From 17 year old soldiers’ letters home to podcasts, to readings and conversations, to theatre… My Father’s Wars explores two journeys – that of a young man to adulthood in a war, and the intergenerational impact of that trauma on his family. That young fella was my dad. He enlisted…
The My Father’s Wars podcasts are 5 episodes (45 minutes) about the experiences of a young lieutenant on the Western Front in 1917/18 (my father) and how they impacted him, and us, later, in family life. They’re designed to be available to anyone, anywhere in the country who may have…
Okay – there’s a new thing in play: My Father’s Wars as a live theatre performance. And this current development – My Father’s Wars, as I found them… is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and by the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and by the Tivoli. My Father’s Wars began life as a series…
An audio thriller about a group of young Australian AWAS girls who intercepted for Douglas MacArthur’s secret Intelligence organisation in Brisbane, Central Bureau. Gradually, one of them becomes convinced there’s a threat right on the doorstep – just out in the Bay – but it’s elusive… By early 1942, the…
I approached Flipside Circus in 2017 with an idea I had for a show for a young audience – on the difficult subject of exclusion. I translated humans into dog-children: insiders and outsiders, pack dynamics, what happens when one dog is excluded from the pack… but this work needed to…
A few years ago, I wrote a play with songs (Gloria) about a rock diva/chanteuse who had left her 2 year old behind in Australia and gone to Europe in the 70’s. In her 50s she returns to try to reestablish contact – but has a stroke and her mind fractures. So,…
Metro Arts 2008 | Umber Productions Set in the state forests just north of Brisbane, RISK examines the lives of young people living in towns that live ‘between’ – between the city and the bush, between Friday night and Monday morning, between olds that come and go, between teenage dreams…
La Boite Indie 2011 | Umber productions Water Wars is a timely and darkly funny exploration of what happens between neighbours as the drought gets longer and tougher and then gets renamed as a ‘dry’… Set just into the future – when our communities face on-going water scarcity – Water…