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LAMDA MacOwan Theatre, London

2002

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Sitos ISBN 90-72162-35-5

2003

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Notes: commissioned by Sitos and LAMDA and developed by Hare's Breadth (my own company). It subsequently toured Holland, Belgium and Northern Germany between 7th January and 27th March 2003. An early draft was published by Sitos ISBN 90-72162-35-5 to tie in with the tour, however in the process of development and rehearsal many changes were made. Nicki Stoddart at PFD  represents interests in Daemons

Synopsis: The excesses of the previous summer are over. Byron has gone on to Venice. Geneva with its lake and mountains are but a distant memory. Or would be except that Mary Shelley, under the guidance of her husband is in the process of bringing her first novel to fruition and Claire Clairemont, her step-sister, is pregnant with Byron's child. To protect Claire from gossip and provide quiet for Mary, Shelley takes a house in Marlow. As Mary corrects her proofs, the Frankenstein story comes alive but with unexpected consequences and something that has long lain dormant comes back to haunt her. Meanwhile Claire has given birth and Shelley struggles to keep an uneasy peace between them all - Daemons - After Frankenstein weaves these strands together to create a complex exploration of love and creativity.

the Bondi Pavilion Theatre, Sydney

1992

Warehouse Theatre Company

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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

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Synopsis: In 1892 a group of workers disillusioned by the growing influence of the Old World of Europe on the New World of Australia and fired by the messianic leadership of a young socialist journalist called Billy Lane form the New Australia Co-operative Association. Obtaining a gift of a tract of land from government of Paraguay they decide to sail to Montevideo in South America and then take a steamer to travel the 1200 miles up river to Paraguay where they intend to form a utopian colony based on socialist principles. The tensions within the group that have been ignored in the period prior to the departure from Australia start to play out once the group arrives in Paraguay and pioneering hope and optimism flounders under the practical experience of attempting to live in an alien environment.

Warehouse, Croydon, London >>>

2007

Hare's Breadth

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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

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Synopsis: It is the story of Lottie, a woman living in self-imposed limbo in a dull flat in Hastings. She holds down ajob and watches trashy TV, but troubles life for no more than that. Then, when her brother Phillip bursts in on her numb idyll, asking why she hasn't contacted her family in nearly a decade, she is too traumatised, at first, to even admit who she is.
- John Bashford