by Tamar Valley Writers Festival
Tasmania is the full stop at the bottom of the world, and we live on an island of stories. For years now, the Tamar Valley Writers festival has celebrated our great thinkers, writers, and readers, and now we are excited to share these insights globally, right here, on the Tamar Valley Writers Festival podcast.
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October 7, 2021
<p>In this "bookend" episode of the Tamar Valley Writers Festival podcast, the tables are turned, as Tasmanian playwright and poet Cameron Hindrum angles the spotlight back on our two hosts for the series: Annie Warburton and Lyndon Riggall. Lyndon and Annie discuss the insights they have garnered from talking to our most celebrated wordsmiths, this remarkable year in Tasmanian life and writing, and the highs and lows of a time in which—while so much has been uncertain—we have had one reliable anchor: the power of the written word. </p>
September 16, 2021
<p>Caitlin is an emerging writer from lutruwita/Tasmania whose theatre work has been produced locally in her home state, in Sydney, and adapted for ABC Radio National. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with first class Honours in Creative Writing from the University of Tasmania and in 2016 her series of plays was nominated for a Tasmanian Theatre Award for Best Writing. She also works as a high school English teacher, and The Tailings is her first television drama credit. </p> <p>The Tailings is an SBS short-form series structured as six ten minute episodes—part mystery, part exploration of being an outsider in a small town, growing up and overcoming grief. Set on the West Coast of Tasmania, it tells the interwoven story of a number of characters, yet primarily centres around Ruby (played by Mabel Li), a new teacher struggling to find her feet in her challenging first placement, and Jas (Tegan Stimson), a young girl left adrift and made furious by the tragedy of her father’s death. Richardson’s great skill as screenwriter of the production is that she weaves all of these elements together into a satisfyingly complex tapestry in only six short episodes, gradually unfurling the secrets and paranoias of small town Tasmania while showcasing the stunning, shrouded magnificence of our landscape and the complexity of the people that live at the edges of it. In this episode, Caitlin and podcast host Lyndon Riggall talk all things The Tailings, including the journey that has led her here, where it might take her next, and what it means to be a writer working towards mastery of their craft in this strange, wild landscape. </p>
August 5, 2021
<p>Dr Stella Kent's musical Marjorie Unravelled (chronicling the life of Tasmanian housewife superstar Majorie Bligh) will premiere on September 9, kick-starting our pop-up festival Word of Mouth. In this podcast we gain a tantalising glimpse of what goes into the making of such a play, one of fifteen she has written. The award-winning Tasmanian writer has taught at the University of Tasmania’s school of performing arts and has been a Playwright in Residence at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, where she produced Tamar Tidings, a community play produced on a specially built barge with a cast of 130. In this talk, originally delivered to the Friends of Theatre North, Dr Kent reveals the secrets employed to seduce an audience into disbelief, including an analysis of how such narratives as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet and Star Wars all fit the archetypal patterns of the human brain. Drawing on her PhD research and the writing of her own plays, she reveals how dramatists create an alternative reality, and how our awareness of the devices used to make theatre so enduringly bewitching still fail to stop us from being caught up in the magic of a darkened auditorium, swept away as the curtain lifts.</p>
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Tasmania is the full stop at the bottom of the world, and we live on an island of stories.
For years now, the Tamar Valley Writers festival has celebrated our great thinkers, writers, and readers, and now we are excited to share these insights globally, right here, on the Tamar Valley Writers Festival podcast.
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