Fringe, the 2016 Outstanding performing arts as an actor, production. She was in the Access Award at Melbourne singer and producer. London and Sydney seasons The Farce is popular enough, when it comes to revivals. In This is where I’ve wound up setting my BIOGRAPHIES Darwin Festival: Highway of State Theatre Company and National Studio program; for Fringe, and a 2015 Nominee of Working Title’s production the last few years in Australia we’ve seen plays like Noises farce: square in the cross-fire of a culture Declan Greene Lost Hearts; for the National Belvoir: The Sapphires, which Jetpack Theatre Collective: for GLOBE LGBTI Artist of the Simon Corfield of Billy Elliot, for which she Off, A Flea In Her Ear, and One Man, Two Guvners hit stages war where outrage is currency, feelings are Playwright Institute of Dramatic Art: Big toured nationally,BIOGRAPHIES and to South How. Dare., co-written for Declan Greene is a theatre- Love, Shopping and Fucking, Korea and London’s Barbican Sydney Fringe Festival; Year. Mama has worked with Kim received a Helpmann Award to mass delight. But as far as new playwriting goes, over facts, sensitivities are ignored, atonement Brook Andrew, Phillip Adams Simon’s acting credits include: for Best Female Actor in a maker based in Melbourne. His After Dinner and The Winter’s Theatre; with Melbourne for Montague Basement: BalletLab, is a proud alumni of for Griffin: Motortown, Orestes Musical, the Sydney Theatre GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION the last few decades the Farce has gone the way of the is impossible, and simplistic buzz- words previous works as a playwright Tale; and for the Western Theatre Company: National Kaleidoscope, Telescope; Monash Uni Student Theatre, 2.0, Tattoo; for Belvoir: Bliss; for Critics Award for the Judith WITH MALTHOUSE THEATRE PRESENTS Passion Play, the Verse Drama, and Commedia dell’Arte... like ‘Cultural Marxism’, ‘Social Engineering’, include: for Griffin Theatre Australian Academy of Interest; with Queensland for Old Fitz Theatre: Are We and a company member of Darlinghurst Theatre Company: Johnson Award for Best All thoroughly—and in some cases, mercifully—extinct. and ‘Snowflake’ are used to stifle Company and Perth Theatre Performing Arts: As You Like It. Theatre Company: Other Awake?, written as part of the Finucane & Smith, with whom The Bee, Every Second, Torch Performance by an Actress in discourse in much the same manner as Company: Eight Gigabytes Desert Cities, Gasp!, Managing New Fitz Writers Program; for A couple of years ago I was speaking with another writer she was amongst the cast who Song Trilogy; for Melbourne a Musical and the Green Room THE HOMOSEXUALS ‘Bigotry’, ‘Privilege’, and ‘Nazi’. As the Left of Hardcore Pornography, Marg Horwell Carmen. Other highlights: I Am Smoking Gum Theatre: Before about why farces are so rarely written these days. We both Eora at Sydney Festival and received the Best International Theatre Company: The Goat Award for Best Female Artist OR ‘FAGGOTS’ and Right slowly distil their values into pure which won the Max Afford Designer the Water Gets Cold. His credits Production Award at the or Who is Sylvia?, The Lonely in a Leading Role. Genevieve’s agreed that the stakes necessary to manufacture this Playwright’s Award; for Marg is a multi award winning Waltzing The Wilarra at Perth for dramaturgy include: for black and white, I’ve tried to write a play of CHAMACO Awards, Cuba. Wolf; for Tamarama Rock TV credits include: After the BY DECLAN GREENE mechanical type of playwriting were, in general, absent Malthouse Theatre: I Am A designer and is the Designer International Arts Festival. leftofcentre: Transience; for muddy grey in-betweens. It’s a comic play Surfers: Poster Girl, Trapture; Beep, Heartland, Neighbours, from our contemporary lives. The plays of Feydeau— Miracle, which won the Green In Residence at Malthouse Trent is a recipient of the Mike Montague Basement: The Big and for Vass Theatre Group: Prisoner, Rake, Redfern Now, 17 MARCH-29 APRIL about comedy. An offensive play about Room Award for Best Writing Theatre. Marg has won six Walsh Fellowship and WA Bruise. Charles is currently Simon Burke unquestionably the greatest farceur—were written during Warren Bad Jews. He performed in The Secret River, Three Men offence. A work which oscillates moment for the Australian Stage, Greenroom Awards and two Department of Culture and the directing drama students at the Belle Époque era, a time of tremendous moral upheaval Simon has appeared in over The One Eyed Man is King for and a Baby Grand and Top to moment between Politically Correct and Pompeii and L.A; for Malthouse Sydney Theatre Awards for Arts Young People Fellowship. the Australian Institute of in France. Most of his farces feature highly-repressed 130 stage productions in Schaubuhne Berlin. Simon was of the Lake, for which she Problematic (or its ‘fun’ alternative: Theatre & Arena Theatre