DONNA ABELA   


Donna Abela
   Nationality:
Australian
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Plays by Donna Abela

DONNA ABELA
1001 Arabian Nights
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DONNA ABELA
4 Speed B
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DONNA ABELA
Circus Caravan
1st Produced:
Gorman House Theatre ACT Australia
1993
Company:
Jigsaw Theatre Company
1st Published:
in International Plays for Young Audiences; Contemporary Works from Leading Playwrights, Meriweather Publishing, USA (2000)
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
60 mins. Children's play.
One Act
Parts:
Male
min 1
Female
min 1
Parts Other:
more than 20 roles
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Synopsis:
CIRCUS CARAVAN is the story of how an aging funambulist, Marichka, and a born clown, Geordie, try to convince the young and sullen Adele to join their musical-clown act. At the end of their road trip up the east coast of Australia, they leave behind mishaps, rejoin the circus, and present The Blustering Benetino Family to the world, featuring their newest recruit, Adele.
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DONNA ABELA
Daphne Massacre, The
1st Produced:
Parramatta Riverside Theatre
2003
Company:
Parramatta Riverside Theatre
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Genre:
70 mins. Absurd comedy
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Male
1
Female
min 4
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9 roles
Notes:
shortlisted STC Patrick White 2000 Play Award
Synopsis:
In a waiting room, a Nurse, a toothless girl called Daphne, and two Mother Figures, try to convince Isabella to have her perfectly good teeth extracted; it's her wedding present, but early. It'll win her men's respect, women's envy, domestic bliss, and heaven's praise. "Women's teeth are weaker, darl. Rip them out before the rots sets in, like we did& "
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DONNA ABELA
Edam Or Gouda
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1985
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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>,
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Genre:
2 acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
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DONNA ABELA
Highest Mountain Fastest River
1st Produced:
Salamanca Theatre Company TAS Australia
1991
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1st Published:
in New International Plays for Young Audiences; Plays of Cultural Conflict, Meriweather Publishing, USA (2002)
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Genre:
60 mins. Play for young people.
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Male
min 1
Female
min 2
Parts Other:
more than 30 roles
Notes:
1992 Human Rights Commission Award for Drama
Synopsis:
Highest Mountain Fastest River aims to evoke the refugee experiences of the Hmong people. Disconnected character journeys and stylised movement are used in order to avoid sensationalism and melodrama. In our production, four actors continually transformed into new characters. However, the play can be performed by a larger cast.
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DONNA ABELA
Princess and the Pea, The
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in Voiceworks Series 2, Longman-Pearson Education Aust, 2002
ISBN/ASIN
733930824
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Genre:
15 mins. Children's play
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A contemporary reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen tale
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DONNA ABELA
Quest
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Genre:
Full-Length 100 mins
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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DONNA ABELA
Rood Screen, The
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Birds of Appetite in association with the New Mardi Gras Festival.
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Genre:
90 mins. Absurd comedy.
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
flexible casting, min 28 roles
Notes:
The Rood Screen received an Honourable Mention in the 2004 New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest USA, and was a top five finalist in the 2002 Newham Lesbian and Gay Writing Out Awards UK.
Synopsis:
Theodora's hung around nuns, been transported by Bach, wept at the beauty of the Sufis, and underlined everything in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. She also loves Celeste: their life together is abundant, bliss ridden, meant-to-be, made in Heaven. . . or is it? How can she find a home for her spiritual instincts whan religions condemn the very love of her life? Pushing past the pontiffs of dogma, Theodora sets out to reconcile her two sources of joy. While entrusted with the body of a fractal-loving priest, she sings with evolved fish who live in fruitcakes: stops Mother Church passing pethidine to a man who is pregnant with possibility: takes the helm of Magellan's ship and circumnavigates the ever-expanding universe; and dives off the edge of chaos to discover the beginnings of a millennial pendulum swing towards conscience and radical compassion. It's Monty Python and The Science Show meets existential angst! A genre-crossing adventure through a chaotically absurd landscape.
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DONNA ABELA
Snipe
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Genre:
20 mins
One Act
Parts:
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Female
0
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DONNA ABELA
Spirit
1st Produced:
13 Nov 2007
Company:
Griffin Theatre Company
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ISBN/ASIN
978-0868198668
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Genre:
15 mins. Drama
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
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Notes:
Spirit is one of a series of short plays collectively titled The Seven Needs. Each play is discrete and takes as its theme one of Maslow's pyramid of human needs: food, shelter, sex, safety, belonging, respect and spirit. The plays may be performed separately or together, and were written by members of the playwrights' alliance 7on.
Spirit
Herman, a resistance leader from West Papua, has sailed to Australia with forty others, seeking asylum. Vera, a department of Immigration official, has flown from Canberra to interview him and process his claim. In the over-ripening heat of an excised Australian island, they both find an unexpected welcome.
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DONNA ABELA
Summer Reign, A
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DONNA ABELA
Tales From The Arabian Nights
1st Produced:
Laycock Street Theatre, Gosford
2004
Company:
Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image
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Genre:
60 mins. Children's play
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minimum cast is 6m, 5f. the 50 roles can be performed by large casts of any gender.
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shortlisted 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and 2005 Children's Theatre AWGIE Award.
Synopsis:
The King has beheaded his Queen. The desperate outsiders she hid in his kingdom have been locked up, and he has vowed to execute them, one by one, each dawn. But, disguised as the next outsider due to die, Shahrazad tells stories to the King. Strange and amazing stories about merchants and fishermen, Ali Baba and bandits, kings and professors, calligraphers and demons. The King ponders her stories of greed and foul play until, finally, his fury is subdued. Thanks to Shahrazad, he relinquishes his vow. The outsiders are released and anyone who seeks help in the King's land is now welcome.
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DONNA ABELA
Tidal Voices
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Genre:
50 mins
One Act
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DONNA ABELA
Uninvited Voice, The
1st Produced:
Newtown Theatre
2006
Company:
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1st Published:
in Playworks Newsletter Vol 8 No1, 2001
Brand Literary Magazine, University of Greenwich, 2008
ISBN/ASIN
1754-0593
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Genre:
drama
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
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Synopsis:
An unsettled white settler confronts his conscience.
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DONNA ABELA
Written In Latin
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Genre:
2 Act 120 mins
Play/Drama
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Male
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