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SIMON HUGHES
Nationality: Australianemail: Click here to contact Website: n/a
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a pastime at university, student theatre, became an unlikely career when Simon began performing at Mlebourne's Pram Factory and La Mama theatres in 1980. He wrote his first play No Half Measures based on the friendship of Nancy Cunard and Brian Howard shortly after. It was performed at La Mama in 1984 directed by Rob Meldrum. Simon did not have another play performed until 19 years later when Dennis Moore directed Slide Night also at La MamA. In the time between Simon worked as an actor and a freelance journalist with the Melbourne age and other papers. He also wrote Didn't You Use To be Someone?: True confessions of Australia's most famouse unknown actor (allen & Unwin). Centring on a touring production of Midsummer Night's Dream by the Bell Shakespeare Co, it killed his acting career stone dead. That's his story anyway.
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Horizon Papers, The No Half Measures Slide NightHorizon Papers, The
Synopsis:
a dramatization of Carter's ideas about exploration as set out in his book The Road to Botany Bay centring on the figure of Major Thomas Mitchell
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Written with Paul Carter. "The play was commissioned by the SaTC for their 1985 season but was never performed. When Artistic director Keith Gallasch And Assistant Peter King were dumped by the board of SaTC the baby of The Horizon Papers went out with the bathwater !
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3 acts Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: Large Cast
Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,
Top of PageNo Half Measures
Synopsis:
a play about Brian Howard and Nancy Cunard - The Bright Young Things. They shocked the staid world of London Society with their hell-bent gaiety, but reality they were a cataclysmic generation
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La Mama, Australia 1984
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La Mama Theatre
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Top of PageSlide Night
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La Mama, Australia 2003
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