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NICK ENRIGHT (1950 - 2003) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: HLA Management Pty Ltd |
Nick Enright (19502003) trained for the theatre at New York University School of Arts after early experience in Australia including with Nimrod and MTC. He was an actor, director and teacher as well as a writer. His plays include On the Wallaby, Daylight Saving, St James Infirmary, Mongrels, A Property of the Clan, The Quartet from Rigoletto, Blackrock, Good Works, Spurboard and A Man with Five Children. With Justin Monjo he adapted Tim Winton's Cloudstreet for the stage. He has also written for film and television, including co-writing with George Miller the screenplay for Lorenzo's Oil which was nominated for an Oscar. He has written a number of musicals including The Venetian Twins and Summer Rain with composer Terence Clarke. He wrote the book for the Australian production of The Boy From Oz. Among many awards were two Green Room Awards for Best Play, and four Gold AWGIE Awards, the 1998 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award and the NSW Premiers' Special Award. As well as being a prolific writer, Nick was a noted acting teacher, particularly at NIDA and WAAPA.
Plays by Nick Enright
Betrothed, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mount Lawley Theatre, Perth, Australia | 15 Jun 1993 | ||||
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 | #63011 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written with Ron Blair; music by David King. Based on "I Promissi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blackrock | ||
| 1st Produced: | STC's Wharf 1 Theatre | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Sydney Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868194776 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11032 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | 9 cast version available | |||||
Notes: | Revised version of Property of the Clan | |||||
| One night on Blackrock Beach, an unspeakable act is perpetrated. This powerful play raises disturbing but potent questions about the way we live our lives in the 90s. What impact does the media have on our perceptions and behaviour? What effect does peer group pressure and the decay of family relationships have on today's teenagers? For the community of Blackrock - especially its youth - it's time to start looking for the answers. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bobbin Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | NIDA Theatre, Sydney | - - - | ||||
Company: | National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney | |||||
| 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 | #11033 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Based on the novel by Dorothy Hewett publ 1959 | |||||
Synopsis: | It is the late 1950s and the Russians launch the first Sputnik. A group of women sweat in the Jumbuck Woollen Mills in Sydney for breadline wages. The whistle blows - grime is washed from faces, hair combed, lipstick applied- and the workers emerge, women again, leaving the factory behind them. Out into the evening streets, flashing neon lights and the journey home to family and lovers. Among them are Shirl, nineteen and four months pregnant; Dawnie, beautiful and fiercely chaste; Patty, singing in the dance halls; and Nell, an active Communist Party member. These women have their own dreams; but a common spirit binds them, and with Nell as their leader they will come together for the fight which lies ahead. . .. | |||||
Further Reference: | Script in Rodney Seaborn Library, NIDA, | |||||
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Boy From Oz (Original Version) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney | 1998 | ||||
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: | 7243-495660-26 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56028 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Peter Allen | |||||
| Life of singer/songwriter Peter Allen | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Carnival Of The Animals | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ABC Publications, Sydney, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11034 | |||
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Genre: | Poems | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music Saint-Saens | |||||
Synopsis: | Poems for an Australian audience, to accompany The Carnival of the Animals; a similar idea to Noel Coward's | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cloudstreet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Berth 9, Darling Harbour, Sydney | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Company B Belvoir and Black Swan Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868195896 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11035 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Adapted by Nick Enright & Justin Monjo from the novel by Tim Winton | |||||
| A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton's enormously successful novel of the same name. A huge success at the 1998 Sydney & Perth festivals, the story follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth. Both the novel and stage adaptation have proven to be major works and have each left an indelible mark on the Australian arts scene. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Daylight Saving | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Theatre, Sydney | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868192659 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11036 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Felicity and Tom both have busy lives and demanding careers. Tom is travelling with his petulant protege Jason, the international tennis star, when Felicity receives a surprise call from an American boyfriend from her past. As she plans a candle-lit reunion dinner her highly stressed neighbour drops in . . . and so does her mother. The confusion becomes complete as each of them become involved in Felicity's evening. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Don Juan | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | 086-8190942 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11037 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | Usual story of nobleman parted from his riches | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Electra | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1978 | ||||
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 | #11038 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Sophocles; Written in collaboration with Frank Hauser | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fatal Johnny | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1982 | ||||
