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Bogdan Koca Bogdan Koca i(A23878 works by)
Born: Established:
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Poland,
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Eastern Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1982
Heritage: Polish
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1 form Garrotting Bogdan Koca , 2005 single work drama radio play

George and Madeleine live in a miserable dystopia. George and Madeleine like it kinky. But their relationship has passed beyond sadomasochistic whipping to an altogether tougher level of violence. She asks him to bash her, he obliges. 'Why do people always feel sorry for the victim?' he asks of us. After all, it is exhausting work beating someone up. Garrotting explores the purpose of male/female relationships, the desires and needs that are met, and then leaves us guessing if there are any that go unsatisfied. It verbalises the usually unspoken agreements between men and women.

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/airplay/s1351373.htm
Sighted: 31/05/2005
1 Maria and Henry i "Maria with hands as white as the whey", Bogdan Koca , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mood Lightning : An Anthology 2004; (p. 116-117)
1 form Lexes Bogdan Koca , 2004 extract drama radio play (Lexes)
— Appears in: Mood Lightning : An Anthology 2004; (p. 194-197)
1 Sigh 13 i "There is a sand-martin", Bogdan Koca , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mood Lightning : An Anthology 2004; (p. 82)
1 Reality Number Six Bogdan Koca , 2004 extract drama (Reality Number Six)
— Appears in: Mood Lightning : An Anthology 2004; (p. 80-82)
1 Olga i "Is there anything less than Passion", Bogdan Koca , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mood Lightning : An Anthology 2004; (p. 35)
1 Sigh 1 i "If one was adept only", Bogdan Koca , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mood Lightning : An Anthology 2004; (p. 70)
1 Gobs and Faces Bogdan Koca , 2004 single work drama 'Three great writers of the 20th century: a Jew, working and creating in Poland (Bruno Schulz), a Polish aristocrat working and living in Argentina (Witold Gombrowicz), and an Australian novelist and intellectual (Patrick White) meet in what could be Hell, Purgatory or Heaven... (or maybe, it's just a hotel room somewhere...). Schulz was killed by an SS officer on the street of Gombrowicz's motherland, Gombrowicz left his homeland precisely on the day his country was invaded by Hitler... he never came back and became a controversial and "naughty" émigré, Patrick White struggled throughout his life with a parochialism and mediocrity of his culturally isolated motherland... The play examines emotions related to the love of culture and the responsibility of an artist as an independent human being but also as a responsible citizen.' http://www.sat.org.au/gobs_play.htm (Sighted 03/05/05)
1 form Lexes Bogdan Koca , 2003 single work drama radio play
1 The Last Sentence before Execution Bogdan Koca , 2001 single work drama
1 Garroting Bogdan Koca , Bogdan Koca (composer), 2001 single work drama
1 Conrad Knowles Bogdan Koca , 2000 single work drama
1 form Biding Time Bogdan Koca , 1999 single work drama radio play
1 y separately published work icon My Name Is Such and Such and Other Plays Bogdan Koca , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 1998 Z16074 1998 selected work drama
1 1 Triptych 3 : Gunter's Wife Bogdan Koca , Alexis Cross (composer), 1998 single work drama
— Appears in: My Name Is Such and Such and Other Plays 1998; (p. 99 -121)

A woman (named AA in the script) abruptly marries a man she has never met. After their first night together, she realises that he is deaf, mute, and possibly Albanian: they have no way of communicating with each other. The husband seems content with AA. AA struggles to accept him as her husband, but eventually sees it as an opportunity to say whatever she wants, even in made-up languages.
1 1 Triptych 2 : Annette and Annette Bogdan Koca , Philip Griffin (composer), 1998 single work drama
— Appears in: My Name Is Such and Such and Other Plays 1998; (p. 67 -97)

Annette 2, blind and in a wheelchair at the end of her life, meets Annette 1 again. They recall their love affair and Annette 2's manipulative acts before parting again forever.
1 1 Triptych 1 : Sparring Partner Bogdan Koca , Bogdan Koca (composer), 1998 single work drama
— Appears in: My Name Is Such and Such and Other Plays 1998; (p. 33 -65)
1 1 My Name Is Such and Such Bogdan Koca , Bogdan Koca (composer), 1998 single work drama
— Appears in: My Name Is Such and Such and Other Plays 1998; (p. 1 -31)
1 The Evanescence of the Playwright with No Name Bogdan Koca , 1997 single work drama
1 The Poet, the Women and Frocks Bogdan Koca , 1994 single work drama
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