SIMON GRATTON
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Simon Gratton
Magpie's Nest |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
| Company: | Oz content dept. Elizabethan theatre trust Australia | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Social realism | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | voices off | |||||
| Notes: | Directed by Peter Barclay twice, by two different companies. Once in Sydney and once in the A.C.T. at the Playhouse in the Canberra theatre centre. Both productions were critically acclaimed. There was a production by a company in Perth W.A., it was performed without the authors permission and was not the final draft. They were reviewed poorly and right whack | |||||
| Synopsis: | This play is about prison, heroin addiction and the father son relationship. It is also about the changes in prison, since the introduction of illegal hard drugs. Set in the 1980's. Hard hitting, hard language and not for the faint hearted. The theme music used as part of the suspense structure, was Lou Reed's .Heroin.. | |||||
