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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Beached
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'Arty is huge. Ginormous. Morbidly and grossly obese, he’s in need of a gastric bypass to save his life. At over 400 kilos, he’s the world’s fattest teenager.

'Arty is also being followed by a reality TV crew. Will he lose the kilos needed to have the op? Will he survive to eat another cream puff? Will Louise, his Pathways-to-Work officer, transform his life in ways he never imagined?

'Unapologetically satiric, Beached is also the moving story of a man imprisoned in his own body. It lays bare the mercenary nature of reality TV, and turns the microscope on society’s insatiable appetite for human misery.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Production Details

  • A rehearsed reading of 'Beached' was presented to a full house at The Wharf as part of the 2011 Sydney Writers Festival.

    Performed by Griffin Theatre Company at SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, NSW, 19 July - 31 August 2013.

    Director: Shannon Murphy.

    Set and Costume Designer: James Browne.

    Lighting and AV Designer: Verity Hampson.

    Sound and AV Designer: Steve Toulmin.

    Dramaturg: Kit Brookman.

    Assistant Director: Liz Arday.

    With Gia Carides, Arka Das, Blake Davis, and Kate Mulvany.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2011
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2013 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9780868199740
      Series: Current Theatre Series Currency Press (publisher), 1983- series - publisher 'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Nick Hern Books ,       2014 .
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      Extent: 64p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 October 2014
      ISBN: 9781848424654
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Works about this Work

Big Issue a Bit Thin on the Ground for Meaty Content Cameron Woodhead , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 April 2013; (p. 29)
— Review of Beached Melissa Bubnic , 2011 single work drama
A Vision with Mass Appeal Elissa Blake , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 August 2013; (p. 5)
— Review of Beached Melissa Bubnic , 2011 single work drama
A Grotesque Carnival of Reality John McCallum , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 July 2013; (p. 15)
— Review of Beached Melissa Bubnic , 2011 single work drama
Big-Hearted Tale Behind Belly Laughs Jason Blake , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 July 2013; (p. 17)
— Review of Beached Melissa Bubnic , 2011 single work drama
Staging a Fightback Can be Heavy Going Andrew Taylor , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 14 July 2013; (p. 19)
Big Issue a Bit Thin on the Ground for Meaty Content Cameron Woodhead , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 April 2013; (p. 29)
— Review of Beached Melissa Bubnic , 2011 single work drama
Big-Hearted Tale Behind Belly Laughs Jason Blake , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 July 2013; (p. 17)
— Review of Beached Melissa Bubnic , 2011 single work drama
A Grotesque Carnival of Reality John McCallum , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 July 2013; (p. 15)
— Review of Beached Melissa Bubnic , 2011 single work drama
A Vision with Mass Appeal Elissa Blake , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 August 2013; (p. 5)
— Review of Beached Melissa Bubnic , 2011 single work drama
A Fat Cheque for the Lean Times Clare Morgan , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21- 22 May 2011; (p. 14) The Saturday Age , 21 May 2011; (p. 26)
Staging a Fightback Can be Heavy Going Andrew Taylor , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 14 July 2013; (p. 19)
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