Talk:Beatrix Christian/Temp

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Beatrix Christian (born 1955) is an Australian playwright.

She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art playwright’s studio in 1991. She was a Writer-in-Residence with the Sydney Theatre Company’s New Stages. She wrote the screenplay for Jindabyne, and teleplay for Eisfieber.

Awards

 * Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle Award for, for "Blue Murder".
 * Australian Writers’ Guild Award nomination, for "The Govenor's Family"
 * NSW Premier’s Literary Award.
 * 2006 Stockholm Film Festival - Best Screenplay
 * 2006 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards:, Best Adapted Screenplay

Works

 * Spumante Romantica, Griffin Theatre, 1992
 * Blue Murder, Belvoir Street Theatre, 1994 and Eureka Theatre Company, 1996
 * The Governor’s Family, Belvoir Street, 1997

Reviews
"Sensitively adapted by Beatrix Christian from the story “So Much Water So Close to Home” (which Altman also used in his film), Jindabyne shifts Carver’s setting to the equally majestic — if far more stark — landscape of rural Australia. Buried within the movie is a sharp dissection of race and gender in a corner of New South Wales where whites and Aborigines cohabit in mutual unease. But you needn’t roll your eyes: Jindabyne wears its class politics lightly, weaving them into a ghost story about the intimate connection between how we treat our living and our dead that will hover around your shoulders long after you leave the theater."

"Playwright and screenwriter Beatrix Christian has taken this brief story and gracefully expanded it to feature length by grasping its potential as a way to examine cultures as well as sexes in conflict, to deal with issues like the possibility of redemption and what it is we owe to the living as well as the dead."