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Michael Gray Griffith Writer/ Producer

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24.01.2022 My love you are the splinter in my recurring days I cannot breath Without my weak lips Forming echoing your name The syllables reveling... In the discomfort They bring Time Time you do nothing But make me old. Michael From the Underboys

24.01.2022 When told his mother that he was gay she left the family, now living alone with his embittered father who is a motorcycle nut, the young man is secretly preparing to leave this loveless house, when miraculously the Dykes on Bikes move in next door and love arrives with them. #Amazon

24.01.2022 Two dogs on death row have one night to make sense of where they are and to learn to sing the song of the kennels. #Amazon

24.01.2022 A bus driver breaks and drives off with his bus in the most revolutionary act of his life. #Amazon

21.01.2022 https://www.wolvestheatre.com/so/d3NbGl7sr?languageTag=en

20.01.2022 Evan and Paula For Evan Williams Paula is a single mum in love with her masseuse, Evan . She believes Evan is wealthy but Evan isn't. The women he massages don't pay him with money but with momentary love. But change is a coming. Oh Yeah.... #Amazon

20.01.2022 Is REAL too DANGEROUS a play for Australian Audiences? Had a call from John Orcsik last night, he’d just read the script of REAL and while he loved it, he couldn’t stop laughing to how dangerous it was. Earlier in the week I had a similar conversation with the great director Aarne Neeme who would love to direct it. But seeing how it’s too DANGEROUS for the major theatre companies, and the funding bodies, the question is, how to get it up? Or should we?... Or would the controversy help raise the funds? There is no nudity or graphic violence, the play instead, well it just dares to go where it’s getting harder for us to tread. Starring John Orcsik, Ezra Bix , Elizabeth OCallaghan and Candice Leask. DATE TIME Saturday 1st May 2021 2:00 PM LOCATION 2 Denham Street, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, BOOK NOW https://www.trybooking.com/BQIDS The reason for having it in Hawthorn is convenience for the audience. The space we are using is serviced by the 75 and the 48 tram and close to Hawthorn train station. A rehearsed reading includes a conversation. We want your thoughts. The Wolves, bringing new Australian theatre to the People

18.01.2022 For Chris Pilkington. Get the fuck up now and run away with me in a taxi filled with no time for goodbyes and as you flip the bird... our of the rear window I’ll hide our hearts under the backseat’s vault. Come on! Get up out of that fucking bed and leave behind inescapabilty and submerged we’ll laugh all the way until the world has been driven to where you wanted it to be. Safe you’ll swoon to the young lad’s perfumes Smirk to the popular draining their batteries dry As the hopeful sing their tunes of love Through lonely fingers drumming on the vinyl, And then once we’re clear you will be free to fly Up to there where I always told you could fly, into that endless skyscape behind your eyes as I try to inscribe another a poem across all our starving spines Oh COME ON, fucker, the meter is running, Grab my hand and I will steal you away for how else will I pay this fucking fare if forever forces me to leave you here. Michael Gray Griffith

18.01.2022 https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08K48VKS8

18.01.2022 My first thriller novel. Adapted from a film script. I wrote this while i was writing The Sandcastles of Quarantine Bay. I wrote this in the morning Castles in the evening. Castles has been picked up by a traditional publisher ... so i think its greedy to hold out for more luck for this one. It's a with a few still, if they do like it, Ill take it down , but otherwise here it is. A Mature Woman called Sonya is the most dangerous person in this piece. #Amazon

17.01.2022 The Cast of Marooned and some Crew on our first Zoom-meet and greet. Aarne Neeme Director Peter Falk Cinematographer Zac Grant Sound Recording ... Gregory Caine 1620 Rohana Hayes 768 Chris Grant 379 Daniel Hurst 134 Characters don't have names, only their statistical number. And can i just say how humbled we all are by the donations we have been receiving in our cultural fund . If you like what we do please donate: All donations over $2.00 are 100% tax deductible. https://australianculturalfund.org.au/p/marooned-the-movie/

16.01.2022 Love There are houses built on your lack and in these homes, warmed on something real,... doubting minds peel their unsettling dreams for you - our broken promise of rapture, on whose false we construct and deconstruct with distress. Are you the heart beat’s myth haunting us from fairy tales? And if not haunting then feeding our solitude with faint rumours of Eden? For if I was to describe you to a stone I would call you a fragrance who can glue two souls together as one. Breadcrumbs spilt by other lovers Like a trail of light Whispering into all of this cold and dark. Michael

15.01.2022 An lonely old man who cleans a school toilet finds a sad message from a young student . in an effort to help he starts communicating to her via graffiti. This Story won the prestigious My Brother Jack Award and was then adapted into the short film by Paul Stanley Ward; "The Graffiti Mr Tupaia." Which went on to win " New Zealand Short Film of the Year. "... #Amazon See more

