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Moth and Home Economics: Two plays

Moth and Home Economics: Two plays

By Declan Greene
ISBN
9780868199405
Publisher
Currency Press
Publication Date
2 July 2012
Edition
Standard
Format
Paperback
Availability
Available
Categories
Plays
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$31.99
Description

Moth explores themes of friendship, bullying, mental illness, and the hierarchy of the schoolyard. Sebastian is a terminally unpopular fifteen-year-old suburban kid, with an overactive imagination and an obsession with anime and death. His only friend, Claryssa, is an emo Wiccan art-freak barely one rung higher than Sebastian on the social ladder. What starts as just another night drinking down at the cricket nets soon gives way to an ecstatic vision that leaves Sebastian unconscious, their friendship left in ruin.

2011 AWGIE—Theatre for Young Audiences
2010 Green Room Awards—Best New Australian Work
2009 VIC Premier's Literary Award—Louis Esson Prize for Drama (shortlist)

Home Economics is a series of five vignettes balanced on the axis of sex and food. This delicious series of character studies are ruthless, biting and critical but also extremely human and touching, revealing the author’s genuine fondness for his characters.

Biography
Declan Greene
Declan Greene

DECLAN GREENE is a theatre-maker and Resident Artist at Malthouse Theatre. In 2018 Greene directed Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company’s co-production of Blackie Blackie Brown and has adapted Lars Von Triers 2011 feature film Melancholia for the stage. As a playwright, his work includes Moth, Pompeii L.A., Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, I Am A Miracle, and The Homosexuals, or ‘Faggots’, which have been produced across Australia, Europe, the US, and the UK. Awards include the Malcolm Robertson Prize, the Max Afford Playwright’s Award, the AWGIE for Theatre for Young Audiences, and the Green Room Award for Best Original Writing. As a director and dramaturg, works include Zoey Dawson’s The Unspoken Word is ‘Joe’ (MKA / Griffin Independent) and Conviction (ZLMD Shakespeare), and the Listies’ Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark (Sydney Theatre Company). Alongside Ash Flanders, Greene co-runs queer independent theatre company Sisters Grimm, and has directed and co-created all their shows to date – including Little Mercy (Sydney Theatre Company), The Sovereign Wife (MTC Neon), Summertime in the Garden of Eden (Theatre Works / Griffin Independent), Calpurnia Descending (Malthouse Theatre / Sydney Theatre Company), and Lilith: The Jungle Girl (MTC).

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Book Data
Cast Info 1F, 1M
Genres Black Comedy, Drama
Themes Diverse sexuality themes
Audiences Adult
Extent 116
Edition Standard
Size 137 x 210 mm
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