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Dina Ross

DINA ROSS

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Dina Ross trained as a journalist and initially worked as a broadcaster and producer with BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service in the UK. She has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The Age, where she was a feature writer and reviewer. Dina's plays include Smokescreens (Chapel Off Chapel), Waiting (Festival of One, Bakehouse Theatre Adelaide, Fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne, Green Room Award nominee), and Trio (La Mama, Bakehouse Theatre Adelaide and regional centre tour, Fortyfivedownstairs). Dina has been an Affiliate Writer with Melbourne Theatre Company (Summer Season ) and with Red Stitch (Cropped). Cropped went on to win the Virtual Theatre Playwriting Award USA in 2011. Chrysalis (Carlton Courthouse, La Mama) is published by Currency Press. Dina's shorter plays have been presented by A is for Atlas, Looking Glass Theatre New York, at Short & Sweet Festival in Sydney and on BBC and ABC Radio. The Suitcase, winner of the Gippsland Theatre Festival Playwriting Award, was presented at the Short & Sweet One Act Play Festival in Sydney and also featured in MKA Theatre of New Writing's inaugural Melbourne season. In 2015 Dina's black comedy, Muffins At the Death Cafe premiered at the Metanoia Theatre, Mechanics Institute, Brunswick

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/9285

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

         After Moravia         As We Read Samuel Beckett         Binned         Chrysalis         Cropped         In the Wings         Just Visiting         Masterpiece         MRI         Muffins At the Death Cafe         Reading Beckett         Smokescreens         Suitcase, The         Summer Season         Trio         Waiting

After Moravia

Synopsis:
Two estranged lovers re-enact their first meeting with surprising results.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, VIC     2002

Organisations:
Seduction Opera

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18589

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As We Read Samuel Beckett

Synopsis:
Three people meet by chance in a supermarket and find they all have a love for the works of Samuel Beckett. they become friends. Simpkin falls for Rosa but Rosa loves Litvinoff. Litvinoff, however, is gay.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, VIC     2002

Organisations:
Seduction Opera

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18589

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Binned

Synopsis:
Binned is a surreal, fast-moving two-hander about two half-naked men trapped inside two garbage bins. Comic and wickedly satirical, nothing is as it seems.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, VIC     22 Sep 2004

Organisations:
St Kilda Bangs!; Melbourne Fringe Festival 2004

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short surreal play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65999

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Chrysalis

Chrysalis
Chrysalis is a legal drama inspired by the cases of English and Australian mothers being jailed due to multiple Sudden Infant Death Syndrome incidents. This brilliant, deeply thematic script is a legal drama and a psychological in-depth exploration of character. The audience will be intrigued by questions of the mother's guilt or innocence, and the convoluted workings of the legal system

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Carlton Courthouse, Carlton, VIC     06 Aug 2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/76666

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Cropped

Synopsis:
Magda, a famous photographer, alienated her family when she was alive. Obsessed by her art, she had little time for ordinary people. After her death, Magda's daughter and grand-daughter, now living in Australia, return to Paris to mount a retrospective of her work, hoping to sell many unique pieces and clear Magda's debts. They discover an unknown cache of photographs of nude adolescent boys. Should they exhibit them or not? And who are the models? The truth threatens to split Magda's family apart all over again.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Red Stitch     2011

Organisations:
Red Stitch

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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In the Wings

Synopsis:
Illusions, delusions and facades around relationships are explored

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, VIC     2002

Organisations:
Seduction Opera

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18589

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Just Visiting

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Newtown Theatre, Newtown, NSW     23 Jan 2005

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Best Of The Rest Week 2

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79521

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Masterpiece

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of MelBorn readings

1st Produced:
[reading] Australian Centre Of Performing Arts, North Melbourne, VIC     Jun 2008

Organisations:
Melbourne Writers' Theatre,

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78474

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MRI

Synopsis:
Duets for Actor and Musician is a theatrical installation which reinterprets the form of the monologue as a score for multiple parts. Unstitching notions of the singular subject, this collaboration between director, three writers, three actors, three musicians, and three visual artists delivers the solo instead as a song for two...

Notes:
part of Duets for Actor and Musician

1st Produced:
The Linen Room, Abbotsford, VIC     19 Nov 2008

Organisations:
A is for Atlas

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96697

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Muffins At the Death Cafe

Synopsis:
Six perfect strangers sign up to a Death Cafe programme, where they confront love, loss, mortality and discover a great deal about life and about themselves. This is the first play ever to delve into the death cafe phenomenon sweeping the world, and deals with a taboo subject with compassion, sensitivity and a great deal of black humour.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Metanoia Theatre, Mechanics Institute Brunswick     2015

Organisations:
Larrikin Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Reading Beckett

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Smokescreens

Synopsis:
about love, lust, longing and loss.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chapel Off Chapel     2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Three One Act Plays One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Suitcase, The

Synopsis:
When A returns home with a suitcase stuffed full of memories from the country she fled ravaged by war, she and her lover B must find closure and reconciliation.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Short+Sweet One Act Play Festival Sydney     2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Summer Season

Synopsis:
Razor-sharp play reading about clash of cultures and razz of pantomime

Notes:
part of Hard Lines Playreadings

1st Produced:
[Reading] Grant Street Theatre, Southbank, Vic     22 Nov 2007

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78478

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Trio

Synopsis:
One year after his death in suspicious circumstances, the three men closest to classical violin virtuoso Karl Munch - his agent, brother and lover - reflect on his legacy

Notes:
Tour Country Victoria 2007, Tour East Coast Australia - part of Six Pack Productions 2008

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  performs three roles

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/71692

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Waiting

Synopsis:
Three one act plays about waiting performed by one actress. In Boo Boo Be Doo a Marilyn Monroe impersonator waits for her big chance; In Maybe Bach, a cynical 40 something waits for a blind date. In At the Centre, an exhausted wife waits for her partner in a rehab. centre.

Notes:
Fortyfivedownstairs theatre, Melbourne 2003

1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre Adelaide     2002

Organisations:
Festival of One

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue/s 90 mins One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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