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n/a

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

2

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Synopsis: An early work about a defrocked priest rediscovering Australia after years in Africa. Ripe for re-working.

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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entertainment with music and politics

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9

6

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Synopsis:

Half Moon, London

1985

Nimrod Theatre Company

Currency Press, Sydney

1985

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2 Act (also radio play)

Play/Drama

3

1

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Multi-award winning and widely-produced play about the murky goings-on of spies and playwrights in the Elizabethan Theatre. Strong contemporary flavour in style and language. Features William Shakespeare, Robert Green and an Australian Cut-Purse. Robert Greene lives in a noisy, bustling underworld of spies, crooks and punks, fending off the debt collectors and arch-rivals, Marlowe and Shakespeare. A play bursting with life and humour, CHEAPSIDE provides a fascinating account of the lot of professional playwright - and suggests that it may not have changed much over the last four hundred years.

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2 act

Comedy

5

5

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Notes: -

Synopsis: In the summer of 1929, Arthur Sinclair, last of the great Australian silent film makers arrives in Wagga Wagga to shoot the story of bushranger Dan Rafferty - and uncovers a hornet's nest of dark secrets!

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

2

3

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Notes: ideally able to perform together as a band, but can be faked.

Synopsis: Three old jazz musicians get together with a punk drummer and Czechoslovakian saxophonist for a come-back gig in a hospital for the mentally handicapped. Funny, moving, provocative.

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1978

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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Stage play 2 acts

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10

4

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Notes: -

Synopsis:

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2 Acts

Community Play

5

4

doubling

Notes: -

Synopsis: The early days of South Australia presented in the Brechtian manner.

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Radio Play

One Act

8

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: A fantasy/farce set in nineteenth century Australia bringing together Lola Montez, Charles Dickens' son, the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon and George Selth Coppin, the father of antipodean theatre.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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2 Acts

Play/Drama

7

5

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Notes: The life and times of a fictional Australian Music Hall artiste. With songs and dances. (Written for the Drama Department at Newcastle University. Won the city prize for best production of the year).

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2 Acts T.I.E. Community

Youth Audience

2

3

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Notes: A young female journalist goes looking for the legendary Tasmanian Tiger with a drunken Irish academic, while her mother, a wealthy business woman, schemes to exploit the wilderness that is the Tiger's habitat. Adventure, conflict, humour and a touch of

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2 Acts Victorian pastiche

Melodrama

3

1

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Synopsis: In Victorian England, two Australian confidence tricksters, one black, one white, seduce - as they think - a respectable woman into a life of crime. Years later she has her revenge. Not quite as simple a piece as it may sound.

Nimrod Theatre

1978

Nimrod Theatre Company

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vaudevillian biography

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3

2

pianist

Notes: book and lyrics by David Allen; music by Terence Clark

Synopsis: The story of Stan Laurel before he became the partner of Oliver Hardy, telling of his stormy relationship with an Australian dancer called Kate. This much produced worldwide play features Jock.

Warehouse, Croydon, London >>>

1990

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

4

3

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Notes: -

Synopsis: A new and updated version of the infamous "lost" Elizabethan play, "The Isle Of Dogs". The play that almost strangled English Drama at birth, turned a virgin into a raging Queen and her privy councillors into dedicated spiophobes. This play is part epic theatre, part road movie and part stand-up comedy routine; a sixteenth century romp in contemporary underclothes with authorship variously attributed to Thomas Nashe, Benjamin Jonson, William Shakespeare and Arthur Prickshafte. Arthur who. . .? You may well ask. . .

Union, SE1, London

2002

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

6

1

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Synopsis: Part irreverent bawdy comedy, part political thriller, this play explores life on the Elizabethan stage and surmises on the mysterious events following Saturday 7th February 1601 when Shakespeare's company put on a single matinee production of Richard II - a play concerning the overthrow of a monarch. The following day Queen Elizabeth I imprisons her former favourite, the Earl of Essex, for leading a failed rebellion against her. The queen's fearsome agent, Frances Bacon, terrorises Shakespeare, the players and Shakespeare's 'dark lady' whilst conducting his investigation into why the players chose to put on that play and discovers they were paid a considerable bonus by the Earl of Essex. On the 25th Essex is executed. Shortly after Will Kempe leaves London to become a writer in provincial exile, while Shakespeare and his company move their theatre away from Shoreditch, timber by timber, to establish The Globe on Bankside.

