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Monday 29 June 2009 @ 7.30pm
Ezekiel's Song - a play by Jonathan Ari Lander
      
Cast: Camilla Ah Kin, Helmut Bakaitis, Katharine Cullen, Andy Cunningham, John Grinston, Stuart Katzen & Hazem Shammas
Directed by Michael Dahlstrom
Jerusalem 1996. Shimon Peres is the Prime Minister and it is the eve of elections at the height of the Oslo Peace Process. It is a time of hope and great expectations that the peace process can solve the conflict in the Middle East. But good times are not destined to last for the Mintz family...Ezekiel is a young officer in the Israeli army; however his close friendship with Hassan, a Palestinian academic, could threaten to tear apart his family. The personal and the political collide in this new play about the tragic consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ezekiel’s Song was developed with the assistance of Theatre@Risk which presented an earlier draft of the play as part of their 2007 Festival of New Writing
JONATHAN ARI LANDER is currently completing his PhD in the school of History at UNSW. He lectures and tutors on the subjects of Zionism, South East Asian History, Genocide studies and World History. He is currently a resident playwright at the Griffin Theatre Company. In 2001, he was accepted into NIDA's Playwriting Studio. His play Broken Dreams was presented at Griffin Searchlight in 2005. In 2007, Ezekiel's Song was presented at Theatre@Risk's Festival of New Works. Ari won the Max Afford Award for Revolution, which was presented at the 2009 National Play Festival.
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Monday 25 May 2009 @ 7.30pm
The Parricide - a play by Diane Stubbings
    
Cast: Sally Cahill, Matt Minto, Anthony Phelan, Tony Sloman & Linden Wilkinson
Crippled by debt and facing an impossible deadline, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky becomes obsessed with the idea of a son who murders his father. Against a background of violent revolution, The Parricide exposes the torment of a writer forced to choose between rebellion and repression, authority and chaos, passion and love.
Diane Stubbings is a graduate of the School of English at UNSW and the author of Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal, a work of literary criticism. She's long had a fascination with nineteenth-century Russian literature, and has been developing The Parricide, about the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, for three years, working under the guidance of playwright Timothy Daly. Diane has been shortlisted for the Ian Reed Prize for Radio Drama and highly commended in the Australian/Vogel Literary Award. She currently writes book reviews for The Canberra Times and is working on a play about personal and political responses to climate change.
Directed by Dave Letch | 
Jonathan Gavin is an actor and playwright. In 2004 he won the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award for his play A Moment On The Lips. It enjoyed two sell-out seasons in Sydney, one in Melbourne and another in Perth. Subsequently, the plays Suburban Epic and Special Occasions were commissioned by Company B Belvoir and Melbourne Theatre Company, respectively. In 2007, Tiger Country was produced by Maelstrom Productions as part of Griffin Stablemates.
