Plays, Poetry and Writing
In the field of drama, Tania Peitzker wrote and directed "Life with Marion" (1990) which ran for two seasons due to its popularity: one at the Metro Arts Theatre's dance studios and another at the University of Queensland's Cement Box Theatre. "Life with Marion" deals with contemporary society's ideas of love, religion, health and family. The three act play was first produced through government and university grants, while its second season was funded by box office revenue.
Peitzker later wrote "Gargoyles" - dealing with themes of spirituality, gender, migration and ageing - and the four act, epic drama written in verse, "Crux", which is a metaphorical, mystical work set in an antipodean colony, amongst other scripts for theatre and broadcast. Peitzker's early plays are scheduled for an inaugural public reading at London's Bush Theatre in December, 2013.
A number of her poems were published in journals as well as recorded and performed by local multimedia artists then broadcast on radio to favorable reviews. Some of her early work was inspired by the "Old Town" of Launceston where she lived for the summer of 1991, after she had been selected during national auditions in Sydney to be the inhouse playwright for the University of Tasmania's Theatre Faculty in Hobart.
In 1992, Peitzker won the University of Melbourne's Playwrights Prize to develop her operatic musical theatre "A Smedley of Revolution" (based on the life and writing of the American adventurer in China, Agnes Smedley). The work was going to be co-produced with Melbourne University, her then husband Jun Chen, an oil painter and former official photographer of the Guangzhou State Ballet, and in conjunction with the Chinese expatriate community of Melbourne's Chinatown.
Fryer Library has collected her published material as well as her unpublished manuscripts (the latter has restricted access), including the poetry collection "Palinode - Poems from Brisbane and Nuremberg 1990 - 1995" and the novel "Salamandra, or a Tale of a Last Survival", set in Geneva, Berlin, Brisbane and Cairns. These texts, recordings, manuscripts, academic papers and correspondence with public intellectuals of note are held in the Tania Peitzker Collection at the University of Queensland Library.
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