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2003

Big ART Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Notes: Rankin's writing is original and fantastical. . . innovative Australian Drama. The Age. Winner: 3 Green Room Awards 2003: Best Innovative Production, Best Director, Best Female Lead. "Beasty Girl is exceptionally layered for a one person performance piece.

Synopsis: The secret life of Errol Flynn and the last remaining Thylacine. A tale of extinction told by Flynn's unacknowledged, illegitimate daughter.

The Pit, Barbican, London, EUR >>>

2000

Bite 200 Heads Up

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Short Play

One Act

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Notes: written by Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell

Synopsis: Semi-autobiographical story of Leah Purcell - or her alter ego Steff - which traces the events of her life growing up in a Queensland mission town. The youngest of 7 children and daughter of a white father and black mother, Steffs life is teeming with lively characters. There is her Nanna, crippled with arthritis, who teaches her the stories and language of her ancestors. There is her mother, who lives it up each pension day. Above all, there is her Grandfathers pony, Steffs vehicle for temporary escape that characterises Steffs life, from her Nannas prediction that shell fly away like a Blue Crane  Bungabura  her aboriginal name, to the many tragedies she manages to avoid. Despite poverty, violence, lack of education and opportunity, Steffs spirit is nurtured through her ingenuity and resourcefulness (in the midst of her familys unspoken love). Box The Pony contains devastating humour, piercing insight, raw energy and emotion as it tackles many of the pressing issues of our times.

Black Swan Theatre, Australia, ANZ >>>

2001

Big ART Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

indigenous

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Notes: written by Scott Rankin & Trevor Jamieson using a community process, the work toured Perth and Adelaide Festivals and to Germany.

Synopsis: The story of the Spinnafex people driven from their lands by the atomic tests in the 1950s, their survival and return

ACHE

2001

Glynn Nicholas Group

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Comedy

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Notes: written by Scott Rankin & Glynn Nicholas. Sell out seasons in Perth and Sydney. Leaves falling at Midnight is brilliantly funny, moving and a visual feast.

Synopsis: An environmentally friendly love story. An eccentric man who collects autumn leaves meets a young activist and try not to fall in love.

Adelaide: Fringe Festival, Australia, ANZ >>>

2004

Windmill

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Narrative

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Notes: Using text, song and visual imagary a beautifull, moving and funny story unfol

Synopsis: In 1956, the River Murray flooded causing chaos. Sheep and cattle drowned, houses were washed away and trees felled. Riverland juxtaposes the story of this historic flood with the lives of a contemporary urban indigenous family. The once mighty river and the lives of three generations of family become bound together in a shared history. Riverland is the story of 13-year-old Luke and his family who go camping beside the river his Nana remembers swimming in as a girl before the flood. The river has changed - the cod do not swim there any more and the children live in the city. The audience is invited to come camping in a world of storytelling and play, where the real and the imagined combine, where the past and present are one.

Canberra Theatre Courtyard Studio, Australia

1996

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Synopsis: rootless declassed people who live in bed sitting rooms or small flats alienated by their cultural diversity