MOVED READINGS

We meet once a month and perform a moved reading in an informal manner. It gives the ensemble a chance to flex their acting muscles and practise their technique when connecting with characters. We aim to capture the character's essence, journey and story rather than their gender. The girls can do as much or little preparation as they want. They can learn a scene, use an accent, come in costume, do text analysis or simply turn up on the day and cold read. GAG are all working actors in the ensemble and usually juggling several scripts, characters and shows at once… but then there are times when they haven’t had a casting or audition and need to sink their teeth into something… and that is what the moved readings are for.


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The Peach Season by Debra Oswald.


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Slightly Cracked (La Mama Theatre) by Lisa Dallinger and Jennifer Monk

Sunset Strip by Suzie Miller

Blackbird by David Harrower

Is God Is (MTC) by Aleshea Harris

Wasted by Kate Tempest

We Have Ghost (film) directed by Christopher Landon

Strangers on a Train by Craig Warner

Four Good Days (film) by Rodrigo Garcia and Eli Saslow



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Your Good Friend (Pilot episode) by Michelle Pastor

God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza

You Won’t Be Alone by Goran Stolevski (film)

Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang

GLOW pilot screenplay by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch

Heavenly Creatures screenplay by Frances Walsh and Peter Jackson

Interlopia by Haylee Deutrom at Melbourne International Comedy Festival

And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little by Paul Zindel

Stallerhof by Frank Xaver Kroftz


P A S T   M O V E D   R E A D I N G S

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Slightly Cracked by Lisa Dallinger and Jennifer Monk in association with Girls Act Good 2021 Creative Development.

The Window Outside by Belinda Lopez

Four Dogs and a Bone by John Patrick Shandley

An Inspector Calls by JB Priestly

The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini

The Dead Don’t Die (film) by Jim Jarmusch

The Seed by Kate Malvany

Away by Michael Gow, Australian Theatre Live by Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre Company

The Goat by Edward Albee

Box The Pony by Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell

The Learners Stand by David Geary

The Bélier Family (Film) Directed by Éric Lartigau

The Little Foxes by Lilian Hellman


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Crossfire by Jennifer Crompton

Glory Dazed by Cat Jones

Short Films screening: Rúbaí and The Kármán Line

(DIS)CORD by Ryan Enniss

Short Films screening: Rebooted, Two Peice, Drum Wave, Cockatoo, Antisocial, Shot Clock, Proceeds of Crime from Ozflix TV

The Motherfucker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Love and Money by Dennis Kelly

Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare (in isolation)

Basic Instinct by Joe Eszterhas (in isolation)

Silent Disco by Lachlan Philpott (in isolation)

The Twits by Roald Dahl, adapted by Edna Walsh

Pack of Girls by David Geary

SWEETie (The Butterfly Club) by Chloe Perrett


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The Berry man by Patricia Cornelius

Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shandley

Quite Drunk, Very Jesus-y (Melbourne Fringe Festival) by Grace De Morgan

Mulholland Drive by David Lynch

Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade

Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan

THEM (La Mama Theatre) by Samah Sabawi

When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell

The Kindergarten Teacher (Film) by Sara Colangelo and Nadav Lapid

The Girl On The Train by Erin Cressida Wilson

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen


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Drive by Jennifer Monk

The Breakdown by Michelle Pastor

Let Her Speak by Mario Correa

Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

No Sugar by Jack Davis

Silver Linings Playbook by David O. Russell

Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman

I, Tonya by Steven Rogers

Brilliant Lies by David Williamson

Brigsby Bear by Kevin Costello and Kyle Mooney


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Rabbit by Nina Smith

Trojan Women by Euripides

Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell

The Association by Perri Cummings

Crave by Sarah Kane

Speed the Plow by David Mamet

True West by Same Shepard

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

Odd Couple by Neil Simon

Betrayal by Harold Pinter

Plenty by David Hare


 

 

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Bombshells by Joana Murray - Smith
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
Medea a new version by Rachael Cusk
A Shipmans Tale and  Wife of Bath from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaicer
Madmen (television pilot) created by Matthew Weiner
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Dance of Death by August Strindberg


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Women Behind Bars by Tom Eyen
The Neon Woman by Tom Eyen
Mountain Language by Harold Pinter
Wild Honey by Anton Chekhov
Votes for Women by Elizabeth Robins
Being John Malkovich screenplay by Charlie Kaufman
Six Feet Under television pilot by Alan Ball
A Lady Shot by Girls Act Good
Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein
Peer-Gyant By Henrik Ibsen
Moody Christmas Season 1 episode 1 and 2 created by Trent O’Donnell and Phil Lloyd at Jungleboys


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Secret Bridesmaids’ Business by Elizabeth Coleman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Dale Wasserman
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
The Women  by Clare Boothe Luce
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Baby Bathwater by Christopher Durang
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
The Witches of Eastwick screenplay by Michael Cristofer
A Christmas Tale by Jennifer Monk, Sarah Plummer, Constance Washington

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