Margi Brown Ash Margi Brown Ash i(A117118 works by) (a.k.a. Margi Brown-Ash)
Gender: Female
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Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2019 winner Philip Parsons Prize for her PhD dissertation, 'House of Homes: Theatrical Explorations of Home and Belonging'.
2012 winner Matilda Awards — Gold Award
2006 winner Matilda Awards — Gold Award for performance.
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Awards for Works

Wanderings 2024 single work drama

'Stella keeps losing things: her books, her car, her daughter. She writes post-it notes to help her remember but everything keeps wandering away. Her son, Kidd, is helping her transition from the family home into aged care. As he packs up her life, together, they unpack a lifetime of stories.

'Wanderings is an intimate play about the things that matter most. It explores the challenges, demands and heart-opening opportunities of changing family dynamics and shifting identities through the eyes of a transgender son and his mother who is living with dementia.

'When Stella's present-day dementia-affected behaviour meets Kidd’s newfound sense of self, we witness an unravelling and reweaving of this mother and son relationship. The family home is ghosted with Kidd’s childhood experiences of gender dysphoria, alongside Stella’s fading memories of family life.'

Source: Queensland Theatre Company.
2024 shortlisted Matilda Awards — Best New Australian Play
y separately published work icon Home 2012 Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2012 Z1874826 2012 single work drama 'Embracing fragmented myth and storytelling, Margi Brown Ash re-imagines life as actor, therapist, wife and mother, uncovering the extraordinariness of an ordinary life. The audience awakens to their own stories as we journey with Margi as an actor in New York in the 80s, a hopeful schoolgirl in 1960s country NSW and a No. 96 soapie starlet in her 'old home town' Sydney in the 70s. Along the way we return again and again to Brisbane, where we grapple with our own sense of 'home' and the many stories we hold of isolation and belonging.

Moving and uplifting theatre, this is both your story and mine, someone's and everyone's, timely and timeless.' (Source La Boite Theatre Company website)
2012 nominated Matilda Awards — Best New Australian Play
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