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VERITY LAUGHTON |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Cameron Creswell Agency |
Verity Laughton's work has been produced in Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, the UK and the USA. It includes main-stage adult dramas, a promenade community event, a musical, adaptations, plays for child and family audiences, as well as for dance, for puppets, for theatre of image and a 'neutral script.' Her plays include: The Ballad of Bonnie Wheeler; The Mourning After; Carrying Light; Burning; The Snow Queen; Koala Lou (musical); Gondwana; The Nargun and the Stars (both large scale puppetry); Sweet Thing; The Ice Season. Awards include: AWGIE for Community Theatre, 2004 (The Lightkkeeper); The Griffin Prize, 2001 (Burning); AWGIE for Radio Drama, 2004 (Fox); Adelaide Critics' Circle Best New Australian Play, 1999 (Carrying Light); Inscription Award, 2009 (The Ice Season). Two recent radio plays, Moon Door and Davy have been nominated for the 2009 AWGIE Awards. In 2008 she was awarded a full year grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to write a play, What Has Been Taken. She is a member of the 7-ON group of playwrights
Plays by Verity Laughton
Bad Luck Clancy | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #51323 | |||
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Genre: | puppet play for lower primary age children One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 Actor/pupeteers | |||||
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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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Ballad Of Bonnie Wheeler, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51325 | |||
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Genre: | For children and families 55 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 Actors | |||||
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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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Burning | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Stables Theatre, Sydney | Jun 2001 | ||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51317 | |||
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Genre: | Adult drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the Griffin Award, 2001 | |||||
Synopsis: | June Matthews, an ex-dancer, and her history professor husband, Stephen, return 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 a 14 year old Irish servant girl, Lizzie, from the previous century. A detective take wrapped inside a love story about place, history, personal imperatives and ways of seeing the world. | |||||
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Carrying Light | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Space theatre | Jul 1999 | ||||
Company: | State theatre Company of South Australia/Vitalstatistix | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51319 | |||
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Genre: | Adult drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of SA Critics Circle Best New play, 1999. Nominated for New Dramatists Award, 2000 | |||||
Synopsis: | Rose McBride, a discredited photojournalist returns to the small country town of her birth to find that her beloved childhood friend, Hannah has become embroiled in a religious cult led by her erratic, charismatic brother 'Raphael' an investigation into the operation of religious and personal charisma | |||||
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Davy | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Broadcast, Australia | 23 May 2008 | ||||
Company: | ABC Audio Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102795 | |||
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Genre: | Radio drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Davy, a small boy suffering foetal alcohol syndrome, attempts to make sense of the advent in his life of his new born brother. | |||||
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Fox | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Broadcast, Australia | Nov 2003 | ||||
Company: | ABC Audio Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51318 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the AWGIE award for Radio Drama, 2004 | |||||
Synopsis: | Jo, an Australian archaeology graduate leaves her surfie boyfriend, Dan to study with Dr Marks, an archaeology professor at the Britsh Museum. Their object of study is a fictionalized version of Linden Man, the 'body in the bog' - a likely Celtic sacrifice. 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 invisible world | |||||
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Gizmo, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wagga Wagga, NSW | Oct 2004 | ||||
Company: | Riverina Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51327 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre for young people | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | An adaptation of Paul Jennings hit novel for late primary children. Stephen, under pressure from his nasty bully of a friend, Floggit, picks up a 'gizmo.' Amid general hilarity, chaos ensues and lessons are learned. | |||||
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Gondwana | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Museum, Canberra | Oct 2005 | ||||
Company: | Erth Physical and Visual Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102797 | |||
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Genre: | Puppet | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 puppeteers | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A creation, through the use of large puppets, of life and change in the Great South Land, Gondwana, from the Permian to the end of the Cretaceous Period | |||||
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I Saw A Dinosaur | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51326 | |||
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Genre: | play for primary age children | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of five | |||||
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Synopsis: | A rag bag team of eccentrics set out to find a lost dinosaur egg | |||||
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Imagine The Night Sky | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51324 | |||
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Genre: | For children and families | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Three storytellers | |||||
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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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Koala Lou | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51320 | |||
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Genre: | 60 minute musical One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 versions: (i) 13 characters; (ii) 7 characters 3 leads are female, the rest can be played by either sex | |||||
