Christine Croydon – October 6 2019

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day – October 10

Christine is a Melbourne-based playwright, lyricist and screenwriter currently working on a musical, The White Mouse, and a screen adaptation of her play, How to Survive an Earthquake. Her other plays include The Cat’s Paw, Love Your Poison, A Stranger in Town, The Fallen Tree, Lovesick and various monologues and comedies. Christine has also published two novels for young adults and is the Artistic Director of Melbourne Writers’ Theatre and a board member of the Barwon Heads Arts Council. In 2011 she was the recipient of the Inaugural Stage and Screen residency at Varuna, and a Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) scholarship in 2012.

How to Survive an Earthquake
Australian Script Centre, 2013
2 female, 2 male (3 female and 3 male roles)
How to Survive an Earthquake is a reunion drama about sisters, Steph and Jane. Steph is a UN peacekeeper and trained nurse, who suffers from PTSD and has been on a mission in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. She returns home on the eve of her mother’s funeral to her estranged sister, Jane. The action moves seamlessly from earthquake-stricken Haiti to suburban Melbourne and gradually, through a series of revelations, develops into a complex study of betrayal – not only of the genetic and metaphorical sisterhood but also of its ideals and principles.

Departures
Australian Script Centre, 2014
30 minutes; 1 female, 2 male (5 roles, female plays 3 women)
Lars likes to compose autobiographical sentences about himself and perform his idiosyncratic daily rituals without interruption. But beneath his obsessive and rather enigmatic persona lies the impulse to kill. And, as a globetrotting businessman, the opportunity is never far away. When he makes his next flight to London a bereaved father, on a tragic mission to identify the body of his missing daughter, sits across the aisle. While beside him is a young and unsuspecting woman, who could well become Lars’ next victim.