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MAXINE MELLOR
Nationality: Australian
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Maxine Mellor is a multi-award winning playwright from Queensland. Maxine won the Queensland Theatre Company's Young Playwright's Award in 2001 for Stuck, in 2002 for Boy Slaughter, and in 2003 for Little Hitler's Ode to an Austrian Bentwood; QTC's George Landen Dann Award in 2005 forMagda's Fascination with Wax Cats; a Matilda Award for Best New Work for Production in 2005; and a Matilda Award nomination for Best Emerging Artist in 2008. Maxine was selected as an Australian playwright delegate for the International Festival of Young Playwrights 2005. She was made Associate Writer with QTC from 2006-2008 where she wrote Fading Franky Knight with Wooden Eyes Watching / Handicraft, and she is an alumnus of the Australian Theatre for Young People's Fresh Ink writing program 2008 and 2009, attending the ASSITEJ Festival in Adelaide. She received the inaugural Fresh Ink Commission from ATYP in 2010. Her produced work for children includes Desiree Din and the Red Forest for the Australian Theatre for Young People (2010); Maxine Mellor's Mystery Project for the Queensland Theatre Company and the State Library of Queensland (2009); the Shakespeare Channel for Grin & Tonic Education Troupe (2009); and various other plays for schools. Other recent playwriting credits include the Timely Death of Victor Blott for the Dead Puppets Society, and Anna Robi and the House of Dogs. Maxine has authored over twenty plays, many of which have had independent productions throughout Australia. She has worked with numerous companies as a playwright and regularly facilitates writing workshops and tutorials for budding young writers.
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Anna Robi and the House of Dogs Blood Red Heels Dancing On the Street Boy Slaughter Desiree Din and the Red Forest Little Hitler's Ode To An Austrian Bentwood Madgas Fascination with Wax Cats Silver Alps, The Trollop Wizard of Oz, TheAnna Robi and the House of Dogs
Anna Robi and the House of Dogs is a one-act play about the twisted relationship between a bed-bound, guilt-tripping mother and her captive daughter, Anna, in a house overrun by in-bred dogs. It's a play about Anna's search for something pure amid pure filth. It's a play about domestics, dogs, and sex.
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Top of PageBlood Red Heels Dancing On the Street
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Jimmy is desperate to escape from his small town and especially from Brute his father. Brute is the local butcher and has always told his son that he should be tough like meat and not be a sissy
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Top of PageDesiree Din and the Red Forest
Desiree Din is fed up with being told what to do. She fights with her mother and siblings. To escape she creates her own world in the Red Forest. In the forest are many strange mutants who want Desiree to be their leader
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Contained in: "Bustown and Desiree Din" published by Playlab Press 2010 978-1921390081
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Youth play
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Top of PageLittle Hitler's Ode To An Austrian Bentwood
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A group of "Little Hitlers" - a priest, a cowboy a Russian bride and a war veteran.
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Top of PageMadgas Fascination with Wax Cats
Magda wears glasses, has tree-trunk legs and has a bull-bar on her teeth. Everyone that knows her calls her Mong, including her family. Her only friend is a dead cat. But amidst her introverted state and obscure imaginings, Magda is hoarding a very, very dark secret. Magdas lyrical prose takes us deeper into the twisted life and psychology of someone who is too dead to stop it/ too alive to stop it with extraordinary effect.
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Top of PageSilver Alps, The
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Brisbane to Melbourne via the Alps. Three lost souls progress from motel to motel room as Maxine Mellor takes us on a magic real journey along the Great Australian Divide.
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National Play Festival in Adelaide 22 Jul 2015
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Clara is uncomfortably numb. Cocooned in her spartan home, she wallows in tracky-dacks and the misery of the recently jobless, feeding on apathy and the images of natural disaster piped into her living room by the pitiless glare of the TV. Clara is haunted by what she could aspire to if she could break from her funk. Her relentlessly upbeat partner Erik has devised a plan for her to get back on her feet. Instead, she devises a series of increasingly gruesome 'quests' for him. then, one stormy night, a stranger calls - and the chinks in the pair's relationship begin to widen. Uncomfortable truths are revealed and there are hints of horrors to come, as ancient myths are dragged, growling, into the modern day.
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written by Maxine Mellor. Created by Wesley Enoch, Pete Foley, Ben Hughes and david Morton
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Bille Brown Studio, Queensland Theatre Company 01 Aug 2013
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Top of PageWizard of Oz, The
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Uber-creatives the Danger Ensemble, along with award winning writer Maxine Mellor, are set to take you on a journey uncovering once and for all who has the courage, the heart and the brains. This incarnation of the Wizard of Oz is a fairytale for the modern times: of fame, fantasy and those fifteen minutes. What will be at the end of the rainbow? In her tin caravan, walled by Wizard of Oz memorabilia, Judy G. waits. A cyclone is gathering speed over her flyspeck rural town, and shes ready. Shes got a transistor radio; shes got emergency supplies; the TVs tuned to news; things are tied down and taped up. Shes ready, goddamnit. . .And it better not pass over without taking her up in it. Promising a fantasy equal to but disturbingly different from the Oz we know and love, the Danger Ensemble are set to face the challenge of finding a new contemporary relevance for L. Frank Baum's classic novel.
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