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MARGARET DAVIS |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Margaret Davis |
Isis Dreaming | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Performing Lines | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52351 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 80 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original music by Deborah Bookbinder. A very physical piece combining text and choreographed movement | |||||
Synopsis: | Re-telling of the myth of Isis and Osiris in a contemporary landscape - surreal, funny, sexy, and occasionally confrontational. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mad Before Midday | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
Company: | New Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52352 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of three sisters and their isolated upbringing during the First World War. More adept at building fantasies than confronting reality, their lives are shattered when they marry men irretrievably damaged by their war experiences. | |||||
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Monk, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | Two Planks and a Passion | |||||
| 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 | #21873 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 200 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Because of its length, this piece would work best performed in two parts | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of the notorious 1798 Gothic horror novel by Matthew Lewis - scurrilous happenings within Convent walls, doughty knights battle to rescue wronged heroines, the seduction of the spotless Monk by the Devil disguised as the Madonna | |||||
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Spilling Bodies | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Two Planks and a Passion | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52353 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A very physical work which needs performers skilled in movement. Although there were four performers in the original production it has been subsequently produced with 8 and 16. | |||||
Synopsis: | The intertwined stories of four characters who have survived terrible falls - both literal (a parachute that failed to open, an epileptic struggling for some balance in her life) and metaphorical (the man falling apart, the one fallen from grace -) | |||||
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Unspeakable Acts | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian National Playwrights Centre development program | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52354 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Zoë Jakubowicz is in Venice to launch her latest novel, which soon has the literary world buzzing. But in this watery city, nothing is ever truly as it seems - a confrontation with her past and a romantic entanglement in the present conspire to rock Zoë to the core of her being as a woman and a writer. | |||||
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Woman On The Twenty Dollar Note, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Ensemble Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52355 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Although written for two actors this play could be performed by a larger cast. | |||||
Synopsis: | The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey, transported to Australia for horse stealing at only 13. She rose to become the "first lady of trade" in colonial Sydney, taking great pains to disguise her convict background. | |||||
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Women Through The Windows, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Hyde Park Barracks Museum | |||||
| 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 | #21782 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned as a site-specific work by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, but could be adapted for in-theatre productions. | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the stories of Irish immigrant girls who were brought to Australia after they lost everything in the Famine | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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