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Ingle Knight: Writer
Ingle's play The Fremantle Candidate was at PICA, 23 July - 5 August 2012, the production by Deckchair Theatre. Direction was by Chris Bendall. In the cast were Steve Turner, Igor Sas, James Hagan, Geoff Kelso, Christie Sistrunk and Benj D'Addario.
Taking Liberty, in its DeckChair Fremantle reincarnation, received excellent reviews. Here is one by Nerida Dickinson, ArtsHub. And here is David Zampatti's review in The West Australian. But here's the best one: Julie Hern in Australian Stage.
Ingle's one-man-show The Exploding Breakfast, about his experience as writer-in-residence at a theatre company in Johannesburg, originally produced by Perth Theatre Company and broadcast on ABC Radio National, toured to the Toronto Fringe and Melbourne's La Mama Theatre in July and August 2008.
ExplodingShadow of the Eagle, co-written with George Blazevic, about Australian wartime prime minister John Curtin, was produced in 2003 by the Perth Theatre Company and the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library. Co-winner of the best play of the year at the WA Equity Awards, it toured nationally in 2004, winning the Playing Australia award for the most popular touring play of the year.
The prize-winning one man show, The Getaway Bus, written for the 2001 Perth International Arts Festival was described by The Australian newspaper as having “a particular genius”. It toured to the Edinburgh Festival and toured nationwide in 2003 with ‘Playing Australia’.
Having played Kawolsky, the useless security guard, for 26 episodes of Barron Film’s TV series Ship to Shore, Ingle went on to write for Barron’s next series The Gift.
In 2002 he wrote the highly regarded short film Life and Times of an FB Holden for the final year acting students of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
An adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley’s novel Milk and Honey won the 1999 Premier's Award for best script. >
The Fable of Aesop, written in 2002, for Barking Gecko Theatre toured nationally in 2003. Other works include:
Dolphin Talk - produced and toured across Australia, Canada and theatre festivals worldwide.
Wicked - Critic’s choice in The Australian for the 1996 best new play of the year in Western Australia
Bullyfruit - nominated for 1997 Gold Swan award
Ingle performed and wrote 52 episodes of Let’s Have Music for ABC radio, teaching kids across Australia to enjoy and appreciate music.
Ingle has taught scriptwriting at Murdoch, Curtin and Edith Cowan Universities, and cinema studies at Notre Dame University. He is a script consultant for Perth Theatre Company and the WA Playwrights Consortium. In addition to those mentioned here, he has written a dozen more plays, musicals and films.
Chronolography
Year
Production
Production Company
1980
The Shshsh Journey and
The Unheard World of Jasper Lawson
NSW Theatre of the Deaf
1981
Theodore Signposts in History
NSW Theatre of the Deaf
1982
White Nancy
Griffin Theatre Company
1983
26 episodes of Let's have Music
ABC Radio
1984
26 episodes of Let's have Music
ABC Radio
1986
Wrote for Maths Break
ABC Education Television
1987
Sportdance
Still Moves Dance Laboratory
Script Assessor
WA Playwrights Conference
1988
Curtin Theatre Company
Co-wrote Trim, The Cat Who Discovered Australia''''
WA Theatre Company
1989
Co-wrote Dolphin Talk''''
Acting Out Theatre Company
Dramaturg: The Great Railways Picnic''''
Acting Out Theatre Company
Tyger, Tyger Workshopped
Writers Performers Inc
1990
Jenny goes Wild
Acting Out Theatre Company
1991
Co-wrote Wicked''''
Acting Out Theatre Company
(Based on the work of Michael Leunig) Acting Out and WA State Theatre Company
1992
The Whale
Coco Youth and Acting Out
Commissioned to write Defying Gravity''''
PTC/Aust Council
Don't Shoot the Driver
Kwinana City Council/Transport Union
1993
Commissioned to write Wadgemup''''
Yirra Yakin
1994
Defying Gravity
workshopped
Commissioned to write Bullyfruit''''
1995
Barking Gecko
Writer-in-residence
Esperance Theatre Guild
Commissioned to adapt Elizabeth Jolley's Milk and Honey
PTC
1996
Wadgemup
Aboriginal Performance Centre
1997
Thermophobia (aka Defying Gravity)
Fairweather Productions
Two episodes of The Gift (TV mini-series)
Barron Entertainment
1998
Perth Theatre Company
Inaugural Playwrights Exchange Residency
Windybrow Theatre Johannesburg
1999
Won Premiers Book Prize for Theatre for Milk and Honey
2000-
Perth Festival Fringe production February 2000
Edinburgh Festival 2001
Australian Tour 2003 with 'Playing Australia'
2000-
Perth Theatre Company production July 2000
ABC Radio National
Toronto Fringe Festival July 2008
La Mama Melbourne August 2008
2002
The Life and Times of an FB Holden
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
2003
Shadow of the Eagle
Perth Theatre Company
John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
National Tour 2004
2008
Taking Liberty
Perth Theatre Company
2011
Deckchair Theatre, December 2-17
2012
Deckchair Theatre, 19 July - 5 August
The Fremantle Candidate
The run of The Fremantle Candidate mounted by Deckchair Theatre was at PICA is 23 July - 5 August 2012. Direction was by Chris Bendall. In the cast were Steve Turner, Igor Sas, James Hagan, Geoff Kelso, Christie Sistrunk and Benj D'Addario. [That's not Christie Sistrunk in the poster image.]
Ingle discusses the making of The Fremantle Candidate - on youtube.
Also on youtube, Steve Turner on playing John Curtin.
Christie Sistrunk on playing Elsie Curtin.
Geoff Kelso on youtube on playing Walter Murdoch.
Chris Bendall on youtube on directing The Fremantle Candidate.
Mark Naglazas, [http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/arts/14203407/play-raises-the-curtin/ 'Play raises the Curtin'
]Stephen Bevis, [http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/arts/14253858/play-moves-to-pica/ 'Play moves to PICA'
]Ron Banks' review of The Fremantle Candidate in the West Australian
Victoria Laurie's review in The Australian
Taking Liberty
Taking Liberty, in its DeckChair Fremantle reincarnation, received excellent reviews. Here is one by Nerida Dickinson, ArtsHub. And here is David Zampatti's review in The West Australian. But here's the best one: Julie Hern in Australian Stage.
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