National Script Workshop 2008
STUDIO PROGRAMME
From over 80 submissions from across the country, PlayWriting Australia selected six new plays to undergo intensive creative development at the second annual National Script Workshop in Canberra.
One Night the Dead... by Angela Betzien
In the future the world is a ghost town under corporate and military control. Part virtual, part real, this innovative fusion of theatre and location based game (LBG) asks you to become the hero of your own story as you search to recover the city?s disappearing children.
Thomas Murray and the Upside Down River by Reg Cribb
A man traipses through the remains of an Australian river system, coated in mud and the emotional detritus of a ravaged life.
Hypatia by Marcel Dorney
Hypatia was a 4th Century philosopher, mathematician and custodian of the great Library of Alexandria. Can she protect it from the newly powerful Christian fundamentalists?
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy and Anna Goldsworthy
When his family moves to Darwin, a promising pianist is forced to take piano lessons from a surly old man with a beguiling past.
Dirtyland by Elise Hearst
A girl has chipped her tooth. To fix it she needs something to trade, and all that?s left are mirrors.
The Son of the Sun by Afeif Ismail Abdelrazig
In a remote Sudanese village the local children tell stories about a mysterious magician and his monkey, local superstitions and the changes beckoned by our modern world.
Directors
Brett Adam, Leticia Caceres, Jon Halpin, Martin Laud Gray, Patrick Nolan, Jeremy Rice
Dramaturg
Sam Strong
Actors
Rodney Afif, Jimi Bani, Emma Beech, Paul Blackwell, Syd Brisbane, Vanessa Downing, Anita Hegh, Ming-Zhu Hii, Jodie Le Vesconte, Pacharo Mzembe, , Chrissie Shaw, Chris Sommers
Supporters
Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company and State Theatre Company of South Australia.
