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Alan John Alan John i(A36288 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Alan John is a freelance composer who has worked professionally as an actor, dramaturg amd musical director. After graduating from Sydney University in 1980, he bacame associated with the Nimrod Theatre as script assessor and composer, performed with Max Gillies in the two-man revue Squirts and was invited to join Jim Sharman's Lighthouse Company in Adelaide.

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Awards for Works

Through the Looking Glass 2008 single work musical theatre opera 'On a boating trip with seven year old Alice Liddell, Carroll gifted her with the fantastic story which would soon be indelibly associated with her name - a gift that would re-cast her as a pawn in the fantastic underworld of The Looking Glass. This glass is as much kaleidoscope as mirror, where space and time are refracted, splintering into chaos as rhyming flowers, roaring royals and reluctant foodstuffs wage war on sense and sensibility. While beneath it all stretches the long shadow of this mad world's creator, Master of Divinity, Lewis Carroll ... the writer and photographer - whose twinned passions he employed to freeze the object of his affection, where age and memory could not work their ways. Is this what Alice comes to discover in her looking glass: that her image, perhaps, was never her own?
2008 winner Victorian Green Room Awards — New Operatic Work
The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom 2007 single work musical theatre children's
2007 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best New Australian Work Nominated for the 2007 Windmill Performing Arts / Company B co-production.
y separately published work icon The Eighth Wonder : Opera in Fifteen Scenes Sydney : Pellinor , 1995 Z860162 1995 single work musical theatre opera The Eighth Wonder tells the story of the Opera House from Mr. Utzon's winning of a contest in 1956 to his eventual dismissal by a state concerned about expanding costs and the architect's uncompromising nature.
2001 winner Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best Opera
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