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'A lover returns from the past and a husband doesn’t answer the phone... A woman disappears and a neighbour is the prime suspect... Contracts are broken between intimates and powerful bonds are formed between strangers.
'In Andrew Bovell’s masterfully interconnected polyphony, an evocative mystery unravels at the same time as a devastating tale of disconnection between individuals, partners and communities.' (Production summary)
Adaptations
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form
y
Lantana
( dir. Ray Lawrence
)
Sydney
:
Jan Chapman Productions
,
2001
Z900877
2001
single work
film/TV
thriller
(taught in 6 units)
'A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them survive. LANTANA is a psychological thriller about love. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer, and the attempts we make to fix things up.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 4/12/2013)
Production Details
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First produced by Griffin Theatre Co., Stables Theatre, Sydney, 6 August 1996.
New production by Griffin Theatre Company, Kings Cross, 4 February - 19 March 2011.
Director: Sam Strong.
Designer: Dayna Morrissey.
Lighting Designer: Danny Pettingill.
Sound Designer & Composer: Steve Francis.
Cast: Lucy Bell, Caroline Craig, Andy Rodoreda, and Christopher Stollery.
Also produced by State Theatre Company of South Australia, Adelaide, July 2011.
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New productions by Griffin Teatre Company, Sydney 9 February, 2011 and State Theatre Company of South Australia, Adelaide, 2 July 2011.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Trust
2015
single work
essay
— Appears in: Andrew Bovell : The Alchemy of Collaboration 2015; (p. 17-20) -
[Essay] : Speaking in Tongues
2013
single work
essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;'I have worked quite a bit with Andrew Bovell. We have collaborated on two (and a half) plays, and a movie, in a group of writers/theatre makers called Six. The four playwrights of the group, the other two being Patricia Cornelius and Christos Tsiolkas, have all learned much from each other. It is a privilege to see another writer’s process up extremely close, from the first seed of an idea to the final performance draft. You get to see how they manage the art of filtering the real world and the world of ideas, and shared avowed intentions into stories, characters, images—theatre. We all came into the group as experienced writers with our own voices, but when working with others who do what you do you can’t help comparing and contrasting; you admire, envy, and sometimes even pinch stuff, albeit unconsciously. I want a bit of that, you think. I want Patricia’s easy, lyrical, colloquial poetry. I want Christos’ morally confounding collisions between characters and ideas.' (Introduction)
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Fitting Affair Speaks Volumes
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 May 2012; (p. 9)
— Review of Speaking in Tongues 1996 single work drama -
Tongue-Tied Couple Keep Peace in Birthday Play
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 May 2012; (p. 7) -
Secrets and Lies
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 May 2012; (p. 9)
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Timing, Tension and Ironic Humour Make Bovell Play Triumph
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 August 2003; (p. 10)
— Review of Speaking in Tongues 1996 single work drama -
Savour the Mystery
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Muse , July no. 230 2003; (p. 18)
— Review of Speaking in Tongues 1996 single work drama -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Muse , September no. 232 2003; (p. 10)
— Review of Speaking in Tongues 1996 single work drama -
Adulterous Adventures Grip Like Lantana
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 February 2011; (p. 13)
— Review of Speaking in Tongues 1996 single work drama -
Brilliant Cast Makes an Entertaining Meal of Tongues
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 February 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of Speaking in Tongues 1996 single work drama -
'Let's Get Her' : Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Australian Drama and Its Film Adaptations
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 76 2003; (p. 127-135, notes 246-247) Explores the various strategies that playwrights and filmmakers employ to represent masculinities, especially in relation to acts of sexual violence, in a number of texts. -
Speaking in Tongues
1998
single work
column
— Appears in: State of the Arts , August - November 1998; (p. 105) - y Adaptations : A Guide to Adapting Literature to Film Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2007 Z1361797 2007 single work criticism Adaptations discusses approaches to adaptations of various forms of literature using a range of Australian texts and films as examples.
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Reverberations
2011
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 January 2011; (p. 6,8) Discusses the revival of Bovell's 1998 play and the significance of this work for Bovell's development as a writer. -
Secrets and Lies
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 May 2012; (p. 9)
Awards
- 1997 winner AWGIE Awards — Stage Award