Aidan Fennessy (9 works by)
Gender: Male

Notes

  • Aidan Fennessy was the co-founder in 1992 of Chameleon Theatre (Melbourne). As well as being a drama writer, he has directed for theatre and film, and has been writer-in residence with the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Awards for Works

National Interest , 2012 drama single work 'Aidan Fennessy, a member of MTC's Season 2012 Programming Team and an MTC Associate Director since 2008, charts the story of his extended family, the Stewarts, whose twenty-one-year-old son Tony Stewart was one of the Balibo Five. This is one of Australia's most controversial issues, and Fennessy explores it through the eyes of those to whom justice matters the most. Julia Blake stars as Tony Stewart's mother.

On 16 October 1975, five Australian-based journalists, Greg Shackleton, Tony Stewart, Gary Cunningham, Malcolm Rennie and Brian Peters, were murdered on assignment in the town of Balibo, East Timor, at the hands of the Indonesian military. The journalists had been sent by their networks to investigate decolonisation in East Timor and the threat of invasion by neighbouring Indonesia.

It took one month for the parents of the journalists to learn that their children were missing and another month to confirm that they were killed. After two official inquiries (1999 and 2007), those responsible for the murder of the Balibo Five have still not been prosecuted.' (Source : http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/events /1797/national-interest )
2012 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Louis Esson Prize for Drama
2012 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — People's Choice Award
Brutopia , 2010 drama single work '"Brutopia" traces the diffuse interactions within a city, of six disparate characters over the course of a single day that lead to a horrific crime. It drills down into the everyday dislocation of the atomised life of a big city.' Source: www.aussietheatre.com.au/ (Sighted 20/08/2010).
2010 winner Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting
Big Noise , 2007 drama single work

'One night. One city. Six stories. 'Big Noise' drills down into the everyday dislocation of life at the crossroads in a big city.'

Source: Fortyfivedownstairs Theatre website www.fortyfivedownstairs (sighted: 26/08/2009)
2007 joint winner R. E. Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Award $4,000 for further development.
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