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SUSAN ROGERS
Nationality: Australian
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Susan Rogers is a writer and an acclaimed visual artist. Susan adapted Robert Dessaix's Night Letters for the stage with Chris Drummond and which was shortlisted for a 2005 NSW premier's Literary Award and nominated for several Helpmann and Vic Green Room Awards in 2005. Her play Beetle Graduation was produced by Brink Productions at the Adelaide Festival Centre in 2008. Her scripts for performance include the ABC-commissioned radio dramasDark Moment, written as a solo work for Peter Carroll, and Derelict Woman, written for Ruth Cracknell, Cloak of Feathers and Invertebrate Trilogy. Susan's plays have been short-listed twice for New Dramatists, New York USA as well as for the Griffin Theatre Colonial Award. As an acclaimed visual artist, Ms Rogers came to the theatre in the 1980s after creating a series of portraits over plaster casts of the faces of well known Australian theatrical identities, including actors John Gaden and the late Ruth Cracknell.
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Cloak Of Feathers Derelict Woman Invertebrate Trilogy Night LettersCloak Of Feathers
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Scenes from a war-ravaged town are held in stark contrast with the songs and storytelling of a raven and a soldier. 'Cloak of Feathers' is about war, silenced women and the possibility of new beginnings. The action takes place in an apocalyptic landscape. The language is highly original, a mix of myth, poetry and vision; the raven character is an intriguing and perplexing archetype. The play is structured like music, it has a melody and a sense of being a score.
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100 mins One Act
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Male: 9 Female: 9 Other: Flexible cast plus chorus. Variable genders for some roles. 18-30 roles
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The woman, the city, the individual, the fine line and the absence of dereliction in the womans voice allow me to push against the expected and ask questions of myself and the audience. It is a piece of images and I hope they would be carried away and pondered long after the performance. We make such assumptions about others and about how others see us and all the while we are rushing blindly from day to day. This woman, this city, this individual, this every-person says '. . .I walk past you, cross in front, and my shadow joins yours, yet you see nothing. The pitch of my song makes you shudder.' This is a fragment of life in a city, and yet momentous because she has started to speak. Why?
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Monologue/s 40 mins
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Three short pieces linked by ideas rather than by characters. Metamorphosis, desire, loss. The flight/transformation/death of a woman is alluded to in each piece. Death as the expression of mortality (Beetle). Death as departure (Cicada). Death as ecstasy (Grasshopper). Through these forms of death we experience the metamorphosis of man beetle and man. Could also be done with 4F and 2M.
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Full-Length 60 mins Play/Drama
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An Australian man, recently diagnosed with an incurable disease, leaves his home, his lover, their life, and travels through Europe in search of answers to unanswerable questions. On his journey he encounters extraordinary people who share with him extraordinary tales. And then, reaching Venice, every night for twenty nights he writes a letter home, to his lover in Australia. Through the totality of its various fables and narratives, its conflicts and dramas, as the man's world becomes increasingly colour-filled with characters, struggling as he is struggling - with desire for intimacy and escape, for understanding and meaning, for any way to beguile time - Night Letters begins to soar across time and space, from the personal to the global. At the pinnacle of his search for answers, standing there, in a foreign world groaning under the weight of human decay, his own body riddled with disease, this Australian man finds his mind suddenly wandering back - home to his love, home to a piece of pristine bushland on the outskirts of his city, home to another way of living.
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written by Susan Rogers, Chris Drummond; Inspired by the novel by Robert Dessaix
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Magical Realism - AIDS, 180 min
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: The doubling of roles is key to the themes of the play
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