More recently Reg wrote COUNTRY SONG about the life and music of Jimmy Little, which was commissioned by QTC; and KRAKEOUR!, produced by Deckchair Theatre; both of which toured nationally.Reg adapted his play LAST CAB TO DARWIN as a feature film, directed by Jeremy Sims and starring Michael Caton and Jackie Weaver. Im startin to see you as the voice of a very misunderstood section of our society. His award-winning play, The Return, premiered in Sydney at Griffin in 2001, a subsequent production at the Adelaide Fringe Festival won the 2002 Advertiser Southwark Best of Fringe Award. The film was nominated for eight AACTA awards and won Best Adapted Screenplay; and was nominated for an AWGIE for Best Adapted Feature.Among his other theatre credits are the plays: THE HAUNTING OF DANIEL GARTRELL (originally commissioned by STC and produced by Perth Theatre Company) and produced again in 2013 for a major national regional tour by Straitjacket Productions; UNAUSTRALIA which had a season at the La Mama Theatre in Melbourne in 2012; BOUNDARY STREET which premiered at Black Swan in Perth in 2011 and Brisbane Festival in 2012 and won the Rodney Seaborn award; an adaptation of UNCLE VANYA for Perth’s Black Swan Theatre Company; RUBY’S LAST DOLLAR for Pork Chop Productions and the Sydney Opera House, directed by Jeremy Sims and nominated for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in 2005; and THE CHATROOM, produced by Perth Theatre Company in 2004 and shortlisted for the 2004 Patrick White Playwrights Award.Reg’s true-crime screenplay, THE GREAT MINT SWINDLE, produced by Cordell Jigsaw aired on Channel 9 in 2012. Reg is currently working on a feature film adaptation of this play. And theyll all tell ya they had a tough life. Reg adapted his first play, THE RETURN, re-titled LAST TRAIN TO FREO, as a feature film directed by Jeremy Sims and produced by Sue Taylor. But you know theres a million of me gettin round, mate. Cribb adapted it to film as Lost Train to Freo. Reg Cribb, TaDaa Productions, Trades Hall, Carlton, until June 19 Review, Martin Ball. The Return is an Australian play by Reg Cribb. LAST CAB screened at Toronto and Busan International Film Festivals and sold to Japan, Korea, Columbia and Turkey.
This play won the Patrick White Playwright’s Award, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award (Best Play), the WA Equity Award for Best New Play, the WA Premier’s Literary Award (Best Script) and the WA Premier’s Prize Award 2003 (Overall Literature) – making history as the first play to win this award.© YELLOW CREATIVE MANAGEMENT PTY LTDReg has collaborated on many indigenous plays.
References. Reg co-wrote BRAN NUE DAE, for which he was nominated for an AFI award.Reg Cribb is an accomplished writer for the stage and screen. He has been nominated for many more awards including four AWGIEs and two AFI’s for Best Adapted Screenplay.Reg’s recent original plays include THOMAS MURRAY AND THE UPSIDE DOWN RIVER, which premiered at Griffin theatre in 2016 to rave reviews and was toured by Critical Stages throughout regional Australia in 2018, and THE DAMNED, which won the 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and had a sell-out world premiere season at Black Swan Theatre Company.