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HANNIE RAYSON (1957 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: HLA Management Pty Ltd |
Hannie Rayson has established a reputation for topical, complex dramas written with wit and humour. A graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University and is a Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her plays have been extensively performed around Australia and internationally. They include Please Return to Sender, Mary, Leave It Till Monday, Room to Move, Hotel Sorrento, Falling From Grace, Competitive Tenderness Life After George, Inheritance and Two Brothers. She has been awarded two Australian Writers' Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier's Literary Awards and a Victorian Premier's Literary Award as well as the Age Performing Arts Award. She also wrote Scenes from a Separation with Andrew Bovell. For television she has written Sloth (ABC, Seven Deadly Sins) and co-written two episodes of SeaChange (ABC/Artists Services). A feature film of Hotel Sorrento, produced in 1995, was nominated for ten Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1999 she received the Magazine Publishers' Society of Australia's Columnist of the Year Award for her regular contributions to HQ magazine. Hannie made playwriting history when Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2006 she was nominated for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, a prize for a Victoria-based writer whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life.
Plays by Hannie Rayson
Competitive Tenderness | ||
| 1st Produced: | Merlyn Theatre, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, Australia | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Playbox | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29001 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | An hilarious contemporary farce. In the competetive, fast lane of Australian politics, the City of Greater Burke is in the frontline of local government reform. Striving to become a model of leaner and meaner bureaucracy, the city is rationalising at an irrational speed. Driving the push for competition is the fearless Dawn Snow, Chief Executive officer; an emissary from the world of private enterprise. A volatile office environment, a gunpowder of ethnic mix, dangerous dogs on the loose and a Traffic Department overtaken by neo nazis . . . this is a play which creates pure laughter from its inspired havoc. Hannie Rayson shows us the personal and the political for what they really are - dangerously funny bedfellows. | |||||
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Falling From Grace | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playbox Theatre, Melbourne | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29002 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | A play with a bright comic surface and mysterious depths. It is about women in medicine, in the media and in the office - power and authority in female hands. It is also about public morality and a struggle between women to see who should be its guardian. These women are best friends in a professional world. They are witty and erudite, passionate in pursuit of success and relentless in their pursuit of passion. They juggle careers, children and lovers. They are forty and their friendship is about to be tested. | |||||
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Glass Soldier | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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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 | #96389 | |||
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Synopsis: | A young Australian soldier is gassed during World War One and for the rest of his life he has very restricted sight | |||||
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Hotel Sorrento | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playbox Theatre, Melbourne | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29003 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts 90 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Hilary lives in seaside Sorrento with her father and sixteen year old son; Pippa is visiting from New York and Meg returns from England with her English husband. Three sisters, reunited after ten years in different worlds, again feel the constraints of family life. It is Meg's semi-autobiographical novel, recently short-listed for the Booker prize, which overshadows their homecoming. It is about expatriatism, our perception of home and the tensions that exist between those who've left and those who've stayed behind. It is about the responsibilities of family obligations and national ties, the rights to individuality within a clan and a country. | |||||
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Inheritance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Victorian Arts centre, Melbourne | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39121 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the Mallee country in rural Victoria, the Hamilton and Delaney families gather to celebrate twin sisters Dibs and Girlie's eightieth birthday. But these have been heartbreak years in the bush and the cracks are beginning to show - between parents and their children and between siblings, between those who have been loyal to the land and those who have left it, between farmers and townies, between country folk and their city cousins. And in the background is always the question: Who gets the farm? | |||||
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Leave It Till Monday | ||
| 1st Produced: | Geelong | 1984 | ||||
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 | #29004 | |||
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Life After George | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39122 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | We are the people of the sixties. We are the players in a great revolution, forged not by men at war, but by men in love. Peter George. This is the story of three women, three marriages and one husband. After the charismatic radical, Professor Peter George, crashes a light plane on an island in Bass Strait, his death brings his three wives together. From Paris and Marxism in 1968, through feminism into cyberspace, George married the 'it' girl of the successive generations. In the three marriages we see the progress of Australia's intellectual and political life from the idealistic sixties to the pragmatic nineties. From the barricades to the world wide web. This is a play about the radical baby boomers who defected to the other side, and those who have tried to keep the faith. It is also about the revenge of the supposedly apathetic and cynical Generation Xers. Are we witnessing the death of idealism? Or is irony the only strategy for the new miilleniu? | |||||
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Mary | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1981 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Yackandandah, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29005 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | can be played with 4F | |||||
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Synopsis: | Mary is a play about being Greek and growing up in Melbourne. It juxtaposes a Greek-Australian family with an Anglo-Australian one, focussing on the relationships between mothers and their teenage daughters. The play explores the conflicts and the comedy of cultural difference, both within families and between them. It is also about the quest for identity as women, daughters and mothers. | |||||
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Please Return To Sender | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1980 | ||||
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 | #29006 | |||
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Room To Move | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Yackandandah, Montmorency, Victoria, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29007 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Co-winner 1986 Awgie Award. | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedy about the impact of feminism at a time when it has become a permanent third partner in our relationships, particularly the repercussions for a family when a 30 year-old "new man" moves in with their 62 year old mother. | |||||
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Scenes From A Separation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29008 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | written with Andrew Bovell | |||||
Synopsis: | There are two sides to every separation. Two truths. A fascination collaboration between two of Australia's most exciting writers. A story which will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost. Mathew and Nina have been married for twelve years. He is forty; a successful publisher. Always in control, his pace is enormous and his path is littered with the discarded souls of those who tried to keep up. Nina's thirty-eight; a journalist. she hasn't worked since the birth of the children. She's restless; looking for something. So when Mathew suggests she takes on the biography of Lawrence Clifford, tycoon, philanthropist and now Australian of the Year, she throws herself into the project with an all-consuming enthusiasm. A play about love and betrayal, about sex, sacrifice and survival, of break-up and break-down. | |||||
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Swimming Club, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Summer Theatre, Melbourne | 04 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-875-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112317 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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| Six young people from around the world, including two UWA students, spend one glorious summer together on a Greek island in 1983. They are beautiful, adventurous, idealistic and believe that the world is theirs for the taking.Fast-forward to 2009:Each in their own way, they feel trapped by their life choices and are baffled by their children's youth culture in the new millennium. Will a reunion on their magical Greek island be able to rekindle their spiritual fire? | |||||
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Two Brothers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne Theatre Company, Australia | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51805 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Benedict brothers are on opposite sides of the political divide. Eggs is the Minister for Home Security and prime minister-in-waiting. Tom is a refugee advocate and the head of a charitable foundation. The brothers have a relationship based on affection and respect. And in the jumble of family life they have managed to accommodate their ideological differences. But on Christmas Day an Indonesian fishing boat packed with refugees goes down in the Indian Ocean. Two hundred and fifty people drown, and one man survives. What happens when two powerful, passionate and socially-committed brothers encounter deadly conflict? | |||||
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Wall Street Creche | ||
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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 | #39123 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | baby | |||||
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