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JANE MONTGOMERY GRIFFITHS
Nationality: Australian
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Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University's Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities. She has acted with many theatre companies in the UK, including RSC, Theatr Clywd, Cambridge Theatre Company, and Chichester Festival Theatre. In Australia, she has performed with Bell Shakespeare Co (King Lear), Malthouse (Sappho&in 9 fragments, Wild Surmise), Fraught Outfit (Elektra), Red Stitch (Good People), for whom she also directed Wittenberg, and The Rabble for MTC's Neon (Story of O) and Malthouse (Frankenstein). As writer, Jane's plays include Sappho&in 9 fragments (Currency Press; Malthouse; ABC RN; Greenwich Theatre, London), Sectioned (ABC RN), the libretto Razing Hypatia (Opera Nova; 3 Masks), and an adaptation of Dorothy Porter's Wild Surmise (Malthouse, ABC Radio National). TV includes: The Bill, Casualty, Red Dwarf, One Against the Wind and A Murder of Quality. Awards and nominations: Manchester Evening News Best Actress (Electra); RE Ross Script Development Award (An ox stand on my tongue); shortlisted for NSW and Victorian Premiers' Literary Award, Best New Play (Sappho&in 9 fragments); nominated for Greenroom award for new writing (Wild Surmise).
Research: http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/425833
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Antigone Hypatia 2 Razing Hypatia Sappho Unravelling Sappho. . .In 9 Fragments Wild SurmiseAntigone
Antigone has always been a respected member of her community but in civil war all bets are off. She suddenly finds herself on the outside looking in. Everyone has a right to bury their dead. Everyone has a right to give their loved ones a dignified resting place. Yet when the community leaders decide that they need to set an example, they deny Antigone her right to mourn. Faced with the prospect of unresolved grief, she rebels against everything she knows.
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1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, VIC 25 Aug 2015
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Currency Press 978-1925005592
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adaptation
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Hypatia, a Greek astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, was one of the first mathematicians of the cosmos. Her brutal murder by Christian fanatics in 415 AD is regarded by many as symbolising the end of the classical era. Hypatia existed in a world where women were generally not respected as intellectuals. Maths in particular was seen as a masculine art. Indeed much of her renown was due to her legendary beauty rather than her intelligence. Griffiths plays a woman mathematician, battling the same prejudices as Hypatia, embroiled in multiple layers of conflict against her male count
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1st Produced:
Alexander Theatre, Clayton, Vic 20 Apr 2011
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Monash University Academy of Performing Arts
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monodrama
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Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90594
Top of PageRazing Hypatia
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1st Produced:
Alliance Francaise, St Kilda, VIC 20 Aug 2009
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Stork Theatre
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Top of PageSappho Unravelling
2700 years ago, Sappho is the world's first love poet, the tenth muse of the ancient Greeks, and the inspiration for every lovelorn writer and songster since. But as the centuries have passed with the coming and goings of hundreds of libidinous handymen restoring her buttresses, history has caught up with Sappho. Her tale has become a gap in time for new generations to pour their needs and desires, but what is the truth behind her own story? Placed alongside a modern love story of sensuality, sexual awakening and broken-hearts, Sappho. . . in 9 fragments exposes the timeless undoing of love.
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1st Produced:
The Stork Hotel, Melbourne, VIC 14 Nov 2007
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Currency Press, Australia (2010) >>> 978-0868198866
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biographical. - - Lesbian, full length
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Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/75537
Top of PageSappho. . .In 9 Fragments
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2700 years ago, Sappho is the world's first love poet, the tenth muse of the ancient Greeks, and the inspiration for every lovelorn writer and songster since. But history catches up with her, and over time, Sappho becomes just a gap to be filled with the lusts and desires of each new generation... Sappho...in 9 fragments is a roller-coaster, tour de force through two and a half millennia of Sappho's story, weaving together the strange tale of her fragmented reception with a contemporary love story in her own words.
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1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, VIC 30 Jul 2010
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biographical. - - Lesbian, full length
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Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/91390
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A duet between two passionate yet dislocated voices, Wild Surmise is a moving elegy to a marriage that has faded into oblivion. Astronomer Alex searches for life on a distant moon but finds herself consumed by a very human affair. Her literary-loving husband Daniel faces his mortality with sardonic relish, but begs the poets for answers they cannot provide. And while their attentions lie elsewhere, a marriage melts into memory.
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Based on the novel by Dorothy Porter
1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, VIC 09 Nov 2012
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Malthouse Theatre
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Genre:
adaptation
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105462
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