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1 11 Cloudstreet : The Opera Cloudstreet! George Palmer (composer), Gale Edwards , 2016 single work musical theatre opera
1 Ghosts Gale Edwards , 2014 single work drama
1 9 form y separately published work icon A Heartbeat Away Julie Kincade , ( dir. Gale Edwards ) 2011 Australia : Pictures in Paradise , 2011 Z1670975 2011 single work film/TV humour

A music-based comedy-drama.

'A Heartbeat Away is a feel-good Australian musical comedy from international Emmy award winner and acclaimed theatre director Gale Edwards.

'Kevin Flack (Sebastian Gregory) has a dream - to play lead guitar in a famous rock and roll band. But being a Rock God in the sleepy seaside town of Montague isn't easy. And neither is living at home with your mum and dad and your idiot younger brother.

'Kevin longs to break free while his father - Edwin Flack (William Zappa) - is proud of his Montague heritage and for the past twenty years has been totally obsessed with his one love - the town's Municipal Marching Band.

'Today, the Band faces a crisis. The Montague Council is preparing to demolish the community hall, the band's long time home. As the band prepares for the upcoming regional championships, Edwin is hit by a bus and Kevin is forced to take over as musical director.

'At the same time, the local Mayor (Colin Friels) convinces the Council to close down the Band in order to make way for a tourist development project. But Kevin strikes a deal and the Mayor agrees that if the Band win first prize in the competition then their future is assured.

'With the help of Mandy (Isabel Lucas) - the Mayor's daughter - Kevin must get the Band on his side, rearrange an iconic rock song for brass and totally overhaul their dated routine...

'All in four short weeks... And of course, his father must never find out.'

Source: A Heartbeat Away website, http://www.aheartbeatawaymovie.com/
Sighted: 17/03/2011
1 Summer Rain : Introduction Gale Edwards , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Summer Rain 2001; (p. vii-x)
2 form y separately published work icon Pride Glenda Adams , ( dir. Gale Edwards ) 1993 Australia : Generation Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1993 Z1571511 1993 single work film/TV

'Roger and Jill Pascoe are a glittering couple. Both are brilliant performers and he is also a great theatre director. Their next production will be Strindberg's The Stronger, first produced in 1889. We discover via a series of role-plays enacted by the couple for a class of drama students that all is not what it seems with their marriage. The charismatic Roger has affairs with other women while Jill fights to keep up the facade that they are the perfect couple.'

[Source: Australian Screen: http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/seven-sins-pride]
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