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NICHOLAS CANNY (1951 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Nicholas Canny |
Holy Flypaper! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tweed Heads Civic Centre | Jul 2006 | ||||
Company: | Uncanny Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | australianplays.org | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74565 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | 1 anamatroid | |||||
Notes: | Performances were filmed, and in 2008, Flypaper! evolved into a 94 minutes telemovie | |||||
Synopsis: | Johnny Dobbin is a smug and troubled 13 year old boy who dreams of being ten years older so he can become a super hero and save the world. From watching a raucous ad on television, Johnny gets drawn to Barfinkle's Laboratory who are currently offering their customers an age alteration process, up or down. But in fear of Johnny's tough talking gangster father, brilliant but mad Barfinkle blasts Johnny and his age-altered girlfriend, Crystal Coo, off into outer space where they land on Sha Mup Sha Mup - the planet of old songs. In this barren and cosmologically doomed world, Johnny and Crystal are given a timely warning about how planet Earth's fate seems set to go the same way. | |||||
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Road to Victory, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Murwillumbah Civic Centre | Oct 2005 | ||||
Company: | Uncanny Productions | |||||
| 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 | #74566 | |||
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Genre: | Adult Comedy Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the desolate outback of Australia, things have been tough for Joe Newell at the run down Victory Hotel. His father and its popular publican, Mervyn, passed away recently. Then to make things worse, a new freeway recently bypassed the place, taking with it most of the walk in and/or drive through trade. Young Joe, his still grieving old Mum and what is left of their rather dysfunctional regulars, must come up with a way of saving this tiny community's only watering hole. All they need is a miracle really, with one arriving in the unlikely shape of a suicidal, alcoholic university professor on his way out to never-never land to blow his brains out in peace. | |||||
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Wizard of Woz | ||
| 1st Produced: | Murwillumbah Civic Centre | Apr 2005 | ||||
Company: | Wollumbin Ozone Productions | |||||
| 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 | #74567 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Phil Eizenberg | |||||
Synopsis: | Kimberley Clarke's little brother has run away from home and she believes it is all her fault. After being knocked unconscious in the struggle to keep him at home, the mysterious and mercurial Wizard of Wozzumlin Mountain appears to teenaged Kimberley in a subconscious vision. He tells her that, if she wants to get her brother back, she must undertake a difficult and dangerous trek to the top of his mountain herself. "There you will find your brother and yourself - on the other side of you". Kimberley takes up the challenge and on her action filled journey to the top encounters weird Aussie bush creatures like witty Wallaby the Wannabe, helpful Ma and Pa Possum, flirtatious Banksia Boy plus a trio of wicked teenaged Cane Toad Sisters from hell. | |||||
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