Misto John - playwright

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John Misto

Nationality:	Australian (1952 - )
Literary Agent*	Cameron Creswell Agency
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Gossamer

Harp On The Willow

Shoe-Horn Sonata, The

Sky

John Misto Gossamer

Company

Synopsis:

A story of intrigue, magic and humour based on actual events. What happens when Houdini discovers a magic trick he cannot perform? When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle encounters a mystery that baffles even Sherlock Holmes? These two legendary men join forces to unravel the greatest riddle of the 20th Century. Their rivals? Two young girls. Did Frances and Elsie really photograph fairies, or was theirs just the world's most elaborate hoax? As Houdini and Conan Doyle search for answers, they are ensnared in the puzzle they are trying to solve - a secret as deadly as Baskerville Hound and as fine as a gossamer web. Two famous men. Two young girls. A mystery that stretches from Australia to Buckingham Palace. This is a story guaranteed to astonish and amaze you. And this one is true!

First Produced

1997 Ensemble Theatre, Sydney

First Published

Unpublished

Genre

Drama

Parts

Male

Female

Other

Notes

Based on a true story

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John Misto Harp On The Willow

Company

Synopsis:

Mary O'Hara was a star at 18, and a widow at 20. At the height of her fame she disappeared abruptly causing her family and fans to believe that she had died. Instead she had entered an enclosed order of nuns and was living in anonymity, without music and contact with the outside world. But when a derelict begins to visit the convent, he turns her life upside down.

First Produced

2003 Ensemble Theatre, Sydney

First Published

Unpublished

Genre

Drama

Parts

Male

Female

Other

Notes

Based on a true story, some singing in the play.

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John Misto Shoe-Horn Sonata, The

Company

Synopsis:

In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments. Now, after being separated for half a century, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past, contact the present and question the future. Woven into their fifty years of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their 'uncommon bond'

First Produced

1995 Ensemble Theatre, Sydney

First Published

1996 Currency Press, Sydney

Genre

Drama

Parts

Male

Female

Other

Notes

Based on a true story

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John Misto Sky

Company

Synopsis:

A young pilot vanishes in mysterious circumstances on a clear and cloudless summer night. In the minutes before he disappears, he describes a mysterious flying craft pursuing him in the skies. Was he really taken by a UFO? Or did he fake his own disappearance? Or was there a much more sinister conspiracy involved? The pilot's father, Rocco Bettoni, begins to search for the reason behind his son's disappearance and embarks on an astounding journey of his own. Sky is the true story of one of Australia's greatest unsolved mysteries

First Produced

1992 Ensemble Theatre, Sydney

First Published

Unpublished

Genre

Drama

Parts

Male

Female

Other

Notes

Based on a true story

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