Ronnie

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EXTRACT: This memoir, Nobody’s Girl—it’s a game changer. There’s a section where she describes what it was like being locked in the cellar—and she writes about it with such—I said, ‘Currah— you can’t say that?!’ But thank God she has. [Reading] ‘It smells like the dark and it feels like the night and even if I’m lying there alone the air is thick and warm and comforting like Dad’s cigarette breath steaming up the back of my neck.

A HOAX #1: JAMES FREY

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Rick Viede writes about the literary hoaxes that inspired his play A Hoax, opening at Griffin in July. Hoax number #1 is A Million Little Pieces by James Frey.

A HOAX #2: WANDA KOOLMATRIE

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Rick Viede writes about the literary hoaxes that inspired his play A Hoax, opening at Griffin in July. Hoax number #2 is Wanda Koolmatrie’s My Own Sweet Time (1994)…

RICK VIEDE: POSTCARDS FROM A HOAX

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Rick Viede, Griffin Award winning playwright, has been up in Brisbane with the cast and crew of A Hoax in their first weeks of rehearsal.

RICK VIEDE: 2011 GRIFFIN AWARD WINNER

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An interview with Rick upon winning the 2011 Griffin Award.

A HOAX IS A MASTERFUL DECEPTION

BAZ MCALISTER, COURIER MAIL, MAY 2012

"IT BEGINS as money changes hands in a hotel room - an Aboriginal street-girl has agreed to do something for a middle-aged white man for $200. But it's not what you think - it turns out to be something infinitely more sleazy than that."

SUFFERING MISAPPROPRIATED FOR MATERIAL GAIN

CAMERON PEGG, THE AUSTRALIAN, MAY 2012

"A Hoax succeeds in showing there’s nothing redemptive about spinning lies in the search for fame."

REVIEW: A HOAX

KELLI ROGERS, AUSTRALIANSTAGE.COM.AU, MAY 2012

"...A bold and flagrant investment in a new Australian work. It's in-your-face theatre that catapults the audience deep into the twisted minds of four misfits all of whom long to be somebody big."

REVIEW: A HOAX

DAVID BURTON, GREENROOM, MAY 2012

"Brisbane audiences are the first in the world to see Rick Viede’s new play A Hoax. It’s a privilege for which I think audiences will be extremely grateful."

THE OUTSIDERS WHO SEDUCE TO WIN

BRIDGET CORMACK, THE AUSTRALIAN, APRIL 2012

"This play isn't a play about race. It's a play about being an outsider. There are four characters in the play and they are all outsiders."

DREAM TIME TO ACT OUT

ELISSA BLAKE, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, JULY 2012

"I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona." - Shari Sebbens