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PATRICK WHITE (1912 - 1990) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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born May 28, 1912, London; died 30 Sep 1990 Sydney. Australian novelist, short story writer, and playwright, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. White's international breakthrough novel was VOSS (1957), a symbolic story of a doomed journey into the Australian desert. RIDERS IN THE CHARIOT (1961) was set in the imaginary Sydney suburban town, Sarsaparilla, White's Yoknapatawpha. These works established him as one of the most important modern writers. In his own country White had to wait a long time before his unadorning picture of the Australian middle class was accepted.
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Plays by Patrick White
Big Toys | ||
| 1st Produced: | Parade Theatre, Sydney | 27 July 1977 | ||||
Company: | Old Tote Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-86819-019-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36954 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| mannered rituals are a cover for social and political exploitation and personal corruption | |||||
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Bread and Butter Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bryant's Playhouse, Sydney | 1935 | ||||
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 | #36955 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Cheery Soul, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Union Theatre Repertory Company, Melbourne | 19 Nov 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | A Cheery Soul - A Long Story. (The London Magazine. Volume 2, No 6, September 1962) | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-86819-124-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36956 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 18 | ||
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Notes: | from own story | |||||
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Ham Funeral, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia | 15 Nov 1961 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36957 | |||
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Genre: | Tragical farce Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | originally written 1947 | |||||
Synopsis: | deals with the inability of a sensitive and self-conscious Young man with aspirations as a poet to engage meaningfully with life. | |||||
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Netherwood | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia | 11 Jun 1983 | ||||
Company: | Lighthouse, State Theatre Company of South Australia | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868190716 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36958 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Night on Bald Mountain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia | 09 Mar 1964 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-86819-124-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36959 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Return To Abyssinia | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1947 | ||||
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 | #36960 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | scheduled for production in London in 1939 but the War intervened. | |||||
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School For Friends, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bryant's Playhouse, Sydney | 1937 | ||||
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 | #36961 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Season At Sarsaparilla, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia | 14 Sep 1962 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-86819-124-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36962 | |||
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Genre: | Charade Of Suburbia | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
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| offers a eulogy to what in the 1950s had been damned as the greatest obstacle to an Australian culture - the inarticulate Australian voice. | |||||
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Shepherd On the Rocks | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia | 09 May 1987 | ||||
Company: | State Theatre Company of South Australia | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Collected plays vol 2, Currency Press, Sydney, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868193052 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36963 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
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Signal Driver: A Morality Play For the Times | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia | 05 Mar 1982 | ||||
Company: | Lighthouse Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868190686 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36964 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A wry allegory of Australia and how it missed the boat | |||||
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