7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: June 2007

Wednesday 27 June 2007

The Greatest Show On Earth

Donna Abela has been working with a creative team spread across three states to develop the script for The Greatest Show On Earth, a musical adventure that pitches big smoke developers against a community determined to protect their heritage and tradition. It’s a rough and tumble story inspired by the generations of circuses and carnivals that travelled through outback Australia.
The show features the Longreach Town Brass Band, The Thistle Pipe Band, the Call of Fame Quartet and a local Choir, and a contingent of professional actors and musicians. It will play in the showground of Longreach in central Queensland on the 19th, 20th and 21st of July.
Co-written with director Patrick Nolan, the show was commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival.

Monday 25 June 2007

World Premiere

Hilary Bell's new play 'Memmie Le Blanc' is to be produced by Deckchair Theatre in November 2007. Commissioned by Los Angeles theatre South Coast Rep, workshopped at the 2006 Australian National Playwrights' Conference, and recently awarded the Inscription prize, 'Memmie' is inspired by the true story of a feral child found in the woods of France in 1731.
Deckchair will join forces with Vitalstatistix, guaranteeing a tour to Adelaide in 2008. For more information go to: Deckchair Theatre

About 7-ON

7-ON Playwrights was established in 2005 by Donna Abela, Catherine Zimdahl, Ned Manning, Noëlle Janaczewska, Vanessa Bates, Verity Laughton and Hilary Bell. Seven minds that don’t think alike but are simpatico in this—our belief in the transformative properties of our artform and its place in Australian culture. With over 200 plays between us, our work has been produced on stages across Australia. Internationally, we have been produced in Botswana, the US, the UK, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, France, Canada, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. We have over 40 awards between us including: 14 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, 4 Griffin Playwriting Awards, 3 Premiers’ Literary Awards, 4 Inscription Awards, an Adelaide Critics’ Circle Prize, a Phillip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award, a Wyndham Campbell Prize, a Centenary Medal, a Patrick White Playwrights’ Fellowship, and a Human Rights Award for Drama. As 7-ON we advocate for playwrights, initiate performance and publishing projects, and support and celebrate each other’s work. We create projects that are best served by a multitude of voices. These have included The Seven Needs (Griffin, 2007), Thus Spake Zarathustra (Wollongong University, 2008), Long Shadows (STC workshop, 2009), Platonic (Hothouse development, 2013), We Are The Ghosts Of The Future (Rocks Discovery Museum, 2015), and various works under the banner of Old Texts Revisited (ABC Radio, 2009), I Contain Multitudes (Novemberism Playwriting Festival, 2011) and No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames (MayDay! Playwrights’ Festival, 2013) which presented a selection of monologues from our anthology of the same name published by the Federation Press in 2012. We are also included in Currency Press’ anthology of short plays Short Circuit (2009).