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Marion May Campbell

MARION MAY CAMPBELL

  
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With the help of a Hackett Scholarship from the University of Western Australia, Marion May Campbell received a Maîtrise ès Lettres Modernes from the Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille). Her novels include Shadow Thief (Pandanus: May 2006), Prowler (F.A.C.P. 1999), Lines of Flight, (F.A.C.P., 1985), and Not Being Miriam (F.A.C.P.,1988), which won the 1989 WA Literary Week Award for Fiction. She has twice been short-listed for the Canada-Australia Prize. She has also written two extended works for performance: Dr Memory in the Dream Home (PICA, 1990) and Ariadne's Understudies (PICA, 1991). A third, The Half-Life of Creonite awaits performance. Marions short fiction, poetry, reviews and essays have appeared in a wide range of journals and reviews. She has been teaching Creative Writing at University of Melbourne since 1999. Together with a graduate team and an Australia-wide editorial board, she edits and publishes the refereed journal of Graduate Creative Writing, Strange. Shadow Thief was short-listed for the 2006 WA Premiers Book Awards.

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         Ariadne's Understudies

Ariadne's Understudies

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Ariadnes Understudies revolves around three characters, Bess, Lydia and Elsie, who are haunted by identifications and myths that enable and disable them in turn. These identifications include Katerina Kepler (mother of astronomer Johannes Kepler); the second Mrs de Winter (from the du Maurier novel, Rebecca); the mythological heroine Ariadne, and Elsies husbands first wife Miriam (now dead). When the three women finally connect through Miriams image, the forces released are momentous. Will they rise up and act in their own names, or will they remain Ariadnes understudies?

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Expressionist theatre 95 min

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