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 | #11039 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Female Factory, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Western Sydney | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Nepean | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52388 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 120 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Variable cast 10-15; Cast age 16 to 18, 18+ | |||||
Notes: | a reworking of First Class Women directed by Terence Clarke | |||||
Synopsis: | A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the convictions of all | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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First Class Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre, Sydney | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Script, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11040 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 1c | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Good Ship Venus, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1980 | ||||
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 | #11041 | |||
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Genre: | Stage play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | |||||
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Good Works | ||
| 1st Produced: | Premiere Q Theatre, Sydney | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868194332 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11042 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling poss | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Provides us with a window into the lives of two Irish Catholic families, the Donovans and the Kennedys. Spanning several decades and three generations, this compelling story exposes some of the darker moments that colour many of our family histories. It is a play of remarkable insight, clarity and emotion that has earned a place of considerable importance in the national repertoire. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harper's Hill | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #128820 | |||
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Genre: | play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | There is an unpublished and unproduced play by Nick called Harper's Hill, which, for money, is the best play he wrote. I fancy that copy lies in the Eunice Hanger collection in Brisbane; certainly, the agent for his estate, HLA Management, would have one. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life? | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1972 | ||||
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 | #11043 | |||
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Genre: | entertainment two acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | re How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life. I seriously doubt that Nick, who would have been 22 at the time (1972) and, as far as I know, was not associated with The Old Tote Theatre Company, which produced it. Prof Adrian Kiernander (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=D4sJXr9fMkgC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=How+Could+You+Believe+Me+When+I+Said+I'd+Be+Your+Valet+When+You+Know+I've+Been+a+Liar+All+My+Life&source=bl&ots=ypBuAjhdfm&sig=ap0e0D0TETSuQ6amhpVsJK1XN20&hl=en&ei=IpHtTcu1BtHHrQe2r6CHBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=How%20Could%20You%20Believe%20Me%20When%20I%20Said%20I'd%20Be%20Your%20Valet%20When%20You%20Know%20I've%20Been%20a%20Liar%20All%20My%20Life&f=false) says that it was 'devised and directed' by John Bell. I have, however, found an attribution to Nick by Googling. Hmmm.re How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life. I seriously doubt that Nick, who would have been 22 at the time (1972) and, as far as I know, was not associated with The Old Tote Theatre Company, which produced it. Prof Adrian Kiernander (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=D4sJXr9fMkgC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=How+Could+You+Believe+Me+When+I+Said+I'd+Be+Your+Valet+When+You+Know+I've+Been+a+Liar+All+My+Life&source=bl&ots=ypBuAjhdfm&sig=ap0e0D0TETSuQ6amhpVsJK1XN20&hl=en&ei=IpHtTcu1BtHHrQe2r6CHBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=How%20Could%20You%20Believe%20Me%20When%20I%20Said%20I'd%20Be%20Your%20Valet%20When%20You%20Know%20I've%20Been%20a%20Liar%20All%20My%20Life&f=false) says that it was 'devised and directed' by John Bell. I have, however, found an attribution to Nick by Googling. Hmmm. | |||||
Synopsis: | freely based on 'A servant of two masters' by Carlo Goldoni | |||||
Further Reference: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | |||||
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King Stag | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1980 | ||||
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 | #11045 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carlo Gozzi | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man with Five Children | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Theatre Company | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868196916 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11046 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play takes place over twenty-eight years in two locations: in Australia during the last quarter of the twentieth century, and in the mind of the film-maker. Nominated, Best New Australian Work Award, 2002 Helpmann Awards | |||||
| In the early 1970s Gerry, a young film-maker, begins to track the lives of five young Australians. All he asks of them is a day out of each year of their lives, a day when he will follow them with a camera, charting their growth and development by interviewing and observing them. But as the years roll on, and the annual instalment of Five Children becomes a national chronicle, their lives becomes his. Are they his subjects or his children? Or his creations? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marriage of Figaro, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1983 | ||||
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 | #11047 | |||
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Genre: | 5 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | or 5F, 7M. | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Beaumarchais | |||||
