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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. |
_1.jpg "JOYCE BERENDES - THE FOURTEENTH DAY") |
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.
JOYCE BERENDES' BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE:
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Joyce Berendes is a guest speaker and available for presentations. |
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Nulla and the Purple Poison Plant
All the men of the area have mysteriously disappeared, lured away by Bulogen Dhung - the bad spirit of Mount Badoran. Desperate to find their father, Susan and Johnny Telford set off in search of him. On their way to Mount Badoran, they meet an Aboriginal boy called Nullagundi, who is also looking for his father. Helped by the Bush
Creatures Society of Animals, the three children form a rescue team.
Will Susan, Johnny and Nulla be brave enough to enter 'Mad Dody's' cave?
Will Nullagundi - helped by the good spirits of Mount Badoran hiding in the stalagmites and stalactites - find the courage to do what needs doing to destroy this evil caveman, rescue the missing men and bring back peace to the ancient land?
Will Nulla …? Will he …?
Based on a Musical Play for children called Nullagundi, which Joyce Berendes wrote for her then Children's Operetta Group some years ago, Nulla and the Purple Poison Plant is a fantasy story set in the early 1900s, somewhere in Australia's bush country in the horse-and-buggy days.
Published by Zeus Publications
ISBN: 978-1-921731-47-1
RRP $19.95
Can be purchased at www.zeus-publications.com ZEUS PUBLICATIONS |
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