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Declan Greene Declan Greene i(A109554 works by)
Also writes as: Sisters Grimm
Born: Established: ca. 1985 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Melbourne-based playwright.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2013 joint recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

For the presentation of 'Wael Zwaiter: Unknown' at the 2014 Next Wave Festival

With Aaron Orzech & Thomas Wright

2012 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards Direction : Theatre - Independent For The Unspoken Word is Joe.
2010 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships To extend my playwriting practice while also broadening my base of skills beyond theatre.

Awards for Works

Melancholia 2018 single work drama science fiction

'On the night of her boisterous marriage—amid corsages, canapés and Clicquot—Justine quietly falls apart. The world will surely follow suit.

'Justine’s sister Claire stages a lavish wedding party at a mansion in the mountains. As the fever dream of the wedding ceremony careens towards disaster, she is drawn to an innocuous red spot in the sky. That spot is the wayward planet Melancholia, on a collision course with Earth.

'Lars von Trier’s epic cinematic masterpiece is reimagined for the stage by ground-breaking playwright Declan Greene.'

Source: Malthouse Theatre.

2019 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards Production : Theatre - Companies
Hamlet : Prince of Skidmark The Tragedy of Hamlet : Prince of Skidmark : A Badaptation of the Bard 2016 single work drama children's

'An hour-long comedy bomb of Shakespeare plus ninjas. And zombies.

'The Listies are the maestros of children’s theatre. Their tremendous storytelling, comedic genius and infectious imaginations make kids all over the world fall in love with theatre while howling with laughter.

'Now, they have created a new, very cheeky, interactive version of Hamlet for children. This comic adventure shatters the fourth wall and glues it back together with turbo-charged story-telling and silliness.

'Hamlet is full of thrilling things that kids love in a good story: ghosts, castles, sword fights, fake blood and spooky stuff. Enter super-sonic gags, expertly timed stage trickery and special effects unlike anything kids have seen before and you have a very cleverly disguised Shakespearean tragedy for everyone aged five and over.

'And that’s not all… expect bonus pillow fights, pirates, ninjas, ninja pirates, aliens, ninja pirate aliens, zombies and a bunch of other hilarious stuff as The Listies take kids and their adults on a fun-filled hour of mayhem that mischievously celebrates the excitement and unpredictable nature of live theatre.

'The only thing we can be sure of is that everyone dies at the end – including the audience! ' (Production summary)

2016 shortlisted Sydney Theatre Awards Best Production for Children
I Am a Miracle 2015 single work drama

'After 18 years on death row, Marvin Lee Wilson was executed by lethal injection. But after a 2002 Supreme Court ruling, his sub-normal IQ should have disqualified him from the death sentence. Strapped to a gurney, his final statement was a plea for recognition: ‘I am a miracle’.

'Taking these words as a point of departure, playwright Declan Greene meets Wilson’s story with a work of monumental scope, spanning three continents and two hundred and forty years. In an 18th Century slave colony, a soldier is sent upriver on a suicide mission. In present-day Melbourne, a man finds himself entrapped by his carer. In Huntsville, Texas, a prisoner awaits his death. And somewhere beyond time and history, a sublime force lays a plan to rewrite the future.

'Set to a transcendent choral score, I Am a Miracle depicts a world bound to the injustices of the past – crying out for intervention. Wildly careening between the epic and the intimate, this is a mind-expanding theatrical experience / determined to change the course of history.' (Publication summary)

2016 winner Victorian Green Room Awards Production : Theatre - Companies
2016 joint winner Victorian Green Room Awards Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
2016 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Louis Esson Prize for Drama
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