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RON BLAIR (1942 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: HLA Management Pty Ltd |
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Plays by Ron Blair |
Alive in Dinner Suits | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3486 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This stage play is set in a radio drama studio in 1950 and deals with the activities of the staff of a radio drama department. Initially we seem to be watching these executives acting in a radio play, the play of their own office lives in front of us. In this way the two chief components of making radio drama - the office politics and the actual recording in the studio become one. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Biggles | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nimrod Street Theatre, Sydney | 01 Dec 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113429 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Michael Boddy, Ron Blair and Marcus Cooney | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Christian Brothers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays of the 70s Vol 3, Sydney : Currency Press, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 086-8195995 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3487 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A moving dramatic monologue in which a teaching brother grapples with personal anguish and a sense of time departed while trying to hold the attention of a class of unwilling students. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flash Jim (Vaux) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nimrod Theatre | 1972 | ||||
Company: | Nimrod Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Montmorency, Vic. : Yackandandah Playscripts, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39054 | |||
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Genre: | Ballad Opera, 2 Acts Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | pianist; doubling | |||||
Notes: | book and lyrics, Ron Blair; music by Terence Clarke | |||||
Synopsis: | A ballad opera about a convict who was transported three times to NSW. A boisterous and touching portrait of a Regency dandy turned lag. The play is in the form of a ballad opera, tracing, (rather loosely) the life of James Hardy Vaux during the period 1807 to the 1840s. James was a quick-witted, notorious pick pocket and swindler who led a remakable full life while travelling back and forth across the globe (all expenses paid). His life crossed paths with many rich and varied characters, some of whom influenced his life, some of whose life he influenced. Either way these are the people who made our country's history. Share their celebration and take heed of their message: Breath deep friends - while you can! | |||||
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House is Built | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39055 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | doubling poss | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by NIDA 1993 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Day In Woolloomooloo | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Alternative Publishing Co-operative in association with Nimrod Theatre Press, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39056 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A rich, savoury comedy very much in the Irish and Sean O'Casey tradition and set in a Sydney boarding house under threat of sale, the play is woven all around a central concern for ordinary people and their lives. Funny, and a sad allegory, and a splendid piece of theatre. | |||||
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Marx | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39057 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A dramatic analysis which illuminates the development of Marx's political philosophy during his early poverty-stricken days in London's Soho. Blair explores at the same time Marx's relationships with his wife and family, their maid and with fellow intellectuals. This hero is a young family man on the verge of his great undertaking; a passionate intellectual trapped in a London slum, ruthlessly holding to his vision of a world with out privilege while around him 'children die like flies at summer's end'. In this compelling portrait of the architect of Communism, he argues that dedication to principle, even in the face of personal tragedy, is what distinguishes the great man from the good one. | |||||
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Miserable and Lonely Death, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse, Covent Garden, London | 05 Feb 1978 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132197 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | RSC ref MIN197802 | |||||
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Perfect Strangers | ||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39058 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | After a long marriage, they separate in a comic and acrimonious dispute over who owns what books. | |||||
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Place In The Present | ||
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| 1st Published: | Popular short plays for the Australian stage / selected and introduced by Ron Blair, Vol 1, Sydney : Currency Press, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | 086-8191051 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3488 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A headmistress at a private school awaits her daughter's arrival on a railway platform. She is joined by a professional magician and a wino and finds herself caught by memory and desire. | |||||
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Political Bordello, The; or, How The Waiters Got The Vote | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54375 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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President Wilson in Paris | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3489 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | This play opens with Edith and Woodrow Wilson in their Paris apartment in 1918. But all is not as it seems. A thriller about the power fantasies and homicidal games of a strange couple on Sydney's North Shore. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Servant Of Two Masters, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia | 29 Sep 1978 | ||||
Company: | State Theatre Company of SA | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-881-1 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116381 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Nick Enright and Ron Blair | |||||
| Truffaldino couldn't be happier with his change of circumstance balancing two jobs and earning double the wage. But his masters' turn out to be separated lovers on the run staying at the same inn. With one disguised as a man, the wily Truffaldino tries to handle the chaos. Hoop-la and hilarity take hold in this comedy of love gone wrong and mistaken identity in romantic Venice. | |||||
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