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EMMA WOOD
Nationality: Australian
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Emma Wood has been an actor and director in various Australian cities and towns since leaving school in Canberra in 1993. She has worked as a Drama and English teacher in various high schools. Her career highlights include establishing a commercially and critically successful theatre group Pawprint Productions in Ballarat, Victoria, in 2006 and 2007; winning Best Female Actress in the City of Newcastle Drama Awards 2011, and the Gladys Moncrieff Award for Best New Talent from the Victorian Music Theatre Guild; playing lead roles in many productions with Newcastle Theatre Company, Ballarat Lyric Theatre, Waverly Lugar Brae Musical Society (Sydney) and various independent companies in Byron Bay.
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Mr Bennet's Bride Water ChildMr Bennet's Bride
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Focussing on two greatly loved characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mr and Mrs Bennet, set twenty five years before the novel is set. Mr James Bennet, only son of Robert Bennet, in his late twenties, has resisted marrying a suitable girl, because he resents his father's attitude. James and Robert have a difficult relationship because James' mother died giving birth to him, and Robert has never recovered. Robert does not seek happiness for James, but wishes to expedite a match to ensure male heirs, and keep his dreadful cousin Benedict Collins from inheriting. Collins has recently fathered a son. Robert, on the advice of his sister Mary, gives James six months to meet a suitable young woman, and has his lawyer draw up a contract to hold him to it. The family lawyer, George Gardiner, sees an opportunity to throw his attractive, but vulgar daughter in the way of the young landowner. He presents his daughter Emily. James is struck by her beauty, and by the fact that she is not on his father's list of suitable choices - an added attraction. He woos her in secret. He is taken in by her vulgar ways, mistaking them for a spirited nature. Collins comes to stay and boast of his son's birth. James reveals he is engaged. Robert is furious with James, and George Gardiner for his deception. Benedict offers to advise James against marrying Emily. Robert decides he would rather James marry anyone at all than pass his estate to a Collins, so throws Benedict out and agrees to the marriage. At a final meeting of the families, it becomes apparent Emily is an unsuitable match for James. The play ends with his realisation that he has acted rashly and bound himself for life to the wrong woman.
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140 min period comedy
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On Jeannie's 40th birthday, she has much to be proud of and more to look forward to. Having built a successful career, she and husband Mark are finally ready to start the family they have been planning for years. After a few false starts, the baby they have dreamed of will soon be a reality. . .or will it? What is simple for some proves much harder for others. The couple's unexpected journey forces them to question things they have held onto for many years, drawing in friends and family, who all have views of their own. . . Water Child chronicles the struggles of one couple's deepest desire to be parents, exploring what it means to be family when 'having it all' is touted as de rigeuer for the professional couple of the 21st century.
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Best New Play, at the City of Newcastle Drama Awards (CONDAS) (2012)
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Newcastle Theatre Company 03 Mar 2012
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120 min naturalistic drama
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