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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Mark Colvin's Kidney
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'A premiere Australian play based on actual events, showing just how startling real-life can be.

'Mary-Ellen Field is a successful Australian business consultant in London – until she’s accused of betraying the secrets of her clients to the press. Her life comes crashing down, and she starts to wonder if she’s losing her mind. Then it emerges that her phone was being illegally tapped by reporters, and she sets out on a campaign to restore her reputation.

'But along the way, her ideas of redemption change – she’s been interviewed by a journalist on the other side of the world, and his story puts everything into a new perspective.' (Production summary)

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Production Details

  • Co-produced with Playwriting Australia. Performed at Belvoir Theatre, Surry Hills, New South Wales : 25 February - 2 April 2017.

    Director: David Berthold.

    Lighting Designer: Damien Cooper.

    Cast including Sarah Peirse.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2017
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2017 .
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      Extent: 112p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 February 2017
      ISBN: 9781760620011

Works about this Work

Mark Colvin's Kidney (Belvoir St Theatre) Ian Dickson , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: ABR : Arts 2017;

'The theatre has given us mutilation, Titus Andronicus comes to mind, and cannibalism in Thyestes and Sweeney Todd, but as far as I am aware there is no dramatic genre based on organ donorship. After Tommy Murphy’s Mark Colvin’s Kidney, this may well change.' (Introduction)

Mark Colvin's Kidney Donation Becomes a Theatre Play Nicole Chettle , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , February 2017;

'For more than 40 years, Mark Colvin brought the news to Australians from all over the world.'

'Now, the respected ABC journalist is in his own story.'

'Colvin is the subject of a new play that details his life-saving organ transplant, aptly named Mark Colvin's Kidney.'

Writing ‘Mark Colvin's Kidney’ Tommy Murphy , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18 February 2017;
'Tommy Murphy's stage show portrays ABC journalist Mark Colvin and business adviser Mary-Ellen Field’s relationship after the News of the World hacking scandal.' (Introduction)
An Antidote to Grim Times Andrew Taylor , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 September 2016; (p. 11)
An Antidote to Grim Times Andrew Taylor , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 September 2016; (p. 11)
Writing ‘Mark Colvin's Kidney’ Tommy Murphy , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18 February 2017;
'Tommy Murphy's stage show portrays ABC journalist Mark Colvin and business adviser Mary-Ellen Field’s relationship after the News of the World hacking scandal.' (Introduction)
Mark Colvin's Kidney Donation Becomes a Theatre Play Nicole Chettle , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , February 2017;

'For more than 40 years, Mark Colvin brought the news to Australians from all over the world.'

'Now, the respected ABC journalist is in his own story.'

'Colvin is the subject of a new play that details his life-saving organ transplant, aptly named Mark Colvin's Kidney.'

Mark Colvin's Kidney (Belvoir St Theatre) Ian Dickson , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: ABR : Arts 2017;

'The theatre has given us mutilation, Titus Andronicus comes to mind, and cannibalism in Thyestes and Sweeney Todd, but as far as I am aware there is no dramatic genre based on organ donorship. After Tommy Murphy’s Mark Colvin’s Kidney, this may well change.' (Introduction)

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