Synopsis: | This celebrated and humane comedy by Beaumarchais takes place on one mad day when the valet Figaro keeps trying to marry the maid Suzanne despite all obstacles. This is one of the great plays of the 18th Century and of course the basis for Mozart's opera. This translation was commissioned and first performed by Lighthouse for The State Theatre Company of South Australia in 1984. | |||||
Further Reference: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | |||||
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Mary Bryant | ||
| 1st Produced: | TheatreWorks, Melbourne | 21 Nov 1996 | ||||
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: | mb-001 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113441 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by David King; lyrics and book by Nick Enright | |||||
| Mary Brand is sentenced to seven years deportation to a penal colony in Australia. On the journey there she meets and marries fellow convict Will Bryant. They escape from the penal colony with their child and seven other prisoners. They steal a boat and sail to Timor where they are recaptured and sent to England for trial. Will and the child die. Mary is defended by James Boswell | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Miracle City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wharf Theatre, Sydney | 1996 | ||||
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 | #108459 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Nick Enright and Max Lambert | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mongrels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Theatre, Sydney | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868193632 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11048 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Burke is an ex-con. O'Hara is an invalid. Both are mongrels, and both are writers. United by their tenacity as well as by their relationship with the powerful Elaine, they make an uneasy bond, a bond forged out of rivalry, affection and suspicion. Mongrels is a highly adult play, brutal and comic by turns, a study of love, ambition and human capacity for survival, set in the ferment of the Australian theatre in the 1970s. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Music Is | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1981 | ||||
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 | #11049 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oh What A Lovely War, Mate! | ||
| 1st Produced: | the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Adelaide | 1979 | ||||
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 | #11050 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | play Joan Littlewood | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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On The Wallaby | ||
| 1st Produced: | the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Adelaide | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868190608 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11051 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Play Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | The phrase 'on the wallaby' means tramping, e g during the Depression | |||||
| A musical play which traces through the Depression of the lives of a Port Adelaide family. The misfortunes of the O'Briens are seen in the light of the strategies and manipulations of the politicians of the time; while at another level the author presents us with the death of musical hall theatre and the arrival of radio entertainment. | |||||
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Playgrounds | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Theatre Company | 1996 | ||||
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 | #11052 | |||
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Genre: | Two 1 Act Plays One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | The two plays can be done separately. | |||||
Synopsis: | Memories light the corners of my mind& Two linked plays about growing up in the outer western suburbs of Sydney. The first, THE WAY I WAS, looks at adolescence and the confusion of young love. The companion piece, WHERE ARE WE NOW? jumps twenty years to Warwick the successful TV host returning to his roots in supposed triumph, but it becomes a night of emotional reunion with the past. | |||||
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Poor Student | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney | 2001 | ||||
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 | #39079 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The play was the last production of the theatre company | |||||
Synopsis: | Five years ago, Haddon Grey was an actor at the zenith of his profession. Now, disabled by a stroke, and too proud to be seen by his friends, colleagues or public, on or off the stage, he lives alone and perhaps in penury, a long way from the city which once acclaimed him. But Thelma Cayley has her own reasons to be concerned for Haddon's welfare. She hires Jez, a young and inexpert actor, to present himself to the reclusive older man as a potential student. But the lessons on offer are lessons in life; the young student becomes a witness and then a participant in the relationship of two complex and vulnerable people. And in the end, the lessons are not only for the young. | |||||
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Property Of The Clan, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle, New South Wales | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Freewheels Theatre in Education | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868193601 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39080 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling poss | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by Freewheels Theatre In Education Company in Newcastle, and first performed in 1992. | |||||
| I never even knew her! More than to say hello to. What do you want me to do? Bawl my eyes out like all the girls? What do you want me to say? I'm sorry? Course I'm sorry. What happened to her shouldn't happen to a dog. What else? What else do you want to hear? What you felt. What you're feeling." | |||||
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Quartet from Rigoletto | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Ensemble Theatre (Sydney) | 1995 | ||||
