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Daniel Keene

DANIEL KEENE

  (1955 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Daniel Keene's plays have been performed widely throughout Australia and overseas, especially in France. His plays, which include all Souls, Cho Cho San, Silent Partner, Low, Terminus, the architect's Walk and the Ninth Moon, have received numerous literary awards. His collaboration with director ariette Taylor - the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project - was critically acclaimed both locally and overseas. 'Fashioning language is Daniel Keene's trade, and the playwright approaches it with visceral intensity. You can almost imagine him pulling a red-hot word from a furnace, hammering it into shape and laying it down on the page to cool.' the Sydney Morning Herald

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/189

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         Ali         All Souls         All Through the Night         Angels Tomorrow         Apprentice, The         Architect's Walk, The         Bearers Of Light         Because you are Mine         Beneath Heaven         Between Today And Tomorrow         Bitch Heart         Black Cat Bone         Black Is The Colour         Blood Sister         Bogey Man         Boxman         Boy With No Face         Brief Darkness         Cafe Table (Three Conversations)         Cho Cho San         Choirbook, The         Citizens         Confidentially Yours         Cordelia         Cove, The         Custody         Death, A         Dog         Dreamers         Duet         Earth Their Mansion, The         Echoes of Ruby Dark         Economy Class         Elephant People         Estrella!         Eyes, The         Fire Testament, The         First Train, The         Five Men         Flowers & O Jim         Foundling, A         Funniest Man In the World, The         Getting Shelter         Glass Of Twilight, A         Half And Half         Homeland         Hour Before My Brother Dies, The         Isle of Swans         Kaddish         Kafka's Breath         Killing Room, The         Life Without Me         Little City         Long Way Home, The         Lost and Found         Low         Marie And Marguerite         Mother         Mysteries         Neither Lost Nor Found         Night, A Wall, Two Men         Nightwatchman, The         Ninth Moon, The         Paradise         Phillipa's Song from All Souls         Photographs Of A         Pirouettes         Rain, The         River         Rules of Thumb         Scissors, Paper, Rock         Share, The         Silent Partner         Small Mercies         Soldiers         Somewhere In The Middle Of The Night         Telling, The         Terminus         Three Legged Stool, A         Three Men In A Bottle         To Whom It May Concern         Tomorrow         Two Shanks         Untitled Monologue         Vespers         Violin, The         Visitor, The         What Remains of Dying         Words (La Paroles), The

Ali

Synopsis:
Three teachers wait outside their secondary school as the police systematically interview the kids about an African refugee (ali), a fellow student who has vanished. Once they finish with the students, the police will start with the teachers. What do the teachers know? What do they suspect?

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http://Australianplays.org/   -

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Genre:
20 min Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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All Souls

All Souls
all Souls, or the Day of the Dead, is when the dead return to the world of the living.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Red Shed Theatre, Adelaide, Sa     25/1993

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1995    978-0868194318

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18877

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All Through the Night

Synopsis:
An international city. Late at night. A hospitalpublic ward. A woman visits her husband. Outside, some kind of war hangs threateningly in the air. We don't know what it is. We do know they are Muslim. there is speculation between them about the possibility of a curfew. He is too ill to return home. She is trying to keep him - and her whole familytogether. they share a small moment of intimacy, courage and strength together.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
15 min Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Angels Tomorrow

Synopsis:
This play is the story of an imagined hack fighter, Joey Dillon who dreamed of being a champion. Set in the world of 'dirty gyms, hard young men, Salvo Halls, tents and sawdust ring during the late 1950's and 60s. Keene's play is a rare combination of fantasy, harrowingly realistic language, nightmares and song.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Performance Space, Redfern, Nsw     04 Dec 1986

Organisations:
The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79475

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Apprentice, The

Synopsis:
Julien is a boy of about thirteen. Pascal is a journalist who drinks at the coffee shop opposite Julien's house. Julien has been watching Pascal through his binoculars and decides he wants to choose to be this man's son. This is a love story, of sorts, about a man whose life is changed by having a son.

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1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
60 min Naturalism

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Architect's Walk, The

Synopsis:
An imagined glimpse into Albert Speer's incarceration in Spandau Prison, the garden he constructed there, the walks he took and his conversations with both the prison pastor, and Rudolf Hess. The play is a mediation on guilt, on punishment and repentance.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, Adelaide, Sa     26 Feb 1998

Organisations:
Adelaide Festival

1st Published:
in Theatre Forum, Issue 36, 2009   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min Lyrical Drama, Epic

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  chorus, singer

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32516

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Bearers Of Light

Synopsis:
Marion an 80 year-old woman, sits on a bench in a park where she has always sat, recalling her youth in this same park, on this same bench. Her reverie is interrupted by a young girl of 16, also called Marion. as they converse, it becomes apparent to them that, although the older Marion cannot recall meeting the younger, they are in fact the same woman at opposite ends of their shared (or parallel) life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, C.U.B. Malthouse     22/2001

