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Maryanne Lynch

MARYANNE LYNCH

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Maryanne Lynch works across art forms as a writer, director and dramaturge, and has won several awards for her work. Recent productions include the multi-disciplinary performance work Game Girl (2004, Arena Theatre Company); the one-woman theatre work My Of-Course Life (2004/5, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and JUTE); the radio play The Loss (2003, Radio National); the multi-disciplinary performance work Double Vision (2001, Queensland Performing Arts Centre) and the short film Pyjama Girl (winner of the SBS Eat Carpet Award at 2001 St. Kilda Film Festival). Maryanne is currently Dramaturge-in-Residence at Malthouse Theatre.

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

         Gamegirl         Loss, The         My Of Course Life         Shoe Biz         Toxic

Gamegirl

Synopsis:
Lila is turning ten. On her birthday she receives 'gamegirl', a virtual reality game she has long craved. That's not all she gets: at the same time her parents announce that they are splitting up. Lila moves between the real world and the game worlds as she struggles to come to grips with this and other changes in her life. Faced with choices, she doesn't always make the right one. Eventually however she reaches a resolution of sorts and completes the game. Lila is simultaneously sassy, deceitful, vulnerable and bold. She is a heroine for the contemporary age.

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multidisciplinary drama 70 min

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Loss, The

Synopsis:
Eight-year-old Alice McDonald has gone missing. Who is she? Where is she? And why has she been taken? Alice's disappearance raises more questions than answers. For the general public, the case becomes a cause celebre as it drags in its wake ancient fears and new dangers. For two women who, in different ways, both know Alice, her vanishing raises more personal questions. The Loss is a haunting meditation on the meaning of children, intimacy and loss for contemporary middle Australia. (Variable cast numbers)

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27 mins Radio drama - poetic realism

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My Of Course Life

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Shoe Biz

Synopsis:
A woman is standing in a shoe shop... and has an epiphany of sorts. She finds herself wandering through her psyche as she grapples with the unresolved tensions of her sexual identity. Love, lust and the desire for security vie for dominance and the protagonist, known only as the Woman, must make her choice. Shoe Biz is a short work that depicts familiar situations in unfamiliar ways. It is expressionistic rather than realistic, and employs movement, light and sound as well as the spoken word.

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40 mins Surrealism

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Toxic

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Combining spoken word, movement, projection and soundscape. an aWGIe award-winning performance text about young people and consumption. Includes essays by Lynch, Dr. Brad Haseman on the history of TYP practice and Louise Hollingworth, a leading youth Arts practitioner. Category: education

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Genre:
45 mins One act

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