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Alan Grace

ALAN GRACE  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Alan Grace graduated from AC Arts (Acting) in 2007, and was Dramaturge/Assistant Director for floogle's Ollie and the Minotaur for Fringe 2008. The Embryos, written by Alan, was produced in Fringe 2010, and received a nomination for the Jill Blewett's Playwright's Award. In 2010, for Duende he directed Theatre Ltd, wrote Pinter in the Pub for Urban Myth, and participated in Vitalstatistix' Adhocracy. In 2011, his play No Hello premiered in Fringe, garnering a Inspace Development Nomination, and was listed in dB magazines Top Ten Shows of the Year. He conceived The Play-Off Challenge and directed Bigger than Beanbag for it. Duende premiered Slicing and Dicing!!! directed by Peter Dunn. In 2012, Duende premiered German Diary and Truth Teller - which he produced and directed. Second years at AC Arts performed Hysterical Blindness, directed by David Mealor with dramaturgy from Aarne Neeme. He produced the Second Play-Off Challenge and directed the winning play Red Ink by Duncan Graham, and participated in Adhocracy 2012 with the resident artists, Parachutes for Ladies. His play sex play premiered in the Blackbox season in November that year, and Reckless Abandon was read for five.point.one's Reading Sessions. In 2013 The Shelter is a Trap, for Urban Myth/No Strings Attached Theatre of disability, an epic featuring a cast of more than twenty women, with many scenes performed exclusively in AUSLAN was comissioned. He recently participated in Forever Now initiative, working with APHIDS and Jeff Kahn, which will send a golden record of art into space.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/438113

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

         Embryos, The         No Hello         Pinter's in the Pub         Reckless Abandon         sex play         Shelter is a Trap, The         Slicing and Dicing         Stopped

Embryos, The

Synopsis:
Berenger meets Katerin outside his Mum's church and they click because they both love Dostoyevsky. His brother Harst ribs him about getting together with a Christian. He says goodbye to his good friend Bella who is going overseas. Ber and Kat fall in love, and Ber starts by challenging her religious beliefs, but begins to appreciate her wonderful mind. Bella returns after they are very in love, with the news that she is pregnant, and she doesn't know which brother is the father; it might be either. When Ber comes home to tell Kat of the pregnancy, Kat has found a sheaf of letters from Bella which are full of love and beauty and a huge betrayal. The relationship crumbles. Bella wants to be with Ber but he can't handle it. Harst wants to be with Bella but she loves Ber. Kat forgives Ber for the letters but he can't tell her about the baby; when he finally does, Kat loses it and they have a huge sad fight. Kat goes to Harst for solace, they get fucked up and have sex. She calls Ber mid-sex and tells him what she's doing. In darkness, he scrawls on the wall a cry to help for Jesus. Bella arrives at Harst's the next day to say she'll be with him, but she finds Kat there instead. The final scene all four arrive at Kat's house; they fight, and the situation gets physical between Kat and Bella; Bella falls, possibly injuring the baby. There is a tense standoff. Dostoyevsky is the main motif of the play as the characters join because of his work, then their lives spiral into a Dosty-like novel.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Adelaide Fringe Festival    2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Australian Script Centre   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Naturalistic/Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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No Hello

Synopsis:
about the miracle of a telephone line that unites two post-apocalyptic souls

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, SA    21 Feb 2011

Organisations:
Adelaide Fringe Festival. Duende Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/88875

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Pinter's in the Pub

Synopsis:
Who was Harold Pinter?... The poet? The playwright? The political activist? The friend? The husband? The lover? The AO ensemble presents a creative exploration, examining and exposing aspects of Harold Pinter's personal life through the eyes of his second wife, Antonia Fraser.

Notes:
Dramaturg: Alan Grace

1st Produced:
Jolly Miller Tavern, Hindmarsh, SA    28 Jun 2010

Organisations:
Urban Myth Theatre of Youth

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
biographical play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95576

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Reckless Abandon

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of The Reading Sessions 2012

1st Produced:
Goodwood Institute, Goodwood, SA    02 Oct 2012

Organisations:
five.point.one

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
reading

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/104003

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sex play

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Blackbox    2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Shelter is a Trap, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Urban Myth/No Strings Attached Theatre of disability    2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
epic

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Slicing and Dicing

Synopsis:
'There's a woman strapped up in a chair over there. Will you use a saw or cleaver? It might feel morally wrong, but it looks like you have to hack her head clean from her body. Don't worry about the key. Try not to look at the Dark Man. Don't read the itinerary. Just slice, and dice.' Slicing and Dicing is a blood soaked, brain spattered, tragic-comic farce of epic proportions about slavery, oppression, rebellion and great vegetarian lasagna.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, SA    23 Nov 2011

Organisations:
Duende Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
tragic-comedy farce

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/97347

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Stopped

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of The Reading Sessions 2013

1st Produced:
Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh, SA    28 Jul 2013

Organisations:
five.point.one

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
reading

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/104082

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