Half A Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths
April 11th 2010 12:32
FLY-ON-THE-WALL THEATRE presents
Half A Person: My Life
As Told By The Smiths
Written by ALEX BROUN
“I was looking for love and then I found love, but heaven knows I'm miserable now…”
Directed by ROBERT CHUTER Music Re-creation by SIMON POLINSKI & COLIN BERWICK
With MARK TAYLOR as William
William is a young man with three obsessions: very strong long blacks, pining for his lost Salome, and listening to The Smiths. He only exists to devour coffee, despise people and worship the patron saint of wrist-slashing – Steven Patrick Morrissey.
Just like his idol, the world he occupies is cruelly lonely. He stumbles from café to cemetery in search of a companion or maybe just a confidant. He runs headlong into Salome; the obtuse, obstructive, agent of seduction who slithers her way into his addictive personality. Meanwhile, the best friend that he never knew he might not have one day, Rick, is struggling with his desire for William while confronting his own mortality. A dark and funny play set to the music of The Smiths, the music that gives William a chance to be more than just Half A Person.
Mark Taylor theatre credits include: Rent, The Underwood, Away, The Crucible, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Time and the Conways and The Choir. He recently donned a rifle and helmet for the HBO mini-series The Pacific, before making a dramatic change of pace by touring Australia with the children’s theatre company, Alpha Shows.
Writer Alex Broun has enjoyed considerable success in theatre, TV & film as a writer, actor & director. One of the world's leading ten minute playwrights, he has had over 60 ten minute plays produced in nearly 400 productions all over the world. He has also twice received funding from Screen Australia as well as recently having five short screenplays filmed and was a winner of the Inscription Script awards in 2009 for his screenplay of The Jacaranda Tree. He is currently the Artistic Director of Short Sweet, the largest ten minute play festival in the world that currently plays in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, the Central Coast of NSW, Gippsland, Rockhampton, Newcastle, Auckland, Singapore & Malaysia. Broun recently launched a new website – www.alexbroun.com – where you can read, download & acquire performance rights for many of his plays free of charge.
Venue: Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran
Dates: 20-30 May 2010
Times: Wednesday-Saturday 8.00pm, Saturday matinees 2.00pm & Sunday 6.30pm
Tickets: $28.00 [Full] & $24.00 [Concession] ( transaction fee)
Bookings: 8290 7000 or
www.chapeloffchapel.com.au
Half A Person: My Life
As Told By The Smiths
Written by ALEX BROUN
“I was looking for love and then I found love, but heaven knows I'm miserable now…”
With MARK TAYLOR as William
William is a young man with three obsessions: very strong long blacks, pining for his lost Salome, and listening to The Smiths. He only exists to devour coffee, despise people and worship the patron saint of wrist-slashing – Steven Patrick Morrissey.
Just like his idol, the world he occupies is cruelly lonely. He stumbles from café to cemetery in search of a companion or maybe just a confidant. He runs headlong into Salome; the obtuse, obstructive, agent of seduction who slithers her way into his addictive personality. Meanwhile, the best friend that he never knew he might not have one day, Rick, is struggling with his desire for William while confronting his own mortality. A dark and funny play set to the music of The Smiths, the music that gives William a chance to be more than just Half A Person.
Mark Taylor theatre credits include: Rent, The Underwood, Away, The Crucible, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Time and the Conways and The Choir. He recently donned a rifle and helmet for the HBO mini-series The Pacific, before making a dramatic change of pace by touring Australia with the children’s theatre company, Alpha Shows.
Writer Alex Broun has enjoyed considerable success in theatre, TV & film as a writer, actor & director. One of the world's leading ten minute playwrights, he has had over 60 ten minute plays produced in nearly 400 productions all over the world. He has also twice received funding from Screen Australia as well as recently having five short screenplays filmed and was a winner of the Inscription Script awards in 2009 for his screenplay of The Jacaranda Tree. He is currently the Artistic Director of Short Sweet, the largest ten minute play festival in the world that currently plays in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, the Central Coast of NSW, Gippsland, Rockhampton, Newcastle, Auckland, Singapore & Malaysia. Broun recently launched a new website – www.alexbroun.com – where you can read, download & acquire performance rights for many of his plays free of charge.
Venue: Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran
Dates: 20-30 May 2010
Times: Wednesday-Saturday 8.00pm, Saturday matinees 2.00pm & Sunday 6.30pm
Tickets: $28.00 [Full] & $24.00 [Concession] ( transaction fee)
Bookings: 8290 7000 or
www.chapeloffchapel.com.au
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