Best Drama Script (Stage) (1999-2011)
Subcategory of Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2011

winner y separately published work icon Life Without Me Daniel Keene , 2010 Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Melbourne Theatre Company , 2010 Z1629694 2010 single work drama

Year: 2010

winner Whore Rick Viede , 2009 single work drama

'Young, fearless and full of wanderlust Sara finds herself in London selling cleaning products in a call centre.

'Then she meets Tim, and her path takes an unexpected turn. For these two Aussies living it large in London everything is exhilarating, delightfully dangerous and full of possibility. When a body is discovered in the apartment upstairs the thrill of anonymity gives way to rising horror as Sara finds herself at the very edge of the person she once was.

'With originality and poetic wit, 'Whore" is an unflinching exploration of the price of freedom, ambition and the high-risk ride that is coming-of-age.'

Source: Belvoir Street Theatre website, http://www.belvoir.com.au/
Sighted: 01/06/2009

Year: 2009

winner y separately published work icon Realism Paul Galloway , 2007 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2009 Z1561082 2007 single work drama

'In the summer of 1939 in a small Moscow theatre a company of actors begins rehearsals of a new play to commemorate Stalin's sixtieth birthday. It's a tough gig, because for Soviet artists working towards the Radiant Future the old showbiz maxim "the show must go on" is an order you can't refuse.

'Another opening, another show trial! Realism is a comedy of nerves, a backstage farce set in a pressure cooker. It's about the spirit that makes art live and the forces that want to crush it.' (Publisher's blurb)

Year: 2008

winner y separately published work icon When the Rain Stops Falling Andrew Bovell , 2008 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2009 Z1430823 2008 single work drama (taught in 8 units)

'It begins with a miracle. On a rainy day in Alice Springs in 2039 a fish falls like manna from heaven to bless the reunion of a father with his long lost son. Perhaps it's a sign that the pattern of betrayal and abandonment that began on another rainy day in London in 1959 will come to an end.

'Who'll stop the rain? Andrew Bovell's award-winning When the Rain Stops Falling is powerful storytelling in which the voices of our past echo into our future.' (Publisher's blurb)

Year: 2007

winner y separately published work icon Embers Campion Decent , 2006 Hobart : Australian Script Centre , 2006 Z1280895 2006 single work drama 'An account of the fires that ravaged the communities of Victoria's northeast and Gippsland in January 2003; the heart-stopping tales of survival, the awe-inspiring courage and endurance of communities put to the test, the spine-chilling evocations of the wave of heat that roars through pristine valleys - and the mountains of sandwiches volunteers anxiously prepared.' Source: http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/stcenews/2006/july/STC/july_online.html (Sighted 29/06/2006).

Works About this Award

Drama Award Kept Natasha Robinson , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 July 2012; (p. 11)
Prize For Thinking Big Rosemary Sorensen , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 July 2002; (p. 44)
Awards Full of Issues Rosemary Sorensen , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 March 2002; (p. 35)
Drama Award to Stay Local Rosemary Sorensen , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 27 February 2002; (p. 36)
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