Reg Cribb – December 11 2016

In memory of the Cronulla Riots – December 11 2005

Reg is a playwright, actor and accomplished singer/songwriter and musician. A graduate of NIDA, he has performed for stage, film and television. Reg’s plays have been performed both nationally and internationally and he has twice won the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award as well as winning the Western Australia Premier’s and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. In 2006 Reg was nominated for an AFI and a Critics Circle Award for his screenplay of Last Train to Freo. His other plays include Night of the Sea Monkey, The Return, Gulpilil, co-written with David Gulpilil, Chatroom, Ruby’s Last Dollar, and Krakouer, inspired by Sean Gorman’s Brotherboys – The Story of Jim and Phillip Krakouer. Reg’s other works include an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, the screen adaptation of Jimmy Chi’s play, Bran Nue Dae, and together with Jeremy Sims, the screenplay of Last Cab to Darwin.

Unaustralia
Australian Script Centre
90 minutes; 6 female, 8 male
Cast age: 16 to 18, 18+; Audience age: teen, young adult, adult
Unaustralia tells the story of Ali, a devout Muslim teenager who loves to surf. An aberration in his own Lakemba community and family, he moves to Crulla Beach to be near the surfing culture he loves so much. Ali watches in dismay as an altercation between his volatile, conflicted younger brother Fadi and two lifeguards erupts into an ugly racial battle on the beachfront one Sunday – battle that sucks his friends and younger sister Nadia into its vortex and forces Ali to take sides and re-examine who he really is. Based on events at Cronulla Beach and a day in history that forced Australia to look deep into its dark, intolerant heart, Unaustralia was first produced as a graduation play by third year Acting students at West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2007.

Last Cab to Darwin
Australian Script Centre
165 minutes; 3 female, 5 male (variable cast, 34 roles)
Based on the true story of Broken Hill taxi driver Max Bell who, diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, hoped to become the first person in history to take advantage of the Northern Territory’s ‘Rights of the Terminally Ill Act’. We follow Max’s journey up the dead heart of Australia as he drives the 3000 kilometres to Darwin encountering a host of bizarre and beautiful outback characters along the way. His hopes are crushed when the voluntary euthanasia law is overturned by Federal Parliament. We then follow his desperate bid to return to Broken Hill to be with his beloved neighbour, Polly.