PATRICIA CORNELIUS (1952 - )
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Patricia Cornelius
Aftermath |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: The story of workers who have undergone a long and successful strike. A friendship is formed on the picket line but is put under pressure when it becomes clear that their struggle is far from over. | ||||
Boy Overboard |
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| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 |
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Notes: from the novel by Morris Gleitzman | ||||
Synopsis: The story of asylum seekers Jamal and Bibi and their flight from the Taleban in Afghanistan to Australia | ||||
Call, The |
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 to 9 | Female | 1 to 2 |
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Synopsis: Gary has had a humdrum life. Petty crime and dead end jobs boring jobs. Then he meets Denise - they fall in love. When she gets pregnant Gary believes that his life will change | ||||
Do Not Go Gentle& |
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| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Six people in a nursing home nearing the ends of their lives and their regrets | ||||
Dusting Our Knees |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: The women in a factory discover they are being paid less than the men for the same work and the discovery becomes the catalyst for them to take action. | ||||
Electric |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Following the famous SEQUEB dispute in Queensland workers were black banned, refused work in their own state, forced to leave their homes and friends. The play examines the emotional cost of a fundamental fight for rights to workers and their families. | ||||
Fever |
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| 1st Published: | 2002 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Full-Length 100 mins | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: written by Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell | ||||
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Hog's Hairs And Leeches |
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| 1st Published: | 1999 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | 70 mins | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Hogs Hairs and Leeches is eight small discrete plays which, combined, talk about growing old, regrets, memory, fears and beliefs. It examines many relationships: between mothers, grandmothers and daughters, between women who dance together at their local elderly citizens club, between grandparents and grandchildren who can no longer speak one another's language, between men who fought for good working conditions and young men who would work for nothing. It brings together the old and the young in poignant and powerful drama. | ||||
Home of a Stranger |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: The workers at an English as a second language class learn more than English. Inter-racial tensions have followed them to their new country. And learning a new language can provoke memories from a long time ago. | ||||
Inside Out |
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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 | |||
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Jack's Daughters |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: A man has been murdered, a father of three, a returned soldier and P.O.W., slain. His eldest daughter admits to the crime. His middle daughter confesses that she and she alone is the murderer until the youngest daughter proclaims her guilt. A powerful and dangerous play which examines the effect of World War 11 on a generation of men and the effect of that legacy on their children. | ||||
Last Drinks |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: After 25 years Gab is retiring and thinks he can walk out without saying goodbye but a surprise party is thrown for him and the true reason for his departure is revealed. | ||||
Leeches |
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Lilly and May |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Lilly and May is a hard hitting comedy that exposes the myth of a romantic life on the open road. The Bag lady has been potrayed in a popular mythology as a nuggety, rebellious, independent - and sometimes even rich - woman - whose special brand of madness has led her to prefer a free life on the streets, to Welfare or the restrictions of responsible social life. For Lilly and May the reality is far from this commonly held view of eccentricity. | ||||
Love |
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| 1st Published: | 2004 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Addictive, passionate and terrible love is what keeps Annie, Tanya and Lorenzo together. They are the most unloved and unlovable of people. Born at the bottom of the heap, they will never shift from under the weight of poverty and ignorance. Yet they talk of love, love, love. Love shifts curiously between these three who use each other, who abuse each other, who suffocate each other, who weigh each other down. | ||||
Max |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Max's mother has sacrificed everything to remain with Max. She and Max live in a boarding house and sell newspapers in the city and she has devoted her life to her son's well-being. He is her son and it's her job to look after him and that's all there is to it. But Max is 40 and he yearns for independence which he finds in a friendship with a young junkie named Maureen and in a rich and liberating imagination. | ||||
Money |
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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 | |||
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No Fear |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Two workers take extreme action against their employer when they are asked unreasonable demands. They act impulsively, righteously and they look mad and desperate. | ||||
OPA! -A Sexual Odyssey |
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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 | - | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: A vulgar and bawdy musical about women's sexual fantasies, OPA is the story of Penelope as she waits the return of her husband, the wandering Odysseus. But twenty years is a long time and Penelope has her own sirens to lure her to new and dangerous places, to lands of lustful imaginings. When Odysseus finally returns he finds a changed woman. | ||||
Platform |
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| 1st Published: | 1997 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | 70 mins | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
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Synopsis: On an ugly inner suburban train platform in a working class part of a large city young people come and go, some to school, some to hang out, some to sleep at night, some to watch the trains move in and out. Platform is about young people on the brink of adulthood, doing it tough, working through stuff, trying to make sense of things. | ||||
Slut |
| 1st Produced: | fortyfivedownstairs,45 Flinders Lane Melbourne | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Platform Youth Theatre Tenderness | |||
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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 | |||
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Notes: part of an original double-bill, 'Slut' written by Patricia Cornelius and 'Ugly' by Christos Tsiolkas | ||||
Synopsis: Lolita is crowned the queen of sluts. And no matter how much a girl thinks her life's her own and thinks she can do whatever she wants, a slut's a slut. A mob of young women take a stick to the pinata and watch Lolita's final devastating fall. 'Source: www.fortyfivedownstairs.com - Information extracted from AustLit: http://www.austlit.edu.au | ||||
Somewhere Else |
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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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: A play for children up to age 10. There is a woman so shy she doesn't speak. The umbrella man is obsessed with keeping dry. The careful man is obsessed with being safe. The neat woman is obsessed with keeping clean. And then there is Reve the dreamer. | ||||
Taxi a cabaret |
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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 | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Stories and songs of race and migration in a cabaret form. A taxi driver is after two young women who avoid paying their fare. | ||||
Who's Afraid of the Working Class |
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| 1st Published: | Published as "Melbourne Stories", Currency Press | 2000 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | 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. | ||||
You Still Here? |
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| 1st Published: | 1991 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | 50 mins | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 15 performers | |||
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Synopsis: A play about being young and Tasmanian, living on an island and dreaming of leaving it and fearing the separation from it. | ||||