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Kit Brookman

KIT BROOKMAN

  (1987 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Kit Brookman trained as an actor at the National Institute of Dramatic art (NIDA), and since graduating has worked as an actor with many companies including the Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, and Sydney Opera House. Kit's plays include Close (shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin award, shortlisted for the 2011 Patrick White Playwright's award), Heaven (presented at the National Play Festival 2011), night (maybe), Stupid People, Small & Tired, London, and Revolution. He was shortlisted for the Inscription award in 2011. His poetry has been published in some of Australia's leading journals, including (in 2010) HeaT, Southerly, Harvest, and Westerly.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/260035

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

         All Over         Close         Great Fire, The         Heaven         I Would Be Something Different         Near Enough To Miss         night maybe         Nora         Rabbit for Kim Jong-il         Revolution         Small and Tired         Stories From the 428

All Over

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shortlisted for 21012 Griffin Award

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Close

Synopsis:
the new girl at school has suddenly (and perhaps violently) disappeared. Six teenagers who knew her, at least a little, try to unpick how much each of them knows about the circumstances of her disappearance, and if any of them, ultimately, is culpable. If any of them was ever really close to her. Close is a dark and disturbingly funny examination of overwhelming and inexplicable guilt.

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Shortlisted for the 2011 Patrick White Playwright's Award, shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Award.

1st Produced:
National Play Festival, Perth     21 Feb 2013

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Great Fire, The

Great Fire, The
A comedy, a family, ten actors, a landscape (view of the Adelaide Hills), a great deal of conversation about politics and life, Christmas, large hopes, five tons of love.* The Great Fire is a big new play about us  middle Australia in 2016. Many years ago, in the 1970s, in pursuit of a good life and a sustainable future, Judith and Patrick built a house in the Adelaide Hills. They raised the kids here. As time wore on, bit by bit, the family drifted both from the house and the dream it was born from. Now its Christmas, the first grandchild is on the way and all three generations have gathered again. In the tinderbox heat of summer, Judith is at a crossroads: can the life they pursued in the first place come good again?

Notes:
With apologies to Anton Chekhov, whose own description of his play The Seagull we have adapted here.

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Currency Press, Australia (2016) >>>    978-1-92500-570-7

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Heaven

Synopsis:
When Angela Farnsworth is run over by a bakery van, Max is struck by some fairly existential questions. He decides that in order to get some answers the best person to ask would be angela herself, since she has more experience than anyone he knows in what it's like to die. So, naturally, with the help of his sometime-Wiccan friend Sally, he summons angela's spirit. they both get more than they bargain for, however, when their attempt to summon angela is perhaps a little too successful.

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1st Produced:
Riverside Theatres Parramatta     01 Mar 2011

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Playwriting Australia

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Genre:
Youth theatre/Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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I Would Be Something Different

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New Theatre    

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Genre:
short play

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Near Enough To Miss

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Griffin Theatre 24-Hour Play Generator    

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short play

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night maybe

Synopsis:
Tom abandons his sister Sasha by the side of the road. She plunges headlong into the night. Her search for him takes her to a park, an alleyway, a riverbank - even to the far reaches of Siberia. As she hunts him down, Sasha peels back the layers of their shifting relationship; past the unreliability of gender, sexuality and both their bodies. But as Sasha discovers, looking in someone's true face means you might have to see your own. . .

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1st Produced:
Theatre Works, St Kilda, VIC     15 Aug 2013

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Stuck Pigs Squealing

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/114423

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Nora

Synopsis:
Nora Helmer is one of those iconic fictional characters who has taken on a life of her own. In 1879, at the end of Henrik Ibsens new play A Dolls House, she did the unthinkable: she walked out the front door of the house she lived in with her husband and children, slammed the door behind her, and left. In 2014, Noras dilemma remains the same: how much will a woman put up with and why? And what is the alternative? Kit Brookman and Anne-Louise Sarks update of Ibsens resounding play sets Noras story here and now, beginning with Ibsens tale and then following Nora out the door and into the future

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Kit Brookman and Anne-Louise Sarks

1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW     09 Aug 2014

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/110225

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Rabbit for Kim Jong-il

Rabbit for Kim Jong-il
Johann's super-sized rabbits are his pride and joy. Much to his surprise, the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has taken a special interest, and will stop at nothing to get his hands on them. When a bungled undercover rescue mission transports Johann to North Korea, he finds himself, and the bunnies he betrayed, in a bit of a stew. Preposterously based on a true story, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il is a cunning comic thriller spanning two continents. Crammed with secret-agents, espionage, double-crossings and a giant rabbit named Felix, the play is also a pointed parable about betrayal and forgiveness, greed and regret.

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Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia>>>    978-1-92500-548-6

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/109157

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Revolution

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1st Produced:
Cellar Theatre     2005

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SUDS

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Play/Drama

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Male:  19            Female:  8            Other:  With doubling, can be performed by 11 or more actors.

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Small and Tired

Synopsis:
Orestes has come back to bury his father. He has been away a long time. His mother is hardened, his sister is strangely ill. He will see them, he will bury his Father and then, in all likelihood, he will drift away again. But in a bar one night, slightly drunk, he meets a gentle soul called Pylades. . .Kit Brookman's Small and Tired sets up a brilliant moral challenge for its characters: to love in spite of all the shit. the play springs from the myth of Orestes and the House of Atreus, but Brookman's completely disarming leap of imagination has been to fully dissolve the myth into the contemporary world. the result is a small play which echoes large  about restlessness and modern love, about the rootlessness of the times, about the brokenness of our sense of family and humanity. At its heart is the startling idea that love is an ancient thing we have to learn and re-learn from generation to generation.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105492

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Stories From the 428

Synopsis:
a group of new short plays based on the playwrights' experiences of travelling the 428 bus route from Circular Quay to Canterbury.

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written by Donna Abela; Vanessa Bates; Kit Brookman; Rebecca Clarke; Tahli Corin; Matthew edgerton; Joanna erskine; Lexi Freiman; Noelle Janaczewska; Sime Knezevic; Patrick Lenton; Ned Manning; Jasper Marlow; Brooke Robinson; Alison Rooke; Phil Spencer

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Sidetrack Theatre, Marrickville, Nsw     24 Mar 2010

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  varies

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96421

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