Retrospective – noun – an exhibition or compilation showing the development of an artist’s work over a period of time
I have no recollection why I started this blog, Harlequin Ink, back in 2014. Perhaps I dreamed of writing the great Australian novel and posting it online?
PS. Please pick any story you like and read!
An Imperfect Christmas
You can’t enjoy a perfect Christmas without first experiencing one or two imperfect ones, right?
The Unofficial Death of Larry Bird
Larry Bird is on the wrong side of forty, hasn’t had a stand-up gig in years and can’t get laid. It’s just another shit day in Melbourne! 🦅
Breaking the Code – A Writer’s Life
Unfinished Symphony
Suppose you met God in a nightclub in Chicago, what would you tell him about love? 💔
Crab Claws
There’s a Chinese shop on Exhibition Street full of succulent dishes full of sexual delights. Why not order their sweet ‘yummly’ crab claws 🦀
Set Fire To Your Birthday
Adele is singing Skyfall somewhere in the distance. It’s time to blow up the birthday cake 🔥
About the author – Noel Anderson is putting the finishing touches on his feature film script Sammy & Dave and recently adapted Henry James’s classic ‘The Turn of the Screw’ into a gothic play, simply called ‘ Ghost Story ‘. Noel has directed over 50 theatrical productions.
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NOEL ANDERSON (Writer & Director) completed NIDA Playwright Studio 1996 and also trained at Stella Adler Studio (New York), The Gate Theatre (London), Independent Theatre (Sydney) and Brisbane Academy of Music. He has worked as an actor, director, writer throughout Australia, his written work includes: Germ Warfare, Circles and The Carer which played at Sydney’s Belvoir Street theatre. Noel's strictly adult play, Sammy & Dave, which he also directed, played to packed houses at the Stables Theatre (Sydney), running for a staggering 3 months. In 2001-2002, Noel’s children’s play Kylie Kastle Throws a Party was performed in hundreds of schools across the country by Troubadour Theatre Co. As director & dramaturg, Noel worked on Kingdom - an Australian musical based on the King Arthur Legend and also The Other Half, a TV pilot for Beyond Films. Noel assistant directed on the first ever Aboriginal sitcom produced on SBS TV called The Masters, and counts Sylvia Plath’s play Letter’s Home at Belvoir Street Theatre among his best directing work. In 2004 -2006, Noel worked on a feature film script, Adult Services and a new play, Moonshot, about the American Lunar landing. But, needing adventure, he packed up and moved to Melbourne where he directed Dark Angels with Pop Diva Katie Underwood (Bardot). In 2008, Noel’s short play "Pulling Out" won Midsumma’s Pink Shorts Festival and Noel's production The Water Sellers at Dante's was awarded Best Director by the Monash Theatre Festival. In 2013, Noel's written work was performed in the show Love Letters at the Melbourne Arts Centre and his play Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes of Fame played to full houses at La Mama, Courthouse. Other directing work includes: Oliver (The Gold Coast Performing Arts Centre), Friday Night in Town, A Fitzroy Romance, Blowing Whistles, Australia Dot Com (Melbourne Comedy Festival), Narelle MacDonald : Descent into Pop Madness and Especes Menacees (performed in French) for the Melbourne French Theatre Company.
Be sure to catch Noel's six part TV series NEXT... about internet dating on Foxtel and Apple TV in 2017.
Other credits include : The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras, The Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, The Sydney Film Festival, and The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and The Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games . In 2015 Noel's play Andy Warhol's Ffteen Minutes of Fame returned to Melbourne, playing to sold out performances at the Jewish Museum of Australia alongside Andy Warhol's Geniuses Exhibition. Noel then directed Price Check the musical at Theatreworks. He finished 2015 with a musical he directed and co-wrote called Audrey Hepburn and I Considers Our Assets at the Melba Spiegeltent, home of Circus Oz.
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Maybe I secretly wanted to be Charles Dickens and create a character as memorable as Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Whatever the reason, it’s almost 2020 and I’m still posting stories online. Polaroid is a collection of six short stories. An instant snapshot inside my creative mind over the last six years. The stories cover subjects dear to me…love, death, music and writing, childhood dreams, God and lust. I hope you enjoy these short stories as much as I loved revisiting them 😊 Cheers Noel 🥂
You can’t enjoy a perfect Christmas without first experiencing one or two imperfect ones, right? 🎅 
A true story – The habit of putting words down day and night is going to be a lifetime problem, I decide 📚
Jeez! Another year older 🤨 Adele is singing Skyfall somewhere in the distance. It’s time to blow up the birthday cake 🔥
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