Cirrus@Austlit

'Dream Lover reveals the extraordinary story of legendary singer, songwriter and actor Bobby Darin. Adored by his fans, who together with his movie star wife Sandra Dee, provide the amazing soundtrack to a generation.

'Starring David Campbell and Hannah Fredericksen and directed by Simon Phillips (Priscilla Queen of the Desert – The Musical), the show presents great hits from the 50s and 60s including Mack The Knife, Beyond the Sea and the multi-million-seller Dream Lover. This musical captures the glamour and passion of the big band era, the Rat Pack in Vegas and the Golden Age of Hollywood – a time of trail-blazing stars, knock-out fashions and life-changing events.

'Featuring a sensational cast with over 40 on stage including an 18-piece big band, Dream Lover – The Bobby Darin Musical is a big show with a big score and a big heart.' (Production summary)

Trapped in a house, a man on the run reflects on his life and his pursuers close in.

'Frank Howson’s most personal and introspective work deals with a group of people trapped in a surreal purgatory world of seemingly no escape, where the past sins of former lives are redeemed, dissected and repeated ad infinitum.'

Source: Melbourne Underground Film Festival (http://www.muff.com.au/vault/2005/content/oz.html). (Sighted: 6/2/2015)

'The story of Errol Flynn's early years, depicting his childhood in Tasmania and his wild teenage years in New Guinea. Before he was 21, he stood trial for murder. He was a thief, a liar, a gigolo, a gambler, a sailor, a streetfighter, a soldier of fortune. He was Errol Flynn.'

Source: Screen Australia.

Described as an erotic thriller.

A couple arrive home to find not only that their house has been broken into, but that the intruder is still inside.

An executive secretary, unhappy in her marriage to an unemployed artist, begins a passionate affair with one of her firm's most prestigious clients, an American man who is not what he seems on the surface.

Steven Wilson travels to Melbourne to visit his grandmother, a former Tivoli showgirl and dancer. Here, he becomes obsessed with the theatre--particularly the production of Sinbad at the Athenaeum. Under the steady influence of grease-paint and illusion, Steven succumbs to theatrical magic and actually becomes Sinbad, on his greatest adventure ever.

'Two struggling Australian movie makers, Chris Brookes (David Roberts) and Alex Gower (Alan Fletcher), score a success with a production called Downtime.

'Hollywood is interested, and for a while the future looks rosy for the Aussie battlers. But of course the Americans, in the shape of studio head Steve Schafler (Nicholas Hammond) and his inevitably beautiful and seductive assistant, Terri Neilson (Terri Garber), want to bend the film to suit US audiences.

'There lies the substance of the drama. Alex, who has a girlfriend back home, sticks by the principles of his art. Chris, footloose and with an eye for Terri, decides to throw in his lot with the Hollywood dream factory.'

Source:

'Croc Dundee, but No Laughs', Canberra Times, 29 March 1993, p.10 [television supplement].

'TOM Garfield is up on top but that's not where he wants to be. A brilliant writer with a string of hits to his name, he has achieved something most people dream about — success and all its trappings — but not without a cost. His wife, Helen, has left him. Their daughter, Jessie, is growing up without him. His friends have slipped away. The years have blurred together under the influence of excessive alcohol.

'Alone and burnt out in Los Angeles, he realises that the only passion left in his life is his overwhelming desire to be reunited with his family. Fired by the dreams he lost track of in the fast lane, Tom returns to Melbourne, only to find that he cannot pick up where he left off.'

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'John Waters Playing It a Bit Rich', Canberra Times, 20 October 1988, p.28.

An American pop star appears in an Australian theatrical production (The Green Year Passes) as a means of kickstarting an acting career.