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Angus Cerini Angus Cerini i(A66564 works by)
Born: Established: 1974 ;
Gender: Male
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1 Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama

'The full force of nature

'From the monumental playwriting talents of 2020 Patrick White Playwrights Fellow Angus Cerini (The Bleeding Tree, Wonnangatta) comes this epic and poetic story of love, loss and renewal.

'Stage and screen legends Colin Friels and Kerry Armstrong play Ray and Floss, a farming couple who have lived off the land their entire adult lives. Through boom times and bust, they’ve been each other’s support and constant companion. But at the tail end of a once-in-a-generation drought, both are on the precipice of earth-shattering change and transformation.

'Into the Shimmering World will beguile audiences with its gothic and dreamlike take on the Australian landscape, its lush and musical language, and its powerful exploration of the depths of our national psyche.

'STC Director of New Work and Artistic Development Paige Rattray (Do not go gentle...) will premiere this new Australian masterpiece in the glorious expanse of an extended Wharf 1 Theatre, in a production that is set to be a rich evocation of the mysteries of the natural world and a lyrical look at humanity’s changing relationship to it.

'What awaits Ray and Floss when the drought finally breaks?' (Production summary)

1 5 Wonnangatta Angus Cerini , 2020 single work drama

'Wonnangatta Station, 1918. Two men arrive at a dark and empty farmhouse looking for the manager, their friend Jim Barclay. No one’s heard from him for more than a month. Something’s amiss. Then a grim discovery sets the men off on a journey across the harsh Australian terrain, looking for answers, maybe for revenge.'

Source: Sydney Theatre Company.

1 1 y separately published work icon Caravan Angus Cerini , Patricia Cornelius , Wayne Macauley , Melissa Reeves , 2017 12163284 2017 single work drama

The dilapidated old caravan might be full of musty carpet and faded dreams, but for years a mother and daughter have called it home.

With nowhere else to go, Judy and daughter Donna live on top of each other, knowing the other won’t leave: they’re stuck, and will be till the end.

Judy holds court from the caravan’s double bed, surrounded by pills, a breathing machine and a flat-screen TV. Donna is just desperate not to die there. Donna’s looking to be whisked away by a Tinder date, but as the phone pings and Judy sucks oxygen from a mask in the tiny, cluttered space, they bicker and make up, scream and threaten violence and dream of better things.

Bitter and hilarious, tender and toxic, Caravan is a darkly comic look at life on the margins and the universal need for love.' (Production Summary)

1 6 The Bleeding Tree Angus Cerini , 2015 single work drama

'In an isolated farmhouse, outside a small country town – a woman and her daughters have just killed their abusive man of the house. Known throughout the district as a cur and a dog, the women set about disposing of his body. However their task becomes fraught when several of the local villagers choose to pay a visit and grow suspicious at their behaviour – will their act become exposed before they can dispose of the body? A lyrical exploration of family, violence and revenge against a backdrop of a brutal, rural Australian landscape.' (Play summary)

1 1 Resplendence Angus Cerini , 2014 single work drama

'A man sits alone in a room assailed by the world around him. He does not know how to act, nor what impact his actions could possibly have. When he is faced with a situation that forces him to respond, what will it reveal?

'Angus Cerini is utterly unique and very exciting. Following the success of multi-award winning Save for Crying and Wretch, angus cerini / doubletap’s latest offering promises to be compelling, energetic and beautiful.

'An expressionistic response to the world in which we live, and the very nature of existence – powerful, nonsensical and beyond our control.' (Publication summary)

1 1 Scowl Angus Cerini , 2012 single work drama 'Lovely nice soft cream centres is what I'm talking about. Ooh pop em in me mouth. Slipping on in there between me lips. Nice and hard.

Angus Cerini's uniquely compelling, distinctively Australian voice brings us in to the dark and funny world of Jean and Annie, two elderly sisters - one foul mouthed and bitter, one filthy mouthed and randy. A grimy world of betrayal and forgiveness, of memory of home and of love lost. The question is whose memory? Whose home? Whose love?

An interrogation of Australia's past from a deeply human place, which peels back layers of recrimination through a wild ride, and soft-centred choccies.' (Source: http://www.pwa.org.au/scowl/)
1 2 Money Shots Angus Cerini , Tahli Corin , Duncan Graham , Rita Kalnejais , Zoe Pepper , 2011 single work drama 'Five new fifteen minute plays about money from some of Australia's most exciting new theatremakers - Angus Cerini, Tahli Corin, Duncan Graham, Rita Kalnejais, Zoe Pepper. Australia's young guns turn out their wallets and invite you to audit the contents. What can't be bought with the cash therein? Is there a direct correlation between bank balance and self worth? What is a human life worth and who has a right to determine that value? At what point does honest work begin to feel like prostitution?' (Source: http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au.)
1 1 Save for Crying Angus Cerini , 2011 single work drama

'Well-known Melbourne playwright Angus Cerini continues his odyssey into the inner world of the dispossessed. His hallmark poeticism and savagery combine with an extraordinary lightness in this new work.'

Source: Judges' Report, The RE Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Awards: Winners 2009 website, www.slv.vic.gov.au/ross (sighted 23/06/2009)

1 5 y separately published work icon Wretch Angus Cerini , 2007 Hobart : Australian Script Centre , 2009 Z1502694 2007 single work drama Wretch looks at the relationship between a mother and her son, at love in all its ugly and brilliant forms. Set within visiting hour in the juvenile detention facility where he is living, the young man struggles to comprehend the manner of his crimes while she tentatively tries to reconcile her own story. (Publisher's blurb)
1 Puppy Love Angus Cerini , 2005 single work drama
1 4 DiaTribe Angus Cerini , 2004 single work drama
1 2 Saving Henry Angus Cerini , 2003 single work drama
1 Seven Days of Silence Angus Cerini , 2001 single work drama thriller
— Appears in: Inside 01 2001; (p. 137-160)
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