Organisations:
KTTP, Season 12

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min Poetic Drama (short)

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Because you are Mine

Synopsis:
A seamy tour through the underbelly of a world slowly turning on itself and going mad. The play follows the nightmare descent of 12 characters into the hell that is Bosnia. . .Red Shed has shown its inestimable value to the theatre world and our collective conscience.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Space, Adelaide, Sa     22 Sep 1994

Organisations:
Red Shed Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25990

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Beneath Heaven

Synopsis:
Tom and May find their plans and lives ripped apart when Tom loses his job and, in quick succession, his love for May, his belief in his identity and even the ability to trust his own thoughts. He abandons May just days before their baby is due to sleep in parks and toilets, seek wisdom from a madman, solace from a sad, detached woman and engage in sex for money with a cross-dressing male porn projectionist. He becomes traumatised by his own presence, paralysed by fear right to the play's desperate, closing moments.

Notes:
part of the KTTP Season

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     06 Feb 1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
120 min Naturalistic Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106754

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Between Today And Tomorrow

Synopsis:
Between Today and Tomorrow is set at night in a small room in a boarding house. A woman (Claire) and her 12 year old daughter (Julie) arrive. they have left their family home. It is their first night on the run. Julie can't take in what has happened, Claire can't explain it. In this emotional and delicate twilight, Julie tries to piece her family back together.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
30 min poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Bitch Heart

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     20 Nov 1980

Organisations:
Skelta Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93080

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Black Cat Bone

Synopsis:
A man of undetermined age and a snare drum. . .This is an astounding and poetic monologue from the inside of someone whose mind is splitting. Heartfelt, violent, lonely and terrifying.

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
poetic monologue 20 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Black Is The Colour

Synopsis:
Two women who have been friends (Irene and Catherine) speak in monologue and short, clipped scenes to us and each other of Catherine's experience of being physically abused by her husband. A stark portrait of the loneliness, terror and isolation victims of domestic violence can face.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
40 min drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Blood Sister

Synopsis:
Kate Kelly (sister of Ned) is being treated for opium addiction in a sanitorium. Through the haze of trauma, memory and - perhaps - drugs, she recalls her dead brothers, Glenrown, the trial, Ned's execution, her girlhood and tries to imagine a future with her husband and children. a lyrical, poetic and prismatic portrait of one of Australia's great women.

Notes:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min lyrical Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Bogey Man

Synopsis:
In a ploughed field, a man and a woman prepare to bury their dead infant. He only wants to work the soil. She longs for another child. their marriage ends in desperate violence.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
20 min dark lyrical Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Boxman

Synopsis:
Home owner and survivor Ringo is a former child soldier, a character who has "lived many lives". Displaced from his African homeland and instilled in his new one, a temporary shelter in downtown Footscray, he is a refugee from horrors he has been forced to perpetrate."One morning I woke up and everything I knew was gone. One morning I woke up and I didn't have a name."

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bruce Gallery, Footscray, Vic     16 Nov 2011

Organisations:
Big West Arts festival

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
50 min monologue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95933

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Boy With No Face

Synopsis:
A young man is pinned inside a blue blanket. He remembers? He prays? He waits? He imagines? A poetic and haunting monologue for a young actor.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
10 min Poetic Lyricism

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Brief Darkness

Synopsis:
Helen is alone. She's eating. She's sleeping. She goes for walks. She'd like someone to talk to. A woman thinks over her day in this lyrical monologue.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
10 min Lyrical Monorama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Cafe Table (Three Conversations)

Synopsis:
We're at a cafe table. In the morning two exiles meet, one younger, one older. In the afternoon two people approaching old age meet for the final time. they remember their younger selves. In the evening an ex-couple meet. This is a play infused with remembrance and regret.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min lyrical Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Cho Cho San

Synopsis:
a boldly lyrical theatrical adaptation of Madame Butterfly.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Universal Theatre, North Fitzroy, Vic     01 Oct 1984

Organisations:
Handspan

1st Published:
Paddington, NSW : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company and Company B, 1987   0868191736

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  musicians

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/102521

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Choirbook, The

Synopsis:
Three short plays by Daniel Keene The First Train- a solo by Jack Finsterer, The Share- about three violent young men, The Fire Testament - an almost post-holocuast landscape.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Span Gallery, Melbourne, Vic     28 Jun 2001

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Theatre Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
3 short plays

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11537

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Citizens

Citizens
Citizens is set at the dividing wall of an unspecified war-torn country. Over the course of the play, the fragility and nobility of the human spirit at its most vulnerable is carefully probed and laid bare.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes:
companion piece to Soldiers

