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End Of.

End Of.

By Ash Flanders
ISBN
9781760627867
Publisher
Currency Press
Publication Date
12 October 2022
Edition
CTS
Format
Paperback
Availability
Available
Categories
Plays
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Description

There's no crueler thing you can say to an actor than 'don't quit your day job'. Fortunately, thanks to cover bands and theatre restaurants, Ash Flanders never needed one. But after years of glittering appearances on stages and in school gyms across the country, Ash unceremoniously finds himself seated at a computer terminal in a decidedly un-sparkly corporate office. No longer an acclaimed playwright and performer, Ash is now a legal transcriptionist—typing the words of suspected criminals who are not nearly as fascinating as TV suggested.

As Ash painstakingly types out the narratives of petty crims, he begins to interrogate his own poor choices. That thing he did in an abandoned carpark. The visit to the horse knackery. Those people at the old folks home. All of it in service of one thing: making people laugh.

But as his own transcript unravels, Ash realises it's about making her laugh. His toughest audience. A heavy-drinking, chain-smoking behemoth named Heather Flanders. And her health is getting so dire it's, well … laughable.

Ash Flanders (Blackie Blackie Brown) is a consummate showman—an awarded writer, actor, and elder millennial shaman. But in End Of. he is stripped uncommonly bare.

Ash has created an honest, hilarious gut punch of a one-man show … End of.

Biography
Ash Flanders
Ash Flanders

ASH FLANDERS is a multi-award winning playwright and performer from sunny Melbourne. In 2006 he and Declan Greene formed theatre company Sisters Grimm and together wrote over a dozen shows including Summertime in the Garden of Eden (Griffin Theatre), Little Mercy (STC), The Sovereign Wife (MTC), Calpurnia Descending (Malthouse/STC), and Lilith: The Jungle Girl (MTC). As a solo writer/performer Ash created Meme Girls (Malthouse), Special Victim (Feast Festival), Playing to Win (Arts Centre Melbourne), Ash Flanders is NOTHING and End Of. (Griffin Theatre), all directed by Stephen Nicolazzo. His cabaret-farce SS Metaphor and naturalistic drama This Is Living were both commissioned by Malthouse Theatre. In 2024 he wrote two new works as part of the Athenaeum Group's playwright-in-residence program, solo show A Brief Episode and the pitch-black comedy Commentary.

Book Data
Cast Info 1M
Genres Comedy, Drama
Themes Solo Performer
Audiences Adult
Extent 50
Edition CTS
Size 210 x 137 mm
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