Candida Celeste Wickham Hurd
Sydney, NB

Plays

by Candida Wickham Hurd

A tragi- comedy in two acts. Seventy year old Davida allows her homeless, alcoholic daughter, and boyfriends, to couch surf in her crowded living room. Fictitious characters from plays Davida once auditioned for come to life and comment on  human behaviour while dealing with their own problems,    

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Successes

In 1980 I formed a Theatre in Education group, 'Focus Theatre', in Tasmania. We toured primary schools with a series of short plays that I devised and adapted from pre existing fairy tales. There were six of us in the group. We were well received and made a tiny amount of money.

In 1988 I wrote and directed 'Whatever Happened to Fun' which was performed at Dundurrabin Community Hall, New South Wales. In 1989 I wrote 'All Souls Incorporated' for Radio 2BBB, about souls waiting to be born on planet Earth.

In 2003 I devised a ten minute show, 'The Birth of the Sun', to open the Blue Mountains Annual Art Show. We had a lighting guy, a drummer and a banjo player. Wearing a hooded black cloak, carrying a leafless branch I walked slowly to the beat of a drum, down the stairs, from which I finally emerged, naked, painted gold, as cymbals clashed, and light was beamed onto a mirrored ball that I held up. The Blue Mountains is a bit conservative, so a few people were shocked, but it was mostly well received.

Dream Room Theatre was a fringe theatre group I formed in 2008.There were six of us in the group. A friend and I devised the idea, then I wrote, directed and acted in 'Light in the Cave'. The show that consisted of six scenes about dysfunctional relationships, and we performed it in a cave in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.

In 2009 I wrote, directed and acted in 'Talking to Furniture', a forty minute tragi- comedic play about a woman who has conversations with her furniture. We did it on a shoe string, with no funding, and had just one successful, well received performance at The Royal Hotel in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

I won first prize of fifty dollars in 2011 at 'A Friend In Hand', a pub in Glebe, Sydney, New south Wales, for mine and another actor's performance of my script 'Woman and Chair', in which a woman and a chair have an argument.