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National Theatre, London >>>

2005

Shell Connection

One Act Play,

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rite of passage play with a young girl facing up to a scary journey into adulthood

Adelaide, Australia

1988

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Currency Press, Sydney, 1988

0868191957

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Sydney

1991

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Currency Press, Sydney (1991)

0868193100

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Childrens 80 mins

Youth Audience

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Studying comes naturally to Sam, but Danny finds it more difficult. Linda thinks Jenny is wasting her time whilst Cathy regrets not working harder. And all the parents are anxious. . .In All Stops Out, Michael Gow reveals different attitudes towards the dreaded end of year exams.

Sydney

1984

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Stables Theatre, Sydney

1986

Griffin Theatre Company

Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company, (1986) >>>

0868191515

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A funny but painfully truthful play. It opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Shakespearean themes of suffering and reconciliation persist as three families on separate holidays are drawn together by a storm

Sydney

1987

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Currency Press, Sydney (1987)

0868191582

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A young Australian, in pursuit of a middle-European actress, triggers a series of emotional revelations.

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As Richard Mahony struggles with survival, identity and sanity, with one foot in the old country and a toe-hold in the new, his life gallops alongside the great events of the nineteenth century. Written with enormous emotional power, this is the spiralling story of a nations turbulent adolescence.

Sydney

1991

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in "Australian Gay and Lesbian Plays", Currency Press, Sydney (1994)

0868193623

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A family secret, a terrible betrayal and an obsession to rewrite the past combine in this savage and irrisistible tale of fact and fiction. A stranger has come into Roland's life and he will never be the same again. He is summoned to an old people's home to collect a box left for him by someone he has never met. The box is filled with newspaper clippings - about him and his career as a writer. He has to find out why.

Winter Theatre, Freemantle

1983

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Sydney : Currency Press in association with the Nimrod Theatre Company, (1983)

086819090X

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workshop at the Australian National Playwrights Conference 1982

Donald an assistant in a bookshop is having a coffee in a cafe one evening when Snake and her brothers Aspro and Dean turn up. The siblings are on their way to Sydney to get compensation money for an accident that Aspro was in - the accident has left him slighty confused and somewhat incontinent. He is called Aspro because of the number he used to eat. Snake got her nickname after as a young girl she was forced by her mother to have sex with a man and she said that he had a "snake". Dean takes a shine to Donald and urges him to come with them but he declines. Next day when he is at work in the bookshop the siblings turn up and this time Dean does persuade Donald to come with them. They are going to stay with an Aunt but when they arrive they find that the aunt has died and that a stranger is living in her house. This woman has just been told by her boyfriend to move out and as revenge she gives them the television, record player and records. The foursome rent an appartment. Aspro and Snake go to try and get the money but are given the run around by the various departments. Donald is afraid of sex and he and Dean end up being frustrated with each other. One of the tennants at the block where they are living is Desiree she distibutes Christian literature for her abusive father. She agrees to put on a slide show about the end of the world for Dean. Due to a loophole Aspro cannot have any compensation - he is becoming steadily more ill. During the slide show Desiree's father arrives and takes her away. Aspro starts coughing up blood and is rushed to hospital.Donald decides to leave. Dean goes to Desiree's flat and finds her bound and beaten in a wardrobe. Dean attacks her father and possibly kills him. Snake comes back from hospital Aspro has died she packs and leaves. Dean takes out a bottle of pills he has stolen and slowly starts taking them.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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full length, 1 act

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An anarchic romp through Greek mythology based on a feud between Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods. In 90 minutes practically every character from Greek mythology appears in a thought provoking script that is extremely humorous and tantalising, with some serious intent. As a comment on modern values it is incisive and illuminating

Sydney

1986

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Currency Press, Sydney (1987)

0868191582

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On Top of the World expands on the theme of disparate attitudes between the old world of Europe and the new world of Australia, as explored in Europe. Conflicts erupt in the family of an elderly man isolated in a high-rise apartment on the Gold Coast.

Sydney Theatre Company

1994

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Currency Press, Sydney (1995)

0868194301

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Helen and Frazer offer to look after Phoebe, a troublesome dog, for their best friends while they are on holiday. Nothing could have prepared them for the disruption to their highly ordered lives especially when they try to find Phoebe when she runs away. A dark comedy in which sensible priorities are forgotten, marriage is laid bare and a well adjusted suburban lifestyle lurches out of control

Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, ANZ >>>

2006

Company B

Currency Press, Australia >>> , 2008

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Winner of the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards in the category New Australian Work

Roland Henning has writer's block. When he tries to explain the situation to a therapist, his story begins to tumble back and forth between his childhood in The Shire and his work as a playwright. At the root of it all is that extraordinary day in primary school which shattered his boyhood and plunged him headlong into the dizzy circus of life and art. His story is funny, fiercely eloquent and shockingly honest. Toy Symphony is a wrestle between the vicious bastardry of being an artist and the sheer exhilaration of the creative act.