Notes: | based on Mem Fox's picture book, for children and families (music: Stuart Day) | |||||
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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Lightkeeper, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mainstreet Theatre, Mt Gambier | Jan 2003 | ||||
Company: | Mainstreet Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Australian Script Centre, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | Electronic-script | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51316 | |||
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Genre: | Adult drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the AWGIE for Community Drama, 2004 | |||||
Synopsis: | Harry Power, an ex-seaman is the lightkeeper at an (un-named) lighthouse on the south east coast of Australia in the 1860s. The play covers his midnight to dawn watch on a stormy night with a struggling ship in the near distance. Harry revisits the major events of his turbulent life and in particular his love for and loss of the widow, Mary Agnes Taylor and her six year old son, Henry. A meditation on love and endurance | |||||
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Lights On Petticoat Lane | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51322 | |||
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Genre: | Community Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
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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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Moon Door/Respect | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Broadcast, Australia | 03 Aug 2008 | ||||
Company: | ABC Audio Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102796 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of all of China, lies dying, poisoned by mercury which he has taken in a misguided attempt to make himself immortal. He is responsible for the building of the Great Wall of China. The ghosts of two men who died during its construction head up an unearthly army waiting to greet him on the other side. He is immortalised in his legacy of the Great Wall, visited in the second part of this play by Liz, an invalid since childhood. She is assisted by Sharpie, who so far in life has not amounted to much. An Angel guides them to top of the Wall, the fulfilment of Liz's lifelong ambition. | |||||
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Mourning After, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Beckett Theatre CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, Australia | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Playbox theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 199 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-86819-461-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20118 | |||
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Genre: | Full length adult drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | One woman play form older female actor | |||||
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Synopsis: | Best remembered in the title role of the long running radio serial Berenice Beleagured, Belle Doyle also trod the boards in many major musicals to thrill Australian audiences in the years after World war 2. Now she is alone on an Australian beach on Christmas Day, having just buried her domestic tyrant of a husband. A warm and richly comic evocation of a woman's life and choices set in context of Australian theatrical history. | |||||
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Nargun And The Stars, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Riverside Theatre | 19 Jan 2009 | ||||
Company: | Performing Lines/Erth Physical and Visual Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Phoenix Educational 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-921085-97-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92111 | |||
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Genre: | Child and family/puppetry | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 4 puppeteers | |||||
Notes: | from the novel by Patricia Wrightson | |||||
Synopsis: | Simon, an orphan, goes to lives with second cousins on their farm, Wongadilla. He meets the ancient and magical creatures who inhabit the land. These include the Nargun, an enormous and threatening creature. Simon becomes involves in a struggle to preserve the b balance and harmony of Wongadilla. | |||||
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Respect | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Nov 2007 | |||||
Company: | Griffin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Short Circuit: 14 short plays for the stage, Currency Press, Australia (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868198668 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106356 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
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| Over three years, Australia's new writing theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, presented fourteen unique short plays across its mainstage season. Seen for one night only, The fates, Seasons and The Seven Needs were three play cycles provoked by the classical mythology of man's inescapable destiny, the seasonal patterns and Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs. Now , this eclectic and fascinating collection of ten minute plays by some of the country's most established and emerging playwrights becomes Short Circuit. | |||||
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Snow Queen, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Dunstan Playhouse | Sep 2003 | ||||
Company: | Windmill Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51315 | |||
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Genre: | 65 min For children and families One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A combined virtual reality and mainstage adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale | |||||
Synopsis: | Kay, a young boy, is stolen by the Snow Queen. His beloved childhood companion, Gerda, sets out to rescue him | |||||
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Tom Roberts | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51321 | |||
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Genre: | Half hour adult drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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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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World of Paper | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kazenoko theatre, Kyoto | Feb 2003 | ||||
Company: | Kazenoko Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102798 | |||
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Genre: | puppetry | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Conception: Peter Wilson and Kazenoko Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | Maruchan explores her world, entirely made of paper. | |||||
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