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SALLY MCKENZIE
Nationality: Australianemail: n/a Website: Click here
Literary Agent: Kubler Auckland Management
Since graduating from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1977, Sally's work as a playwright and filmmaker has been informed by over 30 years of extensive experience in the entertainment industry. An award winning actor, as a writer her plays include i dot luv dot u:, Scattered Lives, A Safer Place and multimedia episodes. As a film writer and director, short films include Shopping for Baby, no man's land, Death by Art and 52-minute documentary actingclassof1977.com.
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Bonkers Episodes i dot luv dot u: Safer Place, A Scattered LivesBonkers
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Top of PageEpisodes
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Set in the 2015, baby-boomer documentary filmmaker Cass has Rapidly Advancing Dementia (RAD), a condition accelerated by the anxiety attacks she suffers in response to her inability to deal with electronic devices. She signs up to ESol, an internet-based euthanasia program. During Cass' final 24 hours she finishes and delivers her documentary on RAD, talks via videophone to daughter Gracie and boyfriend Dylan and visits her dementia-inflicted mother at the Post Mature Residential Care Facility (PMRCF). Cass then indulges herself at Club CAD before returning home to prepare for the release of the cyanide in the capsule in her arm. But the technology Cass has enlisted to take control of her exit malfunctions during the final seconds of delivery, a situation that brings on a heart attack for Cass, which acerbates her dementia so that she ends up at the PMRCF in the room next to her mother. episodes explores anxiety and memory in a futuristic society dominated by communication technology. This dark comedy Drama uses body-in-space, video, soundscape, music and virtual environments to depict a world increasingly controlled by electronically programmed appliances.
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Main screen characters Are Dylan, Cass' boyfriend, 20 years younger than Cass And her daughter Gracie. Other characters include Dr Robertson, Receptionist Liam, 6 documentary subjects And Club CAD Nostalgia Cone Man. Play contains sound track of electronic devices voice-overs.
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Metro Arts, Brisbane 2006
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Brisbane Festival and Coalface Communications Pty Ltd
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Sci-fi dark comedy Drama
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Composer technophobe Tom has to leave his hometown because of his mother's promotion. After the first day of Year 11 at his new school, Tom meets the girl next door, fellow Year 11 student techno-savvy Emily. On MSN that night Emily tells her friend Tess she's decided to ask Tom to the semi formal. During their daily trips home from school Emily finds herself increasingly tongue-tied. She wants to ask Tom to the semi but he might say no. Meanwhile, Tom puts Emily's behavior down to his own social ineptness and resolves to cure his electronic communication phobia. He pretends to be in a video clip acting out a song. As he sings, he sends Emily a text with the song's lyric, i dot luv dot u, by mistake. The next day Tom, initially remorseful about the text, finds himself defending his position. As they part, Emily plucks up the courage to ask Tom to the semi. To the song If I Knew What You Were Thinking Tom and Emily attend the semi then listen to music in Tom's bedroom. The first day back after holidays Tom and Emily continue their discussions about Life as they walk home from school.
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Original songs with lyrics by Sally McKenzie And music by Nick Stewart include: Leaving Home/Just Met Em (Tom), And There She Was (Tom), this the sit (Emily & Female Vocals), b with u (Tom & Emily), i dot luv dot u (Tom), this the sit refrain, If I Knew What U Were Thinking (Tom, Emily, Female Vocals And Song for Em (Tom). All music rights sourced through Coalface Communications Pty Ltd.
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Various venues in Brisbane high schools 2006
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Queensland Arts Council in assoc with Coalface Communications P/L
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Coalface Communications P/L, 2007 978-0958051613
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Comedy Drama with songs
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: As voice-overs
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Top of PageSafer Place, A
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Newly made friends Elleni from Ethiopia and Anglo-Celtic Australian Alice, play games down the back of the garden where they also meet and hear the stories of recent arrivals Nafiseh, Zahra, Tuqa and Aduk and who come from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq and Sudan.
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Originally written As A 2 hander, with 8 nominated parts can be played by larger cast.
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Brisbane primary schools 2003
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Queensland Arts Council
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Children's Drama
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Top of PageScattered Lives
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Scattered Lives shares the journeys of refugees from Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Turkey, Chile, Vietnam and Afghanistan, charting their emotions when fleeing their countries of origin, when arriving in Australia and their ongoing experiences as they adjust to their new life circumstances. Episodic in form, Narrators introduce Dramatized scenes, duologues, 4-handers and monologues and intermittently step out of the action to directly address the audience. Interweaving through the major scenes, are the experiences of refugees from Algeria, Austria, Bosnia, Chile, Czechoslovakia, El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine and the former Republic of Yugoslavia.
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Originally written And performed As A 2-hander, the published edition includes over 14 speaking roles.
1st Produced:
La Boite Theatre & Brisbane high schools 2001
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Queensland Arts Council, La Boite Theatre Company, Coalface Communications P/L
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Coalface Communications P/L, 2002 958-051607
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