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Melbourne

1988

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Currency Press, Sydney

1988

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Play/Drama

2

3

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Synopsis: A black comedy about being single and eating in restaurants. Five people converge on a suburban nightspot to enjoy their meal and the after dinner entertainment. A bitter sweet farce about human vulnerability.

Melbourne

1988

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Published in "Australasian Drama Studies", Focus Issue No. 2. October

1992

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

1

2

musician(s)

Notes: -

Synopsis: Lois is a textile worker in a small country town. Life for Lois revolves around the factory, the supermarket and home. The play is about Lois' struggle to free herself from the traps that bind working mothers. Lois wins her struggle but not without paying a price.

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1998

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Currency Press, Sydney

1998

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Synopsis:

La MaMa ETC, NY >>>

1994

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One Act

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2002

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Full-Length 100 mins

Play/Drama

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Notes: written by Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell

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Melbourne

1992

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Adaptation

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Notes: from Jonathan Swift novel

Synopsis:

State Theatre Company of South Australia

2001

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Currency Press, Sydney

-

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

4

4

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Notes: -

Synopsis: When a child disappears tensions and vulnerabilities are exposed within a tenuous community on the frontier of white settlement. Elizabeth, the devout wife of a missionary is suspected of being involved in her own child's demise. But the men who sit in judgment can't fathom the reason why a woman would take the life of her own child. Only the women understand the dark place a mother can go. Linda, a local aboriginal woman knows what happened at the mission on the night the child disappeared. But she maintains her silence. She refuses to recognise the authority of European justice. By doing so she casts herself as a political prisoner and European settlement as a hostile act of occupation by a foreign power. Holy Day is about two defiant women who refuse to account for the unaccountable. It depicts a white community locked in a moral crisis, unable to liberate itself because it cannot face its dark truths.

Melbourne

1992

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One Act

2

2

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Synopsis: It's hot. The moon is full. There's not a breath of wind and the air is full of something. . . it smells like melting tar, like fumes from a petrol station, like the backyards of restaurants, like whiskey on the breath of a drunk you love. . . It's heady, pungent, illicit, like desire. No, desire is sweet. It's unfulfilled desire, sort of sour . . . a kind of lust . . . an unforgiving lust. Sonja meets Pete in a bar and they go back to a cheap motel room. Meanwhile Christine meets Tony in a bar and they also go back to a cheap room. The catch? Sonja is married to Tony and Christine is married to Pete. A double infidelity. Two scenes of seduction and betrayal are played out, each superimposed on the other.

Canberra

1986

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One Act

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3

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Synopsis: Three women over lunch realise the implications of one's affair with a married man. The other two soon come to realise that the man she is having the affair with is, in fact, one of their husbands.

Melbourne

1995

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Currency Press, Sydney

1996

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

3

4

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Notes: by Hannie Rayson & Andrew Bovell

Synopsis: There are two sides to every separation. Two truths. A fascination collaboration between two of Australia's most exciting writers. A story which will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost. Mathew and Nina have been married for twelve years. He is forty; a successful publisher. Always in control, his pace is enormous and his path is littered with the discarded souls of those who tried to keep up. Nina's thirty-eight; a journalist. she hasn't worked since the birth of the children. She's restless; looking for something. So when Mathew suggests she takes on the biography of Lawrence Clifford, tycoon, philanthropist and now Australian of the Year, she throws herself into the project with an all-consuming enthusiasm. A play about love and betrayal, about sex, sacrifice and survival, of break-up and break-down.

La MaMa ETC, NY >>>

1996

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

Adelaide, Australia

1987

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One Act

4

4

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Synopsis: A medieval journey for a new dark age, this parallels two journeys separated by time and space. The first journey tells the story of the fools of Basle, who in 1492 were rounded up and set adrift down the River Rhine. The second journey tells the story of eight unemployed and contemporary Australians who are rounded up and sent into the Australian desert on a work-for-the-dole scheme. The play is an exploration of society's treatment of the individual and reveals that little has changed over the centuries.

Sydney

1996

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1996

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Full-Length 70 mins

Play/Drama

2

2

doubling

Notes: This play brings together two earlier works, 'Like Whisky on the Breath of a Drunk You Love' and 'Distant Lights from Dark Places' with a new play commissioned by the Griffin Theatre Company (Sydney) especially for this production. Each play in turn is br

Synopsis: Sometimes you can be too careful. Sometimes you just want to say something quickly, without reserve without self-censorship, without shame. Sometimes the way some thing is said is more revealing than what is being said. There's a danger in that. It's the tyranny of form over content. But there's a kind of wonderful freedom in constraint. It can lead to an unwitting truth.

Melbourne

1987

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Synopsis:

Scott Theatre, Adelaide

2008

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Pubished as "Melbourne Stories", Currency Press

2000

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One Act

9

10

doubling poss

Notes: written with Andrew Bovell/Patricia Cornelius/Melissa Reeves/Christos Tsiolkas and Irene Vela. Part of Melborne Tales

Synopsis: Melbourne at the end of the twentieth century - modern economic miracle or a society imploding with savage politics and despair? The story is of fringe-dwellers, living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly out of work, and politically uninterested, they work at survival. A gritty portrayal of real life in an urban wasteland.