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50 minutes duration

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Synopsis: A play for children about a boy who finds the bones of an ichthyosaur, a marine dinosaur, in a farmer's paddock and then struggles to have his discovery acknowledged. A play with songs about how children's achievements can be usurped by adults, and a lonely child who learns how to transform his world.

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Currency Press, Sydney

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Synopsis: Two magicians drawn into a mystical world of self-realisation and discovery.

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12 monologues

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Synopsis: Inspired by Wagga Wagga's astounding art glass collection, this is a series of monologues in which human nature is refracted through the many metaphorical aspects of glass. A man contemplates what he does not know of his mother as he holds one of her frosted glass vases. A teenage girl with spectacles describes how she torments and teases male commuters on her local railway station. A shop assistant who sells glass describes her life. A glass artist cuts it with an angle grinder. A woman visits the Glass museum in Murano.

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Synopsis: A large cast, biographical drama set in Sydney in the 30's, 40's and 50's. Cross-dressing, West-Indian performer Nellie Small sings up a storm through the eras of 6 o'clock closing, razor gangs and the Second World War as she negotiates her personal life with her professional career.

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full length play

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Synopsis: Three stories of sexual seduction involving tea, wine and chocolate. A man and woman consummate a ten year old passion over a cup of tea. Two teenagers negotiate their first sexual experience over a glass of wine. A husband and wife understand their sexual stagnation because of a box of chocolates. But then there's the post-coital second act.

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30 mins

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Notes: Also commissioned by the ANMM, to accompany the exhibition "Oceans Apart: the story of Ann and Matthew Flinders."

Synopsis: The play is about the relationship between the great Australian denominator and navigator Matthew Flinders and his less well known brother, Samuel who accompanied him on many of his voyages, including aboard 'The Investigator' as they charted and named the South Australian coastline. The play traces tensions in the brother's relationship and cleverly explains concepts of mapping and navigation essential to the Year 3 and 4 syllabus

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Synopsis: A play suitable for youth-theatre production. The narrative is of a 17-year-old girl called Gillian Todd. The play traces Gillian's growing awareness of a problem in her ability to control her alcohol consumption. Using music, mime, puppetry and mask work the play dramatises the experience of adolescence through a street-wise, witty, and sympathetic protagonist

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1998

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Full-Length 100 mins

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Synopsis: A contemporary drama of life, death, and world changing deals. For four Australians flying home, the presence of an American Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry on the flight inspires desperate action and compelling revelations. Can the human race be saved from the worst excesses of environmental pollution, or are we stripped more by the pain of love than anything the sun can do? Set against a surreal landscape, this play traces the lives of five characters through a maze of comedy and treachery. It reveals the need for 'personal ozone' in a world where lives spiral out of control and the heart is the most vulnerable organ of all.

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Currency Press, Australia

2008

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Synopsis: The inmates of Girls Training School, Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the great untold stories of making good in tough times. Based on the testimony of dozens of GTS old-girls, this vibrant new play is a joyous and harrowing dramatisation of the experiences of eight inmates and their reunion forty years later. Interspersed with song and storytelling, this is a tribute to mischief and humour in the face of hardship and inequality. "Upwards of, and possibly more than 500,000 Australians experienced care in an orphanage, Home or other form of out-of-home care during the last century. As many of these people have had a family it is highly likely that every Australian either was, is related to, works with or knows someone who experienced childhood in an institution or out-of-home care environment" ~ Forgotten Australians, Senate Committee Report, August 2004

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Notes: Nominated for an AWGIE Award 2001 in the Category Young People's Theatre

Synopsis: Commissioned by the Australian National Maritime Museum to accompany the exhibition 'Gold Rush: The Australian Experience'. Set in 1854, the play begins aboard the 'Julia Ann' as the ship heads from Sydney to the Victorian goldfields. The characters are two miners, one a seasoned prospector, Stan, has come from the Californian fields to seek his fortune in Australia, the other, Frank, is an Aussie 'new chum' fresh to the prospecting game. They forge a partnership to seek for gold but when they arrive on the goldfields, the Ballarat Reform League rebellion draws Frank into the Eureka Stockade and puts a strain on their relationship that won't be resolved till the violence is over. A highly entertaining play about mateship and the relationship between the American and Australian goldrushes, for eight to twelve year olds.

