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ANGELA MURPHY
Nationality: Australian
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Angela has lived in Cairns since the eighties, observing the city's evolution from last stop on the train line to international tourist destination. Change, and the conflict it brings, provide a rich source of material to write about. Her first play The Boathouse, co-produced by JUTE Theatre, Cairns and The Darwin Theatre Company (2006), reflects a community's battle to fight development and save a much-loved historic building. Her short play Survival Instincts depicts the jungle of the classroom from a teacher's perspective. It resonated with audiences around Australia and was a finalist and award-winner at the Canberra (2010) Sydney (2009) and Brisbane (2009) Short and Sweet Festivals. When not writing plays, Angela Murphy Creative Communications provides professional writing services for media, businesses and individuals. Angela has also written radio and short film scripts, won awards for her short stories and been a writers' festival panel member and workshop presenter throughout North Queensland.
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Boathouse, The Survival What are the Odds?Boathouse, The
Synopsis:
One man can make a difference but not without a cost... Things are changing in the small town of Coralcay. The century-old Boathouse is earmarked for destruction to make way for another high-rise, and local teacher Ray Smallwood is spurred into action to save the historic building. It's a decision that effects both Ray's marriage and his maturity as a man, as collisions between old friendships and new loyalties arise, and saving the Boathouse becomes Ray's watershed. A comedy about an ordinary man who stands up for what he believes in.
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JUTE Theatre, Cairns and The Darwin Theatre Company 2006
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Naturalistic comedy drama 85 min
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depicts the jungle of the classroom from a teachers perspective.
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1st Produced:
Brisbane Short and Sweet Festivals 2009
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short play
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A comedy with heart, What Are The Odds? looks at a middle-aged woman's attempt to accept her life's changing status. When recently divorced Bec, invites her sister Di and childhood friends, real-estate Robbie and earthy Wanda to a suburban Melbourne Cup lunch, she opens old wounds. The day that 'stops the nation' becomes a fast track as the women confront the realities of old relationships, aging mothers and hidden secrets. Set on the back drop of Melbourne Cup Day, What Are The Odds? is both hilarious and moving. As it races towards the finish line the women's fraught but often touching reunion intensifies, exposing parallel conflicts between themselves and their mothers' Melbourne Cup lunch forty years earlier. Bec's celebration of Australia's iconic race will change who she believes she is forever.
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1st Produced:
Jute Theatre, Cairns, Qld 01 Apr 2011
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JUTe (Just Us Theatre ensemble)
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Genre:
Naturalistic drama 90 min
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Male: - Female: 4 Other: -
Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/104399
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