The Great Emu War - Coy, Xavier
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It's 1932 in Warralakin, Western Australia. The Australian Government has given land to veterans who returned to Australia after the First World War. There's a problem however, the emu. Emus are running wild and destroying wheat crops all throughout Western Australia. The Royal Australian Artillery send two Privates - Kelly and Brown - along with five thousand rounds of ammunition and a Lewis Machine Gun to start the cull on the farm of Clementine and Billy Westlake. As winning the war effort begins to look more and more unlikely The Royal Australian Artillery send out reinforcements and a…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
It's 1932 in Warralakin, Western Australia. The Australian Government has given land to veterans who returned to Australia after the First World War. There's a problem however, the emu. Emus are running wild and destroying wheat crops all throughout Western Australia. The Royal Australian Artillery send two Privates - Kelly and Brown - along with five thousand rounds of ammunition and a Lewis Machine Gun to start the cull on the farm of Clementine and Billy Westlake. As winning the war effort begins to look more and more unlikely The Royal Australian Artillery send out reinforcements and a tank in order to cull the emus. Can the might of The Royal Australian Artillery take down the strange looking native bird or will the bird fight back?
Autorenporträt
Xavier Coy is a Sydney based writer and actor. He wrote on season two of Channel 10's acclaimed television series Five Bedrooms and has completed a development room for The Full Box's adaptation of their documentary into a drama series, Opal Cove.In 2017 Xavier was awarded the Terracini Estate Residency for writing. Other writing credits include Not Even God Can Save Us (ACA), The World According to Jerry and Agency (KXT Storytellers Festival), Buried, Are You Listening Now? and Distorted (Old 505 Theatre), Caught Out (Sydney Fringe Festival and Bondi Feast) which took out the NIDA Award for Best Writer & winner of Sydney Fringe Award at the 2018 Sydney Fringe Festival, and Charles & Larry (Flightpath Theatre).Recent and exciting news sees Caught Out being adapted into a musical format in collaboration with Squabbalogic Independent Musical Theatre Inc. which has been funded by Create NSW and a federal Rise Grant.Xavier has producing attachments for his feature films, the comedy, The Dream (Sugary Rum Productions) and a drama Changing Tides (Goose Bridle Productions).