Coup d'Etat & Other Plays - Softcover

Biografía del autor

JUSTIN FLEMING (b. 1953) has been a Vice-President of The Australian Writers' Guild and a board member of The Australian National Playwrights' Centre. Justin's plays include Hammer, Indian Summer, The Nonsense Boy, The Awful Manners of James Hopper, The Cobra, Harold In Italy, Burnt Piano and Child of the Dark Sun. Burnt Piano has been translated into German and French for European productions, and won the New York New Dramatists' Exchange Award in 2000. As lyricist to British composer, Stephen Edwards, Justin wrote Accidental Miracles, The Ninth Wonder, the English Tour and London season of Crystal Balls (Compact Opera/Sadler's Wells) and TESS of the D'Urbervilles, which toured Britain before its run at The Savoy Theatre in London's West End. Justin is also lyricist on Babel, with Martin Charnin and Thos Hodgson, Satango with Stewart D'Arrietta and the musical, J.C. Williamson, with Gale Edwards, John Senczuk and Mike Harvey. With productions in Australia, Canada and Hong Kong, Coup D'Etat earned Justin the Banff PlayRites Residency, Canada 2002, and made the final short-list for the Patrick White Award 2003. Screenplays include The Shedding, Movie Dreams, Christmas, Lord Devil, The Tree House and Cold Call. Justin has degrees in Law from Sydney and Dublin, and a Master of Laws from University College London. Written for television, his history of the common law, Barbarism to Verdict, was published internationally by HarperCollins, with a foreword by John Mortimer Q.C.. For ABC Television, Justin wrote Part One of the history of cinema, The Celluloid Heroes. He has twice been awarded the Nancy Keesing Writer's Studio Fellowship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and his Paris journal is published by Halstead Press in Paris Studio.