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MELISSA REEVES |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown (Australia)Pty Ltd |
Melissa Reeves is a Melbourne playwright. Her plays include In Cahoots, Sweetown (winner of the 1993 Jill Blewitt Memorial Playwrights Award), Great Day, The Emperor's New Clothes, Storming Heaven, Road Movie and Salt Creek Murders (winner of the 2001 Wal Cherry Award). She has co-written a number of plays including The Girl I Love and Never Let Me Go (with Margaret Mills, Maude Davey and Nicki Redlich); Magpie (with Richard Frankland); Who's Afraid of the Working Class (winner of the 1999 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Drama, two AWGIEs, and the 1999 Jill Blewitt Playwright's Award); and Fever (with Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Christos Tsiolkas and composer Irine Vela).
Plays by Melissa Reeves
Dream Town | ||
| 1st Produced: | Flinders University Drama Centre | 2003 | ||||
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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 | #70156 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Emperor's New Clothes, The | ||
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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 | #130857 | |||
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Fever | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52713 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell | |||||
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Furious Matters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Beckett Theatre, the CUB Malthouse, Southbank, Melbourne | 24 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Malthouse Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868199139 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133396 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| In the heartland of rural Victoria, a backyard exorcism is about to commence. Else has always been a little different, even a little difficult, but when her husband seeks support from his local religious community, what he invites into their home will take the very shape of the unspeakable. Dashing cherished assumptions about guilt and free-will, innocence and redemption in a world of Christian religious values, Furious Mattress recasts events torn from tabloid headlines with Reeves signature wit and wisdom to remind us that most fundamentalists are far more familiar than the fanatics paraded before us in cautionary tales. | |||||
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Girl I Love, The | ||
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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 | #130858 | |||
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Notes: | written by Melissa Reeves, Margaret Mills, Maude Davey and Nicki Redlich | |||||
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Great Day | ||
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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 | #130859 | |||
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In Cahoots | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52714 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 40 mins comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Tonight is the annual Parents and Friends evening of the First Cardwell Street Brownies. But when the new District Commissioner arrives to inspect the Brownie Troupe, she's not expecting spray cans, a hip flask full of whisky and a mushroom that incorporates a short wave radio. | |||||
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Magie | ||
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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 | #130860 | |||
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Notes: | written by Richard Frankland and Melissa Reeves | |||||
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Never Let me Go | ||
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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 | #130861 | |||
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Notes: | written by Melissa Reeves, Margaret Mills, Maude Davey and Nicki Redlich | |||||
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Real World, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Australia | 16 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Choice Cuts national play festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125827 | |||
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Genre: | comedy 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Rachel is imprisoned in a tower. Her Dad, Frank, is a toweringly rich businessman and he's given her everything, including a private menagerie, mostly of monkeys, plus he's locked her in the tower. He now wants her married off and pays four short blokes, an ex-cop, an ex-jockey, an ex- TV host and an ex-footy player all previously publicly shamed to give it a go. They work together, then they don't, and somewhere in the middle is Rachel, Money, ambition, stupidity, deep sadness and animal cruelty collide in this bittersweet cautionary tale. | |||||
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Ridiculous Folly | ||
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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 | #124087 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Notes: | Originally performed as part of "All Of Which Are American Dreams" | |||||
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Road Movie | ||
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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 | #130862 | |||
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Salt Creek Murders | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52715 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 130 mins Tragi-comic thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jane Macmanamin starts work as a domestic at the Salt Creek Hotel, an isolated frontier outpost. The first thing she witnesses is an adulterous embrace between Nellie, her employer, and Malachi Martin, a yard-hand. A week later, Nellie's husband, John Robinson is murdered. Over the course of the play the lives of Nellie, Malachi and Jane become disturbingly intertwined, a triangular relationship of love, greed, fear and desire, leading remorselessly to a tragic conclusion. As the hotel deteriorates, and money is scarce, Malachi commits another murder in which Nellie may or may not be complicit, and Jane seems unable or unwilling to extricate herself from an increasingly perilous situation. SALT CREEK MURDERS is based on the true story of a series of murders committed in the 1850s in the Coorong in South Australia | |||||
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Spook, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868197685 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51804 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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| In 1965 there doesn't seem to be too much going on in the ranks of the South Bendigo Communist Party. Slow Tribune sales are causing consternation and the local Maoist's Chinese slide nights are a perpetual thorn in their side - even the presence of young recruit Martin Porter has done little to inject life into the weekly grind. While Martin's mum frets about his inexplicable abandonment of the church, short hair and the army reserve, George and Eli Tassekis welcome him into their family like a second son. But Martin is an ASIO spy and he's about to get his new friends into serious trouble. "The Spook" is based on a real story of a teenager who was recruited by ASIA to spy on a small rural branch of the Communist Party and and continued to do so for 22 years. | |||||
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Storming Heaven | ||
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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 | #130863 | |||
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Sweetown | ||
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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 | #133414 | |||
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Notes: | winner of the 1993 Jill Blewitt Memorial Playwrights Award | |||||
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Tough Girls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Deckchair Theatre, Adelaide | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109855 | |||
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Genre: | Musical theatre with dramatic / comic elements 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Music by Irene Vela; lyrics and book by Melissa Reeves | |||||
Synopsis: | Irene, a cop, is minding Ella, the wife of a crim suspected of killing a cop. Ella has turned state's evidence and gone into the witness protection program. Wanting revenge - or just wanting Ella back in the fold - is Vivian, her mother-in-law and grand dame of a notorious crime family. Just out of jail and sticking to Vivian like a barnacle to a rock is Lucy, a young heroin addict/petty criminal. The action takes place in a low-rent caravan park on the outskirts of the city. Tough Girls is a screw-ball musical comedy with rich but irreverent characterisation fast-paced, slightly farcical, but with an occasional glimpse of the real world of cops, crims, heroin addicts and prisons. | |||||
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Who's Afraid Of The Working Class | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Melborne Tales, Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29233 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | written with Andrew Bovell/Patricia Cornelius/Melissa Reeves/Christos Tsiolkas and Irene Vela. Part of Melborne Tales | |||||
| Melbourne at the end of the twentieth century. . . modern economic miracle or a society imploding with savage politics and despair? The characters in these plays have been crushed, frustrated, isolated, as well as battered by the grim consumerism of the 1990s. But they are survivors, resilient to the end. This collection presents a gritty portrayal of real life in an urban wasteland. | |||||
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