14.01.2022 Left - A Novel She's the murderer but now only EVIL can rescue her and only LOVE can save her. Which will she choose? A highly original gripping outback thriller. -Michael Gray Griffith ... As lazy as an afternoon’s yawn the raven circles over the view’s only vehicle, a white Landrover, where Sonya is frantically yet methodically packing up the last pieces of a bush camp. Dropping, the raven lands on top of one of the vehicle's open rear doors. Sonya jumps, gasps, then glares at the bird. Will it speak? The way it’s studying her it looks like it wants to. When it doesn’t, she waves her hands around to shoo it away. It doesn't move. Sonya stops, considers, then bends and picks up a rock but when she looks up, ready to throw it, the raven has already taken off. Slowly it flies in a wide circle above her as rock in hand she follows its orbit until it leaves. Sonya looks down at the rock. She evaluates its weight. Its one sharp edge. She finds a tree, pretends it’s a person, then aims and throws. It slams off its trunk. This makes her smile, then she looks up to where God is meant to be. If you want to stop me, she thinks, then stop me. God doesn’t. It was the same before. It will always be the same and only those who cross over will know it. She looks back at what she has left to pack. Such a simple plan. Such a simple plan. The raven rises into the furnace. The entire view owns no buildings, no roads, just anorexic trees besieged by the spinifex, their piked hummocks heading off to conquer each melting horizon. The flatness is marred only by one isolated hill whose pared peak is revealing the baked and broken back of a mountain. Red kangaroos lay outstretched beneath the bloodwoods who, like refugees wait along the bank of the dry creek bed, whose slow, curving scar is the land’s last and dirt-cracked memory of water. And then the raven lands on the dirt between the two, shallow perpendicular grooves. Head up, black eyes bright, it goosesteps after Jarrod as backward and sweating Jarrod drags the body of Steve. Read more here https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08KBPFH8L

09.01.2022 I absolutely love this short story. When people do read it they often text me, saying "fuck me" It's a slow burn that really grabs you. I hope you like it... "This copper needed help, but I had none to give him and he had none to give me, and if God was here, he was very fucking quiet, and when I looked around, and I looked everywhere, I knew that there was nowhere I could look that would stop the pain. Nowhere. And so I screamed. " #Amazon

07.01.2022 The rats heart https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08KJFH61L

06.01.2022 Well what a brilliant review by Megan who saw the play before the world shut down. Thank you for that. And today three very generous women donated to our cultural fund.... All Donations over $2.00 are 100% tax deductible https://australianculturalfund.org.au/p/marooned-the-movie/ And if you'd like to take the next step why not become a financial backer. PM us to read the prospectus and plan for Marooned.

06.01.2022 https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Gray-Griffith/e/B08K48VKS8

05.01.2022 Left a novel by Michael Gray Griffith Part 1 This is a film script but i've been meaning to turn it into a novel but couldn't find the time. . .Now I've found the time. I'll put it up bit by bit see what people think...Continue reading

05.01.2022 LIFE I believe the goal in life is not to reach your dreams but to reach a version of you, you aren’t ashamed of.... To do this life gives you many barriers that seem insurmountable. Including not just the mistakes you will constantly make but the choices you will make in your formative years that are shameful, selfish, even cruel. You have to learn to forgive yourself. To repair what you can fix and justify what you can’t by striving to become the version of you that is worth the journey. I have learned that many of my problems could not be fixed by travelling conservative routes. I fixed the issues of my marriage by exploring polyamory. I finally found a raging vitality that fuels this current determination by walking away from the safety of a fulltime job to try walk the path of an Artist. I have learned from Covid, that there are no dreams to reach; there are only destinations to strive for. That we are all free. The only map that my destiny has is the one I draw within the currents of circumstance. I am not a saint. I am a sinner. I am not strong. I am a weak man who has learned that giving into my weaknesses leaves me with nothing but self-loathing. I am not here, for that is how the universe sees me. And I will never understand how it all works, or why it all works. I was born into an inescapable ignorance and I will die ignorant, with only ever experiencing two truths, one being death, two being its greater adversary, LOVE. And I have a deep belief. A faith that below us all is a deep racing subconscious river; an endless poem connecting us all, in which our separate existences and our loves and loses are the songs. I call this river Art, and it rises up through us all, in geysers we filter in an effort to capture its voice in poetry and paintings and stories and songs. And we have always done this, that’s why on the walls of caves we find paintings. So to have a leader call art non-essential doesn’t speak to me of his ignorance, but of his fears. Personally, I am no longer following or believe in dreams. I am instead swimming furiously in the current that, unaware I’m stuck in it, will one day drown me, and despite everything that has happened and will happen, despite everything that doesn’t make any sense or seems unfair, even cruel. Despite the fears that perpetually claw at but can no-longer hold me In drowning I have never felt more alive, nor have I ever been so grateful to spend so much time with a version of me. Michael Gray Griffith 29/10/2020

