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GERRY GREENLAND |
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Nationality: Australian/British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Born in London Gerry has lived in Sydney for over 30 years. He has written a number of plays for radio and the theatre. His play The Visitor was nominated for an AWGIE. Greeting Cards won a Glen Eira Award His short plays are regularly performed at Short & Sweet Festivals. Prime Angus Buttock was a Sydney finalist and Return to Sender was awarded Best Drama Script. Rules is Rules played at the New Venture Theatre, Brighton in 2010. He has also co-written television and radio comedies with his wife Jackie. Sydney Plantagenet's Psychedelic Quest was broadcast live from the Sydney Opera House. Waiting on Jamie Oliver appeared at Sydney's Newtown Theatre in 2007, and The Blood on Helmut Lange at the Factory Theatre in 2009. Mission of Flowers played at London's Soho Theatre and Theatre 503 in 2010, and toured the Adelaide, Hollywood and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals in the same year.
Plays by Gerry Greenland
Blood On Helmut Lange, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre, Sydney | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Creative Minds@ Work | |||||
| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99473 | |||
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Genre: | naturalistic drama 30 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed under the overall title "Crime Scenes" with three other plays | |||||
Synopsis: | 1965. A gaol break! Alarm! Pandemonium! A prison guard is killed. The State Premier wants blood.Ronald Ryan is about to be convicted of the murder. A prison officer, Helmut Lange, has evidence to prove the man is innocent, but producing it will jeopardise his future and those of his fellow officers. Helmut needs courage to do what is right, but childhood memories torture him as he wrestles with the conflict between self-preservation, and loyalty, and courage. Misplaced ideals always exact a price. This is his story. It is based on the true case of Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged in Australia. | |||||
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Maintenance Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Australia | 2005 | ||||
Company: | PD Sydney | |||||
| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55438 | |||
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Genre: | 80 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Shortlisted best of 2005 | |||||
Synopsis: | Edward Haringey has decided that life isn't worth living so he's going to hurl himself off a tall building. He disturbs a sleeping itinerant who demands to know what Edward's up to. The two men testily probe each other's seemingly opposite lives, and explore the reasons that brought them there. Things aren't quite what they appear to be, and gradually each exposes the other true motives, but in doing so each must confront his own past. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Manifesto | ||
| 1st Produced: | PD Sydney | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Shaft Productions | |||||
| 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 | #55441 | |||
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Genre: | 90 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When Spencer rents the spare room in Annie's flat, neither she nor her live-in boyfriend Robert, realise the terror about to be unleashed. The sparks that fly soon turn into an inferno as both men's chilling motives for establishing their relationship with her are revealed. Annie's search for a new future turns into a nightmare. | |||||
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Mission of Flowers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Asylum Theatre, Los Angeles | Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | CW Productions | |||||
| 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 | #120286 | |||
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Genre: | drama 75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | London's Soho Theatre, and Theatre 503, and toured Adelaide, Hollywood and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals 2010 | |||||
Synopsis: | Stranded in the Sahara with a week's supply of water, aviation pioneer Bill Lancaster fights for survival while reliving the events which brought him to this desperate plight. From his youth in the trenches of World War One to his love affair with a fellow aviator, and the adventures and disasters which lead to a sensational murder trial. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prelude For Emily | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #55443 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play Drama 26 mins | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A professional climber has to choose between the mountains and his family. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prime Angus Buttock | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seymour Centre, Sydney | 2005 | ||||
Company: | GKA Productions | |||||
| 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 | #55439 | |||
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Genre: | Noir 10 mins Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist Short & Sweet | |||||
Synopsis: | Young lawyer Justin has a bad dose of ethics, and wants to resign from the Grand Order of Anthropophagi. In the club's elite dining room The Grand Master helps him discover that he and his morals are but human after all. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Reading Harold Pinter | ||
| 1st Produced: | NIDA Parade Playhouse, Sydney | 23 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Sussex Playwrights | |||||
| 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 | #111331 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Short + Sweet Festival, Sydney 2010 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Return to Sender | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seymour Centre, Sydney | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Shaft Productions | |||||
| 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 | #55440 | |||
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Genre: | Drama 10 mins Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner Best Drama Short & Sweet 2006 | |||||
Synopsis: | Frank's boxing career looks promising, but when his estranged father Ray, turns up after fifteen years in prison, both men have a lot of past and future to sort out. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rules is Rules | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Venture Theatre, Brighton UK | Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #120287 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A hit man and his apprentice confront ethics as they wait for their victim. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Soundless Mouths | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #55436 | |||
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Genre: | Drama 4mins | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Glen Eira Literary Award Finalist | |||||
Synopsis: | The horrific 1998 bombing on the last day of a carnival in the Irish town of Omagh indiscriminately killed and maimed dozens of men, women and children of diverse religious faiths and nationalities. Some minds resisted the poison - others feed on it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Still Waters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Holden Street Theatre, Adelaide, Australia | Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | South Australian Writers Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Moore Books, Adelaide (Nov 2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133737 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A heavyweight champion boxer is so dominated by his father that he will commit murder for him. Based on the true story of Dean Waters and his father Cec Waters. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sydney Plantagenet's Psychedelic Quest Ep 2 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Opera House | 2006 | ||||
Company: | FBi 94.5 | |||||
| 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 | #55442 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Radio Play Comedy 24 mins | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Broadcast with a live audience | |||||
Synopsis: | Anti-hero Sydney Plantagenet searches for the Great Australian Dream in a wacky free for all. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vanny's Letter | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Australia | 2003 | ||||
Company: | PD Sydney | |||||
| 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 | #55437 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 90 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Jack Morley, ex-foreign correspondent, and his wife Vera run a local newspaper in tropical Australia. Their marriage is under pressure. Out of the blue a young woman of mixed race turns up claiming to be Jack's child from a past love affair in East Timor. Is it a con? Who's telling the truth? Who has what to hide? Can their long time friend Drew, the local policeman help? Jack and Vera's separate attempts to save their relationship only takes them into deeper and more troubled waters. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Visitor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #55435 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play 60 mins | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Nominated for Australian Writer's Guild (Monte Miller) Award | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waiting On Jamie Oliver | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Creative Minds @ Work, and Actors Anonymous | |||||
| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77807 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | One of the Journey into Sin series. | |||||
Synopsis: | A teenage girl visits her estranged stepfather seeking reconciliation. | |||||
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