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Vitalstatistix Theatre Co, Adelaide

2002

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2004

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Drama with songs

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Notes: Composer: Phillip Johnston. Winner of an AWGIE for Music Theatre. Also suitable for young adult audiences. Would work well performed by puppets

Synopsis: A highly theatrical play with songs, set in 17th century Amsterdam. Dr. Ruysch is a renowned anatomist who, assisted by his daughter, creates a cabinet of wonders from body parts. But overwhelmed by the wonders of science, he overlooks the wonders of his own child. Phillip Johnston's baroque-inspired, carnivalesque score is the ideal complement for the play.

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Notes: co author

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Juliard School

1998

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Comedy

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2

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Synopsis: Feeling sorry for their widowed mum, her kids buy her a cat. This seductive feline not only succeeds in easing her sorrow, but in helping her discover that she's still an attractive woman - to the horror of the kids.

Sydney

1994

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Opera libretti

Opera

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Notes: music by Douglas Stephen Rae

Synopsis:

Sydney

1988

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1988

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70 mins

One Act

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1996

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Melbourne

1994

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Tetralogy

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Notes: Four short plays, which can be performed individually or as one evening. Styles and length vary; two of them are musical. Composer: Judith Sainte Croix. Wreckage; The Bog Queen; Orilla Del Mundo; Tom and Eva

Synopsis: Wreckage: On a tempestuous night in 1857, after months at sea, a ship misjudges the entrance to Port Jackson and is decimated against the cliffs. Next morning, three people pick over the debris for signs of their loved ones, valuable loot, or an explanation. Then they discover a man tied to a plank, the only survivor. The Bog Queen: A fairy tale in verse, with songs. A couple inherit a worthless bog. They exhume the thousand-year-old body of a woman, who clings to them, enslaving them and tricking them out of the one thing they love. Orilla Del Mundo: A short baroque fantasy, charting the voyage of an anti-heroine conquistadora and her encounters with pirates, sea monsters, mermen, singing figureheads, and transsexual sailors in her determination to discover whatever lies beyond the edge of the world. Tom And Eva: A ghostly love story.

Griffin Theatre Co, Sydney

2000

Griffin Theatre Company

2001

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Comic drama with songs

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Notes: Composer: Phillip Johnston. Winner of the Bug'n'Bub Award

Synopsis: Sydney, 1895. Meet three Great Liars: Alberta the polygamist; Jack and his plans to hoodwink the world with an outrageous hoax; and Alberta's long-lost sister Nellie, a false memoirist. There is also Praise-God, the bathchair-ridden, mute, bearded six-year-old. There's melancholic Pigeon, reborn through the conviction of Jack's lie. And there's Doctor Rachel Sylvester, seduced by Alberta, little knowing the truth about her... The Falls is a Victorian melodrama, part-musical, part-ghost story, part-love story, an exploration of deceit and self-delusion.

Griffin Theatre Co, Sydney

1992

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Currency Press, Sydney

1994

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drama

Historical

3

2

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Synopsis: Cold Bath Creek, 1861. 11-year-old Chang is a giant, and the property of a brutal souvenir portrait photographer on the goldfields. Kathleen, an ex-convict, lures Chang from this miserable existence with promises of a better life, but she too exploits him, touring him as a freak. Driven to desperate measures by Kathleen's jealous lover, Duck, Chang is forced to discover his own superior strength. The tale is in counterpoint with the story of Iris, an anglophilic Chinese hotelier, and her Chinese-operatic descent into madness.

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1996

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Synopsis:

posted on web

1998

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cyberplay

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Synopsis:

Deckchair Theatre / Vitalstatistix Theatre Co, Perth

2007

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Drama with (lip-synced) songs

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Notes: Winner of the 2007 Inscription Award

Synopsis: In 1731, in the woods of France, a savage girl is captured, and baptised Memmie Le Blanc. At 14, she is taken in by a widow, whose aim is to eradicate the girl's vestigial wildness. But she is challenged in this by a young doctor, who wants to study Memmie in her natural state. He's accompanied by his trained orangutan, Robert.

Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

2003

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Playscripts, Inc

2004

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Comedy

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1

1 female, 1 male; Running time: 5-10

Notes: -

Synopsis: Max and Juliet have been cursed by a witch, who demanded that they surrender their baby tonight; now Max must convey the witch's final message, despite all the words he is physically incapable of saying.

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Opera

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Ensemble: as many as practicable

Notes: Composer: Victoria Bond.

Synopsis: The story of real-life 19th-century spiritualist, socialite, Wall Street banker, Marxist, free lover and presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull. The opera focuses on her confrontation with Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, and her ensuing demise.

Griffin Theatre Co, Sydney

2007

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Comic drama

Ten Min

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Synopsis: Kate discovers her 85-year-old mother has gambled away her life's savings and sold Kate' s flat out from under her. Unable to agree on anything, Kate suggests an alarming solution to the problem of where Mother should live.

staged reading

1997

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Play/Drama

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Notes: Runner-Up in the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 1999.

Synopsis: At her mother's funeral, Greta meets her father for the first time in 25 years. She is now 35, and married, as is Tony - to a much younger woman. Greta is bitter and resentful, while he is anxious for reconciliation. At the urging of her husband, Greta agrees to take a weekend trip with her father. Their spiky relationship, bristling with emotional landmines and old recriminations, takes a strange turn: they find themselves falling inexorably into a passionate love affair.

Adelaide, Australia

1996

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Adaptation

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Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg

Synopsis:

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1998

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libretti

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Notes: music by Elena Kats-Chermin

Synopsis:

Atlantic Theater, NY, USA >>>

2006

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Comedy

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Synopsis: Two women, in a stolen moment of what ought to be romantic collusion, bicker over who told what to whose spouse, and question whether the thrill is worth the trouble.

Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

2003

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Humana Festival 2003: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus

2003

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phobic anthology, 80 - 100 min

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Synopsis: We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy.

Sydney

1994

NIDA Theatre Company

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libretti

Musical

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2

Ensemble: as many as practicable

Notes: music by Douglas Stephen Rae

Synopsis: A story of first contact between mainlanders and islanders. Newly-weds Michael and Rose venture to an island for their honeymoon, where their pursuit of rumoured gold takes them to the unexplored highlands. There, they are assumed to be sky-gods, and Michael is presented with a gift: the chief's daughter Mia. Michael and Mia's love transcends Rose's murder of the chief, Mia's sacrificial burning, and Michael's climactic walk on water.

Griffin Theatre Co, Sydney

1996

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Currency Press, Sydney

1996

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Play

One Act

2

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Notes: Winner of the inaugural Phillip Parsons Award

Synopsis: A baby is murdered in a remote town. Evidence points to Lizzie, a bright seven-year-old. Her young parents are faced with a terrible dilemma: to imagine nothing happened, and live with the suspicion and guilt all their lives, or to take her to the police and force a confession of what happened on Christmas Eve.