JONATHAN GAVIN

Jonathan has an Honours degree in Literature from the ANU and graduated from the WAAPA Acting Course in 1998. Since then he has worked constantly as a writer and actor with independent theatre companies in Sydney and Canberra. He has toured nationally and internationally in Captain Corelli's Mandolin with Musica Viva and 2 Pianos 4 Hands with Marquis Entertainment.

His writing includes Aperture and Bender for the Tamarama Rock Surfers, Schmaltz for Elbow Theatre, Sleepless Night for the Practical Theatre Company, and A Moment on the Lips for Maelstrom, for which he was awarded the 2003 Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award.

A MOMENT ON THE LIPS

Victoria is a painter facing creative stagnation; Jenny is Victoria's elder sister and patron, a barrister trying to make it as a woman in a man's world; Rowena, Jenny's lover, is completing her PhD in Women's Studies; Rowena's adopted Indian sister Bridget is a health professional working with dying patients; Anne is at home all day with a young daughter; Emma is television's most popular newsreader; and Dominique has re-entered their lives after a bitter period of estrangement. As the play moves backward and forwards in time, sisters and friends confront their long-standing rivalries, jealousies and resentments. And all the while, one of the seven moves unknowingly towards her own death.

A Moment on the Lips is about the difficult search for meaning and fulfilment in life, our ability to rise to the challenges life throws at us, and the powers we all have for transformation.

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