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The Return (play)
''The Return'' is an Australian play by Reg Cribb. In 2001 it won the Patrick White Playwrights' Award and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award. In 2006 Reg Cribb adapted it to film, retitling it '' Last Train to Freo'' (2006). The play has been presented several times since then. References External linksReg Cribbon Australian Plays 2001 plays Australian plays adapted into films {{Australia-culture-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Cribb
Reginald Cribb is an Australian playwright and actor. Early life and education Cribb is from Perth, Western Australia. Cribb graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art at the University of New South Wales in 1990. Writing career Cribb's first play, ''Night of the Sea Monkey'', was performed in 1999. His play ''Gulpilil'', co-written with David Gulpilil about Gulpilil's life, was performed in March 2004 at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, performed by Gulpilil, to standing ovations. It was directed by Neil Armfield. The show was later staged in Brisbane and Sydney. ''Country Song'' is a play about Indigenous Australian singer and musician Jimmy Little, performed by the Queensland Theatre Company at the Cremorne Theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in August 2015. With Rachel Perkins, Cribb co-wrote the screenplay for the 2009 movie '' Bran Nue Dae'', based on the 1989 stage musical '' Bran Nue Dae'' written by Jimmy Chi. Plays Cribb's other plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award
The Patrick White Playwrights' Award is an annual Australian literary award established jointly by the Sydney Theatre Company and ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in honour of Patrick White's contribution to Australian theatre. The award was launched in 2000 and in 2011, was amended to include the Patrick White Fellowship. The A$7,500 cash award is given for an unproduced play to foster the development of Australian playwrights. In addition, the winning play is given a public reading presented by the Sydney Theatre Company in association with the Sydney Writers' Festival. The Patrick White Fellowship is A$25,000 for an established Australian playwright whose work has been produced professionally in Australia within the last four years in recognition of their contribution to the theatre and their art form. The inaugural recipient was Raimondo Cortese, and subsequent recipients have included Patricia Cornelius and Hilary Bell. Previous winners * 2024: Wendy Mocke, ''Realish'' (A ... [...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] |
Last Train To Freo
''Last Train to Freo'' is a 2006 Australian film based on Reg Cribb's 2001 play '' The Return'', and directed by Jeremy Sims. Synopsis Two thugs from the Perth suburb of Midland catch the last train to Fremantle. When a young woman, unaware that the train guards are on strike, boards the train several stops later, the thugs are interested by her. After two othersan older woman and a silent manboard the train, it becomes apparent that not everybody on the train is who they appear to be. Cast * Steve Le Marquand – the Tall Thug *Tom Budge – Trev * Gigi Edgley – Lisa * Glenn Hazeldine – Simon * Gillian Jones – Maureen * Lisa Hensley – voice of train announcer *Reg Cribb – man on platform Awards 2006 Australian Film Institute * Best Lead Actor – Steve Le Marquand – nomination * Best Screenplay – Adapted – Reg Cribb – nomination * Best Supporting Actor – Tom Budge – nomination Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards * Best Actor in a Lead Role – Stev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AusStage
AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up until the present day. The only repository of Australian performing arts in the world, it is managed by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and arts institutions, and mostly funded by the Australian Research Council. Created in 2000, the database contained more than 250,000 records by 2018. History The AusStage project was instigated by the Australasian Drama Studies Association in 1999, with Flinders University in South Australia leading the project, funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Other collaborating universities were La Trobe University (Vic), University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, University of Western Australia, University of New England (NSW), Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Plays
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