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Verity Laughton
Bad Luck Clancy
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Synopsis:
Clancy is a possum, with ferociously bad luck, who nevertheless survives and triumphs in his busland world
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not published
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1 act puppet play for lower primary age children
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Male
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3 Actor/pupeteers
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Verity Laughton
Ballad Of Bonnie Wheeler, The
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Synopsis:
Bonnie Wheeler is a child living on a soldier settlement farm on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. What she wants above all is to be a farmer like her dad but life intervenes to make her choices less straightforward. An energetic and amusing evocation of rural life
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not published
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For children and families 55 min
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Male
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5 Actors
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Verity Laughton
Burning
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Synopsis:
June Matthews, an ex-dancer, and her history professor husband, Stephen, return, without their university age son, to her grandmother's large stone house by the sea immediately after the publication of Stephen's latest, and most controversial book. June finds the skeleton of what turns out to be a 14 year old Irish servant girl, Lizzie, from the previous century. A detective tale wrapped inside a love story, about place, history, personal imperatives and ways of seeing the world.
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2001 The Australian Script Centre
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2 Act 110 mins
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Male
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2
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3
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Verity Laughton
Carrying Light
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Synopsis:
Rose MacBride, a discredited photojournalist, returns to the small country town of her birth to find that her beloved childhood friend, Hannah, has become part of a religious cult lead by her erratic, charismatic brother, Nicky 'Raphael' Carver. As MacBride and a companion, Harvey Marshall, investigate the cult, Carl Lucas, an adolescent protege of MacBride becomes drawn further into the danger zone around Raphael. An investigation into the operation of religious and personal charisma
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not published
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Male
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4
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3
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Verity Laughton
Fox
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Synopsis:
Jo, an Australian graduate archaeology student, leaves Dan, her surfie boyfriend to study with Dr Marks, an archaology professor at the British Museum. Their object of study is a fictionalised version of Linden Man, the 'body in the bog' of a likely Celtic ritual sacrifice deriving from the period of the Roman invasion of Britain. Jo is thrown back into a Celtic apprehension of life and sacrifice as she is forced to face elements of her own nature and likely life choices. A concrete evocation of the tension between visible and the apprehended worlds.
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not published
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Half-hour drama
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Male
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2
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1
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Verity Laughton
Gizmo, The
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not published
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Verity Laughton
I Saw A Dinosaur
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Synopsis:
A rag bag team of eccentrics set out to find a lost dinosaur egg
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not published
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play for primary age children
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Male
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cast of five
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Verity Laughton
Imagine The Night Sky
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Synopsis:
A storytelling exhibition (Images by JANET AYLIFFE) with poems and stories to illustrate tales from many cultures about the night sky
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not published
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For children and families
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Male
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Three storytellers
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Verity Laughton
Koala Lou
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Synopsis:
Koala Lou is a small koala. Feeling displaced in her mother's affections by an army of smaller siblings, she resolves to win the gum-tree climbing event at the Bush Olympics. A classic hero quest in the form of a musical for a very young audience based on Mem Fox's popular picture book
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not published
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60 minute musical
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Male
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2 versions: (i) 13 characters; (ii) 7 characters 3 leads are female, the rest can be played by either sex
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based on Mem Fox's picture book, for children and families (music: Stuart Day)
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Verity Laughton
Lightkeeper, The
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Synopsis:
Harry Power, an ex-seaman, is a lightkeeper at an (unnamed) lighthouse on the south East coast (the 'shipwreck coast' of South Australia. the play covers his midnight to dawn watch on a stormy night and a struggling ship in the near distance. harry revisit the major events of his turbulent life and in particular his love for and loss of the widow, Agnes Mary Taylor "with your grave face and your sweet eyes and your manners" and her six year old son, Henry. A meditation on love and endurance
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not published
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Male
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1
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Verity Laughton
Lights On Petticoat Lane
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Synopsis:
A Large-scale outdoor theatre event by and for the community of Penola, a small town in the south-east of Australia, home to Mary McKillop, Julian Tennyson Woods, Adam Lindsay Gordon, John Shaw Neilsen and Antarctic explorer John Rymill among others.The play covered the town's history and characters. The piece is most interesting to other producers as an example of a process that might be successfully applied in many locations
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not published
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Community Play
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Male
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large cast
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Verity Laughton
Mourning After, The
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Synopsis:
Belle Doyle, a performer in both radio serials and the Australian musicals of the 50s, is alone on Christmas Day on an Australian beach. She has just buried her domestic tyrant of a husband, Harry Doyle, a one time comic dancer turned very serious bank manager. She grapples with guilt and the shades of her highly coloured, obnoxious family to make a decision that might give her a return to passionate life. A warm, and richly comic evocation of a woman's life and choices set in context of Australian theatrical history.
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1996 Beckett Theatre CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, Australia
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Currency Press, Sydney
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Full length adult drama
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Male
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1
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Verity Laughton
Snow Queen, The
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Synopsis:
A contemporary adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale in which Kay, a clever, bold, heedless boy, is abducted by a virtual reality representation of the Snow Queen and Gerda, his innocent playmate, journeys through a series of adventures to rescue him. A contemporary version of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale
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not published
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65 min For children and families
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Verity Laughton
Tom Roberts
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Synopsis:
Australian artist Tom Roberts looks back on his life, particularly the period spent with Arthur Streeton. A short play to accompany Tom Roberts Retrospective, produced in 1996 by the Art Gallery of SA.
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not published
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Half hour adult drama
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Male
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2
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