Colleen McCullough's Tim - Softcover

McGarry; Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 176062814X ISBN 13: 9781760628147

Publisher: Currency Press, 2023

Synopsis

Tim is a young labourer with a disability. Mary is a successful mid-50s business executive. What begins as a chance meeting between them soon develops into a life-changing relationship for both. Exploring notions of love, loss and acceptance, and set in the modern day, Colleen McCullough's seminal Australian story has been sensitively adapted by playwright Tim McGarry for the stage. McGarry is an award-winning writer, director and dramaturg. His adaptations with Eva Di Cesare and Sandra Eldridge include: Hitler's Daughter from the novel by Jackie French, Thursday's Child from the novel by Sonya Hartnett, Pete the Sheep from the picture book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley, and The Peasant Prince from the novel by Li Cunxin. McGarry's adaptation of Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe was staged in 2021. Praise for previous works: The Peasant Prince is a vivid piece of storytelling that is skilful, theatrical and inspiring … It was a loving and honest adaptation of Li's treasured memoir. Peter Pinne, Stage Whispers The Peasant Prince is vital, exuberant, aspirational, and inspirational. Richard Cotter, Australian Stage Boy Swallows Universe, adapted for the stage by Tim McGarry, is a gritty, raucous and mystical juggernaut of a play that prosecutes a booming argument for the supremacy of the live theatre experience. Bronwyn Lea, The Guardian

About this title

About the Author

TIM MCGARRY, a WAAPA Graduate, works as an actor, director, dramaturge and devising theatre maker in Sydney. Between 2005-2017 Tim was a Co-Creative Director and Producer at Monkey Baa Theatre Company, one of Australia's largest touring companies for young audiences, where he co adapted and produced nearly 20 new Australian works. He directed the award winning The Peasant Prince, assistant directed on Tim Winton's The Bugalugs Bum Thief and was the remount director on The Unknown Soldier, a new Australian play written by Sandra Eldridge. He was dramaturgical consultant on Randa Abdel-Fattah's Where the Streets Had a Name. In 2013 McGarry was engaged by CDP Producers to write and direct several works for the SOH Baby Proms Program including Swing Baby Swing and The Nutcracker. He co-devised The Pirate Ship (script) for Urban Myth Theatre Company SA, A More Fortunate Life for Theatre Ink and EscapAIDS for the One Night Stand Theatre Company. Most recently he co-devised a new work for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Simon Tedeschi and Eva Di Cesare called Who Needs A Conductor Anyway. A proud member of Actor's Equity, McGarry is passionate about interrogating, developing and devising new Australian work. In 2017 McGarry was awarded a Sydney Theatre Award for 20 years of excellence and extraordinary service to the children and young people of Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Currency Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 176062814X
• ISBN 13: 9781760628147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74