Tom Holloway
Tom Holloway is an Australian playwright, based in Melbourne as of May 2015[update].
Holloway's plays have been performed across Australia and internationally, including Beyond the Neck at Belvoir St Theatre (2007), Red Sky Morning at Red Stitch Actors Theatre (2008–09) and on a regional tour, and Don't Say The Words (2009). And No More Shall We Part (2011) was performed by Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney[1] and London's Hampstead Theatre (2012).[2] His stage adaptation of Colin Thiele's Storm Boy premiered in Sydney in 2013.[3][4]
In February 2011, his play Fatherland received its debut at the Gate Theatre in London.[5]
Education
[edit]After attending university in Tasmania, Holloway studied playwriting at Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2001, as well as at London's Royal Court Theatre International Playwriting Studio in 2006.[6]
Plays
[edit]- Stones In My Passkey (2001)
- Revelator (2002)
- The Bus (2004)
- Pathetique And the Papers (2004)
- Snapshot (2005)
- His Tattooed Fist (2005)
- Beyond the Neck (2007)
- The Knife that Catches the Sun (2008)
- Don't Say the Words (2008)
- Red Sky Morning (2008)
- Love Me Tender (2010)
- Gambling (2010)
- You Won't Be Seeing Rainbows Anymore (2010)
- The Suicide Show (2010)
- Fatherland (2011)
- Die Winterreise (2011)
- And No More Shall We Part (2011)
- If I Should Stay I Would Only Be in Your Way (2011)
- Faces Look Ugly (2011)
- Dance of Death (2013)
- Forget Me Not (2013)
- Stormboy (2013)
- 100 Reasons for War (2015)
- Dead Centre and Sea Wall (2015)
- As We Forgive (2016)
- Double Indemnity (2016)
Style
[edit]Holloway has likened aspects of his work to postdramatic theatre. On Love Me Tender, he said: "There's been a big push away from story the last ten years in this movement called ‘post-dramatic theatre'. They're very fragmented and experimental, these plays... I'm taking what I love about those plays and feeding narrative back into it."[7]
Awards
[edit]Beyond the Neck received a 2008 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play.[8]
Red Sky Morning was awarded an R. E. Ross Trust Script Award and a Green Room Award for Best New Play.[9]
In 2010, And No More Shall We Part received the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Louis Esson Prize for Drama[10] and the 2010 AWGIE Award for Best Stage Play.[11]
In 2011, his play Faces Look Ugly won the Max Afford Award.[citation needed]
He was shortlisted for the 2011 AWGIE, the 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Award, the 2011 WA Premier's Literary Award and the 2008 and 2009 Patrick White Awards.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ↑ Tom Holloway at AustralianPlays.org
- ↑ And No More Shall We Part. Hampstead Theatre, 12 January 2012
- ↑ "Storm Boy" at Cultural Atlas of Australia. Accessed 30 May 2015
- ↑ McCallum, John Storm Boy's flight of nostalgia. The Australian, 16 August 2013. Accessed 30 May 2015
- ↑ Gardner, Lyn Fatherland—review. The Guardian, 23 February 2011. Accessed 30 May 2015
- ↑ "Tom Holloway". Dollee.com – The Playwrights Database. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ↑ at timeout.com Archived 12 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ AWGIE Stage Award. At AustralianPlays.org
- ↑ Norris, Adam And No More Shall We Part @ The Stables at M/C Reviews, 5 July [2011]
- ↑ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards at literaryfestivals.com.au
- ↑ Comedy Writing Shines At The 2010 AWGIES at Australian Writers’ Guild. Accessed 30 May 2015
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