RON BLAIR   (1942 - )


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Plays by Ron Blair

RON BLAIR
Alive in Dinner Suits
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: This stage play is set in a radio drama studio in 1950 and deals with the activities of the staff of a radio drama department. Initially we seem to be watching these executives acting in a radio play, the play of their own office lives in front of us. In this way the two chief components of making radio drama - the office politics and the actual recording in the studio become one.
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RON BLAIR
Christian Brothers
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1st Published:
in Plays of the 70's Vol 3, Currency Press, Sydney
1976
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A moving dramatic monologue in which a teaching brother grapples with personal anguish and a sense of time departed while trying to hold the attention of a class of unwilling students.
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RON BLAIR
Flash Jim (Vaux)
1st Produced:
Nimrod Theatre
1972
Company:
Nimrod Theatre Company
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Ballad Opera, 2 Acts
Opera
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
pianist
Notes: book and lyrics, Ron Blair; music by Terence Clarke
Synopsis: A ballad opera about a convict who was transported three times to NSW. A boisterous and touching portrait of a Regency dandy turned lag. The play is in the form of a ballad opera, tracing, (rather loosely) the life of James Hardy Vaux during the period 1807 to the 1840s. James was a quick-witted, notorious pick pocket and swindler who led a remakable full life while travelling back and forth across the globe (all expenses paid). His life crossed paths with many rich and varied characters, some of whom influenced his life, some of whose life he influenced. Either way these are the people who made our country's history. Share their celebration and take heed of their message: Breath deep friends - while you can!
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RON BLAIR
House is Built
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
12
Female
10
Parts Other:
doubling poss
Notes: Commissioned by NIDA 1993
Synopsis: -
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RON BLAIR
Last Day In Woolloomooloo
1st Produced:
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1979?
Company:
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1st Published:
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
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A rich, savoury comedy very much in the Irish and Sean O'Casey tradition and set in a Sydney boarding house under threat of sale, the play is woven all around a central concern for ordinary people and their lives. Funny, and a sad allegory, and a splendid piece of theatre.
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RON BLAIR
Marx
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Company:
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
1983
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A dramatic analysis which illuminates the development of Marx's political philosophy during his early poverty-stricken days in London's Soho. Blair explores at the same time Marx's relationships with his wife and family, their maid and with fellow intellectuals. This hero is a young family man on the verge of his great undertaking; a passionate intellectual trapped in a London slum, ruthlessly holding to his vision of a world with out privilege while around him 'children die like flies at summer's end'. In this compelling portrait of the architect of Communism, he argues that dedication to principle, even in the face of personal tragedy, is what distinguishes the great man from the good one.
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RON BLAIR
Perfect Strangers
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1st Published:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: After a long marriage, they separate in a comic and acrimonious dispute over who owns what books.
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RON BLAIR
Place In The Present
1st Produced:
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1977?
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Popular Short Plays for the Australian Stage 1", Currency Press, Sydney
1985
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A headmistress at a private school awaits her daughter's arrival on a railway platform. She is joined by a professional magician and a wino and finds herself caught by memory and desire.
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RON BLAIR
Political Bordello, The; or, How The Waiters Got The Vote
1st Produced:
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1974
Company:
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1st Published:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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RON BLAIR
President Wilson in Paris
1st Produced:
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1973?
Company:
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1st Published:
1974
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: This play opens with Edith and Woodrow Wilson in their Paris apartment in 1918. But all is not as it seems. A thriller about the power fantasies and homicidal games of a strange couple on Sydney's North Shore.
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