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JEREMY JOHNSON
Nationality: Australian
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Jeremy Johnson is a playwright committed to writing plays which challenge the thematic conventions of our age and say what no one else dares as beautifully as possible.
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Better Than Death Blotto Bohemian Grove Crystal Night Direct From Broadway Winner Of 7 Tony's! Helen Keller, The Musical Palace Of Mention, The Sheltered Workshop, The Speak English Or DieBetter Than Death
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Better Than Death is a two-act play about the role of men in contemporary society. Above all, though, it is about justice. The play opens with the imminent death of Victor's mother, and in a series of flashback scenes, as well as scenes with the family at the nursing home, explores Victor's world and the relationship with his two younger sisters, Lena, and Roxie. At 43 Roxie undergoes IVF treatment to have a child, George, who she raises alone. Lena has borrowed money from their mother to buy a property in the Byron hinterland where she works as a new age therapist/energy/light worker. Finally there is Victor's wife, Caroline, an aristocratic English heiress whom Victor first met as a student in Cambridge during the 1980s. Victor is taught a lesson in real justice and sacrifice by his mother's palliative nurse, Joan. This opens him to a new level of compassion and understanding that, until the demise of his mother, had remained dormant.
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Social realist drama 90 min
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: 1 boy
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Top of PageBlotto
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When American talk-show legend and host of 'Private Lives of the Stars' Harry Zilco arrives in Townsville to kick off the first leg of his Australian tour - only to discover that his syndicated show has been cancelled after ten years - he suffers career meltdown. He and his manager/wife Sonia are offered sanctuary in a boarding house run by Townsville local Joycie Pound and her Aboriginal family. Harry is transformed by the experience of the indigenous Australian cultural divide. He learns that happiness and wisdom are possible outside material and professional attainment, yet cannot help returning to America to capitalise on his new-found status as a channeler of a 40,000-year-old spirit from the Australian Dreamtime.
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black comedy 95 min
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Top of PageBohemian Grove
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A play set in Texas about a rubber chicken that's voted in as President of the United States
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Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama
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Top of PageCrystal Night
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A comedy about Anne Frank set in Auschwitz. A drama about Masha Meyer set in Wollongong. What if Anne Frank were alive today, teaching English to migrant children. In Crystal Night she is tried for war crimes, after being recognized by a former prisoner in the concentration camps.
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Full-Length 90 mins Comedy/drama
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Top of PageDirect From Broadway Winner Of 7 Tony's!
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Wes, a theatre director, and his friend, Lachlan, a computer programmer who is a Christian, embark on a fringe theatre project that leads to complete disaster and a dissolution of their friendship.
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60 mins One act
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Top of PageHelen Keller, The Musical
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Top of PagePalace Of Mention, The
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Top of PageSheltered Workshop, The
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The employees of CAFT, a state government arts funding body, are thrown into a turmoil when funds for a Royal Cultural Exchange program are accidentally given to the wrong theatre company. They have 24 hours to get the funds returned before Prince Charles arrives to award the prize.
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farce 90 min
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Top of PageSpeak English Or Die
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In a Sydney Paddington house, a dare-turned-disaster divides and topples race, religion and belief.
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