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Joyce Berendes - Writer/Actress/Playwright
Having worked in the Netherlands for a small, twelve-member, touring Youth Theatre for almost four years that was part of a bigger Children's Operetta Group, former Actress, Dancer and Playwright Joyce Berendes, came to Australia as a skilled and seasoned performer. In Australia, after studying Speech and Drama a further two years Speech and Drama she performed as the main character in a number of popular plays, such as Jean Brody in The prime if Miss Jean Brody and Lola Montez in the Musical Lola Montez. She also won, Brisbane's Twelfth Night's Theatre best actress award, for her performance as a concentration camp survivor in the Australian play A game of numbers. |
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She has written several one act plays for children, and started a Children's Operetta Group in Brisbane, based on the one she worked for in Holland, for which she wrote the book and lyrics of two children's musical plays, that were later performed by school and amateur theatres.
It wasn't until the year 2000 that she turned her back on theatre to start writing novels.
Her first novel a psychological thriller called The Fourteenth Day sold hundreds of copies. Set in Queensland and published by Zeus Publications in September 2007, this novel was nominated for the Sisters in Crime, Davitt Crime Writers' award.
Review by Glyn Davies
Art Nexus October 2007The Fourteenth Day It is solid, engaging and a good read; a page turner in fact. Its depiction of local scenes alone should assure it a place on the reading list of Far North Queenslanders in particular. Berendes has created a very filmic novel: it will not be long before some film-maker or other discovers this story and wants to shoot it. |
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The publishers' first print of her second novel And Then Came the Rain - another thriller/love story set in Karumba on the Gulf of Carpentaria - sold out within four weeks of the book's launch in August 2008.
Joyce and her husband travelled throughout Australia for four years with Landcruiser, caravan and motorcycle, experiencing many adventures. Some of these stories she has incorporated into her writing.
She now lives with her husband, big dog and peacock, on a beautiful 20-hectare property in tropical North Queensland.
CONTACT DETAILS:
cberen@cairns.net.au |
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Matters of Choice Contemporary women's fiction from a male point of view, this story is about one man's desperate, but ultimately triumphant, search for love and redemption.
By bringing together two favourite but unresolved characters from her books The Fourteenth Day and And Then Came the Rain,
Joyce Berendes has written a novel of love and suspense, so deeply emotional and profound it will have you, yet again, asking for more.
NEWS ITEMS:
Joyce Berendes is a guest speaker and available for presentations.
BOOKS AVAILABLE:
ALL OF JOYCE BERENDES' BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FROM
ZEUS PUBLICATIONS
CONTACT DETAILS:
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