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JANET BROWN |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Janet Brown is a freelance writer. Her writing for theatre includes: Hole in the Ground (with Joanne Ryan); One Plain, One Purl (a winner of the Write Stuff Competition, 2004); The Shaded Side (an adaptation of her novel); and Cherished
Plays by Janet Brown
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #102789 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2-3 | Female | 2-3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in Melbourne, Australia in 2005. Eve was a sperm-donor baby born in the late 1970s. Her biological father, Paul, at last agrees to meet her. He has an ulterior motive. Paul is an academic and a world renowned bridge designer. Eve's a PhD student studying Waterloo Teeth, which were the first false teeth that came from the bodies of dead soldiers from the battlefields. Eve's mother Jane was Aboriginal. As the relationships between Paul and Eve, Helen and Adam twist and change, questions are asked about the role of fathers in today's society and the commodification of childbirth and appropriation of the human body. Working with nature or working around nature? It is a tragedy. | |||||
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Cherished | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #102792 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | An adaptation of two of Colette's novels - 'Cheri' and 'The Last of Cheri'. Set just before the First World War begins, in Paris, Fred ('Cheri'), the young son of a wealthy courtesan has been educated in the ways of love by Lea, a middle-aged friend of his mother. Fred is forced to give up the six-year relationship when he marries young Edmee, but he cannot forget his former lover. Ten years later, after serving as a soldier in the war and returning to an unsatisfying life and marriage in Paris, he re-visits Lea. Colette, the writer, appears in the play as a narrator and her scenes are set in 1948 when she is elderly and visited for an interview about her life and work by a young Truman Capote. (Colette's work came out of copyright in Australia in 2005). | |||||
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Dolly Stainer of Kew Cottages | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlton Courthouse | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Soul Theatre and La Mama | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency press, Australia, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88968 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| This play illuminates the world of institutionalized care in twentieth century Australia through the moving story of Dolly Stainer. | |||||
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Hole In The Ground, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlton Courthouse and Wyndham Cultural Centre | 2004 | ||||
Company: | La Mama | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52293 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 150 mins Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | written by Joanne Ryan and Janet Brown | |||||
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Infiltration | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #102788 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | There is also a musical version of this script - it's 2 hours long, and the proposed songs (subject to rights) are an eclectic range by: Typically Tropical, Kenny Rogers, Elvis Presley, Men At Work, Def Leppard, Joe Jackson, Billy Thorpe, Johnny Cash, Coldplay, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Guns & Roses, Crowded House and Bonnie Tyler. | |||||
Synopsis: | A wealthy powerful media baron, Perry Cracker, is about to have a kidney transplant from his chauffeur Bob. Months later, Perry fears that the soul of his donor is taking over his personality. His confidant is the indomitable Irma Rosebud, former editor of Australian Woman and Lifestyle Magazine. Irma has forsaken all others (Perry, Barry Jones, Geoffrey Robertson and Stephen Hawking) for a 'very special relationship' with Bob. Meanwhile, Perry's 19 year old son Jason is climbing Mt Everest, attempting to be the youngest Australian to make it to the summit. Ultimately, Perry wants the kidney out, there's a death on the mountain and a resurrection, Channel Seven's Kochie and Mel are sponsoring the climb (much to Perry's chagrin) and why do people help others anyway? Can you be a hero if you're not a footballer or a cricketer? Viagra saves the sherpa and who is Jason's real dad? | |||||
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Ladybird, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #102787 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min Adaptation | |||||
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Synopsis: | An adaptation of The Ladybird, a novella by D H Lawrence. A Bohemian count is a wounded prisoner of war, recovering in a military hospital in England. He is visited by an English woman whose husband is a soldier in the war. As she continues to visit him, they develop an unusual and compelling relationship. This is a moving and emotional play that explores notions of loss, belonging and need. | |||||
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One Plain, One Purl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Anglesea Performing Arts produced a modified version of this play | 2005 | ||||
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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 | #102791 | |||
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Genre: | 70 min | |||||
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Notes: | This play is set in Australia in 2003. It consists of a series of interrupted monologues. 70 mins | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is set in various places in Australia in 2003. It consists of a series of interrupted monologues. Each character tells their story while they are knitting. Jenny is co-ordinator of a Migrant Resource Centre in Melbourne's inner suburbs which has just been closed due to financial mismanagement. She's pre-occupied by Prime Minister John Howard's treatment of refugees. Mary's a grandmother with a nasty streak. Trevor's wondering whether or not to 'try again' with his long-time lover, Duncan. Margaret's shy, middle aged and married - and having an affair with beautiful Oliver. Mr B is a frustrated secondary school creative arts and drama teacher. Dave is a lawyer and about to assist his dearest friend with euthanasia. | |||||
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Shaded Side, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #102790 | |||
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Genre: | 120 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2-5 | Female | 3-8 | ||
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Notes: | An adaptation of the novel 'The Shaded Side', by Janet Brown, published in 2003 | |||||
Synopsis: | This play explores secrecy, stigma and taboo. In 1998 Jenny, aged in her fifties, is seeking the identity of her birth mother. Much of the story is set in Melbourne in the 1940s, when Ellen is a young woman and a patient at a tuberculosis sanatorium. Ellen, a devout Catholic, becomes pregnant to a male patient, Rob, who dies and she gives birth to Jennifer as an unmarried mother at a time when that was shameful. A pact is made between Ellen and her sister Mary: Mary formally adopts Jennifer and raises her. Jenny is told the common lie told to folk adopted in the 1940s that 'Your mother died at your birth and your father died in the war.' Ellen's life is diminished by her guilt, shame and vulnerability. Times and values change. Now a mature woman, how will Jenny react to the truth? | |||||
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