n/a

n/a

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1962

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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Stage play

One Act

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large cast

Notes: written by Dorothy Hewett and Nancy Wills

Synopsis: -

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in "Theatre Australia", Sydney, November

1976

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Notes: -

Synopsis:

Perth

1972

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Currency Press, Sydney

1976

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3 acts

Play/Drama

5

4

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Notes: Composer : Mervyn Drake. Awgie-award winner with music.

Synopsis: The tawdry dreams of three generations - set in a rundown cinema, 1890s to 1970s.

National Theatre Company, Perth; New Fortune Theatre

1974

Festival of Perth

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

9

5

four musicians

Notes: music; book and lyrics, Dorothy Hewett; music by Terence Clarke

Synopsis: Open stage 1970s musical about drugs, dropouts, conservation and Australian history.

Perth

1971

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Currency Press, Sydney

1972

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Epic Comedy

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3

2

chorus, musicians

Notes: music by Frank Arndt and Michael Leyden

Synopsis: Now more than 25 years old Dorothy Hewett's epic play has grown into a classic of the new Australian Theatre and Sally Banner into a national heroine. A major statement of the woman artists quest for freedom and self realisation in a community uncertain of its standards, the play is full of lyricism, music, satire and self parody. It traces Sally's life from school days, through lovers, attempted suicide, marriage and politics to disillusion and, at the end of her life, the artist's ever-present sense of failure, ironically coupled with worldly success.Now more than 25 years old Dorothy Hewett's epic play has grown into a classic of the new Australian Theatre and Sally Banner into a national heroine. A major statement of the woman artists quest for freedom and self realisation in a community uncertain of its standards, the play is full of lyricism, music, satire and self parody. It traces Sally's life from school days, through lovers, attempted suicide, marriage and politics to disillusion and, at the end of her life, the artist's ever-present sense of failure, ironically coupled with worldly success.

Sydney

1984

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One Act

2

3

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Notes: Operetta Composer: Ross Edwards

Synopsis: An operetta recreating a young girl's memories of her family and her tragic love affair.

Perth

1982

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Notes: -

Synopsis:

Melbourne

1976

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Currency Press, Sydney

1981

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Satire

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2

two women, two effigies and an amplifier.

Notes: -

Synopsis: A compassionate, satirical study of the loneliness of women within the family, grandmother and mother in turn face the helplessness of frail age and the daughter is left at the last picking over old memories in an empty house.

Adelaide, Australia

1981

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Currency Press, Sydney

1985

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2 Acts children's play with music.

Youth Audience

4

4

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Notes: Composer: Jim Cotter

Synopsis: A modern fairytale set in the Australian bush. Awgie-award winner

National Institute of Dramatic Art; Parade Theatre

2002

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Play with Music

5

6

pianist

Notes: book and lyrics, Dorothy Hewett, adapted by John Clark from her trilogy, The Wire Fences of Jarrabin (see listing); music by Terence Clarke

Synopsis: -

Canberra

1975

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Yackandandah, Montmorency, Victoria

1984

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

11

7

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Notes: Composer: Patrick Flynn

Synopsis: Open stage with music - a modern retelling of the Joan of Arc story.

Sydney

1979

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Currency Press, Sydney

1980

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Comic Musical

Comedy

4

5

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Notes: music composed by Jim Cotter

Synopsis: Lyrical celebration with music set in West Australian country town during First World War.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

6

4

plus chorus of 4 or more / traditional songs

Notes: -

Synopsis: Australian tent shows from First World War to the Sixties - open stage celebration, trad music.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Two Acts

Play/Drama

5

5

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: A trilogy about life in a country town in WA between 1920-1970, it tells the saga of shopkeepers, farmers, local drunks, the Bank Manager, a mad lay preacher, Aborigines and young lovers set against the changing fortunes of Jarrabin - flood, fire, war, racism, the rising salt, and an Aboriginal death in custody.

Canberra

1975

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-

-

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Notes: -

Synopsis:

Sydney

1969

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in "Collected Plays 1", Currency Press, Sydney

1992

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2 Acts black fantasy with music

Fantasy

7

6

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Academics journey through a suburban hell.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

3

2

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Notes: music composed by Jim Cotter

Synopsis: Josh, self-professed derro and ex-communist, lives in a hut on the edge of the Showground in Dry Torrent, a town whose affluence dried up when the river did. He shares his days with Blue, a Vietnam veteran whose car broke down at that spot and saw no reason to keep moving. When Vonnie, a young Aboriginal woman fleeing the city, her abusive pimp and a drug habit arrives, the quiet lives of Josh and Blue are changed forever. The fate of these three unlikely friends is written with compassion and humour.

Sydney

1978

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in "Theatre Australia", Sydney, September

1978

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

5

4

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Notes: Composer: Ralph Tyrell

Synopsis: Artists, crims and bohemians in Sydney's Kings Cross - a song and dance celebration.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Two Acts

Play/Drama

4

6

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Notes: -

Synopsis: A trilogy about life in a country town in WA between 1920-1970, it tells the saga of shopkeepers, farmers, local drunks, the Bank Manager, a mad lay preacher, Aborigines and young lovers set against the changing fortunes of Jarrabin - flood, fire, war, racism, the rising salt, and an Aboriginal death in custody.

Perth

1988

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-

6

2

plus chorus of 4 or more

Notes: music composed by Jim Cotter

Synopsis: Symbolic open stage with music set in Britain in Roman times and the year 2000.

Adelaide, Australia

1983

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Currency Press, Sydney

1985

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2 Acts children's play with music.

Youth Audience

4

4

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Notes: Composer: Jim Cotter.

Synopsis: About seal people and conservation on the Australian coast. An imaginative journey on the sands of Mystery Bay.

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Currency Press, Sydney

1981

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radio play

One Act

6

2

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Notes: Composer: Kate Lilley

Synopsis: A lyrical one-act radio play full of the sounds of the sea and of fishermen, the dreams of both mother and daughter are destroyed.

Sydney

1976

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Currency Press, Sydney

1976

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

6

2

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Notes: Composer: Mervyn Drake.

Synopsis: Fantasy with music about sex, love and illusion in modern Sydney.

Perth

1966

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Currency Press, Sydney

1976

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3 acts

Play/Drama

9

9

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Romantic realism - life of a working class family in Redfern, Sydney in late Forties.

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Two Acts

Play/Drama

6

4

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Notes: part of The Jarrabin Trilogy

Synopsis: A trilogy about life in a country town in WA between 1920-1970, it tells the saga of shopkeepers, farmers, local drunks, the Bank Manager, a mad lay preacher, Aborigines and young lovers set against the changing fortunes of Jarrabin - flood, fire, war, racism, the rising salt, and an Aboriginal death in custody.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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2 Acts

Play/Drama

8

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Notes: Written by Robert Adamson and Dorothy Hewitt. Composers: Michael Driscoll, Tom Flood

Synopsis: Love, sex, violence and tragedy set in an Australian prison.

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales

1991

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

5

5

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Notes: written by Dorothy Hewitt and Robert Adamson, Composer: Jim Cotter

Synopsis: Open stage musical for young people. The fantastical adventures of two Australian teenagers.