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Toy Symphony (play)
''Toy Symphony'' is a two-act play written by Australian playwright Michael Gow and published by Currency Press in 2008. It is Gow's first full-length play in over a decade since ''Sweet Phoebe'' and won several awards at its 2007 premiere production at Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney. Toy Symphony is the story of writer Roland Henning, a character who has appeared in Gow's earlier play '' Furious'', ''Toy Symphony'' tells the story of the turmoil Henning faces as a result of his writer's block, as he tries to explain his past to his therapist in order to grasp some understanding of his current situation. It is considered to be at least partially autobiographical. Characters *Roland Henning *Nina (a therapist) *Lawyer *Mrs Walkham (a primary school teacher) *Julie Pearson (a schoolgirl) *Mr Delvin, Headmaster *Alexander the Great *Dr Maybloom, a specialist *Executioner *Nicolaijs Eglitis, a schoolboy *Titus Oates *Steven Gooding, a school bully *Miss Beverly, a school teacher *Nurse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Armfield
Neil Geoffrey Armfield (born 22 April 1955) is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera. Biography Born in Sydney, Armfield is the third and youngest son of Len, a factory worker at the nearby Arnott's Biscuits factory and Nita Armfield. He was brought up in the suburb of Concord, adjacent to Exile Bay. He was educated at the Homebush Boys High School where, in 1972, he was the Vice-Captain. In that year, Armfield directed the school's production of Milne's "Toad of Toad Hall" which garnered him the award of "Best Director" at the NSW High Schools Drama Festival. When asked in 2019: “Who or what was your biggest influence?” Armfield said; “Lindsay Daines at Homebush State High School, who encouraged my theatrical aspirations.” He then went on to study at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1977, and became Co-Artistic Director of the Nimrod Theatre Company in 1979. He joined South Australia's Lighthouse Theatre before returning to Sydney in 1985, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Charlier
Paul Charlier is an Australian composer and sound designer who works primarily in theatre and film. He has also worked in radio and was a founding member of the Sydney post-punk band SPK (band), SoliPsiK. His theatre work includes the Sydney Theatre Company productions of ''A Streetcar Named Desire (play), A Streetcar Named Desire'' (Sound Designer) and ''Uncle Vanya'' (Composer and Sound Designer), as well as the Company B (theatre), Company B productions of ''Faith Healer'' (Composer) and ''Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol)#Adaptions, The Diary of a Madman'' (Sound Designer). His film credits include ''The Final Quarter'' (Composer), ''Looking for Alibrandi (film), Looking for Alibrandi'' (Sound Designer), ''Candy (2006 film), Candy'' (Composer and Sound Designer), ''Paul Kelly - Stories of Me'' (Sound Designer) and ''Last Ride (2009 film), Last Ride'' (Composer). Awards and nominations Film *''The Final Quarter'' (2019) *''Paul Kelly - Stories of Me'' (2012) Winner 2013 Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Myers
Ralph Myers is an Australian theatre designer and director, and the former artistic director of Sydney's Belvoir. In 2005 and 2006 Myers was the resident designer at the Sydney Theatre Company; he was later an associate artist at Belvoir. His appointment as artistic director at Belvoir was announced in 2009 and he replaced outgoing Artistic Director Neil Armfield at the beginning of 2011. Myers announced his intention to step down in June 2014, and departed at the end of 2015. Credits He has directed ''Frankenstein'' for Sydney Theatre Company, and ''Private Lives'' and ''Peter Pan'' for Belvoir. His design credits include * ''Sweet Phoebe'' Griffin Theatre Company * ''Tango'' Rock'n Roll Circus * ''Inferno'' Rock 'n Roll Circus * ''Borderlines'' Griffin Theatre Company/Riverina Theatre Company/Stable Theatre/Playhouse Wagga Wagga * ''The 7 Stages of Grieving'' Sydney Theatre Company * '' Blue Heart'' Siren Theatre Company * ''The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Edmonds
Guy Edmonds is an Australian born director, writer, actor and author. He co-created, wrote, acted in and directed the Emmy award-winning comedy series Hardball. He co-authored the hit book series Zombie Diaries and Zoo Crew. As an actor he is best known for his work on such programmes as ''Home and Away'', ''A Moody Christmas'' and '' Underbelly: Razor'', and on stage in the world premiere productions of ''Holding the Man'' as Timothy Conigrave in Australia and London's West End, and '' Rupert'' alongside Academy Award nominee James Cromwell in Australia and Washington D.C, USA. Biography Guy co-created/wrote the Emmy award-winning live action comedy series HARDBALL for Australia's ABCMe. Season Two's out mid 2021, which he's written and directed. It also won Best Children's Fiction Program at the Prix Jeunesse International Awards, the BANFF Rockies, The Remis, The Japan Prize, and others, as well as being nominated for the AWGIES and AACTA's in Australia. HARDBALL can be seen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Dykstra
