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RAY LAWLER (1921 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown (Australia)Pty Ltd |
Ray Lawler was thrust into prominence when his play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, in which he appeared in the role of Barney, became a hit for the Union Theatre Repertory Company in 1955, and subsequently toured with enormous success throughout Australia and to London. The Piccadilly Bushman, written in 1959, toured nationally under the J.C. Williamson banner. Lawler's other plays include Kid Stakes and Other Times (completing The Doll Trilogy in 1975), The Man Who Shot the Albatross (1971) and Godsend (1982). Having lived abroad from 1957, Lawler returned in 1975 to serve as Literary Adviser to Melbourne Theatre Company and direct a number of productions for that company. Nowadays he lives in a bayside Melbourne suburb
Plays by Ray Lawler
Breach In The Wall, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canterbury, Kent | 1970 | ||||
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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 | #20236 | |||
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Notes: | televised 1967 | |||||
Synopsis: | about St Thomas a Becket | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cradle Of Thunder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1949 | ||||
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 | #20237 | |||
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Godsend | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20238 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kid Stakes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1975 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Doll Trilogy, Sydney : Currency Press, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868196497 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20239 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of the "Doll Trilogy" | |||||
| A joyful portrait of the summer of the first doll, in which a chance encounter brings Olive and Emma, Roo and Barney, into the shabby Carlton terrace to begin a seventeen year journey of seasonal love and argument. Kid Stakes introduces the fun-loving Nancy, who has left the scene by the seventeenth summer, adding a new poignancy to the story. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man Who Shot The Albatross, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20240 | |||
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Genre: | 3 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a version of the Captain Bligh story | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Other Times | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Doll Trilogy, Sydney : Currency Press, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868196497 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20241 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of the "Doll Trilogy" | |||||
| The middle play of Ray Lawler's Doll Trilogy. Set during the Second World War, in late winter, when Barney and Roo are on leave from the army. Other Times is the fulcrum of the three plays in which the characters stop being kids and become adults. Middle age is looming and life is no longer just a game. Things are changed forever by Nancy's decision, setting the stage for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Piccadilly Bushman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1959 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Angus and Robertson, London, 1961. Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 086819560X | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20242 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | An expatriate actor, Alec, returns to Australia for the making of a British film about his native country while hoping to save his marriage. Alec is forced to confront his attitudes towards his family and his homeland. The play's prescient subject matter shines like a beacon to illuminate the current debate on Australia's identity and the looming image of the new republic. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll | ||
| 1st Produced: | Union Theatre, Melbourne | 1955 | ||||
Company: | Union Theatre Repertory Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Angus and Robertson, London, 1957 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868190112 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20243 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Part of the "Doll Trilogy". Currency Press, Australia >>> | |||||
| in which two larrikin canecutters and their women awaken to middle-age. The impact of the Doll cannot be over-stated. Its success both here and abroad was quickly recognised as a defining moment in Australian theatre history. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Unshaven Cheek, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1963 | ||||
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 | #20244 | |||
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