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TOMMY MURPHY (1979 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Cameron Creswell Agency |
Tommy Murphy was born in 1979 in Queanbeyan, the seventh of eight children. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Director's course) and the University of Sydney where he was president of Sydney University Dramatic Society. He was winner of the Sydney Theatre Company Young Playwrights' Award and the ACT Young Writers' Award for his first play, For God, Queen and Country. His second play Troy's House has been performed in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Strangers in Between and Holding the Man were commissioned, developed and premiered by the Griffin Theatre Company where Tommy was in residence. Strangers in Between won the 2006 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Best Play.
Plays by Tommy Murphy
360 Positions In A One Night Stand | ||
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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 | #51289 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Nick Marchand, Ben Ellis, Victoria Gleeson, Tommy Murphy And Emma Vuletic | |||||
Synopsis: | One election, two actors, five writers, ten characters and 360 positions. A play about love and sexual politics | |||||
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Bendy | ||
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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 | #51348 | |||
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Genre: | 80 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | variable, up to 43 roles | |||||
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Synopsis: | Can we bend our world? Students have a historical obligation to participate in the dawning of social change but sometimes they can't even manage the washing up. Bendy captures the voice of a generation struggling in a world that prioritises money over thought. It's about a trippy time of life when you can get off your head with history's great thinkers or fly out the window of a dirty terrace hand in hand, with a friend, float across the city and bang on the windows of big business. It might be a time of life when you can change the world. | |||||
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Blood Wedding | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northampton: Royal &Amp; Derngate Theatres, Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP >>> | 25 May 2012 | ||||
Company: | 2012 Made in Northampton Season | |||||
| 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 | #134884 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. With The Bacchae and Hedda Gabler, Blood Wedding forms part of 2012's unique trilogy of plays, Festival of Chaos. A two month celebration in Northampton, the Festival explores the contemporary relevance of the god Dionysus. | |||||
Synopsis: | As the god of dance, ecstasy and chaos, Dionysus is a symbol of the raw, primal urges that are often in conflict with civilising forces of order and control. Festival Of Chaos explores the forgotten power of Dionysus, and invites him back to tear apart the comfort and conventions of our material world. Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding is a poetic tragedy of thwarted love which sees two young people on the eve of their ill-fated wedding day. With Dionysus lurking in the shadows and a history of bloodshed pulsing through the veins of their tiny, rural community, the wedding party disintegrates, re-igniting the flames of a family feud. | |||||
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For God Queen and Country | ||
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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 | #70488 | |||
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Gwen in Purgatory | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre, Sydney | 04 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Company B Belvoir and la Boite Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-894-1 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122322 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | winner of the 2010 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Drama Script category | |||||
| Gwen is 90. She woke up this morning to discover that purgatory is sitting alone in a new house in a new subdivision on the edge of town, trying to work out if the remote in her hand operates the TV, the air-con or the fanforced oven. But the kids are coming round and Father Ezekiel is on his way to bless the house, so the beginning of the end is looking up. . . Written specially for Company B, Gwen in Purgatory is Tommy Murphys brilliant existential comedy about an African missionary in the wilderness of Australian suburbia. Gwens brood of ordinary souls is battling along in a changing world and wringing out the last drops of their matriarchs faith. Between them they may just find their way to some sort of forgiveness. | |||||
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Holding The Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, AUS | 09 Nov 2006 | ||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421080 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55542 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from Timothy Conigrave's classic memoir | |||||
| Tim Conigrave was an actor and NIDA graduate and his moving memoir Holding the Man has theatre in its veins. It is also one of our greatest stories of love and loss, and won the 1995 UN Human Rights Award for Non-fiction. This story is a breathtakingly honest, achingly funny and completely heart-wrenching account of a 15-year relationship that weathered disapproval, separation, temptation and, ultimately, death. Its a story, and a celebration, that speaks across generations, sexual preference and cultures. | |||||
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Precipice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Parade Playhouse, Sydney, AUS | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Cranbrook School | |||||
| 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 | #65168 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Parts other: | 18 drama students | |||||
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Synopsis: | Cranbrook School commissioned Tommy Murphy, to respond to stories and improvisations of 18 extraordinary drama students. Precipice is a vivid and comic celebration recalling the child in us all. Sitting on the edge, summoning our courage to jump. Precipice recalls feelings that stay with us throughout our lives. "I have never written a play before where I began with the actors. I have also never written a play for eighteen of them, " Tommy Murphy said. " We genuinely started with no preconceived ideas," he said. Director Robert Wickham said, " it is exciting theatre, the process began with the students and with Tommy they have shaped a wicked and entertaining play". Students contributed thoughts, ideas, stories and experiences and from this collection, called "the fodder file", Murphy has constructed a powerful narrative which captures the emotion and thoughts of the students. " Precipice is by no means an exclusively teenage domain - our thoughts as adults are shaped by the precipice of youth and these moments stay with us through our lives," Tommy Murphy said. | |||||
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Saturn's Return | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wharf 2 Theatre | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Sydney Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868198408 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87287 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| Saturn has returned, and a moment of doubt changes everything. The universe conspires against Matt and Zara, and Zara is jettisoned into orbit. Sex on drugs has become sordid, but the allure of the threesome is still tempting. The prospect of having children is no longer odious, but mortgages and responsibility remain objects of contempt. It's time for lock down. But who's playing? Shifting perspectives on identity and Tommy Murphy's trademark comic flair combine to create a lively theatre of insight and ingenuity. | |||||
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Strangers In Between | ||
| 1st Produced: | SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, AUS | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-796-8 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51349 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 doubling | |||||
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| This play follows the story of Shane as he arrives in Kings Cross, Sydney. He is a boy unsure of his sexuality and even more unsure how to find intimacy. He has been forced out of his family and yearns for another. An unlikely mother figure arises in John, a 50-year-pld single gay man. Small domestic events like running a bath become moments where respect and love are expressed between two men from different generations. A warm, insightful and generous comedy. Tommy Murphy was moved to write this play having encountered two brothers who haven't spoken to each other for three years. Tommy set out to explore the binds within family. No matter how deep the wound, can Shane erase his family? Is it possible to be born into the wrong family? The play also provides an opportunity to explore the relationships between four very different men. The dialogue captures Australian male voices, both urban and regional and both young and old, that are seldom portrayed with such truth and poetry | |||||
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Syphon | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Production 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 | #72626 | |||
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Notes: | The Production Company presents The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back!, a program of new works by Australian playwrights. The following description is from the show's press release: "Twelve acclaimed Australian playwrights create pieces based on their perceptions of the United States. The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back! includes new plays from some of Australia's most celebrated playwrights. The Production Company's work promotes and deepens cultural exchange between the United States and Australia and encourages artists to explore the relationship between the two countries." | |||||
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Troy's House | ||
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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 | #51347 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | variable up to 15 roles | |||||
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Synopsis: | The nation's capital forms the backdrop to this story about youthful romance, hope, responsibility and the time immediately after leaving school. The main interest in the writing process of Troy's House was to capture the specific language of teenagers from Canberra | |||||
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Try Hard | ||
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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 | #51346 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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