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'A holiday. A time for conversation and distraction, a time to wind down and to dream...
'In a moment of relaxation and quiet reflection, two men unwittingly engage. Spontaneous, unaffected and thrillingly real, innocent discussion becomes an exploration of private fantasy, hidden anxiety, personal mythology and the most inexplicable behaviour.
'What lies behind the most unconscious gesture? How do power struggles play out in the politest of exchanges? Is there hope in the blank spaces between strangers?' (Publisher's blurb)
Production Details
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First produced by Ranters Theatre at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, 9 August 2007. Director: Adriano Cortese.
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Broadcast on ABC Radio National's Airplay on 25 October 2009.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Ranters : Rehearsal and Development Process - How Is the Text Enacted?
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , May no. 74 2019; (p. 243-263)'The article analyses the processes in which my postdramatic plays and performance texts, such as 'St Kilda Tales, Roulette, Holiday' and 'Intimacy', are enacted in order to facilitate live interaction in relation to the audience. The application of everyday aesthetics within narrative and dramaturgical structures provides the performers of a Ranters production with a platform to focus on the moment-to-moment minutiae of actions that take place between them. In the theatre of the everyday that I describe in this essay, the audience members are invited into the same conceptual space and time as the performers, one that sits in the blurred lines between the fictive and the real. Notions of character are completely avoided, and instead the focus is on exploring and realising the possibilities that can be theatricalised by a fluid and open expression of 'self.' (Publication abstract)
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Hyperrealism and the Everyday : The Plays of Ranters Theatre
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 70 2017; (p. 134-158) 'This article reflects on the performance texts that I have written and dramaturged with Ranters Theatre over a twenty-two-year period, covering three phases of work, each of which engages everydayness as part of its methodology. A key focus is textual dramaturgy, how the text is constructed, critiqued and dramaturged in order to create a finished performance text of play. Comparison is drawn with other contemporary theatre practitioners in Melbourne and overseas who also engage the everyday as a central component of their raison d'etre.' (Abstract introduction) -
Reinventing the Real
2009
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— Appears in: The Age , 30 June 2009; (p. 13) -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 15 February 2009; (p. 21)
— Review of Holiday 2007 single work drama -
Are We There Yet? The Retreat into Childhood
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 February 2009; (p. 20)
— Review of Holiday 2007 single work drama
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Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 August 2008; (p. 24)
— Review of Holiday 2007 single work drama -
Are We There Yet? The Retreat into Childhood
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 February 2009; (p. 20)
— Review of Holiday 2007 single work drama -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 15 February 2009; (p. 21)
— Review of Holiday 2007 single work drama -
All Too Real
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 January 2009; (p. 13) -
Reinventing the Real
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 30 June 2009; (p. 13) -
Hyperrealism and the Everyday : The Plays of Ranters Theatre
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 70 2017; (p. 134-158) 'This article reflects on the performance texts that I have written and dramaturged with Ranters Theatre over a twenty-two-year period, covering three phases of work, each of which engages everydayness as part of its methodology. A key focus is textual dramaturgy, how the text is constructed, critiqued and dramaturged in order to create a finished performance text of play. Comparison is drawn with other contemporary theatre practitioners in Melbourne and overseas who also engage the everyday as a central component of their raison d'etre.' (Abstract introduction) -
Ranters : Rehearsal and Development Process - How Is the Text Enacted?
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , May no. 74 2019; (p. 243-263)'The article analyses the processes in which my postdramatic plays and performance texts, such as 'St Kilda Tales, Roulette, Holiday' and 'Intimacy', are enacted in order to facilitate live interaction in relation to the audience. The application of everyday aesthetics within narrative and dramaturgical structures provides the performers of a Ranters production with a platform to focus on the moment-to-moment minutiae of actions that take place between them. In the theatre of the everyday that I describe in this essay, the audience members are invited into the same conceptual space and time as the performers, one that sits in the blurred lines between the fictive and the real. Notions of character are completely avoided, and instead the focus is on exploring and realising the possibilities that can be theatricalised by a fluid and open expression of 'self.' (Publication abstract)
Awards
- 2007 winner Victorian Green Room Awards — Production : Theatre - Independent — Production
- 2007 winner Victorian Green Room Awards — Best New Australian Play As 'Best New Australian Writing'.