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1980?

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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2 Acts

Comedy

2

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: A mature -aged female student who has literary fantasies attempts the seduction of a Lecturer in English with sadly farcical consequences.

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2 Acts 30 mins

Play/Drama

2

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Karen can't cope with her separated parents' constant rows. She looks back to happier days.

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

6

4

giant koala

Notes: -

Synopsis: A farce set in the studios of a television station in an Australian country town, featuring a giant drunken koala, a stripper and Chat Show Host with a death wish. The ending, which involves a fire, is quite bizarre.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

3

2

playing assorted roles

Notes: Awgie-winner

Synopsis: T.I.E. Community. An expose of the corruption in the Philippines under the Marcos regime as seen through the life and adventures of a street-wise Manila kid and a middle-class university student.

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1979

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

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Large Cast

Notes: -

Synopsis: Uganda under Idi Armin. A political thriller that explores the involvement of the West in his rise to power. A tale of corruption and brutality.

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Currency Press, Sydney

1980

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

3

1

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Charles Dickens on his last legs in Melbourne, riddled with lust, guilt and regret and encountering both fictional and real life characters he sent to Australia. Premiering The Playbox Theatre Melbourne, October 1990.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

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Large Cast

Notes: -

Synopsis: 1942, the night Japanese submarines invaded Sydney Harbour and the night of the Great Jitter-Bug Contest on the Manly Ferry! Comedy, action and a grand suspense finale on the Harbour Bridge.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

2

2

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Notes: restricted availability

Synopsis: Set in the leitchen of the Moreton's cottage on the Hunter Valley coalfields of NSW during early months of 1929.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

1

1

playing a multitude of parts

Notes: -

Synopsis: The adventures of an English school teacher in Australia who thinks he's Hamlet. Black comedy with a touch of the surreal.

Croydon W'hse, London

1988

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2 act (also radio version)

Play/Drama

5

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: A middle aged Australian businessman remembers the long-ago summer in 1954 when, as a student, he worked in a Holiday Camp in England. Comic, traumatic, passionate, this play explores Anglo-Australian encounters of the uncomfortable kind.

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One Act

2

2

for actors aged 12-16, for classroom or school performance

Notes: -

Synopsis: In Australia's distant future, 15 year old Decco defends her territory against all-comers.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

7

3

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Notes: -

Synopsis: An adaptation of the Dymphna Cusack novel set in wartime Newcastle and examining the loves and lives of a local family of battlers.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

2

3

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Notes: -

Synopsis: In Western Australia, in the 1920s, a young English poet and his wife confound conventional morality. Based on D.H. Lawrence's time there. A sort of sequel to Upside Down At The Bottom Of The World.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

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Large Cast

Notes: speaking and non-speaking parts. A play for high school kids, with music

Synopsis: Tina and her band of young travelling performers survive in post-nuclear Australia.

Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane, Qld

1981

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Heinemann Educational Australia

1981

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

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2

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Notes: Winner of 1980 Awgie for Best Play

Synopsis: D.H. Lawrence in Australia. The famous writer and his German wife spend six months on the New South Wales coast, brawling, squabbling and remembering England - much to the amazement of their conservative neighbours.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

5

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: A university lecturer fights for his reputation against prejudice and intrigue in a narrow-minded community. Based on the 1950s "Orr" case in Tasmania.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

3

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: A 'behind-the-scenes' story of Harry, a successful playwright who decides he is going to make some 'real money' by writing scripts for a long running TV soap opera, 'Diamond Hill'. But no sooner has he joined the team than he discovers that all is not as straight forward as he imagines. 'Upstairs' has decided to axe Diamond Hill, and use him as a scapegoat. And then there's Alice.