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Rachael Coopes

RACHAEL COOPES

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Rachael Coopes was awarded the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and Marten Bequest Scholarship in 2004 and studied theatre in Paris at Lecole Philippe Gaulier. Her play Art House was produced at The Old Red Lion in London and the Edinburgh Fringe 2009, The University of Washington 2010, and the Idly Bent Theatre Company Washington 2013. Other writing credits include: SBSs Life Support 2000 - 2003, Save Draft at Short and Sweet 2010, Two Women for Grifffringe at Griffin, Im Not Sure Im an Adult Yet and A Moment in Time. Rachaels television acting work includes Play School, Dance Academy, Balls of Steel, The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show, McLeods Daughters, Life Support, All Saints, Secret Life of Us, White Collar Blue, Dogs Head Bay. Film work: The Ghost, Billys Holiday (Dir: Richard Wherrett) and Sirens (Dir: John Duigan). Theatre work: Sugarland (ATYP), Nothing Personal (Ensemble), The God Committee (Ensemble), The Sugar House (Public read-Belvoir), Stoning Mary (Griffin Dir: Lee Lewis) and The Decameron (Old Fitzroy).

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         Art House         Sugarland

Art House

Synopsis:
"Imagine how famous you'd be if you were dead." Charlie, an artist toiling in obscurity, paints her masterpiece -- a fake suicide, a forged funeral, and guaranteed posthumous acclaim. Her sister Viva acts as her lifeline, the only thread between Charlie and the breathing world. But as Charlie's fame soars on the wings of her sister, the chains of their love begin to rust and crack, revealing dark corners in their search for life after "death." In Art House, Australian playwright Rachael Coopes paints an dark sky with two bright stars, a tense and poignant duet on love and loss, truth and lies, and, of course, art.
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Organisations:
Tangram Theatre Company

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Genre:
one act 65 min

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Sugarland

Sugarland
Sugarland provides a glimpse into a teenage Australia that feels like a foreign country. This haunting new play will make you pause, make you smile, make you wonder how much can be real. Erica's Dad is in the RAAF so her life gets a transplant every few years. Now she's in year eleven she's stopped trying to fit in. What does it matter; she'll be out of there in a few years anyway. Nina's good at school but that's not important. She needs a house to live in. And she needs it soon. She's been living at her Auntie's so she can go to school in town, but that's not working out. The only thing Erica and Nina have in common is the music they listen to. Sometimes that's enough.

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written by Rachael Coopes and Wayne Blair. Inspiring and award-winning, the national youth theatre company, ATYP, is excited to present, Sugarland, a brand new Australian work inspired by the young people of Katherine in the Northern Territory.

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Organisations:
ATYP

1st Published:
Playlab   978 1 921390 82 1

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Genre:
TYA drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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