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Mary Rachel Brown

MARY RACHEL BROWN

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Mary Rachel Brown is the recipient of The 2006 Griffin Award, 2007 Max Afford Award and The 2008 Rodney Seaborn Award. Her play, Last Letters is currently on at The Australian War Memorial. Other works include The Dapto Chaser - Merrigong Theatre Company, Inside Out - Christine Dunstan Productions, Die Fledermaus (Adaption) - Sydney Conservatorium Of Music,National Security And the Art Of Taxidermy - The Glynn Nicholas Group and B Sharp, All My Sleep And Waking - TRS, Elbow Theatre, Clown Empire/Red Nose Rising - Jigsaw Theatre Co. Mary has also written for TV, The Elegant Gentleman's Guide toKknife Fighting - ABC, and Home and Away - Channel 7. Mary's work has been given showcased public readings by the following: The National Playwriting Festival (Australia), hotINK Festival (New York), and The English Speaking Theatre (Berlin). Her play The Dapto Chaser is part of the 2015 Griffin Independent Theatre Season. Mary was a resident artist at the Griffin Theatre Company in 2015.

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below is a list of Mary Rachel Brown's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         1 In A 100         All My Sleep And Waking         Australian Gothic         Clown Empire/Red Nose Rising         Dapto Chaser, The         Die Fledermaus         Inside Out         Kings X Stories         Last Letters         National Security And the Art Of Taxidermy         Permission to Spin

1 In A 100

Synopsis:
Schizophrenia - Information extracted from austLit: http://www.austlit.edu.au

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1st Produced:
Street Theatre, Canberra    2007

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All My Sleep And Waking

Synopsis:
'I am not saying I don't wish him peace but he should run through those pearly gates of heaven. If he walks, he'll get caught for something.' All My Sleep and Waking is an ode to the complexity of forgiveness. Who do you forgive? How do you forgive? When is the right time to let go? As a father's death approaches, three siblings argue over differing parental experiences. Two grew up with an alcoholic father and one with a dry drunk father. There is a family struggle to bury the same man, but differing memories leave the feeling that two fathers are being laid to rest.

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1st Produced:
Currong Theatre, Braddon, ACT    29 Mar 2001

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Genre:
Naturalistic black comedy drama 55 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1221

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Australian Gothic

Synopsis:
Clair, an activist and nurse, is being held without charge as she is interrogated by ASIO officer August. Clair's parents, Sonya and Erich, are aging East German immigrants still haunted by life behind the wall. Set in contemporary Orwellian Australia, this play is a fable of tyranny masquerading as protection. It examines the tension between civil liberties and national security, from Hitler's 1933 Enabling Act to the recent introduction of new laws in Australia. Despite history's lessons, Australian Gothic suggests that government-driven fear is still a dominant method of social control, and is capable of paralysing our most intimate relationships.

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http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-920   -

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Genre:
Seditious black comedy 170 min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Clown Empire/Red Nose Rising

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Jigsaw Theatre Co, Australia    -

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Dapto Chaser, The

Synopsis:
A warts-and-all Australian comedy with all the adrenaline, sweat and guts of the dog racing subculture

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Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1611   -

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Genre:
comedy 80 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Die Fledermaus

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1st Produced:
Sydney Conservatorium Of Music    -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Inside Out

Synopsis:
Inside Out is an honest, surprisingly funny and compassionate journey into one young man's mind and a mother's struggle to understand. Sue and Simon have always been close. 19 year old Simon is talented, smart and loving - the perfect son. But creeping up on Sue is the realisation that something is wrong. What do you do when life turns you upside down, grabs your heart and squeezes it tight? When you need to find more love, strength and resilience than you ever thought you had?

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written by Mary Rachel Brown; Dramaturg - Campion Decent

1st Produced:
The Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga, Vic    05 May 2009

Organisations:
HotHouse Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1075   -

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Genre:
naturalistic drama 90 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96595

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Kings X Stories

Synopsis:
An eclectic triptych covering the ragged possibilities of survival in the city's most eccentric area.

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written by Mary Rachel Brown, Adam Grossetti and Tommy Murphy

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, Nsw    09 Oct 2003

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Griffin Theatre Company,

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Genre:
triptych

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25255

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Last Letters

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1st Produced:
The Australian War Memorial    2015

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National Security And the Art Of Taxidermy

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The Glynn Nicholas Group and B Sharp    -

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Permission to Spin

Synopsis:
A black comedy, written for anyone who thinks that children's music is torture. Three men find out find out their music is being used as a torture mechanism, and none of them can agree on what do about it. Carl, a failed rock star turned children's performer wants to go public on the issue. He sees it as an opportunity to re-brand himself as a rock star/moral crusader, like Bono. Carl's agent, Jim, wants to profit by forcing the US Army to pay royalties. Martin, the CEO of the record label, wants all involved to keep it quiet; children's music and torture are a marketing no man's land mix. To force his argument, Martin employs the services of Clint, an unhinged, recently divorced stand over man. To gain compliance, Clint uses a mix of threat, violence, emotional manipulation and neo-con logic, mimicking the tools of torture that created the initial dilemma. The suffering of the victim and the debasement of the perpetrator are experienced by all the players. This play gets its hand dirty with the extremes of self-protectionism and shifting definitions around the use of torture. . .The Wiggles will never sound the same.

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http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1610   -

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Genre:
A smoking gun black comedy with geo political content 70 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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