Really Moving Drama: Taking Theatre For A Ride

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About the Author Paul Davies is an award winning screenwriter, script editor and playwright who has written for a dozen drama series from Homicide and the Sullivans to Something in the Air. He helped spark the site-specific theatre movement in Melbourne in the 1980s with TheatreWorks’ production of his first play Storming Mont Albert By Tram (1982) on board a 'really moving' Melbourne tram. What became known as "The Tram Show" played over a dozen years to packed trams in Melbourne and Adelaide, generating around a million dollars at the box office (on today's figures) and trambulating a total distance that would have taken its combined nightly audiences halfway around the world. The Tram Show's success lead to an outbreak of ‘location theatre’ in Melbourne throughout the 1980s including three other plays: Breaking Up In Balwyn (1983, on a riverboat), Living Rooms (1986, in an historic mansion) and Full House/No Vacancies (1989, in a boarding house). Paul has co-written five feature films Neil Lynn (with David Baker in 1984), and Traps (1985), All That is Solid (1988) and One Way Street (1990) - all with John Hughes. He wrote and directed the short feature Exits (with Pat Laughren in 1980) and has published numerous articles, reviews, stories and interviews in Metro, Cinema Papers, Cantrill’s Filmnotes, Australasian Drama Studies, Community Theatre In Australia, The Macquarie Companion to the Australian Media and Theatre Research International (Cambridge University). His latest book Really Moving Drama is an account of the site-specific plays and how they came about. Read more