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Mark Rogers

MARK ROGERS

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Mark Rogers is a director, performer and playwright. He graduated with Honours (Class I) from the University of Wollongong in 2010. His previous work includes, as a director: Gobbledygook (Bodysnatchers in association with PACT centre for Emerging Artists and the Sydney Fringe; Adelaide Fringe); As a playwright: Soothsayers (Bodysnatchers and Brisbane Festival: Under the RADAr), Blood Pressure (Bodysnatchers and TRS, Old Fitzroy Theatre), Juliet and Romeo (fca), ant & CLEO (fca). He has also undertaken several internships and secondments with main-stage companies focusing on new Australian writing, most notably working on Neighbourhood Watch at Belvoir, Furious Mattress at Malthouse Theatre and with Playwrighting Australia as a part of the 2011 National Play Festival. He is co-artistic director of Bodysnatchers and a founding member of Applespiel.

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         Ant & Cleo         Blood Pressure         Gobbledygook         Juliet and Romeo         Plastic         Soothsayers         St Joan of the Stockyards         Superheroes         Western
Ant & Cleo

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Fca    

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Blood Pressure

Synopsis:
Two brothers, Michael and Adam, are in a hotel bathroom an hour before Michael is due to play at a piano recital. Michael is late. Adam keeps vomiting. When the details of Adam's sickness become clear, both men have to make huge and difficult decisions. A razor sharp exploration of the dynamics of brotherhood, Blood Pressure examines guilt, choice and the effects of chronic illness.

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Genre:
poetic realism 65 min

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Gobbledygook

Synopsis:
Yes Yes Yes Hello? No sorry actually I'm not here.

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written by Mark Rogers and Aileen Huyhn

1st Produced:
Pact Theatre, Erskineville, Nsw     21 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Bodysnatchers and Sydney Fringe Festival

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Play/Drama

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93656

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Juliet and Romeo

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Fca    

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Plastic

Synopsis:
At the turn of the millennium, a young physicist makes an extraordinary discovery. This discovery has the potential to revolutionise information technology in the 21st Century. He becomes a legend in his field, a hero to his peers, a rockstar. Two years later hes in disgrace, and exile, hated by the people who had catapulted him to fame. Plastic takes the high-stakes world of science publishing and creates an allegory for a world in crisis. One-third satire and two-thirds psychodrama, Plastic sinks its teeth in morality, the modern world, and a fierce desire to succeed at all costs.

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1st Produced:
Old 505 Theatre, Newtown, NSW     31 Oct 2017

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Bodysnatchers and Old 595 Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/145570

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Soothsayers

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1st Produced:
Bodysnatchers And Brisbane Festival: Under The Radar    

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St Joan of the Stockyards

Synopsis:
If the system's rigged against you, what can you believe in? St Joan of the Stockyards is a searing critique of capitalism and a rallying battle cry for modern day activists and anarchists. The Joan of Arc myth is reimagined by influential German playwright Bertolt Brecht and set against the backdrop of a crumbling city in the grip of a snowstorm.

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove, QLD     23 May 2020

Organisations:
La Boite Theatre Company; Creative Industries: QUT

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/148305

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Superheroes

Synopsis:
In Thirroul, Emily sits on the beach with her sort-of-ex-sort-of-not boyfriend, trying to figure out how to deal with her unwanted pregnancy. In Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jana goes out to get groceries and slams into the day-to-day reality of the European refugee crisis. Superheroes is a play about two women on opposite sides of the world living small lives in a time of big politics. Its a play that parallels two very different lives to ask questions about what it means to take responsibility for your actions, and what it means to change your mind.

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1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW     04 Sep 2020

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1st Published:
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS) (4 Sept. 2020)   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/148250

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Western

Synopsis:
Drawing on the genres of road movie and mythic quest, Western maps the nature of desire, fear of intimacy and our capacity to love. A story unfolds as a young bride on the run picks up a man left for dead beside the road. He is dressed as a cowboy but the chaps are fake. A sense of separation and longing for intimacy pervade the landscape as they travel into the unknown heart of the desert. they provoke each other to reveal themselves, uncovering the raw emotion and candour beneath the masks and lies

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written by Tara Jakszewicz and Mark Rogers

1st Produced:
The Performance Space, Redfern, Nsw     05 Nov 1999

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Genre:
multimedia

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/26479

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