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Daniel Keene
Daniel Keene (born 1955) is an Australian playwright whose work has been performed throughout the world. Career Keene's plays have been performed in Australia, France, Poland and the United States. Many of his plays have been published in French translation. He was co-founder, with Ariette Taylor, of the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project. Awards With Ariette Taylor, Keene won the award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre (Green Room Awards, 1998) and the Kenneth Myer Medallion for the Performing Arts. He is the winner of a number of drama awards in Australia, and the 2002 production of his play ''Terminus'', directed by Laurent Laffargue at the TNT in Toulouse and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, won the Prix Pierre Jean Jacques Gaultier for best direction. Other awards include: * 1989: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Louis Esson Prize for Drama for ''Silent Partner'' * 1996: Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award for Best Unproduced Play for ''Beneath Heaven'' * 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Film Critics Circle Of Australia
The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) is an association of cinema critics and reviewers. It includes journalists in "media, television, major national and state papers, radio, national and state, online and freelance writers, Australian representatives from international magazines..and local specialist film magazines", and is based in Sydney. The FCCA Annual Awards for Australian Film, rewarding makers of feature films and documentaries is highly regarded. History The Sydney Film Critics' Circle became a national organisation as the Film Critics' Circle of Australia by October 1988. It joined International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), "which will allow its members to be considered for jury duty at international festivals, accreditation at festivals and markets." The FCCA Awards have been presented each year since September 1988, with the inaugural winners including two awards each for ''The Year My Voice Broke'': best director (John Duigan) and best male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Dramatists And Playwrights
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Em4Jay
''Em 4 Jay'' is a 2008 Australian drama film directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos. Starring Laura Gordon and Nick Barkla, the story follows the lives of two heroin addicts living in Melbourne's inner suburbs. Em 4 Jay premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival on 5 August 2006. Cast * Chloe Armstrong as Bianca *Jonathan auf der Heide as Shopkeeper * Nick Barkla as Jay * David Campbell as Mick *Laura Gordon as Em *Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Dealer *Hamish Michael as Steve *Kat Stewart as Janey Reception The Age's Jim Schembri gave it two stars. He concludes "Em 4 Jay is a film made with conviction by all those involved, but the cast and crew never overcome a narrative that is dirge-like in its nihilistic predictability." Leigh Paatsch of the Herald Sun gave it two and a half stars, saying "All in all, Em 4 Jay scraps it out for a dishonourable draw between daring us not to care and damning us for doing exactly that." George Palathingal of the Sydney Morning Herald gave it thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Partner (2001 Film)
''Silent Partner'' is a 2001 Australian film directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos Alkinos Tsilimidos (born 1966) is an Australian film and theatre director. He has won the Montréal First Film Prize at the Montréal World Film Festival for his 1994 film '' Everynight ... Everynight''. He primarily works as an indie film mak ... and starring David Field and Syd Brisbane. accessed 16 November 2012 Plot summary Cast * David Field as John * Syd Brisbane[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hour Before My Brother Dies
''The Hour Before My Brother Dies'' is a 1986 Australian telemovie.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p81 Plot Sally visits her brother Martin in prison where he awaits execution for murder. During the visit, the two are quickly drawn back to a hot summer's New Year's Eve night of many years ago. Cast * Peter Hehir * Rhonda Wilson * Reg Evans Reginald Evans (27 March 1928 – 7 February 2009) was a British-born actor active in Australian radio, theatre, television and cinema from the 1960s, after having started his career in his native England. Biography Evans started drama while ... Production The film was based on Daniel Keene's 1986 play of the same name. Reception The Age's Barbara Hooks wrote "I was often intrigued, but also often fidgety. It is all so intense, passionate and drawn out that when Rhonda Wilson put on her coat to leave, the response was relief, as if she was a visitor who had begun to outstay her we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Scholten
Matt Scholten is an Australian theatre and film director, producer, writer and teacher. He is the Artistic Director & Creative Producer of independent theatre company If Theatre which was established in 2006. Career Scholten studied Drama and English Literature at the University of Melbourne performing in student theatre productions and earning a Bachelor of Education in 1992. He went on to study directing and writing at the Australian Nouveau (Antill) Theatre and a career as a Drama Teacher. In 2006 he was accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts where he studied directing under the tutelage of Richard Murphet, Jenny Kemp and then Head of the School of Drama Lindy Davies. In 2007, If Theatre's debut production was ''A Slight Ache'' by Harold Pinter and was followed later that year by Three Short Plays by Jack Hibberd produced for the 40th Birthday La Mama Theatre. Beginning in 2008, Scholten collaborated with playwright Daniel Keene on a theatre practice based primar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of literary awards inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across 14 categories with prizes up to $25,000 in some categories. The awards upon their establishment incorporated a number of pre-existing awards including the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian collection of new short fiction and the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writing. The awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1999 and abolished by Premier Campbell Newman, shortly after winning the 2012 Queensland state election. In response, the Queensland writing community established the Queensland Literary Awards to ensure the Awards continued in some form. The judging panels remained largely the same, and University of Queensland Press committed to continue to publish the winners of the Eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. , the Awards are presented by the NSW Government and administered by the State Library of New South Wales in association with Create NSW, with support of Multicultural NSW and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Total prize money in 2019 was up to A$305,000, with eligibility limited to writers, translators and illustrators with Australian citizenship or permanent resident status. History The NSW Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities. If governments treat writers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary prize with the top winner receiving 125,000 and category winners 25,000 each. The awards were established in 1985 by John Cain, Premier of Victoria, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer, two of Australia's best-known writers and critics who made significant contributions to Victorian and Australian literary culture. From 1986 till 1997, the awards were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 1997 their administration was transferred to the State Library of Victoria. By 2004, the total prize money was 180,000. In 2011, stewardship was taken over by the Wheeler Centre. Winners 2011–present Beginning in 2011, the awards were restructured into 5 categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre De La Ville
(meaning the City Theatre) is one of the two theatres built in the 19th century by Baron Haussmann at Place du Châtelet, Paris, the other being the Théâtre du Châtelet. It is located at 2, place du Châtelet in the 4th arrondissement. Included among its many previous names are Théâtre Lyrique, Théâtre des Nations, and Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt. Théâtre Lyrique The theatre, which until the fall of Napoleon III in 1870 was officially known as the Théâtre Lyrique Impérial, was designed by the architect Gabriel Davioud for Baron Haussmann between 1860 and 1862 for the opera company more commonly known simply as the Théâtre Lyrique. That company's earlier theatre, the Théâtre Historique on the Boulevard du Temple, where it had performed since 1851, was slated for demolition as part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris. During the company's initial period on the Place du Châtelet, it was under the direction of Léon Carvalho and gave the premieres of Bizet's ''Les pà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
