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Anne-Louise Sarks

ANNE-LOUISE SARKS

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Anne-Louise Sarks is the resident director at Belvoir. She works professionally as an actor, director and dramaturg. In 2011, Anne-Louise held the positions of Associate Artist for Belvoir, Director in Residence at the Malthouse Theatre Company and from 2010-2013 Artistic Director of The Hayloft Project. For Belvoir, Anne-Louise has directed Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, directed and co-wroteMedea, was assistant director on The Wild Duck and dramaturg onThyestes. Her most recent work Medea won five 2013 Sydney Theatre Awards including Best Direction, Best Mainstage Production and Best New Australian Work. It was also awarded an AWGIE for Best Stage Play and nominated for four 2013 Helpmann Awards including Best Direction, Best New Australian Work and Best Play. Her other theatre credits include The Seed (Melbourne Theatre Company); The Nest, Yuri Wells and By Their Own Hands (The Hayloft Project). Her acting credits include The Suicide, By Their Own Hands (B Sharp/ The Hayloft Project); 3XSisters, The Only Child (The Hayloft Project, Best Independent Production, Sydney Theatre Awards); Return to Earth (Melbourne Theatre Company); The Spook (Malthouse Theatre); and Starchaser (Arena Theatre Company)

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/418342

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         By Their Own Hands         Medea         Nest, The         Nora         Yuri Wells
By Their Own Hands

Synopsis:
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Notes:
devised by Benedict Hardie & Anne-Louise Sarks

1st Produced:
Lawler Studio, Southbank, Vic     13 Jun 2013

Organisations:
2013 Neon Festival of Independent Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/107224

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Medea

Medea
Two boys are playing a game. They fight, they laugh, they jump up and down, they play dead. Downstairs, their parents  Medea and Jason  are arguing. As the shouting gets louder, their bedroom will no longer be able to protect them from the violence of the outside world. Their iconic fate, at the hands of their mother, will ensure that they enter mythology as two of the most tragic siblings of all time.

Notes:
Original Playwright: Euripides. Adapted by Anne Louise Sarks and Kate Mulvany

1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW     11 Oct 2012

Organisations:
Belvoir

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation 75 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105473

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Nest, The

Synopsis:
Victor, an aging widower, lives in a subdivided house with his grown-up children and foster son, two lodgers, a live-in housekeeper, and their many guests. To Victor's dismay, his sprawling home has become a hub for a new generation he doesn't understand. Under the one roof they live, fight, dance, pray, drink, love, and try to find a way out, in this darkly comic play about the ends of youth, the beginnings of disillusion, and a new generation struggling to fly.

Notes:
written by Benedict Hardie & Anne-Louise Sarks

1st Produced:
Studio 1, Northcote Town Hall, Northcote, Victoria     04 Dec 2010

Organisations:
Hayloft Project

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Contemporary Naturalism 90 min

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90380

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Nora

Synopsis:
Nora Helmer is one of those iconic fictional characters who has taken on a life of her own. In 1879, at the end of Henrik Ibsens new play A Dolls House, she did the unthinkable: she walked out the front door of the house she lived in with her husband and children, slammed the door behind her, and left. In 2014, Noras dilemma remains the same: how much will a woman put up with and why? And what is the alternative? Kit Brookman and Anne-Louise Sarks update of Ibsens resounding play sets Noras story here and now, beginning with Ibsens tale and then following Nora out the door and into the future

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Kit Brookman and Anne-Louise Sarks

1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW     09 Aug 2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/110225

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Yuri Wells

Synopsis:
Yuri Wells an ageing care nurse harbours many secrets

Notes:
devised by Benedict Hardie & Anne-Louise Sarks

1st Produced:
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide     12 Feb 2010

Organisations:
Hayloft Project

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/84089

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