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Michael Watts

MICHAEL WATTS

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Michael Watts is a poet and playwright and lives in Alice Springs. His plays have been produced in Alice Springs and at the 2002 Adelaide Festival. His plays include 'Under the Rain Tree' (Araluen Theatre Co, Alice Springs 2003), 'Train Dancing' and 'Not Like Beckett' (selected for the 2005 ANPC Conference). He was the visiting Australian playwright for the 2005 Banff Playrites Colony.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/413964

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

         Morgan and Molly         Not Like Beckett         Train Dancing         Under the Rain Tree

Morgan and Molly

Synopsis:
play about the magic, madness and mystery of the desert.

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1st Produced:
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT    30 oct 2009

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre Winter Season 2006

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/84478

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Not Like Beckett

Not Like Beckett
Meet Walter Walloon Beckett! An all-singing, all-dancing, comedian extraordinaire. the last of the famous Beckett clan. And he's a rabbit. . .! With his lucky rabbit foot stuck in a trap on top of a hilltop in outback Australia, Walter has plenty of time to reflect on his less than exemplary life, and his unrequited love for a bilby named Boo Boo. Michael Watt's unique play is a raw and dangerously funny reflection on the colonization of Australia. Playful and razor sharp in turns, Not Like Beckett explores what it is to love and be human, albeit in a 'bunny' sort of way. Michael Watts began writing plays in 2001 and his work was one of the driving forces behind the inception of Red Dust theatre in Alice Springs. Not Like Beckett is one of the most produced new Australian works of recent years, with productions at Malthouse theatre in Melbourne (2006), Deckchair theatre in Freemantle (2007), Red Dust theatre in Alice Springs (2007), Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA) in Lismore (2007) and the Darwin theatre Company (2007).

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1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, VIC    28 Jul 2006

Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre Winter Season 2006

1st Published:
Playlab Press, Australia   978-1921390005

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/69436

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Train Dancing

Synopsis:
Ulysses is an Aboriginal man torn between his love for Violet and his desire to fight for what he sees as the greater good. Ed and Molly might be his parents - and Violet might be his sister. Through the confusion, Ulysses struggles to come to terms with himself, his culture and the forces that affect his daily life. A play about the tragedies of a family and a community divided by racial intolerance, the love binding a young indigenous couple, the battered but not quite worn-out love of a husband and wife and the fear that makes so many of us turn away from love. And through it all - the train.

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Genre:
Full-Length 70 mins Surreal musical drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Under the Rain Tree

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1st Produced:
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT    2003

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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