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KIERAN CARROLL
Nationality: Australian
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Kieran Carroll is a Melbourne-based playwright who writes dramas, comedies and biographical works. Five of his plays have appeared at La Mama Theatre, Melbourne and four at The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney over the past decade. In November 2014, his rock'n'roll play Sons of Sun - Elvis, Jerry, Johnny and Me (The Sam Phillips Story) was performed at the Sydney Opera House Studio over two nights and will be returning to the Opera House in May 2015. Immediately following these performances, The Les Robinson Story enjoyed a critically acclaimed two week season at The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney. This was the third season of this play following seasons at the Newtown Theatre, Sydney (2011) and La Mama (2013). Kieran holds an MA (by Research) in Playwriting from QUT Brisbane. He has received playwriting residencies around the world including the prestigious Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York in 2008/09 and La Muse (France) in 2009. In 2013, he was awarded the Grace Marion Playwrights' Fellowship through the Victorian Writers' Centre and he received 2nd prize in the Boccaccio AfterLife Award from Brown University, United States for Best Theatrical Adaptation. [photo: Charles Ford]
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Giraffe's Uncle (The Les Robinson Story), The Newk! (The John Newcombe Story) Sons of Sun Elvis, Jerry, Johnny and Me (The Sam Phillips Story)Giraffe's Uncle (The Les Robinson Story), The
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Les Robinson was an eccentric figure on Sydneys bohemia scene between the 1920s and 1960s, whose unconventional ways gained him much local notoriety. Refusing to pay rent, he lived in derelict houses and caves around Sydney Harbour: writing, fishing and playing his old gramophone on the rocks. Robinsons comic and absurdist short stories remain unique to Australian fiction his one and only short story collection in 1933, The Giraffes Uncle, was re-published in 2002 by Angus and Robertson. Robinson was a contributor and cartoonist to The Bulletin, The Australian Worker, Punch and the Lindsays' magazine, Vision. His work was supported by contemporary Australian literary notables such as Kenneth Slessor, Norman Lindsay, Douglas Stewart, the critic HM Green and many cartoonists. The play looks at two phases of his life. The first act is set in 1933 when Robinson is 47-years-old and has just had his collection of short stories published by Macquarie Head Press. The second act is set in 1959, as a reclusive Robinson tries to survive in a makeshift shack.
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NEWK! (The John Newcombe Story) traces the playing and post-playing career of Australian tennis champion, John Newcombe. Newcombe's journey travels from naïve 1960s schoolboy to the No. 1 player in the world in the 1970s, to his time as Davis Cup Captain, to the stroke he suffered in 2003. Both drama and comedy, the play examines Newcombe's family life, his marriage from the age of 21, his lifelong friendships and his commercial business interests. The play also delves into the complex politics of world tennis throughout the 1960s and 70s as the game turned from amateur to professional status. Against an initial backdrop of comfortable middle-class Sydney suburbia, the play portrays a highly determined and ambitious man burning through a quickly changing and often American world. Aware he's putting his family second emotionally while conscious of providing for them financially, the play exposes the exhausting schedules that even players of yesteryear endured. A further theme is the worries they had for their futures before big money entered the game. The play is also filled with light-hearted moments from some of Newcombe's numerous commercials and business enterprises. NEWK! (The John Newcombe Story) is a play about wanting life to be a huge ride, where rest is secondary and finally how that zest and appetite for life never disappears but has to be reigned in.
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Biographical drama/comedy 110 min
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