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Bill Garner

BILL GARNER

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Bill Garner is a camper who is also a historian, playwright, and television writer. He is the author of Born in a Tent, a radical history of Australian camping. In the 1970s, as an actor he was a founding member of the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory in Carlton. With Sue Gore he is co-writer of several highly acclaimed plays including The Ishmael Cluband The Future Australian Race. His PhD thesis Land of Camps: The Ephemeral Settlement of Australia won both the Australian Historical Associations Serle Award and the Dennis-Wettenhall Prize from the University of Melbourne. His dramatisation of the Heidelberg School, the ABCTV mini-series, One Summer Again, won the Australian Writers Guild Award for Original Work for Television. He is a research fellow at the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University. Bill Garner is an inaugural Creative Fellows at the State Library of Victoria.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/3292

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

         Audience's Audience         Billy Maloney         Bull Ant, The         Cake-An Acland Street Comedy         Future Australian Race, The         Ishmael Club, The         Perfecting My Nature Strip         Sunday Lunch         Terms & Grammar of Creation, The

Audience's Audience

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1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, VIC     Jul 1968

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/102801

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Billy Maloney

Synopsis:
the life of William Maloney a reformer in Melbourne who founded the Medical Institute there and brought in a bill on women's suffrage

Notes:
Written by Bill Garner And Susan Gore

1st Produced:
Commonplace at Arts House, North Melbourne    2005

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Bull Ant, The

Synopsis:
Edward Dyson and the acerbic weekly paper he produced from 1890 to 1892...comic reflections on our national character.

Notes:
written by Bill Garner and Sue Gore

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, VIC    05 Mar 2002

Organisations:
Commonplace Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/14746

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Cake-An Acland Street Comedy

Synopsis:
A comedy about life in St Kilda, set in the world of performers and their agents. The first play to be presented at the new Theatreworks space in Acland St, St Kilda.

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1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, VIC    05 Nov 1986

Organisations:
Theatreworks

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Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96159

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Future Australian Race, The

Synopsis:
A colony of low-lifes and undesirables need cultural building blocks - a university, an art gallery and a public library.

Notes:
written by Bill Garner and Sue Gore

1st Produced:
Queen's Hall, Melbourne, VIC    05 May 2008

Organisations:
Commonplace Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
biographical play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78026

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Ishmael Club, The

Ishmael Club, The
Set in the early 20th century, The Ishmael Club - a club of "outsider" writers and artists - tells of the life and death of the friendship between artist Norman Lindsay and political cartoonist and war artist Will Dyson, who married Lindsay's sister Ruby Lind.

Notes:
Written by Susan Gore And Bill Garner

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, VIC    25 Aug 2003

Organisations:
Commonplace Productions

1st Published:
Currency Press   978-0868197296

Music:
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Genre:
play with songs

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/30028

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Perfecting My Nature Strip

Synopsis:
Perfecting My Nature Strip is a light-hearted look at St Kilda's yuppie invasion"; essentially a conversation between a newly arrived yuppie and and older local resident.

Notes:
written by Bill Garner And Susan Gore

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, VIC    06 Nov 1989

Organisations:
Theatreworks

1st Published:
Montmorency, Vic. : Yackandandah Playscripts, 1990.   0868050792

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2031

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Sunday Lunch

Synopsis:
When his wife decides to leave him, Neil talks her in to staying until after their traditional Sunday lunch with his doting mother.

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1st Produced:
Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, VIC    26 Sep 1991

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/13477

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Terms & Grammar of Creation, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Bill Garner and Sue Gore

1st Produced:
Commonplace at the State Library of Victoria    2000

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