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DEBRA OSWALD |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: RGM Artist Group |
Debra Oswald is a Sydney-based playwright and author. She began writing as a teenager and her first play was workshopped at the Australian National Playwrights Conference when she was 17, and it was later broadcast on ABC Radio. Since then she has made her living as a writer for film, television, stage and radio as well as publishing a number of novels for children. Debra has written extensively for the stage and is best known for her play Dags, which has had many productions both in Australia and overseas. Her other plays include Sweet Road, Gary's House, Mr Bailey's Minder and Peach Season. Her prize-winning youth theatre play Skate toured to Belfast in 2005. Her television credits include Palace of Dreams, Bananas in Pyjamas, Police Rescue, The Secret Life of Us and various dramas for ABC TV Education. Debra is also the author of the children's novels Me and Barry Terrific, The Return of the Baked Bean, The Redback Leftovers and The Fifth Quest as well three Aussie Bites - Nathan and the Ice Rockets, Frank and the Emergency Joke and Frank and the Secret Club.
Plays by Debra Oswald
Dags | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canberra Youth Theatre, Australia | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | 086-8191809 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26614 | |||
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Genre: | Play 60 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | with players and doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Gillian is sixteen, suffers from the occasional ack-attack', and is worried about not having a boyfriend. She loves chocolate and is infatuated with the best-looking boy in school. A funny and compassionate look at adolescence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gary's House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Penrith, Sydney | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Railway St Theatre Company & Playbox Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-607-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26615 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But now he has inherited a block of land and with Sue-Anne, his angry and pregnant girlfriend, he gets an urge to build a nest. Satire becomes drama as the battlers reach for their dreams. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Going Under | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide's Troupe Theatre | 1983 | ||||
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 | #126730 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House On Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Parade playhouse, NISA, Sydney | 10 Jun 2009 | ||||
Company: | SCEGGS Darlinghurst | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-888-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126729 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Things aren't going well for the Conway sisters. Dad's just married the Geography teacher, oldest sister Bec's been evicted and Evie's suffering serious issues with her new besties. Michaela has twenty-four hours to solve her sisters' problems before she sits the most important exams of her life. What else could go wrong? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lumps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Q Theatre | 1993 | ||||
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 | #26616 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sophie and Stuart are made for each other: he's a doctor and she's a part time actress and full time hypochondriac. Love, fame, happiness and success await Sophie if only she can see beyond her medical encyclopaedia | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mr Bailey's Minder | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-761-6 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26617 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Leo Bailey is one of Australia's greatest living artists, whose genius battles to survive the effects of alcohol, cynicism and self-loathing. Only one of his many children, his daughter Margo, is prepared to help, but she does so at arm's length. Margo finds a willing but surly live-in-minder, Therese who is fresh out of prison and desperate for a home. Then along comes Karl, a handyman who has the job of removing a valuable mural but who keeps returning with offers of practical friendship. A funny and deeply moving play about friendship, ego, art and the secret longing for a better life. | |||||
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Our Hopeful Youth | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #45830 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | |||||
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Peach Season, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-805-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87027 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoe away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia's safe existence. Her daughter falls in love with enigmatic, erratic Kieran, but when the relationship is threatened, they run away together. The safe, perhaps smothering, world that Celia has created unravels; her paranoia and insecurities amplified to full volume. Playing out alongside her fear, we see the increasingly degrading and dangerous lifestyle that the two elopers have fallen into. Peach Season is a powerful, salutary tale showing what it's like to be a young person desperate for independence, but also, crucially, what it's like to be a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Skate | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-727-2 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87026 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Inspired by true events, Skate is about a group of kids battling with their local council to get a skate park. When tragedy strikes, the battle grows into a struggle for acceptance and unity. A turbo-charged, moving and funny account of the mates, mothers, tricks and traumas of a group of young skaters. Enhanced by live skateboarding, the play is full of the emotional awkwardness of adolescence, its adrenalin, compassion and humour. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stories In The Dark | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lennox Theatre, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) and Riverside Theatres | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85214 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards | |||||
| A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his life steps Anna - older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers. Stories in the Dark explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sweet Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melpourne | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Playbox/STC of SA co production | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26618 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | play can be performed with 6 or 7, using doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | This road movie for the stage comprises a series of cleverly interwoven narratives in which the peculiar mateship of the road brings together an assortment of travellers who don't initially realise how much they need each other. Jo spots her husband through a traffic jam; he's kissing another woman. She floors the accelerator and heads west, in a frenzy of grief and tears. She meets the young hitchhiker Yasmin, and is later rescued from a car crash in the outback by Michael, driving a truck to try to get over a tragedy of his own. Carla and Andy have all their worldly possessions in their car; including the kids and the dog. They've thrown their life into the boot and hope they're driving towards a better future. At a caravan park they meet Frank, who has set off on his big trip without his wife. She died before they could embark on their adventure. When rainstorms hit the dead flat plains they are travelling over, the voyagers all have their plans and lives disrupted in various ways. Each one of them is affe | |||||
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Two-way Mirror, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1976 | ||||
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 | #45831 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | |||||
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