Chit for Chat: A Dialogue Between (2025)

Chit for Chat, Part Three: An Exchange

Chit for Chat, Part Three: An Exchange, 2025

Volume three of Chit for Chat wherein the Beckettian actors are interviewed on a podcast about their alien abductions. Film, literature, S-F are topics discussed, such as Posthumanist theories of Singularity and so forth. This volume is still in progress

The Slow and Painful Death of Sam Shepard

Chicago Plays Inc., 1988

Satirical work for the stage fusing the plays of Sam Shepard with numerous related pop cultural and literary touchstones.

Layers of relevance: Writing the author's story into dramaturgy

2021

This dissertation is a practice-led research project which investigates the creative relationship between the playwright’s life narrative, the play-text and the dramaturgical process undertaken by the director of that text. This relationship results from the reading of: a memoir; a play which draws on material from the memoir; a theoretical, critical commentary on the play-text and the memoir; and reflections on a series of interviews with selected potential directors of the play-text. The two major creative texts in the dissertation are a memoir or a personal history detailing the author’s journey as a child of migrants to Western Australia from Scotland to a mature actor, director and teacher in contemporary Perth; and an epic play-script in two parts, entitled Boomtown. This script interrogates the society and politics of Perth in the resources and development “boom” of the early 21st century through the narrative of a family crisis and tragedy.The exegesis uses the concept of “layers of relevance” to explore the relationship between the modes of artistic process in the project. The dissertation explores the dramaturgical benefits to directors of engaging deeply with the life-narrative of a text’s author, and whether such an engagement with the creative process of the playwright can lead to a generative dramaturgical process for both director and writer. The thesis provides insight into a potential model of dramaturgical process. This proposition and the initiation of it is predicated on plays where the personal history of the playwright is detected in the creative work.

Carmen Lies

1998

Scriptwriting as Creative Writing Research II

TEXT, 2015

This work is a creative exploration of notions of masculinity and male sexuality. Specifically, it explores the idea that male sexuality and gender exist on a continuum and defy simple categorization. The script was developed using an interdisciplinary approach including traditional research into theories of gender and sexuality and fiction writing techniques such as associative and stream-of-consciousness composition. In this way, a script was produced that indirectly refers to the notion of fluid sexuality whilst telling a dramatic story about two men who occupy very different places on the gender and sexuality spectrum.

Hollywood 2.0: Digital Audio-Visual Production as a Rhizomic Process

2018

This exegesis explores the notions of production process paradigm shift through the analysis of digital technologies and their effect on the production of 'CruelUnusual'. Chapter one of this exegesis has introduced the research question with appropriate methodologies to explore the rhizomic possibilities of the use of new digital technology (DV, WWW & DVD) through the design of new structures and frameworks for audio-visual production. Chapter two will outline the traditional production process from the first steps of the pre-production phase, through to the shooting and editing of the film, to its final delivery on the screen. Chapter three will outline various new technologies to be explored and evaluated to assess their benefits to filmmakers in the creation of new production process paradigms. Chapter four of this exegesis presents an evaluation of the Rhizomic Production Process as a viable alternative to the traditional linear produc-tion process. The research data cre...

Expressive Acts in Euphoria Special Episode Part 1: Trouble Don’t Last Always

e-Journal of Linguistics

The research identifies the type of expressive acts uttered by the characters in a special episode entitled Euphoria Part 1: Rue – Trouble Don’t Last Always and the research implements Norrick theory to analyze the data. Then, the research designs the activity in qualitative method which shapes how the report of the analysis would be descriptively. In collecting the data, the research appropriates Observational method and non-participation technique by Sudaryanto. On the other hand, in analyzing the data, the research appropriates Pragmatic Identity Method and Matching technique by Sudaryanto. The research found 26 utterances identified completely of the types of expressive acts; (2) apologizing, (1) thanking, (1) congratulating, (4) condoling, (5) deploring, (8) lamenting, (2) welcoming, (2) forgiving, and (1) boasting. Lamenting is the most frequent expressive act as the central story of the episode where the main character shared their sorrow and regret to their friend.

Saving the World Today: Tony Soprano and the Parody of American Heroism

Refractory: State of Play, 2007

This essay, originally a conference presentation at the Univ. of Melbourne 2005 conference "Holy Men In Tights!" on superheroes, studies Tony Soprano's struggle between the two families in his gangster existence. The online publication, Refractory, is no longer available.