Eleven things you should know about Penguin Plays Rough before you come:
1. It has nothing to do with Penguin books. 2. It has nothing to do with penguins - or even playing rough for that matter. 3. It IS a monthly night of young writers shamelessly performing their short stories from the comfort of a red velvet armchair in a big room above a convenience store on King St, Newtown. 4. Ohhh, so it’s an open mic night Wrong! - you’re kind of right, but we vouch for our programmed writers (of which there will be five - including Eddie Sharp, Lexi Freiman, Craig Silvey, Pip Smith and Amanda Maxwell), have a bias towards short fiction, and encourage you to read yours too - as long as it’s five minutes and excellent (no pressure). 5. The said ‘big’ room creates an intimate experience where writers can perform their short fiction to masses of eager listeners. 6. But really by masses we mean max 80 people. 7. The actual address is 1/475 King St, Newtown. 8. It might sell out (even though there will be no ‘selling’ per se - except of our zine, which will feature works read at the previous month’s extravaganza and artwork by Tarik Ahlip) so get there early. (7.30 is early. If you get there before then you might get vacuumed or tidied into a cupboard).
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CRAIG SILVEY (INTERSTATE) CRAIG SILVEY resides in Fremantle, where he wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, before turning 20. Craig received a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Award for Rhubarb and the novel was also one of the featured titles in the national Book’s Alive campaign. The following year, Silvey released the picture-book The World According To Warren. Jasper Jones is Silvey’s second novel. Outside of literature, Silvey is the singer/songwriter for the band The Nancy Sikes. The band are working on an album to be released later in the year.
EDDIE SHARP (LOCAL) EDDIE SHARP is a writer, performer and curator. He is the founder and co-director of The Imperial Panda Festival, the co-writer and director of WONKA! A Live Cinema Remix and he performed in and co-devised the 2008 Next Wave show The Tent with Matt Prest, Clare Britton and Danny Eggers. He has just completed The Mad Max Remix, an ambitious hour-long video remix and live redub of the entire Mad Max trilogy. He is a proud member of the Cab Sav collective.
LEXI FREIMAN (LOCAL) LEXI FREIMAN’s first full-length play was performed as part of Griffin's Searchlight Season in 2006. She has also had plays in Short and Sweet and is currently co-writing What Ever Happened to Tilly Devine? with Pip Smith, some of which was performed at Cab Sav as part of The Imperial Panda Festival in February. She is an actor and has worked for the Bell Shakespeare Company in their productions of Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It and will be playing the part of Thaisa in John Bell's production of Pericles in June.
PIP SMITH (LOCAL) PIP SMITH has had stories published in Voiceworks and Phoenix. She lives in the bedroom next to the room that hosts PENGUIN plays ROUGH. She is also the regular theatre reviewer on FBi 94.5 FM, has co-written and devised theatre such as Titus! The Ultimate Murder Ballad Musical! for the Darlinghurst Theatre, and is currently working on a show with Lexi Freiman called What Ever Happened to Tilly Devine? She is also writing a novel under the supervision of Sue Woolfe at the University of Sydney, and sings and plays sax in a band called The Maple Trail.
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