![]() ![]() ![]() It was wonderful - but it didn't feel like the story belonged totally to me anymore but to the voices on the CDs. When the 5 CD case arrived, I went for several long drives in the car (it goes on for more than five hours), listening. I had been telling myself the story in my head for so long, in my voice, with my accent, and here was someone else's interpretation! It was very strange listening to my words being performed by someone else. She sent me sound clips of a Filipino actor reading Tall Story. The first I heard that Tall Story was getting an audiobook was an email last year from Executive Producer Janet Stark. Making this one, I learned all sorts of new things - like, where to get film clips that are in the public domain and even how to use a green screen! Having said that, I totally forgot to remove the bottle of hand cream perched on the shelf behind my head. the Audio Book!Īs anyone who's been vaguely following this blog may know, I love making YouTube videos. Well, I've finally done it! Here's my trailer for Tall Story. ![]() Yup, bad author, me! I should have blogged earlier but I really wanted to do something exciting. ![]() I have been so busy writing my next novel that I've neglected to do a big HURRAH for the amazing Listening Library audiobook of Tall Story, which was released in February this year. ![]()
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Tim, who wanted to be an actor, fell in love with John, the captain of the football team. For such a particular Australian story, it's a remarkable trajectory.Ĭonigrave was born in 1959 and went to Xavier College in Melbourne, an elite Jesuit school (also attended by Bill Shorten and Sir Les Patterson ). There have bee n productions in San Francisco and Auckland, with others coming up. We remounted it six times, including at the Sydney Opera House, Belvoir and Melbourne Theatre Company, and most recently in 2010 in London's West End. By November 2006 we had it onstage at the Stables Theatre. In 2005, as Artistic Director of Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company, I commissioned Tommy Murphy to adapt the memoir. I was being interviewed because I directed the theatrical adaptation of the book. Conigrave wrote Holding the Man, a candid and magical memoir of his 15-year relationship with Caleo. ![]() I was to be interviewed for a documentary called John and Tim, being made by Waterbyrd Filmz, about the lives of John Caleo and Timothy Conigrave. Last week, a film crew landed in my living room. ![]() |