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Jane Montgomery Griffiths Jane Montgomery Griffiths i(A126396 works by)
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1997
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BiographyHistory

Actor and playwright. Griffiths acted and directed in England and was a visiting fellow in drama at Cambridge University. After her move to Melbourne, Victoria, she convened classical studies at Melbourne University.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

An Ox Stand on My Tongue 2023 single work drama

'Helen and Clytemnestra live the domestic goddess dream in myth made modern.

'An ox stand on my tongue asks what if the infamous femme fatale and vilified husband murderer had actually once believed in an idealised domestic dream? What compelled them to justify – or to suppress – the experiences they had endured. 

'This is a play about two women who try – who really do try – to be well behaved, to be the perfect housewife, but who just happen to end up becoming the world’s most notorious adulterer and Husband killing Matricide.'

Source: Production blurb.
2023 nominated Sydney Theatre Awards — Best New Australian Work
2023 winner Sydney Theatre Awards — Best Costume Design of an Independent Production
Echo and Narcissus 2021 single work musical theatre opera

'Echo, a talkative nymph of the forest, is in love with Narcissus, who only loves himself. After she is rejected, Echo retreats to the caves, doomed to forever only repeat the words she hears. Narcissus is unable to tear himself away from his own reflection and turns into a flower on the riverbank.'

Source: Production blurb.
2022 winner Victorian Green Room Awards — New Operatic Work
A Little Piece for Her Sister 2011 single work drama

'... re-imagines the stories of Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra ... juxtaposes everyday domesticity with mythic excesses'.

Source: The R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Awards 2011 Judges' Report, State Library of Victoria website, www.slv.vic.gov.au (sighted 13/07/2011)
2011 co winner R. E. Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Award
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