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HILARY BELL (1966 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: RGM Artist Group |
Hilary Bell writes for stage, radio and screen. She also writes for music theatre, including opera, musicals and song cycles. She is a graduate of the Juilliard Playwrights' Studio in New York, Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. She was the 2003-04 Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of the South in Tennessee. Hilary is a member of the playwrights' collective 7-On, and a recipient of the Philip Parsons Playwrights' Award, Jill Blewitt Playwrights' Award, Bug'n'Bub Award, Aurealis Award for Fiction, the Eric Kocher Playwrights' Award, the 2007 Inscription Award and an AWGIE (Australian Writers' Guild) for Music Theatre.
Plays by Hilary Bell
Anatomy Lesson of Dr Ruysch, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vitalstatistix Theatre Co, Adelaide | 2002 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52000 | |||
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Genre: | 1 act Drama with songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Composer: Phillip Johnston. Winner of an AWGIE for Music Theatre. Also suitable for young adult audiences. Would work well performed by puppets | |||||
Synopsis: | A highly theatrical play with songs, set in 17th century Amsterdam. Dr. Ruysch is a renowned anatomist who, assisted by his daughter, creates a cabinet of wonders from body parts. But overwhelmed by the wonders of science, he overlooks the wonders of his own child. Phillip Johnston's baroque-inspired, carnivalesque score is the ideal complement for the play. | |||||
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Blinded by the Light | ||
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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 | #52001 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | co author | |||||
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Cheering Up Mother | ||
| 1st Produced: | Juliard School | 1998 | ||||
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 | #2740 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy in verse 10 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Feeling sorry for their widowed mum, her kids buy her a cat. This seductive feline not only succeeds in easing her sorrow, but in helping her discover that she's still an attractive woman - to the horror of the kids. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cockroach | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1994 | ||||
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 | #2741 | |||
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Genre: | Opera libretti Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Douglas Stephen Rae | |||||
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Conversations with Jesus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2742 | |||
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Genre: | 70 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 (to be played by 1) | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Present day; Sydney. The world awaits the arrival of Jesus next Wednesday at Balmoral Beach. One household has hung all their hopes on his Coming: septuagenarian Norma, her middle-aged daughter Joyce, and granddaughter Kylie, aged twelve. A romance flutters between Joyce and Barry, a builder on the specially commissioned amphitheatre, while Kylie auditions for Bishop Leadbeater's welcoming spectacular. The main man in Norma's life, however, is Jesus. | |||||
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Crumbs From The Table of Love | ||
| 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 | #126719 | |||
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Genre: | 10 min opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | composer; Charles B Griffin | |||||
Synopsis: | A frantic ten-minute opera, during which a wonderful cake is baked by the lascivious cook and his droopy assistant. The aphrodisiac which the cook pours liberally into the mixture, intended to win the heart of the mistress, has its way with all concerned, though not, of course, in the way he'd planned. | |||||
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Diviner | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
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 | #2743 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Eye of the Storm: A Shipwreck | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1994 | ||||
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 | #2744 | |||
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Genre: | Tetralogy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | Four short plays, which can be performed individually or as one evening. Styles and length vary; two of them are musical. Composer: Judith Sainte Croix. Wreckage; The Bog Queen; Orilla Del Mundo; Tom and Eva | |||||
Synopsis: | Wreckage: On a tempestuous night in 1857, after months at sea, a ship misjudges the entrance to Port Jackson and is decimated against the cliffs. Next morning, three people pick over the debris for signs of their loved ones, valuable loot, or an explanation. Then they discover a man tied to a plank, the only survivor. The Bog Queen: A fairy tale in verse, with songs. A couple inherit a worthless bog. They exhume the thousand-year-old body of a woman, who clings to them, enslaving them and tricking them out of the one thing they love. Orilla Del Mundo: A short baroque fantasy, charting the voyage of an anti-heroine conquistadora and her encounters with pirates, sea monsters, mermen, singing figureheads, and transsexual sailors in her determination to discover whatever lies beyond the edge of the world. Tom And Eva: A ghostly love story. | |||||
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Falls, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Griffin Theatre Co, Sydney | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2745 | |||
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Genre: | Comic drama with songs 3 act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Composer: Phillip Johnston. Winner of the Bug'n'Bub Award | |||||
Synopsis: | Sydney, 1895. Meet three Great Liars: Alberta the polygamist; Jack and his plans to hoodwink the world with an outrageous hoax; and Alberta's long-lost sister Nellie, a false memoirist. There is also Praise-God, the bathchair-ridden, mute, bearded six-year-old. There's melancholic Pigeon, reborn through the conviction of Jack's lie. And there's Doctor Rachel Sylvester, seduced by Alberta, little knowing the truth about her. . . The Falls is a Victorian melodrama, part-musical, part-ghost story, part-love story, an exploration of deceit and self-delusion. | |||||
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Fortune | ||
| 1st Produced: | Griffin Theatre Co, Sydney | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2746 | |||
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Genre: | drama Historical 2 act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Cold Bath Creek, 1861. 11-year-old Chang is a giant, and the property of a brutal souvenir portrait photographer on the goldfields. Kathleen, an ex-convict, lures Chang from this miserable existence with promises of a better life, but she too exploits him, touring him as a freak. Driven to desperate measures by Kathleen's jealous lover, Duck, Chang is forced to discover his own superior strength. The tale is in counterpoint with the story of Iris, an anglophilic Chinese hotelier, and her Chinese-operatic descent into madness. | |||||
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Freaks! Geeks! A Chimp Who Speaks! | ||
| 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 | #126718 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male or female playing 12 roles, puppets | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Present-day Australia. 12-year-old Irene has grown up in the fairground, daughter of a Strong Man and a Clairvoyant, sibling of a Boneless Wonder and a Tightrope Artiste. But she herself has no talents at all, and she's threatened with expulsion from both the circus and her family unless she finds one - by Friday. In desperation, she tries her hand at everything from Human Cannonball to Siamese Twin, but fails at all of them. It's not until she liberates the caged animals that she's rewarded with advice by Joyce, a talking chimp. | |||||
