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FROM RUIN TO RECOVERY RADIO PLAY MEDIA RELEASE PRODUCTION TEAM The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation (VRGF) commissioned MonashLink Community Health Service to produce a radio play for their October 2014 Many ways to Help Conference. Performers - The authors and cast of From Ruin to Recovery Artistic Director - Catherine Simmonds Sound Designer - Matt Ridgway Production Coordinator - Judy Avisar CONTACT Judy Avisar BETTING on a BETTER LIFE Responsible Gambling & Alternative Recreation MonashLink Community Health Service [email protected] 9564 6137 / 1300 552 509 / 0433 888 056 SYNOPSIS From Ruin to Recovery is a unique, honest and provocative collage of recovering gamblers’ escape into a perilous zone that descends into a cave of shame... and portrays the great courage to go beyond. Listeners are taken on an emotional journey that explores the underlying reasons that lead to addiction. The message is: I am more than a gambler. It is a call for understanding that gambling addiction can afflict anyone, and that it needs addressing without judgement, and with sufficient resources. BACKGROUND In 2012 acclaimed Melbourne writer Arnold Zable ran storytelling workshops with a dozen people struggling with gambling addiction. The resultant anthology From RUIN to RECOVERY - Gamblers share their stories was edited by Arnold Zable with a Foreword by Tim Costello. It was showcased at the 2013 Melbourne Writers Festival with a dramatised reading (“raw, totally sincere, impossible to ignore”) and also performed at Vic Parliament House in 2014. With the skilful guidance of artistic director Catherine Simmonds, the authors of the book have created a 10 minute radio play. These people know gambling from the inside. They have lived the roller-coaster journey of gambling addiction, and have the courage to enter into this world... and bear witness to their painful descents into obsession. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LISTEN HERE “...emotions are raw and uncomprimising. ‘You stupid bitch,’ one writer admonishes herself, ‘you should have been home a long time ago’.”Arnold Zable DURATION 10 MINS DURATION 10 MINS
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FROM RUIN TO RECOVERY RADIO PLAYMEDIA RELEASE
PRODUCTION TEAMThe Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation (VRGF) commissioned MonashLink Community Health Service to produce a radio play for their October 2014 Many ways to Help Conference.
Performers - The authors and cast of From Ruin to RecoveryArtistic Director - Catherine SimmondsSound Designer - Matt Ridgway Production Coordinator - Judy Avisar
CONTACTJudy Avisar BETTING on a BETTER LIFE Responsible Gambling & Alternative Recreation MonashLink Community Health [email protected] 6137 / 1300 552 509 / 0433 888 056
SYNOPSISFrom Ruin to Recovery is a unique, honest and
provocative collage of recovering gamblers’ escape into a perilous zone that descends into a cave of
shame... and portrays the great courage to go beyond. Listeners are taken on an emotional journey that
explores the underlying reasons that lead to addiction. The message is: I am more than a gambler. It is a call for understanding that gambling addiction can
afflict anyone, and that it needs addressing without judgement, and with sufficient resources.
BACKGROUNDIn 2012 acclaimed Melbourne writer Arnold Zable ran storytelling workshops with a dozen people struggling
with gambling addiction. The resultant anthology From RUIN to RECOVERY -
Gamblers share their stories was edited by Arnold Zable with a
Foreword by Tim Costello. It was showcased at the 2013
Melbourne Writers Festival with a dramatised reading (“raw,
totally sincere, impossible to ignore”) and also performed at Vic
Parliament House in 2014.
With the skilful guidance of artistic director Catherine Simmonds, the authors of the book have created a 10 minute radio play. These people know gambling from the inside. They have lived the roller-coaster journey of gambling addiction, and have the courage to enter
into this world... and bear witness to their painful descents into obsession.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
LISTEN HERE
“...emotions are raw and uncomprimising. ‘You stupid bitch,’ one writer admonishes herself, ‘you should have been home a long time ago’.”Arnold Zable
DURATION 10 MINS
DURATION 10 MINS
