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CATHERINE MCKINNON
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Catherine McKinnon studied to be a writer and director at Flinders University Drama Centre. Over a nine-year period she worked for the Red Shed Theatre as a writer, director, Dramaturg, and co-artistic coordinator developing, with colleagues, numerous new Australian plays. Her own plays produced at the Shed are Immaculate Deceptions, A Rose By Any Other Name, Road to Mindanao, and Eye of Another. During this time she also directed plays for the State Theatre Company of SA. Catherine's directing credits there include Diving For Pearls and BarmAIDS, by Katherine Thompson, Three Birds Alighting On A Field, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, and Morning Sacrifice by Dymphna Cusack. After leaving Adelaide she completed a Masters in Creative Writing at UTS. In 2006 she won the Penguin Women's Weekly Award for her short story Haley and the SeA. In 2008 Penguin Viking published her novel, the Nearly Happy Family. Her play Tilt was selected for the 2010 National Playwriting Festival in Brisbane and the High Tide Genesis workshop in London in 2011. As I Lay Dreaming was a finalist in the Seaborne Award, had a reading at Parnassus Den in 2010 and won the Mitch Mathews Award. Catherine has a practice-led PhD from Flinders University and currently lectures in performance and Theatre-making at the University of Wollongong.
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As I Lay Dreaming Eye Of Another Immaculate Deceptions Road to Mindanao Rose By Any Other Name, A TiltAs I Lay Dreaming
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Marco, Lou, and Josie gather by the river to remember their friend, Phoebe, who drowned ten years earlier. their ramblings about the past cause them to enter into a fierce debate about the rule of law, war and its aftermath. Meanwhile, Amy, Lou's ten-year-old daughter, spies on others drawn to the rivera boy attempting to stall his sister from burning all memory of her boyfriend; three school kids smoking cigarettes and disputing love-at-first-sight; two criminals waiting to inform their partner about a terrible accident; a lone footballer searching for his true identity; and two starry-eyed students wrangling over fractals, black holes and the randomness of the universe. Amy also meets Phoebe's ghost, who is strolling the riverbank waiting for someone to cross over from life to death. As I Lay Dreaming follows the interweaving stories of people linked by the events of one night. It's a story about the awkwardness of new beginnings and the suddenness of endings, about love's strange currents and the collision of the rational and the irrational in divining war, sexuality, black holes and the nature of being. But mostly it's about how one small event can change the course of our lives forever.
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finalist in the Seaborne Award, had A reading At Parnassus Den in 2010 And won the Mitch Mathews Award
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70 min poetic realism
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Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: some doubling, larger cast is possible
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Tilt is an exploration of a question: How does terror influence the people we love and the tales we tell? In the wake of a flood and civil unrest a woman gathers up her meagre belongings and, with her two young sons, leaves home and walks to the border. the woman hopes to make a new life in a different country but when she reaches the border everything changes. the woman disappears and the two brothers have to carry on alone, making their way as best they can, until a series of events cause them to lose each other. Across the seas, in another country, an immigrant writer, Sharad, is beginning rehearsals on his play in a soon-to-be-completed theatre venue. It's soon revealed that the story of the two brothers is the play Sharad has written, but confusion arises when the actors delve into the reality of their characters. the narrative of Tilt is fragmented but the fragments collide, echoing each other to form a theatrical vision of the world we are creating. How can we love in a world full of fear? Does the fear of confronting ourselves destroy our most intimate relationships? Or, should some tales not be told? Tilt asks these questions, investigating the humorous, sometimes frightening relationship between love and terror, truth and fiction.
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selected for the 2010 National Playwriting Festival in Brisbane And the High Tide Genesis workshop in London in 2011
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80 min Heightened naturalism, play within a play
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