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Wayne Macauley

WAYNE MACAULEY

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Wayne Macauley studied at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama in 1979-80. He wrote and performed A Hunger Artist (adapted from the Kafka short story) at La Mama, Anthill and Belvoir Street, co-wrote and directed the theatre/cabaret shows Tick Where Applicable, The Last Resort and Slave Clowns Of The Third Reich (at Last Laugh, Anthill and Adelaide Festival Fringe) and directed his own play The Colony at the Athenaeum 2. He wrote and associate-directed 87.8 Gravel Pit Opera for the 2001 Festival Of The Southern Ocean in Mallacoota and wrote the Melbourne Workers' Theatre production of Tower Of Light, performed at the 1999 Melbourne Festival and winner of a 1999 Victorian Green Room Award for Innovation/New form. He recently wrote the highly successful site-specific work, The Teratology Project, created by the Institute of Complex Entertainment. Wayne is also a widely published short story writer with stories in Meanjin, Overland, Westerly and others, was the winner of the 1995 Age Short Story com

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

         Colony, The         Demons         Hunger Artist, A         Last Resort         Messengers, The         Teratology Project, The         Tower of Light         Transit Camp

Colony, The

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Athenaeum Ii Theatre, Melbourne    1986

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Demons

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Based on the novel "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Bullens Lane, Melbourne, VIC    11 Oct 2001

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Adaptation

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Hunger Artist, A

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One of the "exhibits" at the sideshow is a man starving himself to death

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Based on A short story by Franz Kafka

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La Mama, Melbourne    1980

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Last Resort

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Anthill Theatre, Melbourne    1987

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Messengers, The

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For years the two messengers have carried their missives from the battle front to their generals. When they meet this time they decide to try and do something to stop a seemingly never ending war. they exchange uniforms and go to the opposing generals

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tragicomedy, absurdism 75 mins

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Teratology Project, The

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the action takes place in a disused hospital. the audience all have to give dna samples when they arrive - they are then split into four groups and taken in turn to four different parts of the hospital. Room One the Virgin and the Unborn Messiah. Room Two the Red Room. Room Three Death and the Very Old Man.. Room Four - the Four Sisters

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Institute of Complex entertainment

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Tower of Light

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Unashamedly big, bold and brash, Tower of Light reveals a world worshipping at the alter of gaming culture. Melbourne Workers theatre takes its audience on an exhilerating journey where to win and to win at all costs has become the only motivation to keep on living. Brimming with satire, farce and the grotesque, Tower of Light takes a blowtorch to the economic madness underpinning contemporary culture. It features an electrifying cast of performers, community groups, live music, physical theatre, visual media and large scale design. From the company who brought you the award-winning Who's

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Cattle Pavilion 1, Flemington, Vic (Melbourne Festival)    17 Oct 1999

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Melbourne Workers Theatre

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multimeadia satire

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Transit Camp

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the audience arrive at a piece of waste ground. It is a refugee camp. the refugees - including the dead ones - tell their stories

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Big West Festival    2003

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