DOROTHY HEWETT (1923 - 2002)
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Dorothy Hewett
Ballad Of Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | Stage play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: written by Dorothy Hewett and Nancy Wills | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Beautiful Miss Portland, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Theatre Australia", Sydney, November | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Bon-Bons And Roses For Dolly |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | 3 acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Composer : Mervyn Drake. Awgie-award winner with music. | ||||
Synopsis: The tawdry dreams of three generations - set in a rundown cinema, 1890s to 1970s. | ||||
Catspaw |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre Company, Perth; New Fortune Theatre | 1974 | ||
| Company: | Festival of Perth | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | 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. | ||||
Chapel Perilous, The; Or, The Perilous Adventures Of Sally Banner |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Epic Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 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. | ||||
Christina's World. |
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Operetta Composer: Ross Edwards | ||||
Synopsis: An operetta recreating a young girl's memories of her family and her tragic love affair. | ||||
Fields Of Heaven, The |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Golden Oldies |
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 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. | ||||
Golden Valley |
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | 2 Acts children's play with music. | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Composer: Jim Cotter | ||||
Synopsis: A modern fairytale set in the Australian bush. Awgie-award winner | ||||
Jarrabin |
| 1st Produced: | National Institute of Dramatic Art; Parade Theatre | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 with Music | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | 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: - | ||||
Joan |
| 1st Produced: | Canberra | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Yackandandah, Montmorency, Victoria | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Composer: Patrick Flynn | ||||
Synopsis: Open stage with music - a modern retelling of the Joan of Arc story. | ||||
Man From Mukinupin, The |
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | Comic Musical | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music composed by Jim Cotter | ||||
Synopsis: Lyrical celebration with music set in West Australian country town during First World War. | ||||
Me and The Man in the Moon (with Robert Page) |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 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. | ||||
Memory Theatre, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
Miss Hewett's Shenanigans |
| 1st Produced: | Canberra | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Mrs Porter And The Angel |
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Collected Plays 1", Currency Press, Sydney | 1992 | ||
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| Genre: | 2 Acts black fantasy with music | Fantasy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Academics journey through a suburban hell. | ||||
Nowhere |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
Pandora's Cross |
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Theatre Australia", Sydney, September | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Composer: Ralph Tyrell | ||||
Synopsis: Artists, crims and bohemians in Sydney's Kings Cross - a song and dance celebration. | ||||
Pleasure and Palaces |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
Rising Of Peter Marsh, The |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 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. | ||||
Song Of The Seals |
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | 2 Acts children's play with music. | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Composer: Jim Cotter. | ||||
Synopsis: About seal people and conservation on the Australian coast. An imaginative journey on the sands of Mystery Bay. | ||||
Susannah's Dreaming |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | radio play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
Tatty Hollow Story, The |
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Composer: Mervyn Drake. | ||||
Synopsis: Fantasy with music about sex, love and illusion in modern Sydney. | ||||
This Old Man Comes Rolling Home |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1966 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | 3 acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Romantic realism - life of a working class family in Redfern, Sydney in late Forties. | ||||
Wire Fences of Jarrabin, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
Zimmer |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written by Robert Adamson and Dorothy Hewitt. Composers: Michael Driscoll, Tom Flood | ||||
Synopsis: Love, sex, violence and tragedy set in an Australian prison. | ||||
Zoo |
| 1st Produced: | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | 2 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||