BEN ELLIS
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Ben Ellis
360 Positions In A One Night Stand |
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: written by Nick Marchand, Ben Ellis, Victoria Gleeson, Tommy Murphy And Emma Vuletic | ||||
Synopsis: One election, two actors, five writers, ten characters and 360 positions. A play about love and sexual politics | ||||
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | commissioned by Latitude Festival, Suffolk | |||
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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: | 60 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: By Lucy Chillery, Ben Ellis, Stacey Green, Lucy Kirkwood, Ben Schiffer | ||||
Synopsis: An evening of heart break and misery | ||||
Between Us |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | The Production Company | |||
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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: The Production Company presents The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back!, a program of new works by Australian playwrights. The following description is from the show's press release: "Twelve acclaimed Australian playwrights create pieces based on their perceptions of the United States. The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back! includes new plays from some of Australia's most celebrated playwrights. The Production Company's work promotes and deepens cultural exchange between the United States and Australia and encourages artists to explore the relationship between the two countries." - nytheatre.com | ||||
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Falling Petals |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | The Production Company | |||
| 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: | Full-Length 90 mins | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: This is a gritty unattractive, moving and sickening piece of theatre. extroadinarily well written and quite distrubing. (Author Info) | ||||
Synopsis: In the town of Hollow a strange ilness is killing off the small children, HSC students Tania, Sally and Phil think they will remain unnaffected and focus their energies on getting the highest results possible to get out of their small town and childhoods. As the town is quarinteened and more and more people start to fall ill, the dynamics change. Tania and Phil now focus even more on getting out even as their friends start to die around them. They have plans to trick the guards, get to the next town. Sally meanwhile is falling sick. | ||||
Final Shot, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: "How can you take a man's death and turn it into television?" A loving family preparing for the end. A filmmaker struggling to stay. A nation hungry for its next TV dinner. How far should you go to put something on screen? What should you film? What shouldn't you? A final breath. A dying wish. A living need. Ben Ellis's searing new play forces us to confront life's final taboo. | ||||
Modern Living @ Its Fines |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Operating Theatre | |||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: part of writer's block | ||||
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Outpatients |
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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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Troy is a diabetic who needs the signature of his soon-to-be retired doctor in order to keep his driving licence. Beetle and Snail are middle-managers trying to reform St Peter's Hospital, where a nurse called Rebecca has developed multiple personalities to cover for all of the cutbacks. With the funding cuts so severe that even the stairs have stopped working, will Troy ever see his clean bill of health autographed? | ||||
Poet No 7 |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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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: | 60 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: the world's infatuation with America - a kind of fugue for four voices | ||||
Post Felicity |
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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: | Satire | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: bitingly funny portrait of a self-obsessed couple, a fiendish employer, and their bizarre reactions to a tragic event. It is a savage satire of three baby-boomers fighting in a mire of their own waking. Fiercely theatrical, this deeply black comedy has been awarded both the inaugural Malcolm Robertson Prize and The Patrick White Playwrights Award | ||||
These People |
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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: The story of what a "typical" Australian father, mother, daughter and son become when confronted with the stories of asylum-seekers: nightmares, dreams and, sometimes, penguins. Transforming the play's documentary material (which includes court and inquiry transcripts, statements by immigration ministers, interviews with detention centre workers and asylum-seekers themselves) - the play highlights the dramatic Australian response to the refugee story of recent times, with terrifying consequences for the lives of father, mother, daughter and son in their Sydney home. | ||||