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Kate Herbert

KATE HERBERT

  
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Kate Herbert is a writer, director and lecturer in performing arts. Her plays include Bauernhof, The Potting Shed, Hearts of Fire, Triptych and Demon, all of which have either been produced at La Mama or the Carlton Courthouse in Melbourne. ABC Radio National has produced Sex, Drugs & Walking Frames, On Foot Behind, Hearts of Fire and Hit and Run. Herbert has directed at La Mama and was active with Arena Theatre in the early 1980s. She is theatre critic for the Herald-Sun, lectures in Acting, Improvisation and Playwriting, has played Theatresports internationally since 1985, was a stand-up comic for four years, and runs seasons of improvised plays with Impro Melbourne.

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

         Bauernhof         Clean Sweep         Corazon         Dirty Laundry         Hearts Of Fire         Hit and Run         Lawyers, Drugs and Money         Potting Shed, The         Triptych

Bauernhof

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abandoned during the war, a man searches for family and absolution in unified Germany.

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Melbourne Theatre Company/City of Melbourne

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Clean Sweep

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Corazon

Synopsis:
Corazon means heart in Spanish, the play plumbs archtypical fairytales and myths to investigate the 'heart' in is many manifistations - heart as love, heart as blood, heart as betrayal, bound heart, free heart

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1st Produced:
Theatreworks, Melbourne, Australia    1996

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Out by Ten

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Dirty Laundry

Synopsis:
A Vietnamese family in Australia traumatised by events they went through back home

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Carlton Courthouse, Carlton, Vic    03 Jun 2003

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Hearts Of Fire

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Hearts of Fire is a drama with a comic edge which deals with the trauma associated with the aftermath of bush fires. It is set during both the 1994 NSW fires and the Macedon Ash Wednesday fires in 1983. Carl was a CFA volunteer at the age of 20 and was traumatised by the death of his girlfriend during Ash Wednesday. For ten years he has not held down a job, a relationship or a home, drinks to excess and has never sought counselling, unlike his brother and friends in Macedon. In 1994, he meets Maeve and they begin a relationship, but both are keeping secrets about their pasts. During the NSW fires, Carl revisits his past experience at Macedon and reveals all to Maeve, who in turn reveals why she left her adopted home in England. The play ends with Carl returning to Macedon to visit the site of his trauma.

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90 mins One act

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Hit and Run

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After her young child is killed at the front gate by a hit and run driver Anita retreats from the World. One day a stranger arrives and encourages her to play Mozart, grow roses and cook exotic european meals

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Originally performed under the overall title "Double Deception" with "Hey Jack" by Sarah Vincent

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Riverina Playhouse, Wagga Wagga, Nsw    26 Jul 1997

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Lawyers, Drugs and Money

Synopsis:
Footballers in trouble and the fat cat lawyers who are no better who defend them

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Music by Roger Alsop; Ben Prendergast; lyrics by Joe Calleri; Kate Herbert; book by Kate Herbert. Based on a ten minute play "the Dinner" by Joe Calleri

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Carlton Courthouse, Carlton, Vic    07 Apr 2010

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Potting Shed, The

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Triptych

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Triptych is a mystery-drama about love and revenge. Mandy, the dizzy young wife of attractive writer and inveterate drinker, Daniel, arrives at their bush retreat with the intellectual, sophisticated Nina, who wants to buy their collection of first editions. Mandy seems unaware that Nina is Daniel's former lover. Daniel is angry, assuming that Nina has manufactured the meeting to destroy his new life. The three are incarcerated in the house together overnight. The submerged antagonisms bring about conflict, re-surfacing love, absurd situations and revelation of obsessions - and a death.

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2 act 90 mins mystery

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