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James Jackson James Jackson i(15369920 works by)
Gender: Male
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Playwright and theatre maker, associated with Melbourne's The Bloomshed.

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Bad News 2020 single work drama

'News is dead. Print is dead. Truth is dead.

'A new technology takes the world by storm. Printed news is a thing of the past. So are journalists, printers, editors... everybody.

'Internationally acclaimed media mogul Hoover Oldsoch believes in progress – he’s a businessman.

'Tizzy Squalor, corporate plumber, lays the pipes.

'Pamphilius Smudge wants love.

'Typotheus Hawke wants revolution.

'Billie Inkpress wants to dance.

'And the Greek God Apollo sets out to make truth great again.'

Source: Melbourne Fringe.

2021 shortlisted Victorian Green Room Awards Writing : Theatre - Independent
The Nose 2018 single work drama

'A CEO is crying in front of a mirror. His nose is gone. Worse. It’s running through the city streets dressed up as the President of Honduras. This is the moment its been waiting for. This is its chance for freedom. Disparate narratives collide around the missing appendage, as the CEO tries to win back some control. The Nose is a hilarious farce about people falling to pieces amid total economic chaos.'

Source: Arts Review (http://artsreview.com.au/the-nose-4/). Sighted: 2.4.2019).

2019 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards Production : Theatre - Independent
2019 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards Direction : Theatre - Independent
The Market Is a Wind-up Toy 2018 single work drama

'It’s the end of the world sale – all things reduced to clear – time to take stock of what we have and flog it till it stops breathing. The market has collapsed, leading economists are jumping out of skyscraper windows, the golden bull has been put down. Arvid Flatpack has to fix it. Watch him journey down to the darkest recesses of hell to recurrent the only system that works – the free market.'

Source: Old 505 Theatre.

2020 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards Best Ensemble Independent Theatre
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