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre (Sydney Opera House), Sydney, Nsw     19 Apr 2008

Organisations:
The STC Actors Company,

1st Published:
in the Serpent's Teeth, Currency Press, 2008   978-0868198385

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/74678

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Confidentially Yours

Synopsis:
A rich tapestry of laughter, tears amd irony. A collection of short works by some of Australia's best-known Dramatists,written specifically for actor Deidre Rubenstein.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Wollongong, Nsw     31 Oct 2002

Organisations:
Merrigong Fringe 2005

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
collection of short plays

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17537

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Cordelia

Synopsis:
Cordelia is a passionate meditation on death. a distracted and dream-like Lear figure, seemingly hovering between life and death, revisits the terrible pain of regret, of lost opportunities, that tortures a Father grieving over the his daughter's body. Cordelia is a rag doll in a suitcase, the once neglected, mute daughter whose body is now the fetishised object of his grief, the only witness to the wisdom he acquired too late.

Notes:
KTTP Season 9

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     01 Dec 1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min Poetic Monologue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Cove, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Dog Theatre, Footscray, Vic     22 Jul 2009

Organisations:
If Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89341

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Custody

Synopsis:
Custody examines the issue of indigenous deaths in custody through the lens of the perpetrators. a young and an older policeman rehearse the cover-up for the murder of a prisoner by the younger man who has killed with a vicious disrespect for the humanity of his victim.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brotherhood Of St Laurence Warehouse, 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick Vic 3056, Australia     05 Jun 1998

Organisations:
Season 3 of the KTTP Projec

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
20 min naturalistic Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60122

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Death, A

Synopsis:
A mother and her middle-aged son live on a farm in the middle of nowhere. they wait quietly and desperately for the return of her daughter (his sister) who has been gone, it seems, for years. Perhaps she could restore this broken family.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
30 min poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Dog

Synopsis:
A young man. Alone on a chair in a small room. the room is in an institution. the young man is possessed by a vicious dog. In this potent and spare monologue, Keene turns his attention to a young machine worker in the grip of psychosis. Touching and terrifying in equal measure, Dog was part of the Keene Taylor Project, orginally performed by Dan Spielman.

Notes:
KTTP Season 9

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     01 Dec 1999

Organisations:
Theatrecomrades

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Poetic Naturalism 20 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dreamers

Synopsis:
Dreamers deals with questions at the heart of contemporary life - the struggle against intolerance, the fear of difference and a love that is perceived as inappropriate. Dreamers explores a young man's experience trying to establish himself in a new country, amid growing fear and animosity as he begins a relationship with an older woman who is also familiar with isolation and loneliness.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic     06 Nov 2014

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Duet

Synopsis:
they wait. A man is murdered. they continue to wait. . .

Notes:
under the title of the Funniest Man in the World. part of the KTTP Season 11

1st Produced:
Grant Street Theatre @ Victorian College Of Arts, Melbourne     26 Apr 2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
30 min epic Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Earth Their Mansion, The

Synopsis:
When they're buying up the town what choice does a farmer's son have but to leave? When a son leaves what choice does a father have but to get angry? What choice does a farmer have but to sell up? This is a story of people who've been on the land for generations leaving for who knows what.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Lyrical Drama 40 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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-

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Echoes of Ruby Dark

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     14 Dec 1982

Organisations:
Skelta Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Economy Class

Synopsis:
A train from Melbourne to Sydney carries disparate sets of people through the night. We catch snippets of their conversations, their longings, what they're traveling to, where they've been. This is a lyrical soundscape of overheard conversations.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
45 min Lyrical Drama radio play

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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-

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Elephant People

Synopsis:
A freak show where Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, is Ringmaster. We meet a man with two bodies, a bearded woman, Siamese twins, a dog faced man and a hermaphrodite. Who are the real freaks, though? The performers? Merrick, for exploiting them? Or we, the observers?

Notes:
Depending of setting of music there me be a choice of gender in some roles. It may also be possible to do with one less performer if the man with two bodies is played by one performer.

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
90 min Sideshow Opera

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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-

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Estrella!

Synopsis:
Estrella is "a strong-minded woman who spends 20 years in harrowing circumstances in a South American city under military dictatorship".

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Anthill Theatre, South Melbourne, Vic     04 Dec 1990

Organisations:
The Tide Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
one person show

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/12997

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Eyes, The

Synopsis:
the eyes is a short and mysterious meditation on eroticism. Two middle aged men sit on a park bench. In brief poetic fragments, a first sexual encounter seemingly from years before, is recalled. Nostalgic and deeply erotic, this is a play that conjures the dark power and inherent sadness of sexuality and ageing.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre @ The Malthouse, Melbourne     22/2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
10 min poetic drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Fire Testament, The

Synopsis:
A naked young man painted in black and ochre appears from the shadows. He is an survivor of an unknown conflict of armageddon-like proportions. He speaks of the devastation he has witnessed. He breaks down and then speaks again with different voices. With the Fire Testament, Keene conjures a conflict which feels both physical and psychic. That this young man is damaged is beyond question. What has actually done the damage is open to the imagination.

