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Alex Broun (born 16 March 1965) is an Australian playwright, who has worked extensively with Short+Sweet, a series of theatre festivals for productions of ten minutes or less. Born in Sydney, Australia, he has been referred to as "the Shakespeare of short plays".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dramanon's 10-minute plays, a hit in town )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Learn how to write a 10-minute play this weekend - Khaleej Times )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dec. 25: ‘10,000 Cigarettes’ play at Vent )〕 Broun has had over 100 ten-minute plays produced in over 1500 productions in more than 40 countries globally, and his plays have been translated into many languages.〔(Oz Script ) 〕 He has also worked extensively as a Rugby journalist and served as Media Manager for the Springboks (1997-2000), the British & Irish Lions (2001)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Henry's men will be backed to the hilt )〕 and the Melbourne Rebels (2007). ==Theatre history== In his early years Broun trained at the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, Australia, acting in plays alongside Nicole Kidman. His work has been performed at the Sydney Festival, Edinburgh Festival and Brighton Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bite-Size Plays - Award winning international short plays )〕 Among his performed plays are ''The Jacaranda Tree'',〔() 〕 ''Vicious Streaks'', and ''Just Once''.〔() 〕 ''Half a person – my life as told by The Smiths'' – a one-man show based on the music of The Smiths – was produced by Fly-on-the-wall Theatre (Directed by Robert Chuter (director), starring David Foster) at FEAST in Adelaide in 2006 and at the Newtown Theatre in Sydney in September 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Half a Person: My Life as Told by the Smiths )〕 The play was then re-mounted by Fly-on-the-Wall Theatre at Chapel off Chapel in Melbourne, Australia starring Mark Taylor in May 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths )〕 It then returned for an encore season at the same venue in August the same year before being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012,〔() 〕 directed by Donald Pulford and performed by Joseph Murray. In 2014 this production transferred to the Kings Head Theatre in London.〔() 〕 Broun is currently working on a companion ''November Spawned a Monster'' to open on 30 October 2014 by SITCO in association with Fly-On-The-Wall Theatre at the Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre in Sydney, Australia, starring James Wright and directed by Robert Chuter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2014 Season - Sydney Independent Theatre Company )〕 As a director, he directed ''Woomera'' by Josh Wakely. ''PFV (Potential for Violence)'' was included in the Premiere Season of 4 one act plays by the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai PCYC Theatre Co., in November 2010〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sitemap )〕 ''Together, we are Anna'', a ten-minute play about anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare was published in the Mumbai Mirror in August 2010.〔() 〕 ''10,000 beers'',〔() 〕 a full-length play, opened at Darlinghurst Theatre, In September 2011, directed by Lee Lewis with Gus Murray, Matt Zeremes, Andrew William Steele and Anthony Taufa. The play was then remounted by The Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights & Turquoise Theatre in association with PICA as part of Fringeworld in Perth in February 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=- FRINGE WORLD Festival )〕 ''10,000 beers'' was nominated for Best Stage Play in the 2012 AWGIE Awards〔() 〕 In October 2013, he wrote and co-directed ''Oneness-Voice without form '', the life of Swami Vivekananda, at the Playhouse of the Sydney Opera House〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Error - Sydney Opera House )〕 before touring to BMAC in Brisbane. In 2014, ''Truth beauty and a picture of you'', a musical written with Tim Freedman premiered at the Hayes Theatre Company in Sydney, Australia'. Disappointed at the Sydney critics' response to the show Broun wrote a response on The Australian website.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I'm Starting to Realise a Very Hard Truth - Critics Don't Like Me )〕 Also in 2014, ''November Spawned a Monster'', the companion piece to ''Half a person – my life as told by The Smiths'' was produced at The Old Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney in November, directed by Robert Chuter (director) and starring James Wright.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=November Spawned a Monster – Fly-on-the-Wall Theatre )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Broun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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