ALMA DE GROEN (1941 - )
| Nationality: | New Zealander |
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Plays by Alma de Groen
After-Life Of Arthur Cravan, The |
| 1st Produced: | Jane Street Theatre, Sydney | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||
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Available Light |
| 1st Produced: | ABC | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Published | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | Radio Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: can be played with Invisible Sun as single play | ||||
Synopsis: Rose's daughter Mary speaks from within a nursing home for the mentally ill. Whilst in Egypt, she entered a tomb that had not been opened in 4000 years and had an experience she can't rationally explain. Believing that her art can pass beyond the reality observed with the human eye, Rose hits the wall - literally - in her photography, and begins to question her entire existence | ||||
Chidley |
| 1st Produced: | Grant Street Theatre, Melbourne | 1976 | ||
| Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Theatre Australia", January, Sydney | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||
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Girl Who Saw Everything, The |
| 1st Produced: | Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne | 1991 | ||
| Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A car accident has far reaching consequences. | ||||
Going Home |
| 1st Produced: | St Martin's Theatre, Melbourne | 1976 | ||
| Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Going Home and other Plays", Currency Press, Sydney | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Poignantly examines the domestic confusions of Australian artists abroad. | ||||
Invisible Sun |
| 1st Produced: | Upstairs Theatre, Townsville | 1994 | ||
| Company: | Belle Tournure Theatre Collective, Townsville | |||
| 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 | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: can be played with Available Light as single play | ||||
Synopsis: Rose Shelley has fallen into a pit of total meaning after hailing a taxi on a rainy night and coming in contact with a new age cult. She explains to a dismayed audience of academics at a literary lunch that now that she has the dazzling benefits of "Spontaneous Divination" to explain the tragedies of the world around her, she is no longer a poet. | ||||
Joss Adams Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford Shakespearean Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Going Home and other Plays", Currency Press, Sydney | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The bicentennial celebrations in 1970 of the arrival of Captain James Cook aroused a new interest in Australia's history and culture. The plays in this volume were landmarks in the development of a rough new all-Australian theatre which celebrated the rude colour of Australian language and mores. It was a period of comedy and satire; but as these plays show, beneath the larrikinism was a sharp social criticism at work which saw ordinary people living alienated, exploitative and largely unexamined lives. | ||||
Perfectly All Right |
| 1st Produced: | Sheridan Theatre, Adelaide | 1973 | ||
| Company: | Theatre Go Round | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Going Home and other Plays", Currency Press, Sydney | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Rivers Of China, The |
| 1st Produced: | Wharf Theatre, Sydney | 1987 | ||
| Company: | Sydney Theatre Company | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: Daring re-examination of the female artist challenges the threshold of sexual politics. Subject: Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 and Gurdjieff, G. I. (George Ivanovitch), 1872-1949 | ||||
Sweatproof Boy, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nimrod Theatre, Sydney | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | 1968 | ||
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| Genre: | 3 acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Vocations |
| 1st Produced: | Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne | 1982 | ||
| Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1983 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: A writer and an actress each trying to separate their vocations from the nesting instincts of their mates. | ||||
Wicked Sisters |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Published | - | ||
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| Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | (in their mid-fifties) | |||
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Synopsis: The latest comedy/drama from eminent Australian playwright Alma De Groen brings together Meridee, Judith, Lydia and Hester; four old friends reunited at Meridee's house in the Blue Mountains after the death of her genius husband Alec. The "fifty-something" women discuss the paths their lives have taken; divorces, lovers, dementia. . . Meridee describes Alec's inexorable descent into Alzheimer's disease, and confronts her friends with the astonishing secrets Alec divulged in his decline. Wicked Sisters explores the harsh realities of relationships, and the strengths and weaknesses of four wise (but vulnerable) mature women. This is a witty and honest play with female characters in their fifties, which flirts with but defies stereotypes, and is filled with delicious revelations. | ||||
Woman In The Window,The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: In Stalin's Russia, the great poet Anna Ahkmatova is forbidden to write. Her work is memorised by women friends who for thirty years have risked their lives to preserve her words. In a future, sterile world, where individual creativity is not seen as economically viable, the poetry archives are seldom accessed any more and are about to be switched off. Rachel, a young Australian woman searching for what is missing in her life, risks her own safety to rescue poetry for future generations. The play's premise is that when nature as we know it vanishes, then art and creativity will vanish with it. | ||||