Notes:
part of "The Choirbook"

1st Produced:
Span Gallery, Melbourne, Vic     28 Jun 2001

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Theatre Project

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Poetic Monologue 20 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11537

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First Train, The

Synopsis:
the First Train is a story told by a cobbler who mends children's shoes. A pile of small, worn shoes grows in the front of the stage, an ominous reminder of the countless victims of the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing. the story is the recollection of a young boy who watches as the train for deportation arrives in his town. He recalls only his mother, her flight with him, her hiding him in a factory box, her words telling him to wait until she returns, and then the sounds of struggle, destruction, and finally the train departing.

Notes:
part of "The Choirbook"

1st Produced:
Span Gallery, Melbourne, Vic     28 Jun 2001

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Theatre Project

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
20 min monologue, epic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11537

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Five Men

Synopsis:
There once were five men. They worked together and slept in the same room. All of them had travelled a long way from their homes in search of work. All of them longed to be home.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
120 min lyrical drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Flowers & O Jim

Synopsis:
Flowers is a duologue - a simple character study of opposites. An older man (Louis) is in a park, picking flowers. He is challenged by Jim: "That isn't allowed." In four pages, Keene evokes a strong mise-en-scene where one character takes what he wants with no thought of others and the other, far more aware of what is public and what is private, will not allow him to have his way easily. O Jim is a monologue from the body and spirit of a dissociated man: "I have no light in me, I've gone dark." It becomes clear in the monologue that Jim, who we have met in Flowers, has an undisclosed psychiatric condition. His speech is raggedly poetic, visceral and despairing.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Kttp, Season 12, At The Beckett Theatre, C.U.B. Malthouse     22/2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min Poetic Drama (short) and monologue

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Foundling, A

Synopsis:
A young man dressed in his pajamas clutches a tiny bird to his chest. He speaks of dormitories and locked rooms. He dreams of escape. He understands the capacity of the bird to be free. He imagines himself as the bird. He imagines that flight is possible. He clutches the bird, He cannot let it go.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Kttp, Season 12, At The Beckett Theatre, C.U.B. Malthouse     22/2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
10 min monologue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Funniest Man In the World, The

Synopsis:
A man can live in a room, says the woman, the only speaker, telling us about the man, a performer who enacts this monologue. (In the original production, the man was played by dancer and choreographer, Jonathan Taylor). His is a life where, although material wants are met, loneliness leaches out all joy, all meaning. His hero is Buster Keaton, the funniest man in the word, an ironic comment on his own joyless life

Notes:
part of the KTTP Season 11

1st Produced:
Grant Street Theatre @ Victorian College Of Arts, Melbourne     01 Apr 2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Getting Shelter

Synopsis:
Getting Shelter is a monologue performed by a street person, Ugly (described as "an old man in rags"). He is, it seems, dead or dying, and in the half-life in between, he revisits a home of his desire and imagination, a place of shelter, safety and home.

Notes:
part of KTTP Season 9

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     01 Dec 1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
12 min poetic monologue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  Original production featured a non-speaking male chorus

Further Reference:
-

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Glass Of Twilight, A

Synopsis:
a Glass of Twilight opens with Tom and the salesman propped up at the bar. the salesman introduces himself to Tom. He sells playing cards and his explanation of the importance of bluffing in cards sets the tone. "there's a difference between loneliness and being alone," the salesman says as he buys Tom's companionship. their new found relationship is delicately poised. their shifting status is dependent on who bluffs best.

Notes:
Daniel Keene's collaboration with director Ariette Taylorthe Keene/Taylor theatre Projectwas critically Acclaimed both locally And overseas.

1st Produced:
Brotherhood Of St Laurence Warehouse, 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick Vic 3056, Australia     11 Nov 1997

Organisations:
La Mama

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
20 min naturalistic Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/31252

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Half And Half

Half And Half
Keene cracks the code of male communication in this compelling story of two half brothers physically separated but bound together by a shared mother and a deep longing for emotional connection. absurd, comic and theatrical, Half and Half is a witty examination of the nature of language and the language of nature.

