distant Lights from Dark Places won the Gold Medal for Drama at the New York Radio and Television Festival in 1996 and a 1997 AWGIe award for best radio adaptation. He also become joint winner of the 1998 Green Room Award for best new play for Who's Afraid of the Working Class. Co-written with Patricia Cornelius, Christos Tsiolkas, Irene Vela and Melissa Reeves, the play shared the Gold AWGIe award in 1999 with Nick enright's adaptation of Tim Winton's Cloudstreet (qq.v.) - Austlit

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/580

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        After Dinner         Ballad Of Lois Ryan, The         Blue Circle         Confidentially Yours         Distant Lights Dark Places         Fever         Gavin and the Owl         Gulliver's Travels         Holy Day         Jane         Like Whisky On the Breath Of A Drunk You Love         Ocean Out Of My Window, An         Paula         Piccolo Mondo         Scenes From A Separation         Secret River, The         Shades Of Blue         Ship Of Fools         Speaking In Tongues         State Of Defence         Teatro         Things I Know To Be True         When the Rain Stops Falling         Who's Afraid Of the Working Class



After Dinner

After Dinner
a black comedy about being single and eating in restaurants. Five people converge on a suburban nightspot to enjoy their meal and the after dinner entertainment. a bitter sweet farce about human vulnerability.

Notes:
the Melody Lords (parody of a glam rock group) were the band.

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     20 Apr 1988

Organisations:
La Mama,

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press in association with Griffin theatre, 1989   978-0868195186

Music:
-

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Ballad Of Lois Ryan, The

Synopsis:
Lois is a textile worker in a small country town. Life for Lois revolves around the factory, the supermarket and home. the play is about Lois' struggle to free herself from the traps that bind working mothers. Lois wins her struggle but not without paying a price.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle Rsl Club, Newcastle, Nsw     26 Oct 1988

Organisations:
the Workers Cultural Action Committee and Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:
Published in "AustralAsian Drama Studies", Focus Issue No. 2. October, 1992   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  musician(s)

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/61014

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Blue Circle

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Confidentially Yours

Synopsis:
A rich tapestry of laughter, tears amd irony. A collection of short works by some of Australia's best-known Dramatists,written specifically for actor Deidre Rubenstein.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Wollongong, Nsw     31 Oct 2002

Organisations:
Merrigong Fringe 2002

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
collection of short plays

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17537

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Distant Lights Dark Places

Synopsis:
"Relationships at their most raw and lively make for great theatre in Tidal Wave . . . Distant Lights presents four disparate characters with disconnected voices, each suffering from a faltering relationship." - reviewer

Notes:
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1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     31 Aug 1994

Organisations:
Chameleon Theatre

1st Published:
in Meanjin vol.57 no.1 1998 periodical issue (pp.184-197)   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25609

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Fever

Synopsis:
Fever is made up of four plays The Chair, Blunt, Savant and Psalms, and a composition, The River. The Chair: In a desolated house, a lonely woman is confronted by an intruder. She ties him to a chair, but gives him the chance to win his freedom by moving her with his story. Savant: The members of a deeply depressed and morbid little community gather nightly to eat fish and chips and whinge about how good things used to be. They come to believe their malaise can be traced to an evil baby born to a frightened pair of teenagers. Psalms: Two young men, childhood friends, quickly become enemies when their country is plunged into civil war. In a landscape of unrelenting horror, one finds himself haunted by the ghost of the other, who is asking back for the heart, tongue and genitals that were taken from him. Blunt: A group of women live on a desolate and stinking landscape where nothing good grows anymore. They fetch a baby out of the river, save it, give it every chance. And what does it do? The ungrateful little shit goes and dies on them.

Notes:
Fever (the Chair; Blunt; Savant; Psalms) written by Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     16 Sep 2002

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
one acts

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20180

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Gavin and the Owl

Synopsis:
"Bovell's script, in spite of humorous moments, is essentially a sad and pathetic expose of the emptiness of Gavin's life, with his only glorious moments seen in his association with nature in the form of an owl." - reviewer

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rehearsal Room, Civic Square, Act     20 Aug 1988

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/683

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Gulliver's Travels

Synopsis:
"Jonathan Swift's epic 18th century novel adapted for the stage in a joint venture by the Melbourne theatre Company and Handspan theatre. Actors, musicians, and puppeteers have come up with a totally innocent version of the story."

