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Alison Mann

ALISON MANN

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Alison Mann received the Melbourne Dramatists Emerging Playwright Award, supported by Melbourne Theatre Company for her play Tabula Rasa! that premiered at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2008. Her play She's Not Performing had a sell-out season at La Mama, Melbourne in 2010. Alison's short play You Make Me was performed in the Short and Sweet Festival Sydney (2007) and Melbourne (2006). She received a First Draft Award from Playworks (Sydney) in 2006. Her piece Baby/Doll was part of the 3DFest showcase at the Malthouse, Melbourne (2005) and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2004). She studied writing for performance at the Royal Court Theatre and Soho Theatre in London as part of their Young Writers' Programme between 2001 and 2003. She has a keen interest in the interaction of language, physicality, gender, the erotic and the forgotten places between childhood and adulthood. Alison is currently working on a new play with dramaturg Maude Davey.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/426748

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

         Baby/Doll         She's Not Performing         Tabula Rasa!         You Make Me

Baby/Doll

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2004

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She's Not Performing

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Margarite visits a strip club and sees a stripper who is a mirror image of herself. She begins to believe that this could be the daughter she was pressured to adopt out as a teenager. The men in her life, her younger boyfriend Iain and close friend Hamish, play pivotal roles in deciphering the mystery of Margarite's obsession with the young dancer and her hyper-sexualised world. She's Not Performing journeys through the psyche of a woman in search of a child she once lost, grappling with subconscious fantasies and fears about her ability to reclaim her identity as a mother. Pulsing with bold images and stripped-back language, it's a darkly surreal and tender look at past adoption practices in Australia and the impact they have in the present day.

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La Mama, Carlton, VIC    18 Aug 2010

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hyper-realism/surrealism 70 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89656

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Tabula Rasa!

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Tabula Rasa! is made up of three scenarios that take a disturbing and beautiful look at modern reproduction, gender and sexuality. In Scenario One (Children) a couple wrestle with unexpected pregnancy, in Scenario Two (Baby/Doll) a young woman with post-natal depression talks to her childhood doll and in Scenario Three (Vanish Club) a young man entrenched in the world of nightclub sleaze, contemplates what could have been after his girlfriend has an abortion. Blending heightened language, tenderness and a touch of the surreal Tabula Rasa! explores people at odds with themselves and the reality of bringing a child into the world.

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heightened realism/surrealism 45 min

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You Make Me

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1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC    13 Dec 2006

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Short and Sweet 2006 Week 3

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short play

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/76055

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