Notes:
2003 NSW Premier's Literary Award - Play Award

1st Produced:
Playbox Theatre, Southbank, Vic     29 Jun 2002

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Project

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press   978-0868196763

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/19640

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Homeland

Synopsis:
Homeland examines a family in crisis. A Father has been retrenched from his job as a spray-painter, a mother has lost sight of her capabilities and their son is lost, strugggling to cope with his adolescent rites of passage amongst the shadows of his parents worn and apparently wasted lives.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brotherhood Of St Laurence Warehouse, 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick Vic 3056, Australia     11 Nov 1997

Organisations:
La Mama

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/31252

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Hour Before My Brother Dies, The

Synopsis:
Sally hasn't seen her brother Martin in four years. Now he's in jail about to be hanged. She comes to visit it him for the last time. In this intense encounter they recall and role play their shared history as well as putting to bed some unfinished business.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic     01 Jul 1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
90 min poetic drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106492

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Isle of Swans

Synopsis:
Set in 1900 on a small island. Deserted by her lover, a young woman is left to her fate

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Church Theatre, Hawthorn, Vic     01 Sep 1985

Organisations:
The Tide Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Kaddish

Synopsis:
Kaddish is spoken by a man who has watched his female companion die. His grief becomes an unbearable anguish as he reflects on the poverty that meant she was buried in a pauper's grave. We learn something of the dead woman from her words, repeated by the man, and they have all the pathos of a humility that asks for so very little: I don't need much. It's enough for me. We've been happy enough.

Notes:
part of KTTP Season 5

1st Produced:

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Project, Season 5

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
12 min Poetic monologue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106714

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Kafka's Breath

Synopsis:
a dreamscape; a bed; a room; the smell of lilacs; are these observations, memories or delirium?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece written for marionettes 30 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  puppeteers

Further Reference:
-

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Killing Room, The

Synopsis:
This Beckett-style 80-minute dark comedy, inspired by the ancient story of Thyestes, envisions the end of the word and what violence may look like at its last gasp. When evil retires, what does it do all day? Imagine the end of the world. ancient, shrunken, and constantly bickering, twin brothers Cy and ed perpetuate their existence through blood transfusions and organ transplants. as young men, their greed was so insatiable and their capacity for brutality so great, they destroyed an entire civilization. they left nothing behind but the people who care for them: a doctor, a nurse, their wives. they still control the universe, or what is left of it, until their long-dead children reappear. . . Cy and ed are the darkly comic, modern counterparts of atreus and Thyestes, two brothers who fought each other tooth and nail for the throne of Olympia. In the original story, their acts of treachery escalate, creating a mind-boggling and unending cycle of betrayal. In one infamous moment, atreus kills Thyestes' sons and serves them to Thyestes for dinner.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Teatro Circulo, NY     13/2010

Organisations:
One Year Lease

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
80-minute dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/104011

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Life Without Me

Life Without Me
If you don't know who you are and you don't know where you're headed, you might find yourself spiralling in ever-tightening circles until you come to rest in a nondescript part of town in a crummy two-star hotel, where the service is churlish, the lift doesn't work, the toast is burnt and the pot plants set off your allergies. But keep your expectations low, really low, and, who knows? - you might be pleasantly surprised by how everything works out. a hotel with reservations. award-winning playwright Daniel Keene's play is an eccentric fable about taking up residence and trying to move on.

Notes:
winner of the Drama Script (Stage) - Griffith University Creative Writing Program Award.

1st Produced:
Sumner Theatre, Melbourne     14 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Little City

Synopsis:
Based around the idea of a community barricading itself inside the local town hall because it's fed up to the back teeth with indifferent and vindictive government cutbacks . . . Cuoculo's direction is inventive and controlled.

Notes:
written by Patricia Cornelius, Daniel Keene and Melissa Reeves. Music by Irine Vela

1st Produced:
Brunswick Town Hall, Brunswick, Vic     01 Dec 1996

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/29100

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Long Way Home, The

Synopsis:
We shall overcome. Created from first-hand accounts, The Long Way Home reflects the Australian Defence Force's recent experiences on operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor as well as humanitarian and disaster relief. As we approach the centenary of the beginning of The Great War, Australia and the world will pause and find their own ways to explore the impact of this war on their lives and minds. Sydney Theatre Company has embarked upon an historic endeavour with the Australian Defence Force to present this major new work, taking the words and experiences of servicemen and women to create a unique, inspiring and unforgettable event. British director Stephen Rayne and multi-award-winning Australian writer Daniel Keene have shaped a powerful piece of theatre, featuring military personnel recovering from physical and psychological injuries. These servicemen and women will perform alongside professional actors as part of a broader rehabilitation program that will assist their recovery. We open a door on their lives while deployed on operations and illuminate the challenges of their return to everyday life.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre, Sydney     07 Feb 2014

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Defence Force

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  19            Other:  doubling possible

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105582

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Lost and Found

Synopsis:
3 individuals are on a train. An old derelict, homeless woman finds a newborn baby boy. A mother invites her daughter back into her home. A man sits at a table delivering a list of all of the joys of his life.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre Works, St Kilda, VIC     14 Nov 2015