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04.01.2022 https://www.wolvestheatre.com/books

03.01.2022 https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08KF51FRZ "The Rat’s Heart. The stars will never look so far away until you are a rat who is spinning towards a drain in a gutter that’s treating you and the rubbish like you are one and the same.... Len Hawco and I met on the set of my play Adrifting, early in 2020. Len was operating the lights, I was doing the sound while in China, in a city called Wuhan a virus called Covid 19 was stealing the headlines. I noticed that Len was constantly sketching, all manner of things, He told me he wanted to be an illustrator. So I told him about a story I’d been carrying around for a while. It was a modern day fairy-tale/fable about a man who wakes up in an alley as a rat. A rat who has lost his heart. Then, as Covid shut down the world and stole both of our livelihoods, the pair of us ended up on the phone, sometimes at two in the morning, talking excitedly about this Rat and his desperate search for his heart. What is a heart? What is he actually looking for ? Seven months later we are now working on our fourth illustrated book. And while The Rat’s Heart is still sitting in a few publishers/agents slush piles, we have been told that at 23000 words, it’s too short for the novel industry, too long for the illustrated book industry, and finally, it is difficult to compartmentalize because it’s an illustrated book aimed more at adults than children. But that said, we feel this is what makes it original and unique. So with Christmas fast approaching, today this is happening, Welcome to the presale of our first collaboration. The Gift Book, The Rat’s Heart. In the middle of the night, a man wakes in an alleyway as a rat with a missing heart. He soon learns that if he doesn’t find his heart by the break of dawn then he will be a rat forever. Tonight though he will have help. Broadway, a doe (female rat) who used to be a woman before, years ago, she too woke as a rat with a missing heart, is determined to help the Rat find his. Trouble is, in a city this big how can a Rat find anything so small? Despite always searching, Broadway never found hers. Set on the eve of Valentine’s Day, The Rat’s Heart is a sometimes gritty, often funny, modern day fairy-tale/fable, that also happens to be a heart-warming love story. So, if you’re chasing a unique Christmas present, that simultaneously supports the Arts, and two endangered mature white males, please consider ordering The Rat’s Heart. The eBook and traditional book version will both be live in a few days. THE PRESALE LINK

03.01.2022 We'd not only like to thank these three major funding bodies, but Zev Howley, Alex Theatre - St Kilda, Tenessee Gray Griffith, Ezra Bix Tottie Goldsmith, Len Hawco, Charlie, George Zelen and Alf Albini. Also Rosie Dwyer, Anna Kennedy & Adam Fawcett. ... For allowing us to finally film The Wolves Play "The Magnolia Tree." Next to shoot Marooned .

02.01.2022 Gregory Caine, in Black and White taken with an old theatre light from Ezra Bix

01.01.2022 The Auction will be immediately followed by a reading of The Wolves new play REAL But is REAL too DANGEROUS a play for Australian Audiences? Had a call from John Orcsik last night, he’d just read the script of REAL and while he loved it, he couldn’t stop laughing to how dangerous it was.... Earlier in the week I had a similar conversation with the great director Aarne Neeme who would love to direct it. But seeing how it’s too DANGEROUS for the major theatre companies, and the funding bodies, the question is, how to get it up? Or should we? Or would the controversy help raise the funds? There is no nudity or graphic violence, the play instead, well it just dares to go where it’s getting harder for us to tread. Starring John Orcsik, Ezra Bix , Elizabeth OCallaghan and Candice Leask. DATE TIME Saturday 1st May 2021 2:00 PM LOCATION 2 Denham Street, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, BOOK NOW https://www.trybooking.com/BQIDS The reason for having it in Hawthorn is convenience for the audience. The space we are using is serviced by the 75 and the 48 tram and close to Hawthorn train station. A rehearsed reading includes a conversation. We want your thoughts. The Wolves, bringing new Australian theatre to the People

01.01.2022 Marooned is back at the Alex Theatre As a rule plays do short season, but once they finish the play often vanishes, so we, The Wolves, are trialing touring the play constantly like an Indy band. The reason, we want to pay our Acotors, Tech and Ourselves. ... And it's been working. In June we are in Launceston, July, Brisbane, soon we will be on in Geelong, but next we are back at the Alex Theatre on May 28th. Marooned at The Alex May 28th 2021 Alex Theatre Two 1/135 Fitzroy St St Kilda, VIC 3182 Doors open 7.00 Plays starts 7.30 - ends 9.20 includes an intermission. BOOK NOW https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/marooned-at-the-alex-ticket READ THE Sydney Morning Hearald Review https://www.smh.com.au//a-play-about-suicide-that-needs-to More reviews here https://www.wolvestheatre.com/audience-feedback