Results for 'patrick white'

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  1. Brendan Cowell

    Brendan Cowell

    Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Brendan Cowell (born 16 August 1976) is an Australian actor, screenwriter and director. Cowell was born in Sydney. He was stumbled upon acting by accident while waiting for his sister to come out of a rehearsal, he was then cast in a commercial at age 8. He went to Charles Sturt University, in Bathurst, to complete Bachelor of Arts in Theatre/Media, originally considering journalism as a career option. Although he is generally known as an actor, he also has many off-screen credits to his name, such as writing and directing. He won the Patrick White Playwrights' Award for his third play Bed along with a collection of other awards. His play Ruben Guthrie showed at the Belvoir St Theatre in 2009 to sell-out houses. It has a new production at La Boite Theatre in 2011, starring Gyton Grantley and directed by David Berthold. His most famous acting role is playing the enigmatic Tom on Australian cable TV's Love My Way, for which he also wrote several episodes, and playing Todd for the first two seasons on Life Support on SBS TV, for which he also wrote sketches.

    € 116,00
  2. The Epileptic Girl
    1. Elyse Slater

    The Epileptic Girl

    € 14,50
  3. Introduction to Philosophy
    1. George Thomas Patrick White

    Introduction to Philosophy

    € 42,95
  4. Introduction to Philosophy
    1. George Thomas Patrick White

    Introduction to Philosophy

    € 31,95
  5. Patrick White (Politician)

    Patrick White (Politician)

    Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Patrick White (1860-1935) was an Irish Nationalist politician. A member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Meath from 1900 to 1918.He was elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons at the general election in October 1900, narrowly defeating (by 2324 votes to 2292) the outgoing Anti-Parnellite MP James Gibney, who had stood as a Healyite Nationalist. White was re-elected unopposed at the next three general elections, but did not stand again in 1918.

    € 156,00
  6. Patrick White (Ice Hockey)

    Patrick White (Ice Hockey)

    Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Patrick White (born January 20, 1989) is an American collegiate ice hockey center who plays for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and is a prospect for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Prior to joining the Golden Gophers, White played four seasons of high school hockey in the Minnesota State High School League with the Grand Rapids High School Thunderhawks. Although he was drafted twice by junior ice hockey teams-the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 2004 and the Tri-City Storm of the United States Hockey League (USHL) in 2005-he chose to play for his high school instead. Described as a skilled forward with a good wrist shot, White was drafted in the first round, 25th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, before being traded to the Sharks in 2009.

    € 156,00
  7. Patrick White Playwrights' Award

    Patrick White Playwrights' Award

    Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Patrick White Playwrights' Award is an annual Australian literary award established jointly by the Sydney Theatre Company and The Sydney Morning Herald in honour of Patrick White's contribution to Australian theatre. The award was launched in 2000.The AUD20,000 cash award is currently Australia's playwrighting award with the highest cash prize, and is given for an unproduced play to foster the development of Australian playwrights. In addition, the winning play is given a public reading presented by the Sydney Theatre Company in association with the Sydney Writers' Festival.

    € 116,00
  8. Robert Gray (Poet)

    Robert Gray (Poet)

    Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert William Geoffrey Gray (born February 23, 1945) is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic. Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer and buyer for bookshops. His first book of poems, Creekwater Journal, was published in 1973. Gray has been a writer-in-residence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several universities throughout Australia including Geelong College in 1982. He has won the Adelaide Arts Festival and the New South Wales and Victorian Premiers' Awards for poetry. In 1990 he received the Patrick White Award. With Geoffrey Lehmann, he edited two anthologies, The Younger Australian Poets and Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century, and he is the editor of Selected Poems by Shaw Neilson, and Drawn from Life, the journals of the painter John Olsen. After Images is his latest collection of poetry.

    € 196,00
  9. Voss (Opera)

    Voss (Opera)

    Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Voss is an opera by Australian composer Richard Meale with libretto by David Malouf. It is an adaptation of Patrick White's novel of the same name. The opera was commissioned by The Australian Opera, and premiered at the Adelaide Festival in 1986.In 1977, impresario and administrator Peter Hemmings, then general manager of the then "The Australian Opera", commissioned Meale to write an opera based on Voss, Nobel Laureate White's 1957 novel.White's novel was predominantly set in Queensland, and appropriately, Meale's librettist for the opera wa Queensland writer, poet and playwright David Malouf.. Malouf completed the libretto in 1978, but Voss would not be performed until 1986.

    € 136,00
  10. Pamela Rabe

    Pamela Rabe

    Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pamela Rabe (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian / Australian stage, television and film actor, best known for her appearances in the films Cosi, Sirens and Paradise Road.Rabe was born in Ontario, Canada, though she has long resided and worked in Australia. She is a prolific contributor to theatrical life in her adopted country; some of her high-profile roles include Nora Boyle in Patrick White's The Season At Sarsaparilla, for which she won a Green Room Award for Best Actress, and Richard III in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The War Of The Roses, which also starred Cate Blanchett as Richard II.

    € 156,00
  11. The Otter Field Survey and Monitoring Handbook
    1. Melanie Findlay
    2. Patrick White

    The Otter Field Survey and Monitoring Handbook

    A Practical Guide to Field and Camera-Trap Surveys

    The book is a one-stop shop for ecologists undertaking site surveys for otters. It presents a natural progression of survey types and describes how to carry out initial field-sign surveys, selection of sites for camera-trapping, camera-trap deployment and interpretation of data.

    € 82,95
  12. Patrick White's Fiction
    1. William Walsh

    Patrick White's Fiction

    Originally published in 1977, this study is both a sympathetic insight into the Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White and his work and also a guidebook and map to one of the most complicated and significant bodies of work in 20th century literature.

    € 138,50