Organisations:
Theatre Works

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Low

Synopsis:
A man and woman struggle to keep alive, living beyond the law. A dark, bleak and poetic love story where two of society's outcasts take centre stage.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, Nsw     35/1991

Organisations:
Penelope Wells Enterprises

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
120 min Social Realism

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/14453

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Marie And Marguerite

Synopsis:
It's the middle of the night in a nursing home. In Marguerite's room two elderly women chat. One has a brain that feels as if it has become lose inside her head and the other has ruined legs with bones like chalk. They try to be realistic about the future the don't have. They forge a friendship.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
30 min Lyrical Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mother

Mother
Mother is a one-woman play that tells the story of Christie, a homeless woman in a world detached, unforgiving and destructive. It gives voice to the fallen and dispossessed, to those who exist at the edge of safety, at the point of being undone. It speaks of madness, denial, ignorance and free-falling poverty. Utterly devastating, yet written with Daniel Keene's characteristic lyricism, Mother is wrought with tenderness, violence and loneliness in equal measure.

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-

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-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press   978-1925005547

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-

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Play/Drama

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Mysteries

Synopsis:
Set at twilight in a surreal and timeless place where people gather

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, Vic     22/2001

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Theatre Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Neither Lost Nor Found

Synopsis:
In Neither Lost Nor Found a mother has reclaimed her 13 year old daughter who she was forced to relinquish to foster car many years earlier. This play charts their painful beginning to be a new family, the mother's love baffled by her child's defensive resentment, both of them emotionally bruised, thin-skinned and tender.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brotherhood Of St Laurence Warehouse, 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick Vic 3056, Australia As Part Of The Kttp Season 2 (Presented By La Mama)     18 Feb 1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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20 min Naturalistic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32214

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Night, A Wall, Two Men

Synopsis:
Night, A Wall, Two Men is a powerful duologue that examines the lives of two street people. Homeless, and sometimes hopeless, they have at least each other's company, but virtually nothing else. they reminisce, tease and compete to stay focussed on the grim business of survival. the future does not bear contemplation. This is a play of great tenderness and surprising comedic texture and a masterful study in decency, dignity and empathy.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brotherhood Of St Laurence Warehouse, 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick Vic 3056, Australia As Part Of The Kttp Season 2 (Presented By La Mama)     18 Feb 1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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40 min Naturalistic Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32214

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Nightwatchman, The

Nightwatchman, The
When Bill goes blind he has to move into sheltered accommodation. His son and daughter help with the packing up of the family home and are unhappy that their past is slipping away.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, Nsw     09 Mar 2007

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company 2007 Season

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press   978-0868198019

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ninth Moon, The

Synopsis:
the Ninth Moon tells the story of a modern Mary and Joseph (Chloe and Dan) as they begin to construct a family. Aged 20, pregnant, runaways from violence and neglect, they have only love and hope to sustain them. This play charts the 9 moons of their pregnancy and sees a young couple taking their first steps into the adult world. Here Keene's theme of the role of employment in society is examined in an inversion. It is the people Dan meets in his new job as a labourer who help to build their new family.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, Vic     16 Oct 1999

Organisations:
Melbourne International Arts Festiva

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
130 min poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/100839

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Paradise

Synopsis:
The Paradise Nightclub is a place better than hell. It's a world of strippers, old actors, dancers, singers and bartenders. It's a place of violence, drugs, sex and death. They struggle to pay the rent. They may have to be burn the place down.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
120 min Lyrical, Allegorical

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  6            Other:  -

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-

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Phillipa's Song from All Souls

Synopsis:
Phillipa, an ageing homeless visionary, hovers between the living and the dead petitioning for the souls of her father, her mother and her lover. Her voice, an inarticulate howl of the disenfranchised, is carried by the night to others awake and adrift.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Dog Theatre, Footscray, Vic     26 Nov 2009

Organisations:
Big West Arts festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Photographs Of A

Synopsis:
A woman's pain is measured in images, in photographs. These photographs prove that she was. How do we find the voice in a photograph? The woman is not the image nor is she her diseased body. She is between to two, perhaps. Are we safe observing her in the dark or are we diseased too and adding to her pain by observing it's image?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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30 min Lyrical Monodrama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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-

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Pirouettes

Synopsis:
A sequence of six short plays that concern themselves with the lives of young people between the ages of 12 and 20.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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drama 100 min

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  -

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-

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Rain, The

Synopsis:
In the Rain an old woman begins her story with the words people used to give me things. She tells of her past, when she was very young and would stand in a field as hundreds of people filed past her to the train. Forbidden to take anything with them, they handed her the small treasures they carry. She lists some of them - spectacles, shoes, hat pins, photographs, parcels tied up with string - and she takes them home and cares for them in the vain hope that they might one day return to reclaim them. One treasure in particular holds significance for her - a small phial of rainwater from the village of the young Jewish boy who left it with her.

