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CREW
Gorgeous
Productions is an all
professional team of actors, directors, designers, etc., dedicated
to producing innovative and exciting productions. Work that means
something to us, that speaks directly to us and through us to
our audience. Lovepuke is our seventh show to date.
 About the Director:
BRENDAN O'CONNOR
Brendan has directed five out
of the seven Gorgeous Productions, including Patience
and The Pudding for the Brunswick Music Festival, Futz
and now Lovepuke. He has also directed plays at La Mama
and The Universal.
Brendan's acting career entails
being beaten to a pulp on a regular basis, crushed under a car
in Blue Heelers, accused of murdering his boss on Stingers,
having hefty faries jump on him in A Midsummer Night's Dream
in the Royal Botanical Gardens and falling from a building site
scaffolding in a series of ads in Tasmania (and all in the last
12 months!).
 About
the Writer:
DUNCAN SARKIES
"Duncan Sarkies, it
sometimes seems, is out there orbiting a parallel universe. He
wants to reach us, he's trying to get through, he writes works
in the hope that Earthlings will understand." - The New Zealand Listener Magazine
"(The) Enfant terrible
of theatre, film and fiction, Duncan Sarkies ..." - NZ Festival 2000
Duncan Sarkies is well known
in his native New Zealand as a performer and director as well
as a writer. He began writing plays at the age of ten, and studied
with playwright, Rodger Hall at Otago University. He has penned
the plays Snooze, Conversation Pieces, Saving
Grace (winner of the 1995 Best New Play at New Zealand's
Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards), Twelve, The Ceramic
Camel, Blue Vein, Special, Bystander, Stray Thoughts and Nose
Bleeds and Lovepuke. Also a screenwriter, he wrote Saving
Grace (adapted from his award-winning play and directed by
Costa Botes), co-wrote the acclaimed film Scarfies (with
his award-winning filmaker brother, Robert, who also directed),
which has become one of the top five grossing films in New Zealand,
and wrote and directed the short film, ASH.
In 1994, Duncan was awarded
New Zealand's prestigious Bruce Mason Playwriting Award
and was selected to represent New Zealand at the International
Playwrights Conference in Australia that year. He received the
literary fellowship Louis Johnston New Writers Award in
1998 and has since published a book of short stories, based on
his highly successful theatre show of the same name, Stray
Thoughts and Nose Bleeds (Published by Victoria University
Press, 1999).
Lovepuke has won awards at the International
Youth Playwrights Fesival and took out "Best Of The
Fringe Festival" in Wellington, NZ in 1993.
Producer/Publicist
Perri
Cummings
Musician
Caitlin
French
Set/Costume Designer &
Stage Manager
Kimberly
Hore
Lighting Designer
Jim
Clavering
Assistant Stage Managers/Lighting
Operators
Michelle Newby/David Gilbo
Produced by
Gorgeous
Productions
in association with
Eclipse
With Many Thanks to:
Everyone
at La Mama
The Nova Cinema
Brunswick Showbiss Dance Studio
Sean O'Connor
MDM Copy Centre
Lou Sexton & John McAuslan at Across The Borders
Stage One
James
Salmac
Productions
Creative Costumes
Glenn Elston - EHJ Productions
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