Despite unrelenting obstacles, they remained together until John's death on Australia Day, 1992. Tim went to NIDA while John became a chiropractor. They declared themselves boyfriends in 1976. 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.
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