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Linda Jaivin

LINDA JAIVIN

  
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    Naher Agency  

Linda Jaivin is a novelist, journalist, translator and author of non-fiction who has recently begun writing for the theatre. 'Seeking Djira', her first full-length play, was read at Playbox's Theatre in the Raw in 2002 and produced in Melbourne by Essential Theatre at Forty-Five Downstairs in 2003. Halal el Mashakel, her first short play, was produced by Pesto Manifesto and performed in 2003-4 in Sydney, Canberra, Wollongong, Newcastle and the Adelaide Fringe. Her short story Lucky to Have Them was performed as a monologue at the Short and Sweet Festival in Sydney in 2005. Her most recent publication is the novel 'The Infernal Optimist' (2006). Her previous four novels - the international bestseller 'Eat Me', 'Rock 'n Roll Babes from Outer Space', 'Miles Walker You're Dead' and 'Dead Sexy' - have all been published overseas as well as in Australia. Her non-fiction titles include 'Confessions of an S & M Virgin' and 'The Monkey and the Dragon'. She has completed an unproduced libretto about the journey of an asylum seeker to Australia - 'A Better Life', for which she won a Varuna/Playworks fellowship.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/247706

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

         Better Life, A         Halal El Mashakel         Lucky To Have Them         Seeking Djira

Better Life, A

Synopsis:
a refugee's journey to Australia

Notes:
Written by Linda Jaivin And ed Kuepper

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Halal El Mashakel

Halal El Mashakel
looks at the friendship between two detained asylum seekers

Notes:
part of a two play production called "Let Loose"

1st Produced:
Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo, NSW    13 Jan 2003

Organisations:
Pesto Manifesto

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Genre:
30 mins One act Naturalistic

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93614

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Lucky To Have Them

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1st Produced:
Newtown Theatre, Newtown, NSW    15 Jan 2005

Organisations:
Pesto Manifesto at Short & Sweet Sydney Best Of The Rest Week 1

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79517

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Seeking Djira

Synopsis:
If you insist on sticking your head in the sand, what are you going to do when the tide comes in?

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1st Produced:
fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, VIC    07 Aug 2003

Organisations:
Essential Theatre Company

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Genre:
Full-Length 80 mins Naturalistic comedy satire

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/30012

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