Notes:
part of KTTP Season 5

1st Produced:

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Project, Season 5

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
poetic monologue 20 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106714

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River

Synopsis:
River is the story of an access visit between 12 year old Jake and his father, Ray. It begins on the banks of a river in a dreamy, poetic and tender scene between Father and son. Ray is living in a men's hostel, unemployed and irredeemably sad. they both know that Jake has to return to his mother, but Ray can't let him go. As day turns into night, Ray finds himself unable to maintain the fiction of "functional dad". A rite-of-passage play, River explores the terrible impact of depression on families.

Notes:
KTTP Season 9

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     01 Dec 1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Poetic Naturalism 20 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/102523

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Rules of Thumb

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Written by Alison Croggon and Daniel Keene. An ambitious conflation of four short plays: The Prisoner and His Keeper, Samarkand, Custody, and The Famine.

1st Produced:
Red Shed Theatre, Adelaide, Sa     01 Jul 1997

Organisations:
Red Shed Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Scissors, Paper, Rock

Synopsis:
Scissors, Paper, Rock is a spare, grim meditation on the human destruction being wrought by social change. Kevin is a stonemason, a worker in a vanishing trade. Kevin stands up here for the millions whose livelihoods are being destroyed by globalisation, by economic forces that count dollars not people. Neither his wife, his child nor his best friend can do anything to help. Only Jup the dog offers silent comfort.

Notes:
Scissors, Paper, Rock was the winner of the 2000 NSW Premier's Prize for Literature (best play). It was first performed as part of the Keene Taylor theatre Project (Season 4)

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     01 Sep 1998

Organisations:
La Mama

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Poetic Naturalism 60 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60978

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Share, The

Synopsis:
Two young men, Tex and Sugar, totally without ties to the world around them and without hope or purpose, plan a brutal attack on a drug dealer and his dog. they are aided by a younger boy whose only aim in life is to emulate their "cool" lifestyle. Society has trashed these young men, and their only course of action is to prey on that rejecting world, and ultimately on each other. This is an escalating portrayal of violence, mindless brutality and cruelty, tragically shadowed by the significant absence in the characters' lives - that of love.

Notes:
part of "The Choirbook"

1st Produced:
Span Gallery, Melbourne, Vic     28 Jun 2001

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Theatre Project

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
50 min Naturalistic Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11537

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Silent Partner

Synopsis:
Two down-on-their-luck blokes have good fortune fall into their laps when the chance to train a greyhound is offered to them. Little do they know their silent partner is setting them up for a fall.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda, Vic     23 Feb 1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
100 min black comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1686

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Small Mercies

Synopsis:
Five short works. Five exquisitely crafted vignettes on love, truth and the lies we create to protect ourselves and others. These plays examine the fragile beauty of life.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Boite Theatre, Milton, Qld     11 Oct 2001

Organisations:
La Boite Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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5 short plays

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/4442

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Soldiers

Soldiers
Soldiers has been commissioned for the STC actors Company as a companion piece to Citizens. Set in an echoing air Force hangar, family members gather to receive the bodies of their sons, brothers and friends lost in an unspecified conflict abroad. (Publisher's blurb)

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre (Sydney Opera House), Sydney, Nsw     19 Apr 2008

Organisations:
The STC Actors Company

1st Published:
in the Serpent's Teeth, Currency Press, 2008   978-0868198385

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/74678

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Somewhere In The Middle Of The Night

Synopsis:
It's evening and a daughter is picking up her mother from her emptied house to move in with her. The mother's memory is unreliable and the daughter lives a train trip away. This piece explores the complexities of a mother daughter relationship when the daughter takes on the role of carer and the challenges to a parent's status and dignity when that happens.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
20 Min Lyrical Naturalism    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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-

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Telling, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nida Theatre, Sydney     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Terminus

Synopsis:
the last train. Inside one of the carriages is a young boy carrying a box. Several seats away, a man is sitting. He moves closer to talk to the boy. He wants to see what is in the box. the boy is not interested in showing him. This is the beginning of a remarkable journey, which takes place at the end of the line, the terminus, in an area where hope would have died were there not room for dreams and wondering. each and every character encountered is searching, despite isolation and loneliness, for something better. except the man. He can give succour and yet finds none for himself. Both murderer and lover, he gives life and he takes it away. He changes people without being changed himself. Or does he become changed after all? Do his victims teach him something from the other side of the grave? This is a play of subtlety, of transcendence - it takes you by the heart, and also through your mind, and it leaves you wondering. It is a work of art.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Presented by DTC and east Coast Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/28736

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Three Legged Stool, A

Synopsis:
In the Three Legged Stool, three timeless individuals shelter from a storm. One of them has encountered a mysterious lost boy, who has been abused and then literally thrown away, lying among the weeds and filth. As with his earlier play Cordelia, Lear is invoked, storm-lashed yet generous in his pity for the other 'houseless wretches' such as Poor Tom. the difference between one who cares and one whose need makes him cruel and selfish - a universal human difference - is dissolved in the end by the desperate coupling that keeps cold and loneliness at bay.

