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ALANA VALENTINE |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: RGM Artist Group |
Alana Valentine's writing has been awarded the 2004 Queensland Premier's Award for best Drama Script, 2003 NSW Writer's Fellowship, the 2002 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights' Award and an International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. She has also received a 2001 commendation for the Louis Esson Prize, a 1999 AWGIE Award, a residency at the Banff Playwrights' Conference in Canada, the ANPC/New Dramatists Award in NYC, a Churchill Fellowship for England and Ireland and a NSW Premier's Award. Her stage plays include Butterfly Dandy, Covenant, The Prospectors, Run Rabbit Run, Titania's Boy, Savage Grace, Row of Tents, The Conjurers, Ozone, Spool Time and Swimming the Globe. Alana has written numerous award winning radio plays as well as episodes of the television series McLeod's Daughters and Fat Tuesday.
Plays by Alana Valentine
Beautiful Black Snake, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Parnassus Den | 2010 | ||||
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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 | #126738 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Inspired by the theological boldness and dramatic poetry of John Miltons Paradise Lost, The Beautiful Black Snake is a contemporary retelling of the Torah, Bible and Quran story of the first humans, the temptation by a snake-borne Satan, and banishment from the Garden of Eden. Envisioning Satans rejection as that of a spurned child/lover the work tracks Satans attempts to get back into Gods favour in a poetic, humorous and ultimately moving manner, its premise being that evil is a form of perverted love, its necessary inverse and compliment. | |||||
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Bones Of The Beast | ||
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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 | #35323 | |||
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Genre: | 50 minutes duration One Act TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 actors (with doubling) | |||||
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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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Butterfly Dandy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Women on a Shoestring | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96958 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Australia 1905. Local cabaret acts struggle against competition from American and British acts. Mirabella Martin is unable to get bookings - her pianist tells her that male impersonators are all the rage in Britain. At first she is very reluctant to dress and perform as a man - but when she does so she is a great success. | |||||
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Conjurers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playbox, La Boite | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35324 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two magicians are touring their show along the Great Ocean Road of south-western Victoria. The further down the coast they travel, the more they are drawn into a mystical world of self-realisation and discovery about one another and the country around them. When the magicians assistant, Gala, begins to conjure out of the sea the ghost of a Sea Captain, whose ship was wrecked on rocks in 1845, the drama becomes a life and death struggle between reality and illusion. | |||||
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Covenant | ||
| 1st Produced: | Powerhouse Youth Theatre | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96959 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Three friends form a pact they will each steal something of importance from the religious houses of their three different faiths. This leads to conflict between the religious groups who blame each other for the thefts | |||||
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Doing Dawn | ||
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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 | #126739 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Supported by Playwrighting Australias Creative Development Studio | |||||
Synopsis: | Doing Dawn is the story of five young pilgrims who travel to the Gallipoli Peninsula for the ANZAC Day commemorations. Based on interviews with actual travellers and Turkish soldiers, Doing Dawn is a searing confrontation of the babyboomer, anti-war rhetoric that has dominated recent debates about attendance of increasing numbers of young people to the site. Instead, Doing Dawn gives angry, poignant, confused and hilarious voice to the reasons for the pilgrims journeys, finding that the reasons young people go are as various as their diverse identities and politics. For some the initial impulse is no more than the Big Day Out goes Turkey or an overseas gathering of ex-pat Aussie travellers. But once at the commemorations, something happens, not always predictable and sometimes even surreal, and identities are challenged, changed, and shifted by a confrontation with the past. Using direct address, theatrical time and reality shifts, songs, drama and Turkish language, Doing Dawn is a cry to be heard from a generation who are more preached to than heard from. It is an often surprising, confronting and moving insight into the concerns of Australian young adults and, importantly, also gives voice to the Turks who host the event. | |||||
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Elderflowers | ||
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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 | #126740 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned by a South Sydney Community Centre | |||||
Synopsis: | Elderflowers is based on interviews and research undertaken in Redfern and Waterloo with older residents, celebrating the wisdom and quirkiness of age. It has much to offer both those who generously gave of themselves as research participants and the wider community. Warm, funny and poignant, Elderflowers is a sassy look at life through the lens of older eyes and it reveals much about their invisible lives. Bullying by greedy, impatient children, neighbourly disputes, the absurdity of "the system" that hinders more than it helps - the characters emerge as the script spirals its way through anecdotes building up a mosaic-style impression of the older community. Elderflowers is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and adds to the connective tissue that binds the community together. | |||||
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Eyes To The Floor | ||
| 1st Produced: | Outback Theatre for Young People | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96960 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | The girls at Parramata Training School riot. A new and even more authoritarian institute is set up for the ten worst girls. They are forced to lay concrete paths and then break them up and remake them. At all times they must keep their eyes to the floor and not speak to each other | |||||
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Glassy Eyed (The Glass Monologues) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #35325 | |||
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Genre: | 12 monologues One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 performers or more | |||||
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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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Head Full Of Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Darwin Festival | - - - | ||||
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 | #126733 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Head full of Love draws a portrait of the relationships that develop at the Alice Springs Beanie Festival. This renowned Central Australian event is an annual pilgrimage for women as diverse and distant at Anangu and Tjanpi weavers, and Western women from all over the world. As secrets are shared and struggles are faced, a tendril of trust begins to develop into an unlikely friendship and the distance between worlds diminishes. | |||||
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Lady Baritone | ||
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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 | #35326 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | up to 25 performers | |||||
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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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Lost Illusions | ||
| 1st Produced: | NIDA | - - - | ||||
