Carissa Licciardello Carissa Licciardello i(17261511 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Orlando Carissa Licciardello , Elsie Yager , 2025 single work drama

'Orlando is young, rich and handsome. A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, he sets out in search of love, life, and a fabulous destiny – but he has to travel through 400 years to find it. He dashes through time, from wars and revolutions, to the decadence of the Restoration and the rise of industrial capitalism under Queen Victoria, to modernity – and as the world changes, so does Orlando. Who are they – woman? man? or something which defies all the old orders?'

Source: Production blurb.

1 Opening Night Carissa Licciardello , 2022 single work drama

'A sharp, visually-arresting theatrical experience, based on the sleeper-hit 70s film.

'Myrtle Gordon’s been a star of the stage for years. She’s loved by audiences, acclaimed by critics. Now she’s been cast in the role of a lifetime, and opening night is rapidly approaching – but something’s not quite right.

'The lines won’t stick, she can’t stay in character, reality and make-believe are starting to blur – and there’s a strange woman in her dressing room.

'Is she a ghost? A hallucination? Another Myrtle, who’s climbed out from the mirror?

'The cult classic 1977 film of what happens when a woman can’t play her role anymore, in a startling theatrical reimagining by Carissa Licciardello.'

Source: Belvoir St Theatre.

1 The Pageant (Or, Honey Boo Boo Blood & Gore) Carissa Licciardello , 2020 single work drama

'When the curtains open and the lights go up you’re on, baby.

'So you better work it baby, shake it baby, get it baby, tear it up tear em up RIP THEIR FUCKING THROATS OUT

'A surreal nightmare of baby dolls, false teeth, pageant crack and mothers who’d rather murder their tiny toddlers than let them leave without a crown.

'This pageant is going to be cut-throat. Literally.'

Source: Redline Productions.

1 1 A Room of One's Own Carissa Licciardello , Tom Wright , 2020 single work drama

'What started as a lecture to a roomful of students became an essay, became a book, became a seismic wave. Virginia Woolf’s 1929 classic description of the need for new spaces and a complete redefinition of who owns our storymaking is by turns wise, amusing, incendiary and poetic. Rippling with passion, one of the finest pieces of writing in the last hundred years, with the distinct talents of Anita Hegh walking Woolf’s tightrope of thought and feeling.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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