Russell Dykstra (born 31 December 1966) is an Australian actor of screen, stage and TV. Early life Dykstra grew up in the Brisbane suburb of Calamvale. Dykstra first appeared on stage at age 10 in a theatre production of ''Toad of Toad Hall''. He later studied acting at the University of Southern Queensland, and in his early career worked alongside fellow actor Geoffrey Rush with the Grin and Tonic theatre troupe. Dykstra also studied at the school of Jacques Lecoq in Paris and Philippe Gaulier in London. Career Dykstra’s one-man show ''Children of the Devil'' toured nationally in 1996-98 with funding from the Australia Council, earning him a Matilda Award and a Victorian Green Room Award nomination for Best Actor. Shortly thereafter Dykstra made his feature film debut in the critically acclaimed ''Soft Fruit'', directed by Christina Andreef, for which he received an AFI Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1999) and a Film Critics’ Circle Award nomination (2000) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Clarke
Justine Clarke (born 16 November 1971) is an Australian actress, singer, musician, author and television host. She has been acting since the age of seven and has appeared in some of Australia's best-known TV shows. She is best known as a presenter on the Australian children's show ''Play School'', a role with she has held since 1999. She is also a film and stage actor, and won the Best Actress Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina in 2006 for her role in independent film '' Look Both Ways''. She has won two ARIA Awards. Early life Justine Clarke was born in Sydney, New South Wales. At the age of seven, while attending Woollahra Public School with other up and coming talents like Mouche Phillips and Deni Hines, she began appearing in television commercials, one of which was Arnott's Humphrey B. Bear biscuits. At eleven she played the role of Brigitta in the stage musical, ''The Sound of Music''. Film and television Clarke's first significant acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it. The director thereby collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff to coordinate research and work on all the aspects of the production which includes the Technical and the Performance aspects. The technical aspects include: stagecraft, costume design, theatrical properties (props), lighting design, set design, and sound design for the production. The performance aspects include: acting, dance, orchestra, chants, and stage combat. If the production is a new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belvoir (theatre Company)
Belvoir is an Australian theatre company based at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia, originally known as Company B. Since 2016 and its artistic director is Eamon Flack. The theatre contains a 330-seat Upstairs Theatre and a 80-seat Downstairs Theatre. The Belvoir company receives government support for its activities from the federal government through the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the state government through Create NSW. Many Australian actors who have later found wider success both locally and internationally such as Deborah Mailman, Cate Blanchett, Jacqueline McKenzie, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Toby Schmitz, Judy Davis and Brendan Cowell have appeared in Belvoir productions. History Theatre The theatre, converted from a former tomato sauce factory, opened in 1974 as the Nimrod Theatre for the Nimrod Theatre Company. The first production at the theatre was rock musical ''The Bacchoi''. It was renamed as "'Belvoir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Roxburgh
Richard Roxburgh (born 23 January 1962) is an Australian actor, writer, producer, and director. He is the recipient of a number of accolades across film, television, and theatre, including three AACTA Awards (including AFI), three Logie Awards, and two Helpmann Awards. He began his career working with the Sydney Theatre Company. He went on to appear in Australian and international productions such as Baz Luhrmann's films ''Moulin Rouge!'' (2001) and ''Elvis'' (2022), the ABC series '' Rake'' (2010–2018), and the action films '' Mission: Impossible 2'' (2000), ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (2003), and ''Van Helsing'' (2004). Early life Roxburgh was born at the Mercy Hospital in Albury, New South Wales, to John (d. July 2011) and Mary Roxburgh; he is the youngest of six children. John was a successful accountant. Roxburgh played Willy Loman in the Albury High School production of ''Death of a Salesman'' in 1978. Roxburgh studied economics at the Australian National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Maughan
Monica Cresswell Maughan (née Wood, 15 September 1933 – 8 January 2010) was an Australian actor with roles in theatre, radio, television, film and ballet over a career spanning 52 years. Early life and education She was born Monica Cresswell Wood in Tonga to Australian missionaries Rev. Dr A. Harold Wood and medical doctor Olive Wood (née O'Reilly). She had 5 brothers and sisters, including Dr Elizabeth Wood-Ellem and Rev. Dr H. D'Arcy Wood. The family moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1937 – Monica was three-and-a-half and spoke no English – and shortly afterwards to Melbourne, where her father became principal of Methodist Ladies' College (MLC) and her mother his unofficial deputy. Monica attended MLC, where she received her only formal drama training with speech teacher Dorothy Dwyer, and went on to study French at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1959 with a BA. Monica was a member of the Melbourne University Dramatic Club, where she adopted the stage na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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