JEFFREY FEREDAY   (1959 - 1996)


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Australian
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Plays by Jeffrey Fereday

JEFFREY FEREDAY
Moment's Hesitation As She Changes the Expression On Her Face, A
1st Produced:
La Mama Theatre, Melbourne
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
Australian Plays, 1988
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Drama, absurdism
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
50 minutes running time. Script available from: http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1096
Synopsis:
A woman prepares to speak to an auditorium full of men. She fears she is late but there is time enough to hesitate before the trial of her appearance. She struggles to find her voice, to summon the authority, to project past the harsh glare of stage lights, to be genuinely heard. A man appears. He claims to be the caretaker and an expert public speaker. She must negotiate his menacing presence and claim her right to speak.
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JEFFREY FEREDAY
Slow Exit, A (He us Going to Die)
1st Produced:
Grant Street Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Australian Plays, 1987
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Satire
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
90 minutes running time. Script available from: http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1095
Synopsis:
Five seasoned actors emerge from a maelstrom of discarded theatre sets, costumes and props. They gossip and argue, prance and preen. From time to time they strike up impromptu performances. Their lines and gestures are poorly recalled fragments from a disparate array of theatrical traditions: Aristophanes; Shakespeare; Leban; Brecht; Pinter; Miller; opera, West End. Hilariously funny, their parodies turn increasingly melancholic. An existential crisis ensues. In this theatre of ruins, the actors find they are not lost for words but lost for meaning.
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