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JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Sterling Standard LLC |
Joanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne based playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Her plays, which include Honour, Rapture, Bombshells, Nightfall, Redemption, Love Child and Flame, have been produced around the world. Honour has been produced in over two dozen countries, including productions on Broadway and at the National Theatre in London and most recently in the West End. Both Honour and Rapture won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Best Play. Most recently, Melbourne Theatre Company produced The Female of the Species. Joanna has also published three novels Truce, Judgement Rock and Sunnyside.
Plays by Joanna Murray-Smith
Atlanta | ||
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| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | 086-8192732 : | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25362 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Weaves together the subconscious world of dreams with that of everyday life, | |||||
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Bombshells | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fairfax Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne | Dec 2001 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London & Currency Press, Australia >>>, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-751-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41301 | |||
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Genre: | Monologues | |||||
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| Six monologues made famous by the diva Caroline O'Connor, exposing six women balancing their inner and outer lives with humour and often desperate cunning. They range in age from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow yearning for the unexpected. | |||||
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Female of the Species | ||
| 1st Produced: | Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne | - - - | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia & >>> Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-825-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84676 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970s Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work and numerous best-sellers followed. But now she has writer's block. Molly, an unannounced visitor and committed fan of Margot and her work, offers a potential solution - until Molly produces a gun and calmly informs Margot that she intends to kill her because she blames her for warping her mother's mind and ruining her life with her hit book The Cerebral Vagina. Joanna Murray-Smith's deliciously wicked comedy deftly walks the tightrope between satire and farce proving the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male. This latest gem from the pen of one of Australia's most outstanding playwrights was inspired by Germaine Greer's experience of being held captive in her country house in Essex in 2000 | |||||
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Flame | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Passion", Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-423-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25363 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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| A woman encounters her dead husband in this raw, intense and poetic play. | |||||
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Gift, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Summer Theatre, Melbourne | 02 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-915-3 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129016 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Sadie and Ed meet Martin and Chloe at a holiday resort and instantly hit it off, despite coming from completely different worlds. When Martin saves Ed's life, everyone knows the debt can never be properly repaid. But Ed is rich and Chloë and Martin have a need so great it seems divine providence when Ed, wanting to show his gratitude, gives the young couple a year to decide on an appropriate gift. Yet when the year is up, surely Chloe and Martin's wish is something no-one could possibly grant? Wrapped in Joanna Murray-Smith's glinting dialogue, The Gift is a witty examination of our modern moral confusions. | |||||
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Honour | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-782-1 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25364 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Gus and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist - on an assignment to 'profile' Gus - quite deliberately seeks to undermine that understanding. The fallout is dreadful - but beautifully and convincingly portrayed in all its painful consequences. . . | |||||
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Love Child | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-546-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25365 | |||
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Genre: | 75 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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| A reunion between disparate mother and daughter. | |||||
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Nightfall | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | London Classic Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-591-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #65180 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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| A middle-aged couple sit expectantly in their comfortable drawing-room, waiting for the doorbell to ring. In a few minutes, a young woman will arrive at their home. Emily and Edward Kingsley have dreamt of this moment for seven years. An opportunity to meet the child they lost and confront the secrets of a troubled past. As night falls, the truth waits patiently in the shadows. . . | |||||
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Ninety | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fairfax Theatre, Melbourne | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-851-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99052 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| It is no use, but William gives Isobel ninety minutes anyway. They were once married, but something happened. Something broke deep down in the mechanism of their lives together and, seeing no way to repair it, they threw it away. But perhaps they were too hasty. Perhaps there was something they could have done. Isabel just wants ninety minutes. Soon William will be married again, so ninety is all she has to make her case. Ninety to remember what they had. Ninety to regain what was lost. Just ninety to rediscover love or call it a day, forever. | |||||
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Rapture | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-679-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #65181 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| A vivid, timely new play that shines a revealing light on Australia's unsettled soul. The play is set among intelligent and educated people whose cynicism appears to answer all questions and who navigate uncertainty with ease. What could possibly shock or unsettle them? The answer is: faith. When two of their number claim to have found God, the consequences are profound. Ethics and certainties are tested on a battleground of inexplicable belief. Long-term friendships are pushed to the limit as the faithless wrestle with the affront of moral judgement. | |||||
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Redemption | ||
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| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University Melbourne, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 086-8195138 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25366 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Delves deep into the process of memory, individual perception and notions of personal and familial truths, | |||||
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Rockabye | ||
| 1st Produced: | MTC Theatre, Sumner, Melbourne | 08 Aug 2009 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-860-6 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99053 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Sidney can feel her career slipping down the plughole. No one loves a pop star when she's forty - not if she isn't Madonna or Kylie. So unless she wants to join the ranks of the has-beens on the casino circuit, she better get herself a hit. But what if she regains the whole world and still feels that something's missing? Baby hunger. Returning to the feisty mood of her hit The Female of the Species, Joanna Murray-Smith in Rockabye gives our self-involved, celebrity-obsessed culture a satirical duff-up. | |||||
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Scenes From A Marriage | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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 | #77804 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | based on the 1973 Ingmar Bergman film | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Songs For Nobodies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne | 10 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-893-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122318 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Parts other: | musicians | |||||
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| When a great singer lets her voice float out over the anonymous crowd, or form the grooves of thousands of records, or flow through radios into millions of homes across the world, she makes countless unknown connections with people. The singer has her story and the listener hers, and should those stories touch each other, there can be magic. | |||||
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