Timothy Daly (playwright)
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Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright
whose body of work includes the play that launched the career of Cate Blanchett
when she was awarded the Rosemount Newcomer Award and the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for Kafka Dances in 1993.
Other plays written by Daly include BEACH (2006), a quintessential Australian play, the story of a beach from sunrise to sunset, a smorgasbord of beach events in Australia's cultural memory
ranging from Captain Arthur Phillip
, through Gallipoli
to Harold Holt
and beyond as far as Asylum seekers. His first play, The Don's Last Innings (1982), is a modernist examination of a woman coerced into a lifetime of indulging her husband's fantasies of the Australian national game, cricket
.
Daly wrote the libretto
for Alan John
's 2011 opera
How to Kill your Husband (and other handy household hints) based on Kathy Lette
's 2007 book of the same name; the opera premiered at the Victorian Opera, conducted by Richard Gill
.
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
whose body of work includes the play that launched the career of Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award...
when she was awarded the Rosemount Newcomer Award and the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for Kafka Dances in 1993.
Other plays written by Daly include BEACH (2006), a quintessential Australian play, the story of a beach from sunrise to sunset, a smorgasbord of beach events in Australia's cultural memory
Cultural memory
For other approaches see Memory and Culture As a term, cultural memory was first introduced by the German Egyptologists Jan Assmann in his book "Das kulturelle Gedächtnis", who drew further upon Maurice Halbwachs’s theory on collective memory...
ranging from Captain Arthur Phillip
Arthur Phillip
Admiral Arthur Phillip RN was a British admiral and colonial administrator. Phillip was appointed Governor of New South Wales, the first European colony on the Australian continent, and was the founder of the settlement which is now the city of Sydney.-Early life and naval career:Arthur Phillip...
, through Gallipoli
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace , the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. Gallipoli derives its name from the Greek "Καλλίπολις" , meaning "Beautiful City"...
to Harold Holt
Harold Holt
Harold Edward Holt, CH was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.His term as Prime Minister was brought to an early and dramatic end in December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned.Holt spent 32 years...
and beyond as far as Asylum seekers. His first play, The Don's Last Innings (1982), is a modernist examination of a woman coerced into a lifetime of indulging her husband's fantasies of the Australian national game, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
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Daly wrote the libretto
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
for Alan John
Alan John
Alan John is an Australian composer. He studied music at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1980. His compositions include original music for various plays, films and TV series , and the musical theatre works Jonah Jones, Orlando Rourke, and the musical Snugglepot and...
's 2011 opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
How to Kill your Husband (and other handy household hints) based on Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette is an Australian author who has written a number of bestselling books.Born in Sydney's southern suburbs, she first attracted attention in 1979 as the coauthor of Puberty Blues, a strongly autobiographical, proto-feminist teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls...
's 2007 book of the same name; the opera premiered at the Victorian Opera, conducted by Richard Gill
Richard Gill (conductor)
Richard James Gill OAM is an Australian conductor who has earned awards for his work. He conducts choral, orchestral and operatic works, and has been involved in music training and education...
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