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Paul Brown

PAUL BROWN

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    RGM Artist Group  

Paul Brown trained as a geologist in Sydney, and is an expert on ocean floor rocks at Gundagai. In 1981 he founded one of Australia's foremost community Theatre companies, Death Defying Theatre, which is now Urban Theatre Projects. In 1985 he turned to writing, and wrote Coal Town, a play about social and political struggle in mining towns and designed for performance on a football field. He has since worked as a freelance playwright, often in community contexts, and on Drama and documentary films as writer, producer and songwriter. His community plays include Kahkwa Hakawati, which was made with Sydney's arab-Australian community about the Gulf War, the riverbank extravagANZa Murray River Story and most recently MaralingA. His films include the screen version of aftershocks and an episode for the aBC series Naked: Stories of Men. For two years Brown was Campaign Manager for Greenpeace AustraliA. He is a lecturer at the University of New South Wales, where he teaches and researches environmental Studies while continuing to write plays and films.

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

         Aftershocks         Maralinga

Aftershocks

Aftershocks
a moving and truthful portrayal depicting the impact and after effects of the Newcastle earthquake on the lives of ordinary people.

Notes:
a project of the Newcastle Workers' Cultural Action Committee / writer in residence, Paul Brown ; researchers, Carol Myers . . . [et Al.].

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Currency Press, Sydney, 1993   978-0-86819-650-3

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Genre:
Historical

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Maralinga

Synopsis:
the story of some of the soldiers exposed to radiation during the British testing of nuclear weapons in Australia in 1956 to 1967

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