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TOBSHA LEARNER (1959 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Rick Raftos Management |
Tobsha Learner has written extensively for stage, television, radio and film. Among her plays are the highly acclaimed 'Glass Mermaid', 'Wolf', 'SNAG' and 'Seven Acts Of Love As Witnessed By A Cat'. In 1996 her first book 'Quiver' (Penguin), a collection of erotic tales, hit the bestseller list and was translated into German and French and published in the USA. Her first novel, 'Madonna Mars' (Penguin 1998) was also translated into German. Tobsha is currently completing her second novel, 'The Witch of Cologne'. The novel has been pre-sold to HarperCollins Publishers along with 'Tremble', a collection of sensual fables
Plays by Tobsha Learner
Angels | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52069 | |||
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Feast | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52070 | |||
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Genre: | 30 mins comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jacob, an emotionally disturbed teenager, comes late to the Passover service completely naked. He takes his place at the table in stunned silence and refuses to say anything. The rest of the family interpret his gesture in various ways - his father, a Polish failed hat designer thinks he's making a symbolic, artistic statement; his brother, a young Zionist, thinks he's making a political gesture; his grandfather thinks he's an idiot; his mother, a social worker, thinks its a reflection on her failing marriage and the Czech au pair girl reveals that she is pregnant to him. An absurdist family comedy. | |||||
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Fidelity | ||
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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 | #88114 | |||
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Genre: | 100 min naturalistic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jane, a 42 year-old investment banker, is married to Jonathan, a political theorist who has been financially dependent on his wife for years. Jane's sister Cathy is a journalist who is married to Musa, an unemployed Chechen poet. Cathy and Musa and their twin baby daughters are also financially dependent on Jane. On her 42nd birthday, Jane announces that she wants to retire and have a baby. But when a suspected pregnancy turns out to be early menopause, Jane slides into depression. Meanwhile Musa is trying to buy his brother's freedom from a Russian detention centre, and Jonathan starts his first affair. This suspenseful five-hander begins as a comedy then twists into a dark epic. | |||||
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Glass Mermaid, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0868193941 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20358 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sara expresses her grief in rituals as bizarre as her loved husbands' suicide. | |||||
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Gun In History, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Passion : six new short plays Australian women / edited by Ros Horin. Sydney : Currency Press, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868194233 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20359 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A gun passes through three generations. A study of the nexus between sex and violence. | |||||
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Les Enfants Du Paradis | ||
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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 | #88115 | |||
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Notes: | Based on the film by Jacques Prevert. | |||||
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Miracles | ||
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| 1st Published: | Sydney, NSW : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868195575 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20360 | |||
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Genre: | Urban fable 100 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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| Immaculata, an Italian/Australian cashier has been working in the same family supermarket for 15 years; illiterate with low self-esteem, Immaculata is deeply religious. One day, God speaks through her cash register, declaring Immaculata to be her local rep. God is female and Italian, something Immaculata's local priest doesn't appreciate. The owner of the supermarket, a shady character with a criminal record, starts to exploit Immaculata's 'miracles'. Soon she is arrested for fraud . . .. A contemporary saintly rites-of-passage comedy set in the working class suburb of Port Adelaide. | |||||
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Mistress | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1989 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #20361 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue/s 60 mins | |||||
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Seven Acts Of Love (As Witnessed By A Cat) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1995 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20362 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/satire 150 mins | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Elijah, an oversexed tomcat must learn to experience love before he can follow his owner to heaven. Over several decades, Elijah goes through a series of owners who are linked together by their occupation of the one room where the seven acts of love take place. The occupants include a dead atheist searching for heaven, a gay man seeking his ex-wife, and a funeral director, his wife, his mistress and his therapist. | |||||
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SNAG (Sensitive New Age Guy) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1992 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #20363 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue/s 70 mins | |||||
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Synopsis: | Lloyd, a 34-year-old advertising executive was happily married, until he caught his wife in bed with his twin sister. As Lloyd steps out into the condom clad world of singular living he discovers his whole concept of masculinity severely challenged. Dedicated to all those men who aren't afraid to hate quiche, S.N A.G., is a comedy for all the family especially those who wore flares the first time around. | |||||
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Tendril | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52557 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A portrait of two women, one living in 1915, one in 1985, both epileptic, both opposing their husband's political views. Both have lived, are living, in the same house. Then one takes a lover. . .. We see how the experiences of Bess of 1915 influence to shape the destiny of Elizabeth, as the two plots interweave and build towards a dramatic collision. | |||||
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Train To Transcience | ||
| 1st Produced: | Irene Mitchell Studio @ St. Martin'S Theatre, South Yarra, 25 August-11 September, 1993] With Saskia Post, Wayne Hope, Jules Hutchinson, Aidan Fennessy And Marie-Louise Walker. Three Shorts Works By Tobsha Learner, Ray Mooney, Julia Britton And Aiden Fenn | 1993 | ||||
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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 | #60573 | |||
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Notes: | Three Shorts Works By Tobsha Learner, Ray Mooney, Julia Britton And Aiden Fennesy | |||||
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Waters Of Pham Thi Lan, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52558 | |||
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Genre: | 40 mins comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A Balinese Raja who is impotent, an opium addict and distrusted by his own advisers, confronts an ambitious and sophisticated European diplomat. Sooled on by his hundred-year-old-aunt, the Raja ducks and weaves, trying for some way to preserve 'adat'; Balinese customsand world/cosmic view. The diplomat finds himself drawn to those very customs and the world view he must destroy, if he is to save the people. The ensuing conflict becomes a battle between concepts of the cosmos. In this battle, the diplomat works constantly to deflect the impatience of gunboat generals, while the Raja seeks guidance in stories of a monkey general who wins his battles by cunning, by trickery and by magic. | |||||
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Witchplay | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in One Small step, Currency Press Pty Ltd (August 1, 1995) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868194182 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20364 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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| Witchplay, a many-voiced monologue of black humour and stylistic agility. Batcha is a medium in search of the spirit of Narelle's mother, who has electrocuted herself with a hairdryer. Along the way she encounters a number of happy spirits eager to be heard | |||||
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Wolf : A Dedication To Priapus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1992 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868193359 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20365 | |||
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Genre: | Biographical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
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| Captures four decades of social change from boys first sexual encounter | |||||
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