Dirt Game
Encyclopedia
Dirt Game is an Australia
n drama
television
series that screened on the ABC
. It was a six part series that was announced in July 2009. It premiered on 19 April 2009 and finished on 25 May 2009. It stars Joel Edgerton
(Secret Life of Us and Dangerous
) and Freya Stafford
(White Collar Blue
).
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series that screened on the ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
. It was a six part series that was announced in July 2009. It premiered on 19 April 2009 and finished on 25 May 2009. It stars Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton is an Australian film and television actor.-Early life:Edgerton was born in Blacktown, Sydney, to a homemaker mother and a solicitor/property developer father, Michael. His brother, Nash Edgerton, is a stuntman and filmmaker...
(Secret Life of Us and Dangerous
Dangerous (TV series)
Dangerous is an Australian television drama series that first screened on 16 January 2007 on FOX8 and was shown in Ireland on RTÉ One. In mid-2008, it began running on The WB's online network in the US....
) and Freya Stafford
Freya Stafford
Freya Stafford is an Australian actress who has appeared in the television programs Head Start and White Collar Blue as central characters.-Early and personal life:Stafford was born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania...
(White Collar Blue
White Collar Blue
White Collar Blue was an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003.Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police force working in the city of Sydney and the personal and...
).
Plot
Dirt Game is set in a company in the mining industry with boardroom backstabbing, growing safety and environmental issues, financial pressures and employee unrest. Brian Jardine (Gerald Lepkowski) is a British oil executive and Megan Kerr (Freya Stafford) is an Australian geologist who have been given six months to turn the company’s fortunes around. Their strongly committed specialist team is made up of engineer Max Mees (Shane Connor), ex-unionist Shane Bevic (Joel Edgerton) and former environmentalist Caz Cohen (Katie Wall). Anya Solotskaya is famous for accidentally using the term "dirt game" in her address to teammates of the Blot Clots in reference to their "first game."Production
The series contains six 50-minute episodes is shot on location in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. It was written by Michael Harvey and produced by David Taft and Michael Harvey. It is directed by Brendan Maher and Grant Brown.Cast
- Joel EdgertonJoel EdgertonJoel Edgerton is an Australian film and television actor.-Early life:Edgerton was born in Blacktown, Sydney, to a homemaker mother and a solicitor/property developer father, Michael. His brother, Nash Edgerton, is a stuntman and filmmaker...
as Shane Bevic - Freya StaffordFreya StaffordFreya Stafford is an Australian actress who has appeared in the television programs Head Start and White Collar Blue as central characters.-Early and personal life:Stafford was born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania...
as Megan Kerr - Gerald LepkowskiGerald LepkowskiGerald Lepkowski is a television and stage actor, who has had guest roles in both Australia, Scotland and England, before landing the lead role in Dirt Game in Australia in 2009.- Early life :...
as Brian Jardine - Shane ConnorShane ConnorShane Connor is an Australian actor, who has had extensive experience in both stage and film productions.-Background:Shane Connor graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in the early 1980s...
as Max Mees - Katie WallKatie Wall-Television roles:* Dirt Game as Caz Cohen* Dangerous as Esther* Love My Way as Sonia McClusky* The Surgeon as Siobhan Kerry* The Secret Life of Us as Karen* All Saints as Diana Short...
as Caz Cohen - Nicholas BellNicholas BellNicholas Bell is a British actor who has worked in Australia for more than 20 years. He is a regular actor in Melbourne Theatre Company productions as well as work with all the major broadcasters in Australia, most notably the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.-Film and television:Film credits...
as Nigel Hay - Martin Jacobs as Iain Blair
- Lucy BellLucy BellLucy Bell is a British-born Australian television and film actress. Her partner is James O'Loghlin and they have three daughters.- Television :...
as Tess Jardine - Adrian Mulraney as Simon Cato
- George Whaley as Tim Royce
- Don HanyDon HanyDon Hany is an Australian award-winning actor. He is best known for his role in the series White Collar Blue, the film Lucky Miles and in the mini-series East West 101.-Biography:...
as Dion Pesci
See also
- List of Australian television series
- List of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programs