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Maude Davey

MAUDE DAVEY

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    J M Agency  

Maude Davey has been working as an actor, writer, director and teacher since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1985. She is a founding member of the a cappella group Crying in Public Places, with whom she created three music/theatre shows, 'Crying In Public Places', 'Jump' and 'Skin', all of which toured nationally and internationally. Davey's acting awards include Best Actress at the 1998 Belgium Festival of Independent Film and Best Performer at the 1994 Age Performing Arts awards. She is currently Artistic Director of Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre in Adelaide.

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

         Crow Family, The         Future Of the Species: Part One         Girl I Love, The         Gorge         Never Let Me Go         Parallax Island

Crow Family, The

Synopsis:
No one saw this happen so it may or may not be true. Once there was a woman who lived in a city. Next to her house was a beautiful garden and in it a tree that smelled of lemons. One year a pair of crows came and they built a nest. And one day there were three crows, two with white eyes and one with brown. A story with songs about birds, families, love and flying away.

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Future Of the Species: Part One

Synopsis:
a performance meditation about playing god, the economic exploitation of the body, and the capacity to kill. the situation is either: a laboratory accommodation unit (cage); a prison cell (cage); or the basement of a suburban house in Belgium (cage). Fundamentally it worries at the question, what is the value of a human life?

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Girl I Love, The

Synopsis:
An hour of warm, unspoken secrets about friendships between women

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devised by Melissa Reeves, Margaret Mills, Maude Davey And Nicki Redlich. This play grew out of a short piece presented as part of the 1987 Spoleto Fringe Festival.

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic    22 Jun 1988

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La mama

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Genre:
one act

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/616

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Gorge

Synopsis:
hot young companies each interpret a brand new identical script, then offer you the chance to deconstruct the experience

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Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble, Riverland Youth Theatre, Urban Myth Theatre of Youth

1st Produced:
Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide, SA    08 Mar 2005

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Come Out 2005

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Genre:
TYA comedy

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/66174

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Never Let Me Go

Synopsis:
Never Let Me Go was put together by its three performers over two years, and falls into two very disparate and unequal parts. In the first part the women delve into their pasts to play out a series of vignettes. ..the longer second half the three women, each a mother of a grown daughter, meet for dinner.

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devised by Melissa Reeves, Margaret Mills, Maude Davey And Nicki Redlich

1st Produced:
Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, Vic    24 Nov 1992

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Short Arms, Long Pockets

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piece

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17567

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Parallax Island

Synopsis:
A woman is on a desert island. A man arrives. They are both there to be alone, and now they're stuck with each other. The parallax effect, in which an object appears to change according to the viewer's position, perfectly describes the distortions of perspective you get in any intense relationship. To her, he's an invader, to him, she's a selfish bitch. Parallax Island is a microcosm of the gender war. Not so much a play, more a performance about the performance of gender, it's about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man, and how the hell you escape the paradigm.

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written by Maude Davey and David Pidd

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Genre:
Non-naturalistic comedy 70 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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