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Tom Holloway is a notable and award-winning Australian playwright, having composed over

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Beyond the Neck is a play written by the Australian playwright Tom Holloway and published by Brisbane’s Playlab Press in 2008, as the first full-length play that Holloway composed. It is based upon the stories and testimonies of the victims of the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, and the play itself is centred at the Broad Arrow Café in Tasmania, where the event took place. In 2004, as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, La Mama Café chose an early draft of the script to further develop, and so in 2005, with funding from the Australian Council of Arts, Holloway began the process of researching the event of the Port Arthur Massacre and interviewing those most affected. The relevance and cultural meaning of Beyond the Neck within Australian society continues today, as demonstrated by its inclusion in the NSW HSC Drama Syllabus from 2015-2018.

Plot Summary
Beyond the Neck begins with the "Overture", in which the location of the play, Port Arthur, is introduced. The character "4" (Old Man), details the negative history of the location, speaking of the hardships of the convicts who lived in the penal settlement in the 1800's (see History Port Arthur, Tasmania).

Relation to the Port Arthur Massacre
How it assisted with community healing, etc.

Reception
In 2007, “Beyond the Neck” was one of only ten plays selected for stage reading by the Royal Court Theatre’s International Young Playwright’s Festival in London, out of over four hundred submissions. Adding to its numerous accolades, the play was appointed as “best stage play” at the 2008 Writer’s Guild Awards