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Ron Blair

RON BLAIR

  (1942 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    HLA Management Pty Ltd  

Ron Blair's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Ron Blair's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Alive In Dinner Suits         Biggles         Christian Brothers         Flash Jim (Vaux)         Hamlet On Ice         House Is Built         Kabul         Last Day In Woolloomooloo         Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know         Marx         Miserable And Lonely Death, A         Perfect Strangers         Place In the Present         Political Bordello, The; Or, How the Waiters Got the Vote         President Wilson In Paris         Servant Of Two Masters, The

Alive In Dinner Suits

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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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Biggles

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Michael Boddy, Ron Blair And Marcus Cooney

1st Produced:
Nimrod Street Theatre, Sydney    25903

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Christian Brothers

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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1st Published:
in Plays of the 70s Vol 3, Sydney : Currency Press, 2001   086-8195995

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Flash Jim (Vaux)

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!

Notes:
book And lyrics, Ron Blair; music by Terence Clarke

1st Produced:
Nimrod theatre    1972

Organisations:
Nimrod Theatre Company

1st Published:
Montmorency, Vic. : Yackandandah Playscripts, 1990   -

Music:
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Genre:
Ballad Opera, 2 acts Opera

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  pianist; doubling

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Hamlet On Ice

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written Ron Blair and Michael Boddy

1st Produced:
Octagon Theatre, Crawley, WA    10 Nov 1972

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House Is Built

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Commissioned by NIDA 1993

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  10            Other:  doubling poss

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Kabul

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1st Produced:
Parade Theatre, Kensington, NSW    31 May 1973

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Last Day In Woolloomooloo

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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1st Published:
Sydney : alternative Publishing Co-operative in association with Nimrod Theatre Press, 1983   -

Music:
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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know

Synopsis:
Lord Byron

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1st Produced:
Nimrod Downstairs, Surry Hills, NSW    12 Mar 1976

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Genre:
Historical drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Marx

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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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983   -

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Miserable And Lonely Death, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Warehouse, Covent Garden, London    28526

Organisations:
RSC

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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  -            Other:  with doubling

Further Reference:
RSC ref MIN197802

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Perfect Strangers

Synopsis:
after a long marriage, they separate in a comic and acrimonious dispute over who owns what books.

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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

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Place In the Present

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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1st Published:
Popular short plays for the Australian stage / selected and introduced by Ron Blair, Vol 1, Sydney : Currency Press, 1985    086-8191051

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Political Bordello, The; Or, How the Waiters Got the Vote

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
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Genre:
Play One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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

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President Wilson In Paris

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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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Servant Of Two Masters, The

Servant Of Two Masters, The
Truffaldino couldn't be happier with his change of circumstance balancing two jobs and earning double the wage. But his masters' turn out to be separated lovers on the run staying at the same inn. With one disguised as a man, the wily Truffaldino tries to handle the chaos. Hoop-la and hilarity take hold in this comedy of love gone wrong and mistaken identity in romantic Venice.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni, Adapted by Nick enright And Ron Blair

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia    28762

Organisations:
State Theatre Company of Sa

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2010) >>>    978-0-86819-881-1

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
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