Notes:
from Jonathan Swift novel

1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Adelaide, Sa     19 Jun 1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/16163

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Holy Day

Holy Day
When a child disappears tensions and vulnerabilities are exposed within a tenuous community on the frontier of white settlement. Elizabeth, the devout wife of a missionary is suspected of being involved in her own child's demise. But the men who sit in judgment can't fathom the reason why a woman would take the life of her own child. Only the women understand the dark place a mother can go. Linda, a local aboriginal woman knows what happened at the mission on the night the child disappeared. But she maintains her silence. She refuses to recognise the authority of european justice. By doing so she casts herself as a political prisoner and european settlement as a hostile act of occupation by a foreign power. Holy Day is about two defiant women who refuse to account for the unaccountable. It depicts a white community locked in a moral crisis, unable to liberate itself because it cannot face its dark truths.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Adelaide, Sa     17 Aug 2001

Organisations:
State Theatre Company of South Australia

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, Sydney in association with Playbox, 2001   978-0868196466

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/10220

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Jane

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of a rich tapestry of laughter, tears amd irony. A collection of short works by some of Australia's best-known Dramatists,written specifically for actor Deidre Rubenstein.

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, Vic     01 Feb 1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1998   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/8141

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Like Whisky On the Breath Of A Drunk You Love

Synopsis:
It's hot. the moon is full. there's not a breath of wind and the air is full of something. . . it smells like melting tar, like fumes from a petrol station, like the backyards of restaurants, like whiskey on the breath of a drunk you love. . . It's heady, pungent, illicit, like desire. No, desire is sweet. It's unfulfilled desire, sort of sour . . . a kind of lust . . . an unforgiving lust. Sonja meets Pete in a bar and they go back to a cheap motel room. Meanwhile Christine meets Tony in a bar and they also go back to a cheap room. the catch? Sonja is married to Tony and Christine is married to Pete. a double infidelity. Two scenes of seduction and betrayal are played out, each superimposed on the other.

Notes:
part of Suitcases in a 1000 Room Hotel. "Six short and wonderfully entertaining plays. . .as the title suggests, a recurring suitcase motif is central to the production and the collection of luggage has an integral part in the minimal of production aesthetic. . .the company is committed to paring back theatre to its most basic components. the emphasis is on acting and text while the use of set, lighting, props and costume is kept at an absolute minimum."

1st Produced:
Anthill Theatre, South Melbourne, Vic     21 Apr 1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/15732

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Ocean Out Of My Window, An

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre Project, Gorman House Community Arts Centre, Canberra, Act     21 Jul 1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : ensemble Theatre Project , 1986.   -

Music:
-

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-

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http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=Cp93

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Paula

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of a rich tapestry of laughter, tears amd irony. A collection of short works by some of Australia's best-known Dramatists,written specifically for actor Deidre Rubenstein.

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, Vic     01 Feb 1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1998   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/8141

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Piccolo Mondo

Synopsis:
Three women over lunch realise the implications of one's affair with a married man. the other two soon come to realise that the man she is having the affair with is, in fact, one of their husbands.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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-

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Scenes From A Separation

Synopsis:
there are two sides to every separation. Two truths. a fascination collaboration between two of Australia's most exciting writers. a story which will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost. Mathew and Nina have been married for twelve years. He is forty; a successful publisher. always in control, his pace is enormous and his path is littered with the discarded souls of those who tried to keep up. Nina's thirty-eight; a journalist. she hasn't worked since the birth of the children. She's restless; looking for something. So when Mathew suggests she takes on the biography of Lawrence Clifford, tycoon, philanthropist and now Australian of the Year, she throws herself into the project with an all-consuming enthusiasm. a play about love and betrayal, about sex, sacrifice and survival, of break-up and break-down.

Notes:
by Hannie Rayson & Andrew Bovell

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic     10 Nov 1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1996   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60097
Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 0814 - [Theatre: Orange Tree]

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Secret River, The

Synopsis:
Two of Australia's most respected artists come together for the first time to adapt Kate Grenville's award-winning novel for the stage. Directed by Neil Armfield and adapted by Andrew Bovell (When the Rain Stops Falling), this ambitious new play Dramatises the story of two families divided by culture and land. Convict William Thornhill, exiled from early 19th century London, discovers the penal colony offers something he never dared to hope for: a place of his own. But he and his family find they're not the only ones to lay a claim to the land. the banks of the Hawkesbury River are already home to the Dharug people, who are reluctant to leave on account of these intruders. As Thornhill's attachment to the place and the dream deepens, he is driven to make a terrible decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life.

