Timothy Daly (playwright)
Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright whose body of work includes the play that launched the career of Cate Blanchett[1] when she was awarded the Rosemount Newcomer Award and the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for Kafka Dances in 1993.[2]
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.[3][4]
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.[5]
References
- ↑ "Cate Blanchett – Other works" at IMDb.com
- ↑ "Blanchett, Cate - profile". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
- ↑ "Timothy Daly - complete guide to the Playwright, Plays, Theatres, Agent". Doollee.com. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
- ↑ "Timothy Daly - Playwright - Australia Council for the Arts". Australia Council for the Arts. 13 November 2003. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
- ↑ How to Kill your Husband (and other handy household hints) at the Victorian Opera