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Tim Gooding

TIM GOODING

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Tim Gooding writes for stage, film, and tv. Productions of his plays includeRock-Ola (Nimrod, Syd; Playbox Melb; Adelaide Festival); King Of Country(STC; Playbox Melb; Theatre ACT); The Astounding Optimissimos(Tasmanian Th. Co; Actors Co; Pram Factory); Tentshow Pagliacci (Nimrod); and Drums Along The Diamantina (STC). He translated Moliere's The Miserfor the 2004 STC production directed by Jean-Pierre Mignon. Feature film credits include Heatwave and On The Loose. He is recipient of a "Distinctly Australian" Fellowship from the Australian Film Commission. Television work includes the series Sweet and Sour (creator/writer), The Aunty Jack Show, The Garry McDonald Show, Wollongong The Brave, Heartbreak High, Rafferty's Rules, Mortified, plus numerous police, judicial, and medical series, on land, sea, and in the air. Tim founded the band XL Capris, best known for the cult classic My City Of Sydney, the only Australian disc found in legendary UK DJ John Peel's "battered wooden box" of favourite 45s when, following Peel's death, the contents of the box were revealed in a ChAnnel 4 television special.

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         Astounding Optimissimos, The         Bent Repose, A         Drums Along the Diamantina         Fatty And Skinny Go To War         Fatty And Skinny Go To Work         Fatty And Skinny Meet A Woman         Great Australian Play, The         King Of Country         Miser, The (L'Avare)         Nude In A Vortex         Rock-Ola! (The Last Post-Hiroshima Romance)         Tentshow Pagliacci         Trog! - the Dignity Of Labour

Astounding Optimissimos, The

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Bent Repose, A

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Drums Along the Diamantina

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Fatty And Skinny Go To War

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Fatty And Skinny Go To Work

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Fatty And Skinny Meet A Woman

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Great Australian Play, The

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King Of Country

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a Country and Western Musical. "CHOOK" FOWLER, former C & W singer, is now a middle aged lost soul, caught between the Bushman/Digger mythology of his father, and the 'go for it', self-promotional 1980s model Australian represented by his daughter. the family's conflict is in part explained by each particular generation's attitude to "the land". CHOOK is forced to reconcile a past he believes he has wasted, with his lack of a future when the family returns to Tamworth for the annual Country Music Festival.

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Currency Press, Sydney, 1991
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Comedy/drama with "country" music 120 min

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Miser, The (L'Avare)

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A new translation of the Moliere classic, whose central character "the lord Harpagon, is of all humans, the least human human, the most money-grubbing, tight-fisted mortal of all the mortals that ever lived..He loves money more than reputation, honour, and integrity." (La Fleche, Act 2, Sc.6)

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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translation 120 min

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Nude In A Vortex

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the bohemian artists Juliet and Jack arrive in a small Australian town in the 1950s and nothing is the same straight-laced way it was anymore

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Rock-Ola! (The Last Post-Hiroshima Romance)

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Four archetypal figures from the "classic" rock and roll era - Jet, the Rebel; Angel, the Devil Woman, PagliaccI, the Clown Who Cried; and Velvet, the Little Girl Blue; - fear that their best days are gone. their music has lost any rebellious potency it might once have had. the four take off in a small plane, intent on crashing it on the site of the old Sydney Stadium and perishing in the fashion of Buddy Holly, before they get old.

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Nimrod Upstairs, Australia    14 Jan 1978

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Non-naturalistic 120 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au, http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Tentshow Pagliacci

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a troupe of travelling comics/clowns perform their version of Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" - about the Clown who must perform despite a tragic heart - in a tent at a seedy seaside holiday resort. each member of the troupe has a comic style based on a famous movie comedian/comedienne, from Charlie Chaplin to the Three Stooges & Lenny Bruce, from Judy Holiday & Mae West to Phyllis Diller. the resultant clash of comic styles culminates in tragedy.

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Clash of comedic styles 100 min

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Trog! - the Dignity Of Labour

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Spider' Webster is an ageing roadie from the days when all the job required was a strong back and a capacity for over-indulgence. But Spider can't cut it anymore. With a bad back, diminished self-esteem, a no understanding of today's technology, he plans revenge on the modern world by making one last tour. . . just him and his cat. . .

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2 acts Play/Drama

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