Counting and Cracking

Counting and Cracking is a play by Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan, first staged in 2019.

Synopsis

The play concerns four generations of the one Tamil family across Sri Lanka and Australia.[1][2][3]

Productions

The play was first produced by Belvoir and Co-Curious at the Sydney Town Hall for the 2019 Sydney Festival, with Eamon Flack as director. The production was also mounted at the Adelaide Festival that same year.

Awards

Shakthidharan's script was originally titled A Counting and Cracking of Heads, and was the joint winner of the 2015 NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights.[4]

Counting and Cracking received seven 2019 Helpmann Awards including Best Play and Best New Australian Work[5] and won best mainstage production at the 2019 Sydney Theatre Awards.[6]

It won both the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama at the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, with theatre director Eamon Flack credited as associate writer.[7]

In April 2020 Counting and Cracking won the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[8]

References
  1. "Counting and Cracking — an epic new Australian play". Radio National. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  2. Dow, Steve (16 January 2019). "Counting and Cracking: the story behind Belvoir Street theatre's most ambitious play to date". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  3. "Counting and Cracking review". Time Out Sydney. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  4. "2016 Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights". Theatre Network NSW. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  5. Borland, Michaela (16 July 2019). "Helpmann Awards show theatre is winning diversity race in Australian entertainment". ABC News. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  6. "2019 Sydney Theatre Awards announced". Limelight. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  7. Delaney, Brigid (30 January 2020). "Counting and Cracking: Belvoir Street's standout hit wins Australia's richest literary prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  8. Evans, Kate Evans (26 April 2020). "Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards". ABC News. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
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