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SARA HARDY |
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Nationality: British/Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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SARA HARDY is a biographer and playwright. She was born in Devon, England and trained in drama and dance at Dartington College of Arts. Sara began her professional acting career with a conventional touring rep then worked with fringe theatre companies in London. It was while working with these groups that Sara developed as a playwright. Sara went to Australia in 1981 and after a variety of theatre projects in Sydney and Adelaide she moved to Melbourne where she acted with various theatre companies. Sara has gradually shifted her focus from acting to writing. Her plays have been produced in Britain, USA, Canada and Australia and some of her work has been published in anthologies and magazines. Sara is the author of two biographies: The unusual life of Edna Walling and Dame Joan Hammond - Love and Music, both published by Allen & Unwin.
Plays by Sara Hardy
Queer Fruit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Baltimore | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Baltimore Theatre Project, USA | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52436 | |||
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Genre: | 40 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | A One Act performance piece. Three intertwining monologues united by the Queer Fruit Chorus. Also performed by Vitalstatistix in Adelaide and Radclyffe Theatre productions Melbourne in 1998. An extract from Queer Fruit appears in 'Still More Monologues for Women By Women', Heinemann Books (USA), 2001. | |||||
Synopsis: | Queer Fruit shows three women from three different times and places in history. Each tells a story about her trials, triumphs and sexy encounters with another woman. Willa, the youngest, in the 21st century, has an outrageously sexy encounter playing with fountains, fruit and loose lips. Eddy, the oldest, in the 1970s, recounts her love life and a certain experience with buttoned up nighties during World War 2. Margaret, 40, in the early 19th-century, tells of the love life that got her transported as a convict to Australia and how a poached egg was the ruin of her. Emotive, witty and great fun. | |||||
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Radclyffe | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Mama, Melbourne, Australia (as 'Radclyffe, The Well of&', title shortened for subsequent productions). | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Radclyffe Theatre 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 | #93460 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Adele Saleem and Sara Hardy and adapted, with permission, from Adele Saleem's original play 'John'. | |||||
Synopsis: | A stylish and stylized account of the amusing, touching and courageous life of Radclyffe (call me John) Hall and her stunning partner in all things: Una, Lady Troubridge. Based on true events. | |||||
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Radclyffe and Una 'Live' from Heaven | ||
| 1st Produced: | Universal Theatre, Melbourne | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Radclyffe Theatre 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 | #105584 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Devised and performed by Sara Hardy and Lois Ellis. A follow up production in similar vein presented 'Radclyffe Hall Gaily Invites', 1999. | |||||
Synopsis: | A compilation celebrating Radclyffe and Una, Vita and Virginia, Gertrude and Alice, and other ruby fruit concoctions. | |||||
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She of the Electrolux | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Boite, Brisbane, Australia | 1995 | ||||
Company: | La Boite | |||||
| 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 | #105585 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | The radio adaptation was broadcast in 1996 by ABC Radio National (Australia) 1996. | |||||
Synopsis: | She of the Electrolux is about the Australian author and historian Marjorie Barnard and her relationship with fellow writers Flora Eldershaw and Frank Dalby Davison and the extraordinary artist Margaret Preston. Based on true events. Circa 1930s. | |||||
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Virtually Ethel | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15526 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 75 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | about the composer Ethel Smyth | |||||
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Vita! - a fantasy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Universal Theatre, Melbourne, Australia | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Radclyffe Theatre Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Penguin anthology: 'Heroines, a contemporary anthology of Australian women writers' (1991) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105586 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | There are two roles, Vita and Virginia, the actress playing Vita also plays Orlando who appears as a male and female in different periods in history. Inspired by Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando - a biography'. The Adelaide production won the Oscarts Award for Best New Play 1992. | |||||
Synopsis: | Vita! - a fantasy explores the relationship between the two famous authors Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. In Virginia's eyes Vita becomes the fantasy character 'Orlando' - who is boy, woman and man in different times in history. | |||||
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Who Knows? | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
Company: | Royal Court and Gay Sweatshop, UK | |||||
| 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 | #105583 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | written by Sara Hardy, Philip Timmins and Bruce Bailey. This play was commissioned by the Royal Court for its Season on Sexism for young people. It toured Britain with Gay Sweatshop theatre company (though was banned from schools). | |||||
Synopsis: | Who Knows? is about a group of teenagers dealing with the process of Coming Out to their family and peers. | |||||
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