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Matthew Whittet

MATTHEW WHITTET

  (1975 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    Shanahan Management Pty Ltd  

Matthew Whittet is an actor and writer who has worked extensively in theatre, film and television for the past 15 years. Matt's first play Twelve was workshopped at the National Playwrights Conference in Perth, 2006. His second was Silver, directed by Ben Winspear for Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre in which he also performed solo. In 2010 two further plays premiered in Adelaide; Fugitive (Windmill) andHarbinger (Brink Productions) beginning what has become an ongoing creative bond with the city and its audiences. In the same year, Matt was the Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award recipient sparking the development of the play Old Man which premiered in Belvoir's 2012 Season. Matt's collaboration with Windmill has resulted in four plays with Girl Asleepbeing the most recent. Its predecessors are the Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards winningSchool Dance and Trilogy stable mate Big Bad Wolf. Matt was among the seven 2013-14 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows chosen in 2012. He is currently working on a commission for Belvoir and a screen adaptation of his play Girl Asleep instigated by the Australia Council in conjunction with the Adelaide Festival Hive Fund.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/6744

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         12         Big Bad Wolf         Cinderella         Fugitive - Robin Hood Retold         Girl Asleep         Harbinger, The         Old Man         School Dance         Seventeen         Silver
12

Synopsis:
Trevor is 12 years old. But he's almost 13. He loves Megan. She's not 11 anymore. And his best friend is a giant mouse& called Mousey. 12 is a coming of age story about first loves and the confusing, terrifying, exhilarating nature of first sexual experiences. It's a world of blue light discos, wishing you could dance, 15 year old boys who think they know everything about girls and what they want, and 15 year old girls with minds full of tormenting lies. Using the greek myth of Orpheus in the Underworld, 12 is a fusing of myth and suburban banality. We watch as Trevor is thrust into his own version of the underworld, populated by a terrifying creature known as the Hairman, where he has to come face to face with his fears and kill the thing he loves the most in order to grow up. His innocence. 12 is a play which remembers what it was like to be 12.

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1st Produced:
Workshopped At The National Playwrights Conference In Perth     2006

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

Music:
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Genre:
black comedy 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Big Bad Wolf

Synopsis:
A little girl sets out to find the truth behind the Big Bad Wolf's bad press

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Space, Adelaide, Sa     04 Jul 2013

Organisations:
Windmill Performing Arts

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
TYA

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/103137

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Cinderella

Synopsis:
This Cinderella is not about princes and princesses. It's about a single woman in her early 40s trying to go on a date, and a single guy who has an unreasonable fear of not being heard over loud music in bars. There may not be any ugly sisters, but there's the occasional mysterious animal. There's midnight. There's a shoe. There's dancing. And there's beautiful transformation.

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Downstairs at Belvoir Vol 2, Playlab   

Music:
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Fugitive - Robin Hood Retold

Synopsis:
A young boy is brutally attacked. A young man and his gang take it upon themselves to get retribution and to start a New World Order in Sherwood Forest. The young man - Robin has secrets. Cracks appear and they fight to keep together

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1st Produced:
The Space, Adelaide, Sa     37/2010

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/83036

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Girl Asleep

Synopsis:
A stranger turns up at Greta's fifteenth birthday party. He sends her into a parallel world - an erotic world - a violent world

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1st Produced:
The Space, Adelaide, Sa     28 Feb 2014

Organisations:
Part of Windmill Theatre Trilogy at 2014 Adelaide Festival

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
TYA

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105702

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Harbinger, The

Synopsis:
Girl meets boy. Girl eats boy

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Space, Adelaide     27 Aug 2010

Organisations:
Windmill Performing Arts

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Horror

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89876

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Old Man

Old Man
Daniel wakes up. Something is missing. The phone is not working, and the kids' toys are not in their usual spot under the television. In fact, his wife and children seem to have disappeared. Old Man is Matt Whittet's extraordinary play about fathers and sons, love and loss, kindness and Newtown. It is a beautiful and shockingly simple tale in two parts, which asks if it is possible to wake up one day and make good-enough better.

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1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, Nsw     07 Jun 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
part of Downstairs at Belvoir, Playlab Press, Australia   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105469

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School Dance

Synopsis:
Nerds were heroes in 1980s pop culture films, and in this new work by Windmill theatre (the Wizard of Oz, Clockwork Forest), they reign supreme once again. A sell-out at the 2012 Adelaide Festival, School Dance mashes together BMX heroics, Smurfs and power ballads to create some gloriously goofy and  for those with long memories  achingly real comedy. Set in the special kind of hell that is the school dance, it follows three awkward teens on their hormone-fuelled quest for social acceptability.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Space, Adelaide, Sa     03 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Adelaide Festival

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

Music:
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Genre:
70 min comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105361

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Seventeen

Seventeen
It's the night of the last day of school. And it's over. Finally over! Tom, Mike, Edwina, Sure and Ronny are 17 and they're seriously celebrating. Teetering of the cusp of adulthood, this is the night they say goodbye to adolescence and begin the journey of the rest of their lives. For each of them it's a phoenix moment - exhilarating and sad, scorching and beautiful. Truths are revealed, passions unveiled, relationships are created and fall apart. Everything is changing. Tonight they drink, they dance, they shout and they love. Matthew Whittet's beautiful new play Seventeen is a finely observant, optimistic work about the strains of youth, about transformation and, ultimately, letting go.

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1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW     01 Aug 2015

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Currency Press
Oberon Books (2017) >>>    

Music:
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Genre:
full length play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/110356

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Silver

Synopsis:
A girl wakes one morning. A morning just like any other. And as she shovels down her breakfast she looks out the kitchen window, out to the east, to where the sun has just risen, to the forest that lies just beyond her back fence. And for a moment she sees something. A boy. A young man. Her mother snaps her from her day dream, telling her to go find your father, and tell him his breakfast is getting cold!. She heads outside into the brisk cold morning to discover her Father at the front gate in the distance, talking to someone& a person& who looks like a goat, but has the face of a man. Using the Grimm's fairy tale of the handless maiden as a starting point, and told in four parts, Silver tells the strange and beautiful tale of a young girl as she goes in search of stillness lost.

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1st Produced:
Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre    

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

Music:
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Genre:
50 min poetic monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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