Notes:
KTTP Season 11

1st Produced:
Grant Street Theatre @ Victorian College Of Arts, Melbourne     26 Apr 2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Three Men In A Bottle

Synopsis:
Three men meet at a cheap bistro. they drink. they argue. they drink. they bond. they drink. they drink. they drink.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cub Malthouse, Southbank, Vic     2008

Organisations:
Things on a Sunday

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
40 min black comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80765

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To Whom It May Concern

Synopsis:
about an old man who finds he is dying of cancer, and who with increasing desperation, tries to find someone to look after his mentally disabled adult son.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brotherhood Of St Laurence Warehouse, 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick Vic 3056, Australia     05 Jun 1998

Organisations:
Season 3 of the KTTP Projec

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
30 min Naturalistic Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60122

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Tomorrow

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of "Cryin' Out Loud": A season of short sharp plays that enthral, seduce and entertain, and are over before they outstay their welcome

1st Produced:
Space 28, Southbank, Vic     18 Aug 2007

Organisations:
Victorian College of Arts School of Drama Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/73173

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Two Shanks

Synopsis:
A tiny, living baby in a rubbish bin: that's the unexpected discovery made by a homeless man ransacking bins for something edible. After the infant fails to survive the cold night they share without shelter, he frantically searches for a small box in which to inter it. He finds two lamb shanks as a final gift and in a solemn ceremony, he farewells the child.

Notes:
KTTP Season 17

1st Produced:
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic     21 Oct 2002

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Project

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/19974

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Untitled Monologue

Synopsis:
Untitled Monologue is a study of a young man (first met in Daniel Keene's Homeland). the young man has moved to the city and found himself a room in a cheap boarding house. the text takes the form of letters to his Father (which remain unanswered). As the play progresses, his optimism, his affection and his strength are slowly eroded by economic and social forces that begin to overwhelm him. It's a masterful study of aching loneliness and the power of this young man's courage and faith.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brotherhood Of St Laurence Warehouse, 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick Vic 3056, Australia As Part Of The Kttp Season 2 (Presented By La Mama)     18 Feb 1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
30 min Naturalistic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32214

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Vespers

Synopsis:
An old lady. A dim recollection. A longing to hear the violin. Daniel Keene presents us with a melancholy meditation on ageing, dying and death.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min Poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Violin, The

Synopsis:
In the Violin, a father, a mother and a child, stand huddled together, boarding a train for deportation. they speak in intercut monologues, dwelling on different things: the child fascinated by the moving patch of sun on her hands and feet; the woman's delight at the child lying between the parent's bodies and at hearing her man playing the violin next door. the husband compacts past and present - there is always someone crying, he says, and stares down the looming existential void, likening humanity to the bristles on a brush.

Notes:
part of KTTP Season 5

1st Produced:

Organisations:
The Keene / Taylor Project, Season 5

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106714

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Visitor, The

Synopsis:
The school is closed for the day but Odile doesn't care. She's come back to see her old classroom. She doesn't care that she's getting in the way of Fred's mopping. She's trying to reconcile her memories of the person she was with the reality of the person she's become. Maybe she doesn't need to search. Maybe, as Fred suggests "everything is made . . . out of what has been lost."

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
20 min Naturalism

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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What Remains of Dying

Synopsis:
A man stands on stage reading from a statement. We might be in a courtroom or an interrogation room but not even the man seems to understand the part that he is required to play. What he has written are the things that give meaning to his life, most particularly his missing wife and child. His list of small moments of love and beauty, intimate and ordinary, are given the resonances of poetry and affirm an aesthetic dimension to life that cannot be separated from the mundane

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1st Produced:
Brotherhood Of St Laurence Warehouse, 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick Vic 3056, Australia     05 Jun 1998

Organisations:
Season 3 of the KTTP Projec

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
15 min poetic Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60122

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Words (La Paroles), The

Synopsis:
In The Words Paul and Helen travel from town to town as Paul preaches the word. They are poor; they are tired; they are hungry; they doubt. Are they trapped in a Beckett-like hell? Or is it just purgatory? Or could their love and perseverance be inspiring?

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
30 min Lyrical Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  Paul is black. Helen is white.

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