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Beatrix Christian

BEATRIX CHRISTIAN

  (1955 - )
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Shanahan Management Pty Ltd  

EATRIX CHRISTIAN graduated from the NIDA playwrights studio in 1991. Her first play Spumante Romantica premiered at Griffin Theatre Company the following year. She was an Affiliate Writer and then Writer-in-Residence with the Sydney Theatre Companys New Stages. Her second play Blue Murder was produced at Belvoir Street Theatre in 1994 and Eureka Theatre Company in 1996, and was winner of Best New Play (Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle) and shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards. Other playwriting credits include The Governor's Family, Fred and Fausts House. For the Sydney Theatre Company she adapted Ibsen's A Dolls House and Life is a Dream (Calderon), and co-adapted (with Benedict Andrews) Chekhovs Three Sisters. She also wrote the screenplay for Jindabyne

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/6345

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

         Blue Murder         Doll's House, A         Faust's House         Fred         Governor's Family, The         Inside Dry Water         Kind Of Reunion, A         Life Is A Dream         Mad Bad and Spooky         My Bicycle Loves You         Old Masters         Promised Land, The         Respect: A Musical Journey of Women         Short Circuits         Spumante Romantica         Then the Mountain Comes         Three Sisters

Blue Murder

Synopsis:
complex study of the way men have created the fantasy that their art is more important than reality - even more real than death

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, Nsw    05 Apr 1994

Organisations:
eureka! Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1994   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Imagist theatre 50 mins

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/24145

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Doll's House, A

Synopsis:
Ibsen's famed tale of bourgeois hypocrisy and dark deeds concealed

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, Nsw    01 Mar 2002

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/19744

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Faust's House

Synopsis:
Young Josephine Faust - Dr. Faust's sister - is locked in a convent to repent on behalf of her brother's crimes. She bargains with Mephistopheles for her freedom, first trading her memory, then her belief in God, to travel into the future. Josephine takes part in the discovery of Darwin's theory of evolution, and later, the unlocking of DNa, to arrive in the present

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Australian Museum, Sydney, Nsw    26 Feb 1994

Organisations:
Australian Museum

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/23698

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Fred

Synopsis:
Pamela Maude is deeply affected by her discovery of a corpse under the Hills Hoist. This find catalyses a hilariously manic succession of events: suicides, sibling rivalry, sexual coupling, a mysterious double-pregnancy and an uncloseting. . . With the help of her actress sister, a used Porsche salesman, a futures broker and a confused detective, Pamela Maude must resolve the mystery of the unidentified cadaver, so she can find the key to happiness for them all. Casually demented but seriously funny, Fred has played to sell-out seasons throughout Australia.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, Nsw    31 Dec 1998

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   978-0987392961

Music:
-

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Genre:
120 min satire

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/91196

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Governor's Family, The

Synopsis:
The Governor's family is a fictitious family in New South Wales in the late 19th century, at a time when a number of white men were facing execution for the rape of an Aboriginal girl. The play reveals the tensions between the Governor and his wife, and their two children - between values of the European past and the new world of the colony. It also reveals the contrast between the Governor's public face and his private life.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, Nsw    01 May 1997

Organisations:
Company B Belvoir

1st Published:
Phoenix Education   978-1-921085-72-7

Music:
-

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Genre:
240 min naturalistic drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32953

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Inside Dry Water

Synopsis:
Inspired by Australian artist Arthur Boyd's series Bride in the Bush. An eight foot bride, a garish parrot called Frau Papagai, the spirit of a Coorong Aboriginal, a giant squatter and a mythical ghostly bush landscape all combine in new Australian myth making of the most inventive kind

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Civic Square, Act    27 Oct 1993

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
puppetry

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/21360

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Kind Of Reunion, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Courtyard Theatre, Civic Square, Act    02 Jun 1993

Organisations:
Eureka! Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18776

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Life Is A Dream

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca. 1634 play, freely adapted by Benedict Andrews and Beatrix Christian.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/23322

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Mad Bad and Spooky

Synopsis:
An hilarious explosion of magic, mischief and mayhem for the whole family.

Notes:
Sydney Festival 2002

1st Produced:
Seymour Centre, Chippendale, Nsw    07 Jan 2002

Organisations:
Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
TYA

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17734

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My Bicycle Loves You

Synopsis:
My Bicycle Loves You is a wildly imaginative, often surreal, modern-day fantasy that pays homage to the spirit of vaudeville. the work is inspired by the recent discovery of a treasure-trove of Federation era films revealing the extraordinary world of one of Australia's best-loved troupes of travelling entertainers, the Corrick family.

Notes:
Story devised by Beatrix Christian, Patrick Nolan, Anna Tregloan And company. part of the Sydney Festival

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre At Walsh Bay, Walsh Bay, Australia    13 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Legs on the Wall

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
70 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Old Masters

Synopsis:
about a famous living painter, her muse, her mate, her ex-husband, his new partner, the painter's son and his new girlfriend.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, Nsw    17 Oct 2001

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/15991

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Promised Land, The

Synopsis:
a story of refugees from an ancient Greek Warship on its way from Troy to 1980's Poland, through an eclectic collage of styles that fragment, distort and recombine as stories cross and re-cross. the divide between the geography of modern political history and the history within the heart begins to disappear. Tom, a refugee, Philocetes, a Greek soldier in the Trojan wars and Caspian X, (son of the famous Holocaust poet 'X') tell their personal stories.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Australian Museum, Sydney, Nsw    07 Jun 1995

Organisations:
Australian Museum

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/27401

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Respect: A Musical Journey of Women

Synopsis:
A journey of 35 songs of the changing place of women during the 20th Century. "It is part revue, part concert, part theatre, part musical, without ever becoming cohesive or successful."

Notes:
adapted from works of Dorothy Marcic

1st Produced:
The Palms, Southbank, Vic    25 May 2007

Organisations:
GFour Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical concert

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/74556

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Short Circuits

Synopsis:
Seven Australian playwrights' vision of the nation's largest city.

Notes:
written by Geoffrey Atherden, Beatrix Christian, Campion Decent, Bill Neidjie, Sam Sejavka, Stephen Sewell, Beth Yahp

1st Produced:
New South Wales, Nsw    04 Jul 1994

Organisations:
Festival of Sydney

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20644

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Spumante Romantica

Synopsis:
Marlon Brando Davies, a violent young man, nurses Jerome, an aesthete dying of an aIDS related illness. In the time warp created by approaching death, Marlon accompanies Jerome on a journey full of beauty and love.

Notes:
part of Fractured Intimacies 1

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, Nsw    10 Oct 1992

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17036

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Then the Mountain Comes

Synopsis:
Commissioned by the Australian Museum and intended to dramaticaly complement its exhibition, Rediscovering Pompeii.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Australian Museum, Sydney, Nsw    24 Oct 1994

Organisations:
Australian Museum

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
historical play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/26398

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Three Sisters

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov, adapted by Beatrix Christian and Benedict Andrews

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw    07 May 2001

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2630

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