Notes:
from By Kate Grenville's award winning novel

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre, Millers Point, NSW     08 Jan 2013

Organisations:
Sydney festival 2013

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105404

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Shades Of Blue

Synopsis:
"Bovell's tale of meetings between pairs of disparate people adrift on and off the dark, dangerous streets of Melbourne . . . a complex, intriguing Dramatic web is spun. Actually, a reworking of Schnitzler's La Ronde" - reviwer

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     31 Jan 1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/26737

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Ship Of Fools

Synopsis:
a medieval journey for a new dark age, this parallels two journeys separated by time and space. the first journey tells the story of the fools of Basle, who in 1492 were rounded up and set adrift down the River Rhine. the second journey tells the story of eight unemployed and contemporary Australians who are rounded up and sent into the Australian desert on a work-for-the-dole scheme. the play is an exploration of society's treatment of the individual and reveals that little has changed over the centuries.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Wetpak Theatre, Adelaide, Sa     27 Feb 1988

Organisations:
Whistling in the Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Speaking In Tongues

Speaking In Tongues
Sometimes you can be too careful. Sometimes you just want to say something quickly, without reserve without self-censorship, without shame. Sometimes the way some thing is said is more revealing than what is being said. there's a danger in that. It's the tyranny of form over content. But there's a kind of wonderful freedom in constraint. It can lead to an unwitting truth.

Notes:
This play brings together two earlier works, 'Like Whisky on the Breath of A Drunk You Love' And 'Distant Lights from Dark Places' with A new play commissioned by the Griffin theatre Company (Sydney) especially for this production. Adapted for the screen As Lantana.

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, Nsw     06 Aug 1996

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1996
also published by Currency Press, Australia (1998)>>>    978-0868197111

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 70 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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State Of Defence

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Melbourne     1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Held at: QU:FRYeR - University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library (QLD)   -

Music:
-

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-

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Teatro

Synopsis:
Following the astounding success of Little City, Renato Cuocolo, Irine Vela and Mark Dunbar return for the final installment of IRAA theatre's much acclaimed music theatre Trilogy of exile. exploring migration and displacement, Teatro tells the story of a choir rehearsing a new musical work celebrating multiculturalism. Within the duration of rehearsal, a revolution takes place amongst the members. At its source, the destruction and reconstruction of their identity in exile. Stunning visual imagery and physical and intense performances have distinguished director Cuocolo's IRAA theatre productions over the past twenty years. Here IRAA joins forces with the fifty strong Canto Coro, whose passionate choral works reflect the cultural aspirations of Melbourne's Greek and Hispanic communities. Teatro is about a society in flux. It is about people far from their countries of birth, yearning for a completeness that can never be found. It is the search for a Home that does not exist.

Notes:
Composer: Irine Vela

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Melbourne, Vic     21 Oct 1998

Organisations:
Melbourne Festival 1998

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical theatre

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  singers

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/72810

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Things I Know To Be True

Synopsis:
As beautifully touching as it is funny and bold, Things I Know To Be True tells the story of a family and marriage through the eyes of four grown siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations. Parents Bob and Fran have worked their fingers to the bone and with their four children grown and ready to fly the nest it might be time to relax and enjoy the roses. But as the seasons change they bring home some shattering truths. Featuring Frantic Assemblys celebrated physicality, Things I Know To Be True is a complex and intense study of the mechanics of a family that is both poetic and brutally frank.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, SA     13 May 2016

Organisations:
Frantic Assembly

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/116807

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When the Rain Stops Falling

When the Rain Stops Falling
an epic play spanning four generations and two continents, When the Rain Stops Falling moves from the claustrophobia of a 1950s London flat to the windswept coast of Southern Australia and into the heart of the Australian desert. the play weaves together a series of interconnected stories, as seven people confront their mysteries of the past in oder to understand their future, revealing how patterns of betrayal, love and abandonment are passed on, until finally, well into the future, as the desert is inundated with rain, one young man finds the courage to defy the legacy.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Scott Theatre, Adelaide, Sa     23 Feb 2008

Organisations:
Brink productions

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>    978-1848420342

Music:
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Genre:
epic play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  (4f 3m possible)

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Who's Afraid Of the Working Class

Who's Afraid Of the Working Class
Melbourne at the end of the twentieth century - modern economic miracle or a society imploding with savage politics and despair? the story is of fringe-dwellers, living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly out of work, and politically uninterested, they work at survival. a gritty portrayal of real life in an urban wasteland.

Notes:
written with Andrew Bovell (Trash), Patricia Cornelius/Melissa Reeves/Christos Tsiolkas And Irene Vela. Part of Melborne Tales

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     01 May 1998

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:
Published as "Melbourne Stories", Currency Press, 2000   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/33092

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