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Frank Wilkie

FRANK WILKIE

  
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Writer and performer Frank Wilkie is a regular in the competitive south-east Queensland drama festival circuit, where he has won several awards for acting and playwriting. The University of Queensland graduate has performed successive and diverse roles for numerous Sunshine Coast theatre companies and in 2009 appeared for the first time at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Frank's training and experience as a writer, honed after two decades of journalism and news editing for regional newspapers, combined with his love of theatre to create Newsroom. The former high school teacher also wrote and directed Good Grief, a black comedy about a needy therapist, which won several awards on the 2009 South-East Queensland drama festival circuit. He lives at Peregian Beach on the Sunshine Coast with his wife and daughter.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/451139

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

         Good Grief         Newsroom         Straits And Narrows

Good Grief

Synopsis:
Ever felt your therapist was more messed up than you? What drives needy and unstable characters to become counsellors? In Good Grief, a man with a tragedy-scarred past falls into the clutches of self-absorbed volunteer counsellor Evelyn Barge who hijacks the therapy session to pursue her own psycho-sexual agenda. Both Evelyn and her client undergo radical transformations during the process but the results and revelations are not what anyone expects.

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Winner of the 2009 Yarregah Drama Festival Adjudicator's Award for Best New Australian Script

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Genre:
43 min comedy

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Newsroom

Synopsis:
There's conflict in the newsroom of traditional Australian newspaper The Heartland Herald as media giant Global Corp moves to 'sex up and dumb down' its latest acquisition. Driven by the need to bolster advertiser dollars and curry favour with a government at war with a noun, Global Corp trouble-shooter Phillip Banks demands a 'lighter, brighter' product. That means more celebrities, sex, and shopping. Uncompromising Heartland editor Geoff Browning and his crew have other ideas and they're not giving up without a fight. A wicked snapshot of the personal, commercial and political agendas shaping headlines in a post 9-11 newsroom.

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Genre:
75 min satire

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Straits And Narrows

Synopsis:
A satirical, fact-based exploration of the characters, challenges and significant events during first global circumnavigation in 1522 led by Ferdinand Magellan.

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Genre:
35 min Historical satire with music for schools

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