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 | #126734 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Adapted from Balzacs novel, Lost Illusions is a cautionary tale - a dark parable about the snakes and ladders of life, a set of choices which all of us, especially young artists, confront. Balzac writes against the fashionable romanticism of his age, insisting that a focus on individualism and sentimentality fails to present a meaningful perspective on society. This aptation retains all the savage brutality of the original to draw a portrait of a judgmental, brutal, ambitious and competitive community which can both cripple and elevate its members. | |||||
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Love Potions | ||
| 1st Produced: | New theatre | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780977550203 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35327 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| 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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Map Maker's Brother | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35328 | |||
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Genre: | 30 mins One Act TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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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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Modest Aussie Cozzie | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Ignatius College, Riverview | - - - | ||||
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 | #126735 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Modest Aussie Cozzie is based loosely on a biography of Aheda Zanetti who invented the Muslim swimsuit the burkini swimsuit. The play travels with Aheda through inspiration to fledgling production and gives a poignant insight into this little understood garment. The play interrogates the way the burkini swimsuit has become a symbolic flashpoint for the clash of religious freedom and secular democracy. When the burkini swimsuit is banned in France and Italy the play charts the torment and personal cost of misunderstanding and prejudice. A deeply affecting work the play is essentially about the struggle for identity, and the genius of creative ingenuity. | |||||
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Multiple Choice | ||
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35329 | |||
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Genre: | play One Act TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
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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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Ozone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane Festival | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0977550210 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35330 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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| 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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Parramatta Girls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir Street Theatre | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-811-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52135 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 8 | ||
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| 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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Prospectors, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Monkeybaa/STC, ANMM | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35331 | |||
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Genre: | 30 mins One Act TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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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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Ratticus and Reidar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hyde Park barracks | - - - | ||||
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 | #126737 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 actors, either gender | |||||
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Synopsis: | Meet the residents who lived alongside the soldiers and convicts in the Hyde Park Barracks - the rats! Ratticus is the most cunning rat in the pack and when Reidar, a Norweigian brown rat arrives fresh off the prison hulk, its Ratticus who shows him how to survive by nibbling at the convicts toes. An action packed, rats eye-view of the Barracks thats packed full of songs, dance and laughs for all ages.Youll be amazed by how much those wily rats can tell us about life in the early setttlement! | |||||
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Redfern Heights | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52861 | |||
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Genre: | 30 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Redfern Heights | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #126744 | |||
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Genre: | 40 min in verse and prose | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A short play, in verse and prose, set in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern. A poetic impression of the suburb as it travels through one day, the narrative tells the tale of four residents, a non-indigenous woman whose bag is snatched, the drug-addled thief, an indigenous woman who is knocked over and injured on a pedestrian crossing as she returns home, and the policeman who deals with all of them. A play about interconnectedness and the possibility of community. | |||||
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Row Of Tents | ||
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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 | #35332 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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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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Run Rabbit Run | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868197470 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52862 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 150 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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| To streamline the rugby championship league the organisers decide to drop one of the clubs. They choose one of the oldest and winners of more championships than any other. They then face a battle for the reinstatement of the team | |||||
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Savage Grace | ||
| 1st Produced: | Steamworks/La Mama | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-97755-020-3 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35333 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 actors, non-gender specific (may be played by 2 men, 2 women, or 1 man and 1 woman) | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Rodney Seaborne Playwrights Award | |||||
| 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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Sex Act, The | ||
| 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 | #126742 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned by the STC Blueprints Programme | |||||
Synopsis: | Two university law students, Marlowe and Neil, decide to turn one of their degree assignments into a play about the passing of the 1984 Sex Discrimination Act. They recruit another student, Olga, who is intensely hostile towards feminists and sees the whole thing as a wonderful way to send up the generation she calls 'gender terrorists'. As the assignment progresses, their own personal flaws, feelings, contradictions and problems in regard to their personal relationships are revealed, and their understanding and estimation of the achievements of the legislation changes. But for Olga, who keeps being visited by a pesky Germaine Greer in her dreams, the process reveals unpleasant truths about herself and her lover and propels her toward a change that is both irrevocable and life-changing. Intercut with these scenes of the young adults in the present, are dramatised scenes of the passage of the legislation involving all the historical participants in the real-life drama - Senator Susan Ryan, representatives of the group Women Who Want to Be Women, Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Opposition Spokesman Ian McPhee, and others. A timely examination of the struggles of feminism in a 'turkey slapping' 21st Century and a confrontation of Australia as the only country in the Western world without a constitutionally guaranteed Bill of Rights. | |||||
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Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seymour Centre, Sydney | 05 Aug 2009 | ||||
