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Angela Costi

ANGELA COSTI

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Angela Costi is a freelance playwright, poet, dramaturg and community artist, who is commissioned across Victoria to work with various communities on arts projects. She received a travel award from the Australian National Languages and Literacy Board in 1993 to study Classic Greek theatre in Greece and perform an adaptation of an ancient Greek play in Greek amphitheatres. Since her return to Australia, Angela's plays have been staged, published and broadcast. She received a National Award for innovation and excellence in community services in 2002 for the Relocated Arts project, for which she was the commissioned playwright. Her third poetry collection, 'Honey and Salt', was launched in July 2007 by Five Islands Press.

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

         I Was A Migrant Once         Panayiota         Shimmer         Signatures         Un-Beat-Able         Welcome Matt

I Was A Migrant Once

Synopsis:
A comic take on the experience of migration into Australia

Notes:
devised by Kat Bonair, Tricia Bowen, Angela Costi and Ramez Tabit

1st Produced:
Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Brunswick , Vic    14 Oct 1996

Organisations:
The Cultured Connections Ensemble. Melbourne Fringe Festival 1966

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/102231

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Panayiota

Synopsis:
Lisa Harris has organised a reunion with two high school girlfriends she hasn't wanted anything to do with for the past ten years. Both girlfriends, Stella and Silvana, are unaware that their old girlfriend Athena Harismiadis is now called Lisa Harris. They've heard, however, on the Cypriot-Greek-Macedonian-Italian grapevine, that she's 'living in sin' with an 'Ozzie', Patrick. Patrick is clearly not keen on Lisa having this reunion; he wants her to settle down in the family way and to see things his way. Lisa is a painter who, whenever she is at her easel, has memories of her friendships and their importance, which consume her, forcing her to consider her lost life.

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http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
drama 60 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Shimmer

Synopsis:
In a well-worn audition space, a select group of girls known by number, rather than name, are going through a rigorous audition process for stardom. Their ordeal is being echoed by their Ancient counterparts, the Danaids, a group of princesses who have achieved 'stardom' but are in jeopardy of losing it to a group of men with doubtful intentions. Both modern and ancient girls are led into a state of self-judgement by the one Judge, Goddess Artemis - what are they willing to sacrifice for the sake of fame; for the sake of becoming elevated beyond mere mortal existence? Shimmer investigates the deep need to stand apart from the rest. In two very different worlds, young women are thrown into a state where they must decide - who will choose stardom over everything else in life, including love?

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

Music:
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Genre:
Drama/Surrealism/Magic realism 60 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  16            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Signatures

Synopsis:
Pirra, the spirit of an abandoned derelict building on the outskirts of Geelong, is invaded one night by five teenagers looking for an alternative home. They make the building their space, until the night when the spirit world and the 'real' world collide. Pirra reveals to each of the five their hidden fears, and they in turn help her to resurrect her foundations.

Notes:
Written in collaboration with a group of young people in Geelong.

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Genre:
Supernatural, music, drama, puppetry 65 min

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  11            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Un-Beat-Able

Synopsis:
A play that plunges into youth subculture from a working class migrant perspective. Alex Kryiakou may be the writer of Spoken Beat (a new wave of performance writing), but she has little control over the process and isn't sure where she wants to take it. The only control she has is with her three internal friends, Red, Green and Blue, who give her that clap on the back even though she might be heading in the wrong direction. When these internal voices become confused with her friends, Jordi, Greg and Soozze, Alex is so affected that she can't find her true direction. The play is set in both the "real" world, and the world of Alex's emotions and imaginings, and makes strong use of music and spoken beat performance.

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Genre:
non-naturalistic drama 80 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Welcome Matt

Synopsis:
Australia's outer-suburbia is a landscape of isolation particularly for new migrants accustomed to the communal existence of one's room being everyone's. It takes one neighbour to be courageous enough to cross the unknown terrain of frontyard and verandah, and make that grand gesture of knock-knock-knock. Matt Williams begins this journey and finds that he doesn't need to travel the world, it's there in his street.

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Genre:
Drama/Comedy 70 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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