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Frog Prince , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
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 | #2747 | |||
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Genre: | 1 act 15 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The telling of the well-known fairy tale by two frogs, in verse. A play for children, it was commissioned by the Australian Museum to accompany their 'Frogs' exhibition. | |||||
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Highway | ||
| 1st Produced: | posted on web | 1998 | ||||
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 | #2748 | |||
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Genre: | cyberplay | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Memmie Le Blanc | ||
| 1st Produced: | Deckchair Theatre / Vitalstatistix Theatre Co, Perth | 2007 | ||||
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 | #82344 | |||
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Genre: | Drama with (lip-synced) songs, 3 act 75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the 2007 Inscription Award | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1731, in the woods of France, a savage girl is captured, and baptised Memmie Le Blanc. At 14, she is taken in by a widow, whose aim is to eradicate the girl's vestigial wildness. But she is challenged in this by a young doctor, who wants to study Memmie in her natural state. He's accompanied by his trained orangutan, Robert. | |||||
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Message, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51171 | |||
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Genre: | 5-10 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Max and Juliet have been cursed by a witch, who demanded that they surrender their baby tonight; now Max must convey the witch's final message, despite all the words he is physically incapable of saying. This piece is part of Trepidation Nation, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Trepidation Nation. | |||||
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Mrs Satan | ||
| 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 | #82347 | |||
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Genre: | Opera 2 act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Ensemble: as many as practicable | |||||
Notes: | Composer: Victoria Bond. | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of real-life 19th-century spiritualist, socialite, Wall Street banker, Marxist, free lover and presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull. The opera focuses on her confrontation with Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, and her ensuing demise. | |||||
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Pocketful Of Hula Dreams | ||
| 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 | #126717 | |||
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Genre: | Musical 2 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | composer - Hilary Bell | |||||
Synopsis: | Terrigal, 1968. The gang meets as usual for a school holiday of surfin' and lovin', but this summer there are some surprises: the arrival of Stavros, a 'wog' who wants to surf; Carol's success in stealing her best friend's guy; Craig's being drafted to Vietnam. Thankfully Waiki Aloha, the Patron Saint of Surfing, appears to preside over the annual Surf To Perth Carnival and mend broken hearts. | |||||
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Shelter | ||
| 1st Produced: | Griffin Theatre Co, Sydney | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Short Circuit: 14 short plays for the stage, Currency Press, Australia (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868198668 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82345 | |||
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Genre: | Comic drama Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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| Kate discovers her 85-year-old mother has gambled away her life's savings and sold Kate' s flat out from under her. Unable to agree on anything, Kate suggests an alarming solution to the problem of where Mother should live. | |||||
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Shot While Dancing | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading | 1997 | ||||
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 | #2749 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama 2 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Runner-Up in the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 1999. | |||||
Synopsis: | At her mother's funeral, Greta meets her father for the first time in 25 years. She is now 35, and married, as is Tony - to a much younger woman. Greta is bitter and resentful, while he is anxious for reconciliation. At the urging of her husband, Greta agrees to take a weekend trip with her father. Their spiky relationship, bristling with emotional landmines and old recriminations, takes a strange turn: they find themselves falling inexorably into a passionate love affair. | |||||
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Stronger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1996 | ||||
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 | #2750 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation 10 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women meet in a cafe, and through the silence of one, the other discovers a devastating secret. | |||||
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Talk Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
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 | #2751 | |||
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Genre: | libretti for song cycle | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Elena Kats-Chermin | |||||
Synopsis: | Commissioned by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir, it tells in eight songs the story of obsession, humiliation and murder. | |||||
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Three Little Words | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #82346 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy 10 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women, in a stolen moment of what ought to be romantic collusion, bicker over who told what to whose spouse, and question whether the thrill is worth the trouble. | |||||
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Trepidation Nation | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51172 | |||
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Genre: | 80-100 min Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | 11 males, 12 females (4-23 actors possible) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy. To perform the entire collection, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below: | |||||
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Wedding Song, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1994 | ||||
Company: | NIDA 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 | #2752 | |||
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Genre: | libretti Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Ensemble: as many as practicable | |||||
Notes: | music by Douglas Stephen Rae | |||||
Synopsis: | A story of first contact between mainlanders and islanders. Newly-weds Michael and Rose venture to an island for their honeymoon, where their pursuit of rumoured gold takes them to the unexplored highlands. There, they are assumed to be sky-gods, and Michael is presented with a gift: the chief's daughter Mia. Michael and Mia's love transcends Rose's murder of the chief, Mia's sacrificial burning, and Michael's climactic walk on water. | |||||
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Wolf Lullaby | ||
| 1st Produced: | Griffin Theatre Co, Sydney | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-668-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2753 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act 75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the inaugural Phillip Parsons Award | |||||
| A baby is murdered in a remote town. Evidence points to Lizzie, a bright seven-year-old. Her young parents are faced with a terrible dilemma: to imagine nothing happened, and live with the suspicion and guilt all their lives, or to take her to the police and force a confession of what happened on Christmas Eve. | |||||
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