Name: GETTING SHELTER
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GETTING SHELTER

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Getting Shelter is a monologue performed by a street person, Ugly (described as "an old man in rags"). He is, it seems, dead or dying, and in the half-life in between, he revisits a home of his desire and imagination, a place of shelter, safety and home.

Daniel Keene's collaboration with director Ariette Taylor—the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project—was critically acclaimed both locally and overseas.

Getting Shelter was first performed as part of KTTP Season 9 in 1999.

In the original KTTP production, the monologue is told to a group of hovering men, desperate for the secret to finding the shelter.

Form/Style: poetic monologue
Length in minutes: 12
Cast: 1 total
Roles: 1 male identifying
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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LINKS & DOWNLOADS
PRODUCTION HISTORY

DANIELKEENE.COM.AU

Daniel Keene's website, containing interviews, extracts, introductions and production histories.

MELBOURNE THEATRE: THE WITNESS

RICHARD MURPHET, REAL TIME ISSUE #43, JUNE-JULY 2001

Richard Murphet's survey of Melbourne's theatre scene in the early 2000s, in which he discusses the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.

TWO TAKES ON TRUTH AND LIES

FIONA GRUBER, THE AUSTRALIAN, OCTOBER 2008

Whilst discussing the 2008 production of ' Lower Depths' by Maxim Gorky, Director, Ariette Taylor and the Australian's Fiona Gruber reflect on the aesthetic influences of the Keene/Taylor project, in particular a furniture repository belonging to the Brotherhood of St Laurence that was a cornerstone of many Keene/Taylor productions.

45 DOWNSTAIRS

A brief history of 45 Downstairs, host to a number of productions included in the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

Keene Taylor Theatre Project : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, accessible for research purposes.

KITCHEN TABLE INTERVIEW: DANIEL KEENE

ALISON CROGGON, THEATRENOTES.BLOGSPOT.COM.AU, NOV 2010

"For the first time I can remember, Daniel Keene has two productions on at once in his home town... Since he lives in the same house as I do, I sneakily exploited our proximity to ask him some questions. And, eventually, he answered them."

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