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Tim Winton

TIM WINTON  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    Jenny Darling and Associates  


TIM WINTON s literary reputation was established early when his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the 1981 Australian Vogel Award; his second novel Shallows won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984; and his third book, Scission, a collection of short stories, won the West Australian Council Literary Award in 1985. He has had countless literary successes, but perhaps it is his fifth novel, Cloudstreet, that he is best known for. It is the story of two working-class families rebuilding their lives, and was a huge literary and commercial success. It has been a bestseller since its publication in 1991 and was recently voted the most popular Australian novel by the Australian Society of Authors. Cloudstreet was adapted for the stage by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo, and published by Currency Press. It played to sell-out houses around Australia and in Zurich, London and Dublin in 1999. It toured internationally again in 2001, playing in London, New York and Washington.

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

 Rising Water         Shrine         Signs of Life

Rising Water

Rising Water
Only loosely tethered to shore but never ready to set sail, Col, Baxter and Jackie have made a jumble of boats in a Fremantle marina their barely floating homes. It's Australia Day, and as the city noisily celebrates around them, they just want to hole up and be left in peace. When Dee, a young English backpacker, stumbles upon them with far too much anger and alcohol in her belly, she well and truly rocks their boats, and the past they want to escape from gets dragged up like jetsam from the sea.

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1st Produced:
Heath Ledger Theatre - WA    25 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Black Swan State Theatre

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2012) >>>    978-0-86819-941-2

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  ncluding 1 boy (doubling required)

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Shrine

Synopsis:
Shrine is set above the rocky headlands of the South Coast of Western Australia, between a forest and the sea. It's wine country, and a privileged young man, Jack, has been killed driving friends back to Perth from his parents' beach house. Jack leaves in his wake a wreck of a father, a shadow of a mother, and the promise of a love affair that never quite happened. A year later, Jack's father Adam meets the small town girl, June, who shared a strange and life changing night with Jack hours before he died. Domestic heartbreak transcends into mythology in a landscape inhabited by ghosts. After Rising Water and Signs of Life, Shrine is the third play by Tim Winton about the iconic Western Australian landscape and its inhabitants.

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1st Produced:
Black Swan State Theatre Company, State Theatre Centre of WA, Level 1, 182 William Street, Perth WA 6000    31 Aug 2013

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Signs of Life

Synopsis:
On a farm that has been parched by a drought of apocalyptic severity, Georgie, a white woman in her fifties, lives alone quietly contemplating her solitude. One evening, an Aboriginal man and woman come to the door for help and reluctantly Georgie allows them into her house. Recently widowed, Georgie is not looking for company. She wants to be alone to mull over her future but her mysterious guests, Mona and Bender, demonstrate an inexplicable reluctance to oblige her.

Notes:
Continuing on from Tim Wintons Award-winning novel Dirt Music,

1st Produced:
Albany Entertainment Centre, Western Australia    15 Jun 2012

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
100 min one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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