DEBRA OSWALD   


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Plays by Debra Oswald

DEBRA OSWALD
Dags
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Play 60 min
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Male
4
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6
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Synopsis: Gillian is sixteen, suffers from the occasional ack-attack, and is worried about not having a boyfriend. She loves chocolate and is infatuated with the best-looking boy in school. A funny and compassionate look at adolescence.
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DEBRA OSWALD
Gary's House
1st Produced:
Penrith, Sydney
1996
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Railway St Theatre Company & Playbox Theatre Company
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
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Play/Drama
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Male
3
Female
2
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Synopsis: A group of battlers try to turn a dream into reality.
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DEBRA OSWALD
Lumps
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2 Acts
Play/Drama
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Male
3
Female
3
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Synopsis: Sophie and Stuart are made for each other: he's a doctor and she's a part time actress and full time hypochondriac. Love, fame, happiness and success await Sophie if only she can see beyond her medical encyclopaedia
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DEBRA OSWALD
Mr Baileys Minder
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2 Acts
Play/Drama
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Male
2
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2
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Synopsis: Leo Bailey is one of Australia's greatest living artists, whose genius battles to survive the effects of alcohol, cynicism and self-loathing. Only one of his many children, his daughter Margo, is prepared to help, but she does so at arm's length. Margo finds a willing but surly live-in-minder, Therese who is fresh out of prison and desperate for a home. Then along comes Karl, a handyman who has the job of removing a valuable mural but who keeps returning with offers of practical friendship. A funny and deeply moving play about friendship, ego, art and the secret longing for a better life.
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DEBRA OSWALD
Peach Season, The
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Synopsis: After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia's safe existence. Her daughter falls in love with enigmatic, erratic Kieran, but when the relationship is threatened, they run away together. The safe, perhaps smothering, world that Celia has created unravels; her paranoia and insecurities amplified to full volume. Playing out alongside her fear, we see the increasingly degrading and dangerous lifestyle that the two elopers have fallen into. Peach Season is a powerful, salutary tale showing what it's like to be a young person desperate for independence, but also, crucially, what it's like to be a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest.
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DEBRA OSWALD
Our Hopeful Youth
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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>
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Radio Play
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DEBRA OSWALD
Skate
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Youth Audience
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Male
8
Female
6
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Synopsis: Inspired by true events, Skate is about a group of kids battling with their local council to get a skate park. When tragedy strikes, the battle grows into a struggle for acceptance and unity. A turbo-charged, moving and funny account of the mates, mothers, tricks and traumas of a group of young skaters. Enhanced by live skateboarding, the play is full of the emotional awkwardness of adolescence, its adrenalin, compassion and humour.
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DEBRA OSWALD
Stories In The Dark
1st Produced:
Lennox Theatre, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
2007
Company:
Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) and Riverside Theatres
1st Published:
2008
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Play/Drama
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Male
6
Female
4
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doubling
Notes: Winner of the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Synopsis: A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his life steps Anna - older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers. Stories in the Dark explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive
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DEBRA OSWALD
Sweet Road
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2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
play can be performed with 6 or 7, using doubling
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Synopsis: This road movie for the stage comprises a series of cleverly interwoven narratives in which the peculiar mateship of the road brings together an assortment of travellers who don't initially realise how much they need each other. Jo spots her husband through a traffic jam; he's kissing another woman. She floors the accelerator and heads west, in a frenzy of grief and tears. She meets the young hitchhiker Yasmin, and is later rescued from a car crash in the outback by Michael, driving a truck to try to get over a tragedy of his own. Carla and Andy have all their worldly possessions in their car; including the kids and the dog. They've thrown their life into the boot and hope they're driving towards a better future. At a caravan park they meet Frank, who has set off on his big trip without his wife. She died before they could embark on their adventure. When rainstorms hit the dead flat plains they are travelling over, the voyagers all have their plans and lives disrupted in various ways. Each one of them is affe
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DEBRA OSWALD
Two-way Mirror, The
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1976
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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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4
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