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Norman Price

NORMAN PRICE

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Norman Price, (playwright/director/actor/Theatre scholar), graduated from NIDA (Acting) in 1961. Norman has worked for over 30 years in the Theatre industry both in Australia and overseas. He lectured in Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne as well as the Universities of Paris 8, Frankfurt, Giessen and Bari. In April 1996 his play the Other Mother was performed in Europe, and in 1998 his play Barking Dogs was performed at Experimetro (Metro Arts) after being workshopped in Paris in 1997. Barking Dogs was published by Playlab Press in 2002. A multimedia project, Hand Luggage, was performed in Brisbane in June 2002, and a community-based performance project the Sugar Mill Project was presented in Nambour, QLD in November 2001. His play Urban Dingoes, commissioned by La Boite Theatre, was performed at the Roundhouse Theatre in 2004 in association with the Energex Brisbane Festival. Urban Dingoes was published by Playlab Press in 2004. In 2005 his play Kitchen Diva was commissioned by LaBoite Theatre and produced in 2008. Pineapple Queen was produced by La Boite in 2009 with Lisa O'Neill in the title role. Together with his work in the Theatre industry Norman continues to teach in Performance Studies.

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

         Barking Dogs         Hand Luggage         Kitchen Diva         Other Mother         Pineapple Queen         Sugar Mill Project, The         Urban Dingoes

Barking Dogs

Barking Dogs
Three sisters come together for one final remembrance of their dead father. As much younger women, they made a promise to each other, and it is time to lay their father, and their past lives, to rest. Barking Dogs is a poetic work of profound depth and complexity from an author who challenges the conventions of the traditional theatre and makes an important new contribution to Australian performance writing. With an introduction to the work of Norman Price by the director of the first production, Markus Wessendorf, this volume examines the familial and cultural inheritances embedded in the Australian psyche.

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1st Produced:
Experimetro (Metro Arts)    -

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1st Published:
Playlab Press, 2002   090815674X

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Hand Luggage

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Brisbane, Australia    Jun 2002

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multi media

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Kitchen Diva

Kitchen Diva
A three course feast of cooking, music and mayhem! With a repertoire of favourites from Shirley Bassey, Barbara Streisand, Tom Jones, George Gershwin and Elvis Presley comes "Kitchen Diva" - a sassy and witty kitchen cabaret, underpinned by the dark layer that make up the relationship triangle between Joe, his mother and Megan.

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1st Produced:
-    2005

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La Boite Theatre

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Playlab Press, the La Boite Theatre Company 2007/08 Season Bundle.   978-0908156771

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musical Drama

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Other Mother

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Pineapple Queen

Pineapple Queen
All she ever wanted was to be crowned the Glasshouse District's Pineapple Queen  wearing a magnificent dress, riding on a float down the main street of Nambour, waving at an adoring crowd, and catching the eye of a handsome young man  a glamorous new life away from the confines of the farm she grew upon with her cruel father. Never in her wildest dreams did she believe it would actually come true. The Pineapple Queen is a darkly comic tale that is at once poetic fable and danse macabre.

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1st Produced:
-    2009

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La Boite Theatre

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Playlab Press   978 1 921390 96 8

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Drama, Fantasy, Physical

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Sugar Mill Project, The

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Nambour, Qld    Nov 2001

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community-based performance project

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Urban Dingoes

Urban Dingoes
Claire is in her old age, but you wouldn't know it. She sees herself so differently from her children, who have grown up to be mean and full of bile. the children descend upon the family home like carrion dogs to deal with the matter of their ageing mother once and for all. they have come to tear Claire and her world to pieces and feast upon the remains of her life and home. However, Claire has prepared a surprise party for them of Gothic proportions. Urban Dingoes is darkly comic, with a macabre twist at the end. Exorcism of the living, not the dead, an expiation of memory, and attachment are all explored in this deeply poetic play that continues the author's examination of the familial and cultural inheritances embedded in the Australian psyche.

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1st Produced:
Roundhouse Theatre    2004

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La Boite Theatre

1st Published:
Playlab Press, 2004   -

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