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Synopsis: A hit at the New York Fringe Festival in 2001, this hilarious comedy is set in the excruciating intimacy of an Australian camp ground. Four different characters, played with virtuoso transformations by two actors, come together in a campsite near the Red Centre. When a bored-with-each-other heterosexual couple start taking sex tips from a lascivious lesbian, disaster ensues and the married woman retreats to the camp of a friendly gay male couple. From then on it's mayhem and no-one escapes being made fun of, satirised and told a few home truths about themselves and their lifestyle. A comedy with something to say about life, love and sexuality.

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2004

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2 Act 150 mins

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Notes: Winner of the Rodney Seaborne Playwrights Award

Synopsis: When an American HIV specialist doctor, Dr Tex Clark, visits an Australian hospital, part of his residency is spent with a bioethics Professor, Robert Bavaro. Although the two clash over ethical issues especially surrounding euthanasia, a passionate love affair based on humour and honesty develops between them. As Dr Clark moves increasingly toward the prospect of assisting the suicide of one of his terminally ill patients, the stakes escalate, threatening both their careers and shifting the moral ground under them. A play which asks the question,"Is it possible to love someone with whom you profoundly and completely disagree?"

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Synopsis: The story of an Australian woman in London, the two Australian celebrity chefs she lives with, and a love affair with a British museum guard, Jamie, who guards the famous Lycian tomb of the Harpies in the British museum. A story of unresolved sibling rivalries in the shadows of unreconciled cultural histories.

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Synopsis: The story of Carson McCullers from small town girl to major novelist

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Full-Length 100 mins

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Synopsis: A portrait of an individual genius growing up in small-town America. Based on the early life of Southern writer Carson McCullers, (remembered primarily for her novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"), Southern Belle is an investigation of the nature of creativity and the yearning to belong. During the play Carson travels to New York, and achieves literary success with her first novel, but something always draws her back to her Southern home, some desire for approval from the people who once rejected her.

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Synopsis: A thriller set in Macau and Australia. The play is about an Australian woman, Jade Manahan, who falls in love with a Chinese flight attendant. When Jade finds out from her mother Lola that there is a possibility that she has Mecanese heritage of her own, she moves to Macau to live with her new lover. But she is not the only one for whom secrets of identity prove a painful reality. An erotic affair is the context for a drama about the hidden histories of nations, individuals, and families.

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Synopsis: It is Federal Election time and like all of us, Riley Calasso has to vote. She is streetwise, maternal, conservative and reclusive. One woman, four personas caught in a treacherous web of fear and confusion, wrestling with the internal self. This funny, topical, sharp and sexy show has been written especially to show off the talents of a virtuoso female performer. Which Riley will get the vote? What scheming and fighting will there be before one of her selves wins the right to do so? A political thriller about personal choice.

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Synopsis: A journalist Mark Monroe contrives to bring two athletes together, their lives are set to change forever

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2 Act 150 mins

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Synopsis: Set in the lively and extravagant urban subculture of an early 90's dance party, is the story of a love triangle between a young woman, her unreconstructed feminist guardian, and an elusive male object of desire. Also fanning the flames of the drama are a transsexual in crisis and a drug-addled thug called Vince. Betrayal, seduction, dysfunction in the chaos of bodies grooving and music thumping.

read at the Australian National Playwrights Conference

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full length play

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Synopsis: Promise Krimmer, 24, makes a community television documentary about 'birdcallers', people who can perfectly imitate the calls of a variety of Australian birds. But what starts as a humorous send up, soon shifts into a contemplation of the connections between language and wilderness and spirit particular to Australians. When Promise is invited to showcase these ideas at a TV Conference in America, her ambition entangles her in a nightmare drama of her own making and she must confront what truly whispers both in herself and the ever shrinking forests of the natural world, in order to redeem herself. A play about learning to listen again.