Company: | Alex Buzo Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-882-8 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122320 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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| What do you do when you profoundly disagree with someone you love? Wearing a hijab is a touchstone of religious identity, but it is also imbued with a complex array of historical and contemporary meanings. In Alana Valentines new play, the cultural meaning of the hijab has become a wedge between generations. At the heart of Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is the relationship between an aunt and her niece. Both devout Muslims, the younger woman wants to put on a headscarf, the older woman tries to dissuade her. For Aunt Sarrinah, the hijab represents a world from which she has escaped; for her niece, Shafana, it is a personal statement of renewed faith. Alana Valentine has written a startling meditation on the clash between individual freedom and community reaction and, as academic Christina Ho acclaims, ' a quietly insightful intervention that portrays what media headlines never can; the multiple meanings of the headscarf for Muslim women' | |||||
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She-Birds | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Commissioned by the Playbox Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #35334 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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Shudder | ||
| 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 | #126904 | |||
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Genre: | 8 min play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A short play about the erotic possibilities of vomiting. | |||||
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Singing The Lonely Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0977550210 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70548 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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| The story of Carson McCullers from small town girl to major novelist | |||||
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Southern Belle | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35335 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the 1994 Australian National Playwrights Centre/New Dramatists Award | |||||
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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Splendid Ruin | ||
| 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 | #35336 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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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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Spool Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vitalstatistix | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35337 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue/s 70 mins | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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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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Story Of Anger Lee Bredenza, The | ||
| 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 | #126743 | |||
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Genre: | 1 act 40 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Anger Lee is a brilliant young musician. Five years ago she left her baby daughter with her mother while she went to Vienna to further her studies. Now she's come back and she wants her baby, but the baby isn't so easy to find. A haunting play about the generative power of the Australian inland, this play was the recipient of the 1989 NSW State Literary Award for Radio in its original conception as a radio play. | |||||
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Student Body | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boobook Theatre | 2010 | ||||
Company: | National Play Festival | |||||
| 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 | #126732 | |||
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Synopsis: | Fon is a student who has come to Australia for a university education. So have Kai Chai and Aditya and Song Yi. All of them are seeking an encounter with the freedoms and opportunities provided by a Western democracy - sexual freedom, political freedom and personal self-determination. Student Body is an intriguing, surprising and rollicking insight into the experiences of four international students as they each encounter their own terrifying and seductive dragons - immigration officials, home-stay mothers, University counsellors and Australian lovers. Not only is Australia a very different place than they expected, the opposition from the freedoms they seek come as much from the cultural baggage they are all carrying as it does from their current residence. What will they sacrifice to secure a skilled migration visa? What, or who, among them can threaten that possibility? As they play a high-stakes game of chance with their futures, who will care if they stay or go? | |||||
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Swallowing Communion | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #52136 | |||
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Swimming The Globe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Freewheels, Northern NSW Tour | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35338 | |||
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Genre: | One Act TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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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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Tarantula | ||
| 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 | #126741 | |||
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Genre: | 1 act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Presented as part of Griffin's Searchlight Program | |||||
Synopsis: | Narcissistic, impervious to criticism, and a pathalogical liar. Scandalous, bigamous, and the ruination of royalty. Countess, dancer and actress. The most generous, most willful, and most self-obsessed woman of her generation was Lola Montez. 'Tarantula' picks up her story on July 8, 1856, when returning to San Francisco from an exhausting and scandal filled Australian tour, Lola's lover, Noel Folland, disappeared from the deck of the Jane A Falkenburg and was never seen again, presumed drowned. Using the conceit of a play within a play, 'Tarantula' traces the story of Lola's life to unlock the mystery of this tragic disappearance, by having a contemporary actress making a play about her hero Lola. Set alternatively in a rehearsal room where the play is being made, and in flashback to Lola's world, the play is an hilarious and thought-provoking examination of the battle of the sexes - both from an historic and contemporary point of view. Erotic, passionate and very funny, this is a play which asks questions about just how much and in what way women's power had changed in the intervening years between Lola and our contemporary heroine, Gina and provides the opportunity for a virtuoso performance both from the gently aging 'Lola' and her ardent young suitor. | |||||
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Titania's Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Riverina Theatre Company, Wagga Wagga and Griffith | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52863 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act 150 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | With his parents constantly fighting a teenage boy retreats into his own fantasy world populated by Oberon and Titania and the other fairies | |||||
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Various Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35339 | |||
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Genre: | play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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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. | |||||
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Watermark | ||
| 1st Produced: | Katherine Regional Arts | - - - | ||||
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 | #126736 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Watermark is a chronicle of both the physical, psychological and financial devastation of the flood in the northern territory town of Katherine, Australia on 26 January 1998. Based on written and oral testimony from flood survivors, the play evokes the power and torment of flood damage in a small town û the tensions and grief, the friendships and kindnesses, the fears and losses. Uplifting, moving and funny, Watermark is a testament to both the fragility and the endurance of a community in times of hardship. | |||||
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Whispering, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | read at the Australian National Playwrights Conference | 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 | #35340 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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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. | |||||
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