her work. Her theatre credits A graduate of WAAPA Performing Arts in a play about Australia and the UK, including in the national tour of Critical received Equity Ensemble married couples who, for one reason or another, are driven Company: Moth, which won include: for Griffin: Eight (Production & Design). trans youth. Probbo!); attempting to defy the lazy for Griffin: October, Satango; Stage’s multi-award winning Award for Oustanding Q wild with the desire to cheat on their spouse—even though the AWGIE Award for Theatre Gigabytes of Hardcore categorisations we’ve taken to using in our for Belvoir: Snugglepot & musical cabaret, Songs For The Performance by an Ensemble to be discovered en flagrante would mean social death. for Young Audiences. As a Pornography; for Angus Cerini Steve Toulmin Rhianne Perrie Cuddlepie; for Black Swan Fallen. His TV and film credits in a Telemovie or Mini-Series. knee-jerk summation of art, public director and dramaturg his Doubletap: Chapters From The Composer & Sound Designer Stage Manager State Theatre Company: include: Blue Heelers, COPS: Her film credits include: Billy’s When I decided to try my hand at writing a contemporary discourse, and the existence of certain credits include: for Griffin, La Pandemic, Resplendence, Save Steve’s credits as Composer This is Rhianne’s first Clinton The Musical; for L.A.C., Crownies, Darwin’s Holiday, The Dressmaker, farce, I hit my first obstacle in the creation of these stakes. human beings. PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTE Mama and MKA: The Unspoken For Crying, Wretch; for Dee & and/or Sound Designer production with Griffin. Ensemble Theatre: They’re Brave New World, Packed Holy Smoke, The Piano, Soft THE U In 2017 we’re a less repressed bunch where sex is Word is “Joe” (by Zoey Dawson); Cornelius: Savages, Shit; for include: for Griffin: Gloria, Rhianne’s theatre credits Playing our Song; for To The Rafters. Simon is the Fruit, Suburban Mayhem, In 2017, perhaps the only thing that unites for ZLMD Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare: The School The Bleeding Tree, Beached; include: for Barking Gecko concerned. Having your affair outed might raise the ire of a Kookaburra Theatre Company: co-creator of the web comedy and Sweetie, for which she the members of the Left and Right is a fear of being Company: Conviction (by Zoey For Wives; for Belvoir: Nora; for for Griffin and La Boite: A Theatre Company: Bamberts few relatives and close friends, but most people won’t care, Company; for Harvest Rain series The Birth of Creation received the Australian Film interned in one of these sticky categories—because it’s Dawson); for Sydney Theatre Malthouse Theatre: Edward II, I Hoax; for Bell Shakespeare: Book of Lost Stories, In A Dark unless it’s with a horse or a sibling. In my own inner-city Theatre Co: Hairspray; for and a founding member of the Critics Award for Best Actress. impossible to escape, and often the company really fucking Company: Hamlet: Prince of Am A Miracle, The Good Person Othello, Richard III; for Belvoir: Dark Wood, Jasper Jones, This IMG: Chicago The Musical; for award-winning performance Genevieve has an album of her Left-wing bubble, we aren’t afraid of being outed as ‘sexual Skidmark (co-created with of Szechuan, The Histrionic, Jasper Jones, The Blind Girl Laughs. As Assistant Stage A HOMOSEXUALS sucks. Amy Schumer enjoyed three seconds of being the Melbourne Theatre Company: group SandS through the Sydney Opera House concert, deviants’ anymore. But we are afraid of being labelled a The Listies). Alongside Ash Tame; for Melbourne Theatre Giant Is Dancing, Ivanov, La Manager: for Barking Gecko world’s most adored feminist comedian, before some Take Me Out; for Sydney hourglass. He is a graduate of Angels in the City. ‘bigot’... Or any of its equally bone-rattling sub-labels: Flanders, Declan co-runs Company (MTC): Birdland, Traviata, Blue Wizard, Is This Theatre Company: Storm idiotic jokes from a decade earlier relegated her to the queer independent theatre Peddling, Constellations, Cock, Thing On?, 20 Questions, The Boy; for Black Swan Theatre Theatre Company: A Little Night WAAPA (Acting). ‘misogynist’, ‘racist’, ‘homophobe’, ‘transphobe’, ‘ableist’... Music, Mr Kolpert, Mrs Warren’s Lincoln Younes category of racist—alongside alt-right lunatics like Richard company Sisters Grimm. He Music, The Dream Life Of Seed and Scorched; for La Company: Clinton The Musical, Profession, She Stoops To Genevieve Lemon Lucacz If you spend any amount of time commenting on social Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos, who protest this label just has directed and co-created all Butterflies, The Water Carriers, Boite: Tender Napalm, Julius A House On The Lake, A Perfect S Circle Mirror Transformation, Caesar, Hamlet. For La Specimen; for West Australian E their shows to date, including: Conquer, The Wharf Revue, Up Diana This is Lincoln’s first as loudly.