RICHARD BARRETT
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Richard Barrett
Heartbreak Kid |
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1988 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: When Christine Papadopolous, a young Greek Australian takes up her first teaching position she looks forward to sharing with her students their experiences of growing up with an immigrant background. But her growing affection for one student in particular, Nicci, throws her into turmoil. | ||||
Vital Signs |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||
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Synopsis: Christopher's finally getting his life together. He's got a new lover, tender, handsome James; he's even pursuing his dream of going into business, abandoning a secure teaching job, when his old lover, Henry, turns up in town with the tell-tale signs of full-blown AIDS. Henry's hoping to take advantage of the new treatments, but there's a possibility that he'll be resistant to the combination of new and old drugs now available. Henry's need for support and hopes of repairing his relationship challenge Christopher to deal with the past, and incorporate it into his pursuit of the future. | ||||
Words of One Syllable |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Frank, approaching death, talks for the last time to his son. They try to surmount the obstacles of sexuality, education, even class, that separate them Robert and his mother, Kath, are now confronted with the need to invent lives of their own, away from the shadow of Frank. | ||||