Mr Melancholy + Footprints on Water

Title: Mr Melancholy + Footprints on Water
Author: Cameron, Matt
Price: $29.99

Mr. Melancholy
An absurd comedy of solitude and sorrow.

Three hermits, living in a lighthouse without a light, discover a runaway circus clown washed ashore.

CAST: Mr Melancholy - 2M, 2F

REVIEW
Cameron seems heir to the existentialism of a Samuel Beckett, the absurdities of a Goon Show and the hauntingly melancholic whimsy of cartoonist Michael Leunig. - The Bulletin


Footprints on Water
A darkly comic parable of belief and judgment.

A religious zealot wills God to wipe out his morally bankrupt village so he can start the world again.

CAST: Footprints on Water - 4M, 2F

REVIEW
Exudes a palpable sense of apocalypse. If Footprints on Water is any indication, Australian theatre is in safe hands. - The Age


AUTHOR
MATT CAMERON is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. his plays include Tear from a Glass Eye, winner of Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award with productions by Playbox, Black Swan and Londons Gate Theatre, where he was nominated for Evening Standard Awards; Footprints on Water, winner of British Council International New Playwriting Award with productions by Neonheart, Griffin and La Mama; Mr Melancholy, winner of ANPC/New Dramatists Award with productions by Griffin, La Boite, Chameleon as well as in New York, Paris and Poland; and The Eskimo Calling, produced by Neonheart at Malthouse Theatre and Belvoir B Sharp. For the Melbourne Theatre Company: Poor Boy, featuring the songs of Tim Finn, nominated for Victorian Premiers Literary Award and co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company; Hinterland, nominated for NSW Premiers Literary Award; Man the Balloon, nominated for Victorian Premiers Literary Award; and a short play Whispering Death. Ruby Moon, nominated for Queensland Premiers Literary Award and produced by MTC, STC, QTC, State Theatre of SA, Playbox, Neonheart as well as in England, Japan and Switzerland. Screen credits include Seachange, Crashburn, Newstopia, script editor for Kath & Kim and co-creator/co-writer/director of AWGIE award-winning Introducing Gary Petty.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 01/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780868199399