Name: THE AUGUST MOON
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THE AUGUST MOON

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The August Moon is an anti-verbatim verbatim play, using high-end sound and visual multi-media technology to enhance the dramatic performance. Two playwrights, Adam Grossetti and Jean Marc Russ, travel to Innisfail in the aftermath of cyclone Larry to investigate the death of a caravan park resident. The two writers set off on a boys' own adventure in the hope of 'bagging a play'. They record their entire journey using digital video and voice recorders. Their recorded 'verbatim' experience with individuals they meet in Innisfail, now struggling to rebuild their lives post-cyclone, then becomes the play The August Moon.

'... a production of parallel universes, in which live performances slide across taped interviews like smooth tectonic plates; where words meld into projected images and light; where telling the story becomes the story; where playwrights become actors and step out of roles to draw the audience into the process; where truth is a kaleidoscope ... This production, like the truth it explores, exists in many different places simultaneously. I found it totally, wonderfully absorbing ...' Arts Hub review, July 25, 2008

Form/Style: verbatim multi-media drama
Length in minutes: 80
Cast: 6 total
Roles: 2 female identifying, 4 male identifying
Themes: history, young people
Cast age groups: 16 to 18, 18+
Audience age: young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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PRODUCTION HISTORY

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Leanne

Female | 40s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 35

EXTRACT: We were standing at our front door and just - unbelievable - just seeing people's roofs just roll down the street you know um our powerpole out the front was just bending the pole was just going like that the whole pole was just swaying like that just and just um like like I seen weird things you wouldn't you wouldn't the things you see you're just going wow and then you hear a big bang and everyone's just jumping you know

Leanne

Female | Unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 35

Leanne

Female | Unspecified | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 28

EXTRACT: Me and a mate Bill we'd rung around for Brian for for Youngy and we ended up getting him on out at the August Moon - before that he's been staying in town - I don't remember exactly where but he had to get out and he'd always really roughed it - I don't think he had much and all and like the last place he was staying at he was saying something about there being no windows and at night he'd get really cold - so we got him into the park and um yeah he was loving it..

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