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PHIL ORMSBY |
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Plays by Phil Ormsby |
Biscuit & Coffee | ||
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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 | #75804 | |||
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Drowning in Veronica Lake | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Garden Club, 13b Dixon Street, Wellington | 22 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Flaxworks | |||||
| 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 | #125424 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min | |||||
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Synopsis: | From under-age Miss Florida to Hollywood icon. From glamorous to anonymous, adored to discarded. Veronica Lake - Dead but not lying down. Revisit the Golden Age of Hollywood via the sordid underbelly of the film industry in Flaxworks latest production, Drowning in Veronica Lake - a darkly comic tribute to the eponymous 1940s screen siren. Trapped in an other worldly green room somewhere between Paramount and Purgatory the fictional personality of Veronica Lake graces us with a highly theatrical account of her meteoric rise to fame and glamour and equally spectacular decline. Alex Ellis plays the faded star, who has been dead for 40 years but is still optimistic for a comeback. You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision Veronica Lake. Veronica Lake was one of Hollywoods most glamorous stars in the 1940s. At the peak of her brief career she campaigned tirelessly for the US war effort, took tea with Eleanor Roosevelt, piloted her own plane from coast to coast, was famously sued by her own mother and was bankrupted by the IRS before a rapid descent into obscurity, alcoholism and a premature and lonely death as an unknown 50 year old cocktail waitress. Typecast early in her career as the ice cool blonde, the archetypal femme fatale, she was thrust into the limelight at an early age, as Hollywoods newest sensation. Naïve and unprepared she left in her wake a polarised industry who either loved or loathed her. In Drowning in Veronica Lake the untangling of the truth about her career, her alcoholism, her fractured family and her five husbands becomes a battle for centre stage - between the romantic view of the world presented by her old movies and the mocking and cynical personality of Veronica Lake. | |||||
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Murder by Chocolate | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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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 | #75793 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Notes: | written by Phil Ormsby and Alex Ellis | |||||
Synopsis: | Felicia Fargo, a disenchanted romance writer determined to embrace the gritty world of crime writing, unwittingly finds herself embroiled in a bizarre series of murders by chocolate! As accusations fly, the chocolate finger of suspicion shifts and the body count rises, Felicia and her clueless assistant Dorian race to untangle the lies, plot twists and red herrings leading them to the bittersweet truth. | |||||
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