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Stone is Australian, but was born in Basel and grew up in Cambridge and Melbourne. His father, Stuart Stone, was a biochemist and his mother, Eleanor Mackie, a veterinary scientist. Stuart Stone died of a heart attack aged 45; Stone, aged 12, witnessed it, and has spoken about the ways in which that
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Yet, at the same time, he acknowledges that his own art has its roots in finding a language for the trauma of his father's death. "I certainly couldn't talk to people about what had happened to me. Especially at a young age, people are very confronted by 'how on earth do I even talk about that
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absurdly dark thing that happened to Simon?'. Of course, in cinema and literature, you find conversation partners. They're not talking back but they kind of are because they're telling you you're not the only person who's been through that thing."
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as "a lean, contained, ultimately furious, liberating production that is well-attuned to Wedekind's poetic rhythms, wit and pubescent discoveries". Other productions Stone adapted and directed for The Hayloft Project include
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Stone married Jessamy Dyer in 2004 though the marriage ended in divorce. He has since married again. His current wife is Stefanie Hackl, a dramaturg.
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creating an entirely new script through which the original play nevertheless shines. This practice is sometimes referred to as "over-writing".
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Stone believes in theatre as a place for polemic: "One can't make theatre based on fear and compromises. Without argument, there is no art."
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In 2007 Stone founded the independent theatre company The Hayloft Project and adapted and directed their inaugural production of
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which, with the help of his cast, he reworks into intimate, almost cinematic performances. He often works from
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in the title role, and was well reviewed, returning for a second run in 2017 before transferring to the
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In 2011 Stone became the resident director at Belvoir. In his first year he wrote and directed
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and was released in Australia on 17 March 2016 and he won Best Adapted Screenplay at the
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Five-Star Review – Billie Piper Is Earth-Quaking as Lorca's Heroine"
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sung in English. He took his production of Euripides'
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Stone likes to take pieces from the standard theatre
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It won the 345:Internationaal Theater Amsterdam 282:Internationaal Theater Amsterdam 109:trauma has influenced his work. 1281: 1256: 1231: 1205: 1171: 1146: 1131: 1096: 1081: 1053: 1040: 1021: 997: 961: 935: 905: 879: 724:Hallett, Bryce (30 June 2008). 559:Stone's directorial debut film 459:, set in present-day America's 1288:Maddox, Garry (9 March 2016). 847: 820: 789: 760: 742: 717: 689: 631: 423:, returning there in 2023 for 1: 1009: : Program & Events" 624: 601: 347:, he has directed Euripides' 103: 1367:Australian television actors 1352:Australian theatre directors 1090:, interview by Matt Dobkin, 750:"2009 Sydney Theatre Awards" 494:John Safran's Music Jamboree 212:for The Hayloft Project and 202:and Chris Ryan a version of 7: 1372:Australian male film actors 353:in his own new adaptation, 308:(for which he won the 2015 243:. In 2011 he also directed 10: 1388: 1362:Australian opera directors 670:"A theatre man in a hurry" 582:in 2021. 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Index


Nestroy Theatre Prize
Basel
Frank Wedekind
Spring Awakening
Belvoir St Theatre
The Sydney Morning Herald
Platonov
3xSisters
The Suicide
Henrik Ibsen
Little Eyolf
Sydney Theatre Award
Aleksei Arbuzov
Belvoir
Mark Leonard Winter
Thomas Henning
Seneca
Thyestes
Malthouse Theatre
The Cherry Orchard
Melbourne Theatre Company
The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen
Holland Festival
Robyn Nevin
Lally Katz
Bertolt Brecht
Baal
Sydney Theatre Company

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