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BARRY LOWE

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Sydney based Australian playwright, Barry Lowe began his theatrical career as a lighting operator/actor/writer in children's Theatre. To pay the bills he worked as a journalist/production editor and performing Arts critic on magazines as diverse as "the National Times", "the Newcastle Morning Herald", "Theatre Australia", and "Performing Arts News" before joining the staff of the national gay magazine, "Campaign". He went on to edit the magazine for almost seven years. While at "Campaign" his autobiographical sex romp: Writer's Cramp, was presented as a Festival of Sydney Fringe event. He followed it up with ego Positioning and then formed his own Theatre company which performed a new work every six weeks at the Balmain Town Hall Hotel. His work moved interstate when the Barricade was produced at La Mama, followed by Dragon Fly and Sal, his first time working with Oz director Robert Chuter. their partnership resulted in the highly successful Shakin' the Blues away, the Death of Peter Pan [two seasons at La Mama and Universal Theatre], as well as adaptations of the Great Gatsby, a Difficult Young Man, the Turn of the Screw [Rippon Lea] and four productions of Homme Fatale in Melbourne and Perth. Homme Fatale, his most acclaimed play has also been produced in Adelaide, Brisbane, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Rome]. Barry's many plays include: Drycleaning the Shroud of Turin, auntie Magnesia and the Sex Museum, Seeing Things, Relative Merits, Rehearsing the Shower Scene from 'Psycho', Dutch Courage, Tokyo Rose, the extraordinary annual General Meeting of the Size-Queen Club, Scam! She's No angel - a Mae West Vaudeville and Oscar Wilde's the Importance of Being earnest [as Performed by the Inmates of Reading Gaol]. He co-wrote [with Andrew Creagh] the screenplay for Richard Turner's film, Violet's Visit. His short stories have appeared both in Australian and overseas anthologies.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/4627

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        7 Blowjobs         Auntie Magnesia and the Sex Museum         Barricade, The         Basic Plumbing         By the Short And the Curlies         Class Apart, A         Death Of Peter Pan, The         Diary Of A Nobody, The         Difficult Young Man, A         Dragon Fly         Drycleaning the Shroud Of Turin         Dutch Courage         Ego Positioning         Elbow Grease         Extraordinary Annual General Meeting Of the Size Queen Club, The         Finishing School, The         Funny Bugger: Kenneth Williams Carries On         Get Happy         Great Gatsby, The         Heir Raising         Homme Fatale: the Fast Life & Slow Death Of Joey Stefano         Indecent Exposure: Snapshots Of Robert Mapplethorpe         Lettuce Cutlets         Lip Service         Lyrics For A Lost Love Song         Nowadays         Oscar Wilde's the Importance Of Being Earnest [As Performed By the Inmates Of Reading Gaol]         Our Lady Of the Lavatory         Out Of Bounds         Pernickety Split!         Rehearsing the Shower Scene From "Psycho"         Relative Merits         Rosaleen: Wicked Witch Of the Cross         Sal         Saving Face         Seeing Things         Shakin' the Blues Away         She's No Angel: A Mae West Vaudeville         Tadzio         Teleny or the Reverse Of the Medal         There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden         Thousand And One Night Stands, A: the Life Of Jon Vincent         Tokyo Rose         Trench Mouth         Turn Of the Screw, The         Writer's Cramp