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 | #39081 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling poss | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Rigoletto, its staff of four and some of its clientele, a multi-cultural, multi-purpose, multi neurotic bunch, are united in their need for company. And caffeine. 'The Quartet from Rigoletto' is dedicated to the proposition that the greatest gift in life may be the ability to make the perfect short black. Nick Enright comments "I spend a lot of my life in cafe society . . . I go there for the coffee, the food, the back numbers of magazines I wouldn't be caught dead buying and, of course, the people. The passers by. The staff: cheerful, abstracted, suicidal, brisk, vengeful, what will it be today? The customers: lost souls like myself who come to work on that novel, comb the classifieds, deconstruct that movie, reconstruct that relationship, kill that hour, plan that life.." A light, breezy romantic comedy. | |||||
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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 | #39083 | |||
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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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Snow Queen (libretto) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1985 | ||||
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 | #39084 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music Graham Dudley, story Anderson | |||||
Synopsis: | One act opera in based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson. | |||||
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Spurboard | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Australian Theatre for Young People | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868196435 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39085 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | doubling poss | |||||
Notes: | This play was commissioned by Australian Theatre For Young People, and has since been produced by drama schools and community youth theatres. It can be performed by a large ensemble cast in a number of combinations. | |||||
| A spurboard is a solid wooden structure on which bareback riders train; it can train muscles and judgment, but it doesn't buck like a real bronc. Four young people in a rural town in western NSW mount the spurboard as they face the end of school and challenge of choosing a path in life. For Mitchell, high school dropout and skilled rider, it's the thrills and spills of the weekend rodeo circuit; for his high-achieving brother Greg, it's the night sky seen through his grandfather's telescope. For Mitchell's girlfriend Amy, it's a job in her mother's beauty salon as she commits herself to Mitchell for better or worse; for Amy's best friend Karen, it's flight from an abusive and uncaring family to the Police Academy and a rookie posting in the Big Smoke. | |||||
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St James Infirmary | ||
| 1st Produced: | Q Theatre, Penrith NSW | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868193441 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39086 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by, and first produced by, NIDA in 1990 under the title St James Infirmary Blues; first professional (i e non-student) production Q Theatre, Penrith NSW, in 1992 | |||||
| In a Catholic boys' boarding school during the Vietnam war a gifted young artist makes a stand against Australia's involvement in the conflict. His fall from grace divides the school and the people closest to him, particularly the young matron of the school infirmary. | |||||
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Summer Rain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Sydney Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868195636 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39087 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | six musicians | |||||
Notes: | a musical by Nick Enright and Terence Clarke. Commissioned by, and first produced by, NIDA in 1983 in the Parade Theatre, Sydney | |||||
| the proprietor of the only pub in town emerges: 'We got no rooms.' The troupe is about to leave when the clouds open, ending a long drought, flooding the creek, and closing the bridge. Town and Troupe are stuck with each other. The Troupe has no money, so they suggest putting on a show in the School of Arts. The past is faced, reconciliation follows. | |||||
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Variations | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nimrod Theatre | 1982 | ||||
Company: | Nimrod Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #51291 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | including a teenage couple (boy must be accomplished banjo player), and a Senior couple (violinist and cellist, but can be faked). | |||||
Notes: | written by Nick Enright and Terence Clarke. Best Drama, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 1983 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Venetian Twins | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre | 1979 | ||||
Company: | Nimrod Theatre Company for the Sydney Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868194745 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39090 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Five musicians | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni. Book and lyrics by Nick Enright, music by Terence Clarke | |||||
| This musical romp is based on Carlo Goldoni's celebrated comedy of mistaken identity: twin brothers let loose on one mad day in Eighteenth Century Verona. The double central role is a gift to a bright young comedian. One of the female roles requires a good coloratura soprano. | |||||
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Voyage Of Mary Bryant, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | WAAPA | - - - | ||||
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 | #58679 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | I know Nick Enright wrote a musical version of "The Voyage of Mary Bryant". The musical was written with the help of Musical Theatre students of WAAPA around 1996-97. I was a lighting student involved with the production at the time. You would have to go to WAAPA archives to get more info on the production which was in The Studio now known as the Nick Enright Theatre. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Women of Troy | ||
| 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 | #39091 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | chorus of women, doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | This version of the play was commissioned and broadcast by ABC. | |||||
Synopsis: | Euripides' Tragedy is a frightening parable of the after-math of war: Hecuba, dethroned queen of defeated Troy, must see her city burned, her family humiliated, as she and her women wait to be lead into exile. | |||||
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