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Catherine Zimdahl

CATHERINE ZIMDAHL

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    RGM Artist Group  

Catherine Zimdahl is a playwright and screenwriter. Her play Clark In Sarajevo premiered at the Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney in 1998. In 1998, Clark In Sarajevo received the Legal & General UmbrElla Award for Best New Australian Writing, and in 1999 won the Louis Esson Prize for Drama at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and the ANPC/New Dramatists Exchange to New York

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         Clark In Sarajevo         Day Too Great, A         Family Running For Mr Whippy         Left Breathless A Question         Moonfleet         Wharf At Wooloomooloo, The

Clark In Sarajevo

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traces the journey of Clark Cant, a mild-mannered reporter, who in an effort to cast off his ordinariness reinvents himself as a war correspondent in Sarajevo. It is a play about the gaze of the West as it follows Clark's fall from a flat disengaged spectator/voyeur of the siege, to a man who comes to embody the complex emotions of an uncomprehending witness to a catastrophe.

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2 acts (approx 80 minutes) Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  6 - 8 cast (variable, equal male/female division. Has been performed with 2 males, 4 females, with some doubling)

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Day Too Great, A

Synopsis:
Joss is 22 years old, she's tried and failed to kill herself but is determined in her own chaotic way to try again. A Day Too Great charts the night of her suicide watch. In her flat, her boyfriend and best friend are with her - watching, waiting, increasingly terrified and exhausted. Through the night the pain yelps out of Joss - she has the imPulse to cut and crush those dearest to her, to cast out every demon thought, to wrestle with her murderous god as she tests the limits of love, spinning those in her orbit on a darkening trajectory. . . A Day Too Great is a searing portrait of psychic pain. It examines the fragile bonds that hold us all in place, blowing away the comforting aphorisms and asks the question what part of the self needs to be killed in order to live?

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full length play

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Family Running For Mr Whippy

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Family Running For Mr Whippy is a reverie into the outer suburbs in one woman's inner world. It is a world which is haunting and hilarious, where imagination and memory intermingle ominously, where the narrator struggles to find her way through it, to go above it, to find a way, out, and to see. . .

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Genre:
20 mins One Act experimental

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  chorus  mixed

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Left Breathless A Question

Left Breathless A Question
Over three years, Australia's new writing theatre, Griffin theatre Company, presented fourteen unique short plays across its mainstage season. Seen for one night only, the fates, Seasons and the Seven Needs were three play cycles provoked by the classical mythology of man's inescapable destiny, the seasonal patterns and Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs. Now , this eclectic and fascinating collection of ten minute plays by some of the country's most established and emerging playwrights becomes Short Circuit.

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Ten Min

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Moonfleet

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stage Adaptation of John Meade Falkner's classic nove

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Adaptation

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Wharf At Wooloomooloo, The

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It is 1946 and Peggy is an expressionist artist in a Sydney that doesn't yet understand. But it matters not for on one fateful night she meets the young, rich and powerful art patrons, the Huxleys. She swoons, she falters, she falls in love but does love really look like this?

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co-commissioned by Playworks And SGLMG

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Genre:
2 Act 120 mins Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

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