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Campion Decent

CAMPION DECENT

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Campion Decent holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong and a Master of Arts (Theatre Studies) from the University of NSW. He is a graduate of the NIDA Playwrights Studio, has been an affiliate writer with the Sydney Theatre Company's New Stages and writer-in-residence for the University of Wollongong. During this time, his plays have included Collar of Thistles, Three Winters Green and the Pearls of Heaven. He has been Chair of the Australian National Playwrights Centre, Literary Manager for Sydney Theatre Company, and festival director for the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, and the Next Wave Festival. Currently a playwright and freelance Arts worker, Decent is a member of the HotHouse Theatre artistic Directorate, and the NSW Arts advisory Council. Decent is dedicated to supporting the work of a new generation of Australian artists and is the Director of the Biting Dog Theatre Festival for High School Students. His most recent play, embers premiered at Sydney Theatre Company in 2006.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/203069

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         Baby X         Collar Of Thistles         Craving         Disarming Rosetta         Embers         Inside Out         No         Nowadays         Short Circuits         Story of Mary MacLane By Herself, The         Three Winters Green         Unholy Ghost

Baby X

Baby X
Evelyn and Georgie a lesbian couple want to have a baby and they ask their gay friend adam to donate sperm. He first has to have a test as the previous friend they had asked was "firing blanks". all goes well and Evelyn becomes pregnant. Georgie starts avidly reading books on pregnancy and getting things ready for the baby. they have decided that the three of them will bring it up between them. adam has to tell his Father about the arrival but flunks it on his first attempt. He and his Father do not get along. When adam does finally tell him - he cannot believe that his gay son is going to be a father. adam is drifting in space in a space suit (don't ask. . .) when his baby appears they talk and the baby persuades him to make things up with his father. the baby is born and the happy grandFather is there with his camcorder to record the happy event. adam, Evelyn and Georgie, in space suits, step out on to the moon.

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Organisations:
Christine Dunstan productions, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras

1st Published:
in Inside 2000, Currency, Sydney,    978-0868196213

Music:
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Genre:
Play One act. - - Lesbian, one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Collar Of Thistles

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Craving

Synopsis:
Five performers create images in word and movement, backed by music, of craving- for love, for example and for love and community

Notes:
written by Campion Decent, Peter Fleming, Mary-Anne Gifford, Daniel Lapaine, Anthony Simcoe, Francesca Smith

1st Produced:
Sydney Street Theatre, New Farm, QLD    29 Jun 1993

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Music:
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Genre:
TYA

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18753

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Disarming Rosetta

Synopsis:
Rosetta Ritorto is an actress. Or is she a seagull? No, she's an actress. It's Adelaide in the 1970s and Rosetta just knows she's going to be an actress. She channels Nina from the Seagull, Lady M from Macbeth and even Martha from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the problem is, Rosetta's parents think she's possessed by the devil and summon the local priest to perform an exorcism. Join Rosetta as she graduates adolescence, has a chaotic time at Australia's leading drama school and finally enters showbiz committing one hilariously awkward faux pax after another.

Notes:
written by Rosalba Clemente; Dramaturg - Campion Decent

1st Produced:
the Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga, VIC    31 Mar 2011

Organisations:
HotHouse Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/91718

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Embers

Synopsis:
Overnight on 7 and 8 January 2003, a dry storm ignited over 80 fires in Victoria's north-east and Gippsland. From exhaustive interviews with residents in the region, Campion Decent has fashioned an extraordinary account of the fires, the heart-stopping tales of survival, the awe-inspiring toughness, the communites that, when put to the test of fire, proved to be stronger than even old-timers believed.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, NSW    27 Jul 2006

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company Season 2006

1st Published:
Playlab Press, Australia   -

Music:
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Genre:
verbatim play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/68258

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Inside Out

Synopsis:
Inside Out is an honest, surprisingly funny and compassionate journey into one young man's mind and a mother's struggle to understand. Sue and Simon have always been close. 19 year old Simon is talented, smart and loving - the perfect son. But creeping up on Sue is the realisation that something is wrong. What do you do when life turns you upside down, grabs your heart and squeezes it tight? When you need to find more love, strength and resilience than you ever thought you had?

Notes:
written by Mary Rachel Brown; Dramaturg - Campion Decent

1st Produced:
the Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga, VIC    05 May 2009

Organisations:
HotHouse Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96595

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No

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Andrea James; Dramaturg - Campion Decent

1st Produced:
Australian National University, Acton, ACT    02 May 2002

Organisations:
2002 National Playwrights' Conference

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/31613

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Nowadays

Synopsis:
A composite of songs from a number of musicals by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sondheim

Notes:
compiled by Campion Decent and Barry Lowe

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW    14 Sep 1994

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
composite musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25831

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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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Story of Mary MacLane By Herself, The

Synopsis:
More than one hundred years ago, the Story of Mary MacLane set America aflame. A shocking confessional from a 19-year old girl who refused to succumb to the corset-bound prudery of her age, Mary's scandalous memoir broke all the rules - and sold over 100,000 copies. Ride On theatre's Bojana Novakovic and Tanya Goldberg bring Mary?s writings to the stage in a bold, quirky monologue for two.

Notes:
adapted by Tanya Goldberg and Bojana Novakovic; Dramaturg - Campion Decent

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, VIC    25 Nov 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/97571

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Three Winters Green

Synopsis:
Three Winters Green follows eight people through three years of their lives. From school through to drag; from dreams on a coach through to reality in a city; from alcohol addiction through to realisation, each character is on a journey quite separate and yet eventually interlinked by a crisis of epidemic proportions. Lives are changed, ambitions thwarted, boundaries redefined and a common goal forged between a group of people who have each travelled a separate path to this shared moment in their histories.

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1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW    17 Sep 1993

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

Music:
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Genre:
AIDS, full length, 100 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/21855

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Unholy Ghost

Synopsis:
A successful man of the theatre finds a front row seat in a strange new tragicomedy: the undignified death of his parents. theres not much time left for either his ailing mother the actress, still prone to melodramatics, or his Father the salesman, still flogging his side of the story. But theres just enough time to open old wounds and have a jolly good go at new ones. At once personal and universal, Unholy Ghosts invites us to reflect on the narrative turning point that visits all our life stories. Its an irreverent, life-affirming take on loss with all the inherent funniness of a good funeral. A family portrait painted in warm, uplifting colours, Unholy Ghosts won Campion Decent the 2012 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award and is directed by Kim Hardwick.

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1st Produced:
Griffin Theatre company, SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, NSW    30 Aug 2013

Organisations:
White Box Theatre and Griffin Independent

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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