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Vivienne Glance

VIVIENNE GLANCE

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Vivienne Glance has had full length and short plays produced by independent Theatre companies in London, Edinburgh, Seattle, Sydney and Perth, the most recent being the Cat in the Box at the Blue Room Theatre in Perth, WA. Her play Shaking the Tree was showcased at the International Playwriting Festival in London in 2012. Other of her plays have won prizes and been shortlisted at various events (Gold Dust Speaks International Competition, London; Todhunter Literary Award; Short and Sweet Festivals; Malibu Playwriting Competition and others). She has taught playwriting at the Peter Cowan Writers Centre and for the University of Western Australia's extension Programme. As an act of cross-cultural dialogue, Vivienne works with Sudanese writer, Afeif Ismail, co-transcreating his poems and plays into English. One of these transcreated plays, the African Magician, was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIe) in 2011. She has submitted her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Western Australia researching science in performance, and writing a play, titled Staring at the Sun, that looks at advances in medical science that could potentially lead towards immortality. A reading of this play will take place at the Actors Centre in London in September 2012 supportedin part by a WA Playwrights Development Initiative award. She has been writer in residence at the Peter Cowan Writers Centre in Joondalup, WA, and the Arts Catalyst in London, UK. She also works as a Dramaturge with individual playwrights and in play development workshops.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/406126

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

         Bedroom Baby         Big Dipper, The         Cat in the Box, The         Comic's Tale, The         Creatrix         Draniki         Dreams         Emma and the Virus         Final Words         Freedom Of Birds         Into That Clear Space         M'Dear         Modern Gods         Next Tuesday         Opportunity         Other Side of the Morning         Pillar Of Water         Scream From Tal Afar         Shaking the Tree         Staring At the Sun         Titus A         When In Rome

Bedroom Baby

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1st Produced:
Pocket Theatre, Freemantle, Wa    2006

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Drama

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106879

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Big Dipper, The

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1st Produced:
Collective 10 Festival, New York    2013

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Short play

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Cat in the Box, The

Synopsis:
the Cat in the Box is a darkly humorous clash between science and art, big business and a spiritual quest. the play is a comic look at what happens when an artist, a scientist and a hippy are locked in a room with a cockroach and a pile of junk. the volatile atmosphere explodes when millionaire Reep enters the scene and the thin veneer of civil society is peeled back. Can they get out of the room? Can they work out what is real? Where's that cat - is it alive or dead? And can anyone tell the difference? Although an absurd comedy sparked by erwin Schrodinger-s famous cat 'thought- experiment, these characters are very real people and underlying the whole play is the question: how do we all get on together without turning everything into a catfight? Is law and order the only solution, and how much freedom should we give up before law and order goes too far? And who can best answer this - science, art, commerce or religion? If you question reality - it can put your head in a spin!

Notes:
written by Vivienne Glance; John Aitken - dramaturg. In 1935 Erwin Schrodinger asked the question whether we could really know something until we look at it or measure it. He came up with a thought experiment: imagine a cat in a box. . .until you check, it could be either alive or dead, or not, depending on whatever happened inside the box when you werent looking! the thought experiment was designed to question certain ideas of the time about quantum physics. Just as today the Cat in the Box is questioning, in a most light-hearted way, if art, science, religion and money can ever get on together! the same cant be said for Schrodinger's unfortunate cat.

1st Produced:
Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge, Wa    31 Jul 2012

Organisations:
The Blue Room Theatre

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Genre:
absurd comedy 80 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106879

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Comic's Tale, The

Synopsis:
Ben has lost his memory and been separated from his family for many years. As he begins to remember again he returns to familiar places with his friend, Gayle. Ben and Gayle return to the beach near to where Ben used to live. Charlie's son disappeared many years ago, and he has given up hope of finding him again. His career as a comedian is at risk due to his drinking and depression. Dawn, his daughter, begs Charlie to keep hoping. When Dawn hears that Charlie has embarrassed himself again on stage, she herself turns to drink. She walks along the beach and comes across Ben. In her drunken state, she is not sure, but she wants to believe he is her lost brother. She runs to get Charlie, but Gayle returns and urges Ben to hurry up before they miss their train. Ben is torn between staying and leaving, between hope and possible disappointment.

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Genre:
15 min play

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Creatrix

Synopsis:
Struggling to transform herself into an icon of modern beauty, plain Jane navigates through a dream-like journey encountering a witch, spells, and Creatrix, the Goddess of the beginning of time. With an occasional pinch of grandmothers advice Jane discovers that fairy tales arent always fair. A whirlwind solo show filled with mystical metaphor and poetic imagery.

