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SIMON FROEHLING
(1978 - )Nationality: Swiss/Australian
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Literary Agent: Verlag Autorenagentur GmbH
Born in 1978 in Switzerland of an Australian mother and Swiss father, Simon Froehling moved to Australia in 1996 to finish his Senior Studies at St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane. Since returning to Switzerland in 2000, he has published a range of poetry and prose in magazines and anthologies in Switzerland and Germany, and has won various prizes for these. In 2002, his first audio-play, 'the Telephone Massacre', was broadcast through SWR 2, a major German radio station. Simon has written a number of plays, among them 'Double Take', for the City Theatre of Zurich's youth club, 'Going to the Sea' (Vorstadt-Theatre, Basel), 'enemy Material' (Theatre Biel/ Solothurn) and 'Feverchild', for which he won a major Swiss playwriting award.
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Enemy Material Going To the Sea - Play With Child Me Cowboy You IndianEnemy Material
Synopsis:
a mock marriage is being planned to allow Imad escape the discrimination in his home country. His lover, his alibi-wife and his advocate are discussing the details in Imad's absence. In order to lie as accurately as possible, they try to align the stories they connect to Imad - and yet they keep entangling themselves in countless contradictions. Imad turns into a blind spot, an unknown quantity, into a stranger, who's life is diametrically opposed to the naturally liberal, collegiate and casual way of life of his friends in a lot of ways, and who clearly eludes any definitions. the three Westerners circle the absentee in an attempt to characterize him, and yet they keep coming back to their own longings and expectations. While they spin their tales, the object of their interest is being questioned by the police. Will the authorities be able to unearth more reliable facts about Imad than the three people who are supposed to be close to him?
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Theater Biel Solothurn 2008
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Family Core wants nothing more than life to go back to how it used to be, when the family wasn't really one, but just a bunch of friends sharing a flat. When the Big Bore hadn't set in and Baby hadn't arrived yet. But now Baby has to go, even if Baby seems to be the only thing keeping the fragile family structure from breaking apart. Because Family Core has realised that they tried to fill their all too empty lives with something they can't cope with after all.
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Vorstadt-Theater Basel 2006
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Top of PageMe Cowboy You Indian
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after yet another relationship break-up, Mark returns to his boyfriend Tim who has been infected with a deadly disease. By infecting himself as well, Mark wants to become one with his lover - a concept Tim refuses to understand. at the same time, Mark's mother anne-Louise tries frantically to re-unite her dream couple without knowing about the disease - until Mark's sister Linda tells her everything. the family idyll breaks apart as Mark starts to use the disease to escape from his former life. a play about a deadly journey toward happiness.
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