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Tim Robertson Tim Robertson i(A12036 works by)
Born: Established: 1944 Braintree, Essex,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1952
Heritage: English ; Scottish
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1 Coronavirus and Bare Life Tim Robertson , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2019;
1 Anima Ex Machina i "Remember Melbourne in May", Tim Robertson , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Dazzled : The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2014; (p. 22-23)
1 9 y separately published work icon The Pram Factory : The Australian Performing Group Recollected Tim Robertson , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 2001 Z898169 2001 single work criticism The Australian Performing Group was a unique, democratic theatrical collective that operated out of a former Pram Factory. Its prodigious output of original work, produced amid the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll of Carlton in the 1970s, represented an extraordinary flowering of new Australian theatre.
1 My Prayer for Grand Prix City i "Shall the Grand Prix rule the Queen of the South,", Tim Robertson , 1996 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 28 February 1996; (p. A10)
1 Dialogue of the Demagogue Tim Robertson , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 July 1995; (p. 18)

— Review of The Incorruptible Louis Nowra , 1995 single work drama
1 Beefy and Chuck's Septic Adventure Tim Robertson , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 June 1995; (p. 19)

— Review of Slam Dunk Jack Hibberd , 1996 single work drama
1 Rangy Grace and Animal Spirits Deserve Voyeurs Tim Robertson , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 August 1995; (p. 15)

— Review of Seven Acts of Love (as Witnessed by a Cat) Tobsha Learner , 1995 single work drama
1 Phoenix Bound for Texas Tim Robertson , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 27 June 1995; (p. 24)
1 Making Up, Breaking Down (from a Work-in-Progress) Tim Robertson , 1995 extract
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 141 1995; (p. 45-50)
1 Working Note 7 : John Romeril: Art of Work Tim Robertson , 1993 single work biography
— Appears in: John Romeril 1993; (p. 203-208)
1 A Clearing in the Bush, Circa 1840 Tim Robertson , 1988 extract (History of Australia : The Musical)
— Appears in: Summer Shorts 1993; (p. 41-44)
1 7 y separately published work icon History of Australia : The Musical Tim Robertson , Don Watson , John Romeril , George Dreyfus (composer), Martin Armiger (composer), David King (composer), 1988 Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1995 Z860731 1988 single work musical theatre
1 A Gaga Elegy Tim Robertson , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 103 1988; (p. 7-8)

— Review of Ron Truffle : His Life and Bump Out Barry Dickins , 1988 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Mary Shelley and The Monsters : A Smoked Opera for the Quick and the Dead Tim Robertson , Melbourne : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1983 Z142893 1983 single work musical theatre

Play with music.

Written by Tim Robertson and several 'ghost' writers from the Australian Performing Group, Mary Shelley and the Monsters is described by its author as 'a scatty and hallucinant reverie about the life and times of Mary Shelley' the narrative focuses on Mary's creation of Frankenstein and a North Italian holiday that ended with her husband's death by drowning." In his foreword to the Yakandandah publication, writes further : 'It is a musical fantasy... the Romantic Glorification of the Imagination and Death undermined by the sex-war and physical dissolution. [It is] an attempt to spin a web between Goya and Gertrude Stein. As a performance piece its sine qua non is an ensemble of open, acrobatic, musical clowns of a poetic bent, with a taste for the macabre and an impulse to excess' (p5). Leonard Radic has also described the play as 'stylistically erratic, lurching from burlesque to opera and back again to pantomime or melodrama with a hint of Dada, some phallus play and a hearty scene of grand guignol thrown in for good measure at the end' (Age 27 March 1975, p2).

The dramatic action is set in a murky grotto, which turns out to be a Shelley Museum in Rome, the story line essentially looks at Shelley's relationship with the male monsters in her life - husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and her father William Godwin.

The music content comprises the group composed 'Overture Mysterioso' (scored for a band playing piano chords, a long drawn violin note, and a tick-tock drip from percussion blocks), along with such pieces as 'The Mountains of Mourne', 'Little Mary Shelley' and 'The Byron Blues'.
1 1 y separately published work icon Tristram Shandy - (Gent) : A Theatricalisation of the Work-in-progress of Rev. Laurence Stern Tim Robertson , 1981 Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1986 Z859073 1981 single work drama

Play with music.

An adaptation of the Laurence Sterne's 18th-century novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the play was advertised as the 'craziest Shaggy Dog or Cock-n-Bull story ever told. The work was initially developed by Robertson (ca. 1981) in collaboration with members of the Australian Performing Group (APG).

1 y separately published work icon Dimboola Tim Robertson , Melbourne : Sun Books , 1978 Z866797 1978 single work novel humour
1 The Overcoat : An Underview by Tim Robertson Tim Robertson , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: Theatre Australia , May vol. 2 no. 1 1977; (p. 36-37)

— Review of The Overcoat Jack Hibberd , Martin Friedel , 1970 single work musical theatre
1 y separately published work icon The Lamentable Reign of Charles the Last : A Pantopera Tim Robertson , George Dreyfus , Melbourne : George Dreyfus , 1975 Z1398602 1975 single work musical theatre
1 y separately published work icon Waltzing Matilda : A National Pantomime with Tomato Sauce John Romeril , Tim Robertson , Lorraine Milne (composer), 1974 Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1984 Z245144 1974 single work musical theatre
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