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1st Produced:
Freehold Theatre, Seattle, United States of America    08 Mar 2001

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Seattle Fringe Festival

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106922

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Draniki

Synopsis:
When Alena tries to teach her daughter, Yelizaveta, how to make draniki, the national Belarusian dish, the expectations of the generations clash, set against the oppressive political world of modern day Belarus.

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1st Produced:
Ensemble Free Theatre Norway    Mar 2014

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Genre:
ten min play

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dreams

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1st Produced:
Pocket Theatre, Freemantle, Wa    2005

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Drama

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Emma and the Virus

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1st Produced:
Summer Play Festival, New York    2007

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Final Words

Synopsis:
A surreal exploration of life and death, forgiveness and execution. A prisoner is awaiting execution by lethal injection. He is asked if he has any final words. He forgives his executioner. After he receives the injection he dies. As the executioner goes to leave he swats a mosquito. the prisoner is no longer dead and questions what life really is. Can it be easily swatted away like a mosquito? the executioner is stunned and confused. He asks the prisoner what it is like to die. the prisoner has transformed to a calm and charismatic individual and persuades the executioner to sit in the chair and pretend he is going to die, so he can experience that moment. He realises he has detached himself from the job of killing others and asks the prisoner to forgive him.

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Genre:
ten min

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Freedom Of Birds

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A symbolic and surreal exploration of desire: Aria wants to leave the country hillside where she grew up and to expand her horizons. She tries to persuade her mother to come with her, but she wants to stay. When Aria returns, there has bee an earthquake and her mother is dead. A Crow and a Rat vie for Aria's attention and for the small blue egg she possesses. Eventually, they all fight and Aria is blinded and her body broken. Young Aria (a manifestation of Aria's earlier hopes and desires) appears and helps her to heal.

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Genre:
ten min

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Into That Clear Space

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1st Produced:
Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh    1992

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Genre:
Drama

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M'Dear

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1st Produced:
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Out Of The Asylum

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Genre:
Short play

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Modern Gods

Synopsis:
Plain Jane cannot compete with the beautiful women she sees on the advertising posters in the lingerie shop where she works. When she falls in love with a stranger she decides to take drastic measures to attract him. But she soon realises that beauty lies within. A modern, lyrical tale about our quest for the unattainable.

Notes:
Modern Gods" was one of the two runners-up in the Gold Dust Speaks International competition for playwrights in 2012

1st Produced:
The London Theatre, New Cross, England    14 Jul 2012

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

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Genre:
15 min play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106880

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Next Tuesday

Synopsis:
One woman, lots of paper, and an encroaching world: Fleur scribbles frantically but cant grasp the enormity of her mathematical discovery. Speaking with humour and insight, Fleur takes the audience on a funfair ride as she waits for the end of the world and her own demise. And it's happening next Tuesday.

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1st Produced:
Newtown Theatre, Newtown, Nsw    15 Feb 2005

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Week 6

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

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Genre:
ten min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79398

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Opportunity

Synopsis:
Single-mother, Jenny, is trying to make ends meet. She signs up for home-working, selling products to friends and trying to get them to sell for her in return. That morning, her daughter, Cathy, receives a place in college, and Jenny receives a bank letter telling her that her account is overdrawn. Despite her cynicism about Jenny's efforts, Cathy comes up with a solution to their problems.

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Genre:
ten min

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Other Side of the Morning

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1st Produced:
Short And Sweet Festival    2006

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Genre:
Short play

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Pillar Of Water

Synopsis:
A scientist gives a public lecture on climate change but she is constantly interrupted by the internal monologue of a climate change denier in the audience. A comic look at how scientists present their ideas to an easily distracted public.

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part of Putting on an Act, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Northbridge, WA

1st Produced:
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Northbridge, WA    13 Jun 2006

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

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Genre:
ten min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106920

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Scream From Tal Afar

Synopsis:
This play was inspired by an image of a little Iraqi girl in Tal Afar screaming after her parents had just been shot dead at a USA army checkpoint. This happened on the same day that G. W. Bush was inaugurated for the 2nd time as President of USA. the little girl's scream seemed to fill the image with her pain, fear and incomprehension. This lyrical and expressionistic work is rhythmic and tense. A Western Woman reads a poem written on torn sheets, like a funeral winding cloth. A silent Arabic Woman encourages the Western Woman to read the poem. A soldier, holding a microphone as if it was a rifle, also wants the words spoken. This is a play that witnesses the atrocities of war and the compassion of those caught up in its terrors.

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Genre:
ten min

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Shaking the Tree

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1st Produced:
Showcased At The International Playwriting Festival In London    2012

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Staring At the Sun

Synopsis:
looks at advances in medical science that could potentially lead towards immortality

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1st Produced:
Actors Centre, London    Sep 2012

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Titus A

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1st Produced:
Chelsea Centre Theatre, London    1986

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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When In Rome

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1st Produced:
Carlton Theatre, Edinburgh    1987

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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