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CHRISTOPHER (1) BRYANT
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Christopher Bryant is a Sydney and Melbourne based theatre-maker who has been writing since he was too small to remember doing so, and hopes to continue until he is too old to remember doing so. As a writer, his credits include: Eulogy (Adelaide Fringe/Collingwood Underground, 2012), the rabidly camp Rigor Mortis (Cameron Woodhead; The Age) in the Midsumma Festival (2012), the disturbing truth Acidtongue and Dollface (Izzy Tolhurst; InPress Magazine, 2013) and the Belvoir St Theatre Philip Parsons Emerging Playwright Fellowship shortlisted The Mutant Man (2014). In 2013, he was also one of ATYP's week-long National Studio playwriting attendees, where he studied under Jane Bodie, Angela Betzien and Declan Greene. He is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts (Writing for Performance) under Stephen Sewell at Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art.
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Home Invasion Reading List For the Outback Housewife, A Third Reich MommieHome Invasion
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Home Invasion is an exploration into stardom and celebrity obsession, in particular focusing in on three incidents from real life: that of obsessive Paula Abdul fan June, who auditions for "American Idol" in an attempt to impress her idol, that of Sam, a young girl who enters a relationship with Anthony, her mechanic that veers towards the dangerous as she grows in her obsession with Anthony to include Carol, his depressed wife who has dreams wherein a ghostly JonBenet Ramsey visits her. The play starts with an interview with Paula Abdul hinting that June's infatuation has gone awry, which is cut into by an Interlude by a cacophony of anonymous online voices lamenting and mocking June's death before launching into the first of three of Sam's "master plans"; an imagined and violent confrontation between a gun-toting Sam and a terrified Carol. The three women's stories continue, with June visiting Anthony's mechanic office to buy a make similar to Abdul's car in her 1991 video "Rush Rush". Sam continues to fetishise her imagined attack on Carol and her life with Anthony post-attack, and Carol's dreams become more vivid and disturbing. As the play ends, Sam convinces Anthony to go on holiday with her as she visits Carol and goes through with her attack, cracking in fear as she leaves Carol for dead. As the play ends, June dies in front of Abdul's house and, a heavenly body, makes her way to heaven where thousands of screaming fans await.
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the Marquis de Sade. the Bible. D.H. Lawrence & Victor Hugo. During the height of WW2, three women waste away in a club ruled by austerity. as tensions mount, the play skates between comedy and confrontation as it comes to a shocking end.
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In the camp tradition of the late sixties psychobiddy genre, Third Reich Mommie is Charles Busch on a day trip to the Grindhouse. Faded film star Bridgette Van Kamp has been a recluse since the second world war ended, relying on the good will and obedience of her daughter Cassidy to get by. But Cassidy's coming into her own: she's 17 and counting, with the inexplicable bloodlust to prove it. Who is Cassidy's real father? And what is the dark secret that lies beneath her mother's refusal to leave the house? Featuring some of Melbourne's finest queer theatre makers, Third Reich Mommie aims to titillate and terrify. Whatever happened to Baby Jane? She died in jail. Now meet Cassidy and Bridgette.
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LGBT full length black comedy
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