HANNIE RAYSON   (1957 - )


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Plays by Hannie Rayson

HANNIE RAYSON
Competitive Tenderness
1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, Australia
1996
Company:
Playbox
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
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Genre:
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Farce
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: An hilarious contemporary farce. In the competetive, fast lane of Australian politics, the City of Greater Burke is in the frontline of local government reform. Striving to become a model of leaner and meaner bureaucracy, the city is rationalising at an irrational speed. Driving the push for competition is the fearless Dawn Snow, Chief Executive officer; an emissary from the world of private enterprise. A volatile office environment, a gunpowder of ethnic mix, dangerous dogs on the loose and a Traffic Department overtaken by neo nazis . . . this is a play which creates pure laughter from its inspired havoc. Hannie Rayson shows us the personal and the political for what they really are - dangerously funny bedfellows.
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HANNIE RAYSON
Falling From Grace
1st Produced:
Playbox Theatre, Melbourne
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A play with a bright comic surface and mysterious depths. It is about women in medicine, in the media and in the office - power and authority in female hands. It is also about public morality and a struggle between women to see who should be its guardian. These women are best friends in a professional world. They are witty and erudite, passionate in pursuit of success and relentless in their pursuit of passion. They juggle careers, children and lovers. They are forty and their friendship is about to be tested.
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HANNIE RAYSON
Hotel Sorrento
1st Produced:
Playbox Theatre, Melbourne
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
1990
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Genre:
2 Acts 90 min
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Hilary lives in seaside Sorrento with her father and sixteen year old son; Pippa is visiting from New York and Meg returns from England with her English husband. Three sisters, reunited after ten years in different worlds, again feel the constraints of family life. It is Meg's semi-autobiographical novel, recently short-listed for the Booker prize, which overshadows their homecoming. It is about expatriatism, our perception of home and the tensions that exist between those who've left and those who've stayed behind. It is about the responsibilities of family obligations and national ties, the rights to individuality within a clan and a country.
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HANNIE RAYSON
Inheritance
1st Produced:
Playhouse, Victorian Arts centre, Melbourne
2003
Company:
Melbourne Theatre Company
1st Published:
2003
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: In the Mallee country in rural Victoria, the Hamilton and Delaney families gather to celebrate twin sisters Dibs and Girlie's eightieth birthday. But these have been heartbreak years in the bush and the cracks are beginning to show - between parents and their children and between siblings, between those who have been loyal to the land and those who have left it, between farmers and townies, between country folk and their city cousins. And in the background is always the question: Who gets the farm?
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HANNIE RAYSON
Leave It Till Monday
1st Produced:
Geelong
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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HANNIE RAYSON
Life After George
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2002
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: We are the people of the sixties. We are the players in a great revolution, forged not by men at war, but by men in love. Peter George. This is the story of three women, three marriages and one husband. After the charismatic radical, Professor Peter George, crashes a light plane on an island in Bass Strait, his death brings his three wives together. From Paris and Marxism in 1968, through feminism into cyberspace, George married the 'it' girl of the successive generations. In the three marriages we see the progress of Australia's intellectual and political life from the idealistic sixties to the pragmatic nineties. From the barricades to the world wide web. This is a play about the radical baby boomers who defected to the other side, and those who have tried to keep the faith. It is also about the revenge of the supposedly apathetic and cynical Generation Xers. Are we witnessing the death of idealism? Or is irony the only strategy for the new miilleniu?
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HANNIE RAYSON
Mary
1st Produced:
Melbourne
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Yackandandah
1985
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
5
Parts Other:
can be played with 4F
Notes: -
Synopsis: Mary is a play about being Greek and growing up in Melbourne. It juxtaposes a Greek-Australian family with an Anglo-Australian one, focussing on the relationships between mothers and their teenage daughters. The play explores the conflicts and the comedy of cultural difference, both within families and between them. It is also about the quest for identity as women, daughters and mothers.
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HANNIE RAYSON
Please Return To Sender
1st Produced:
Melbourne
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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HANNIE RAYSON
Room To Move
1st Produced:
Melbourne
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Yackandandah, Montmorency, Victoria
1985
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Co-winner 1986 Awgie Award.
Synopsis: A comedy about the impact of feminism at a time when it has become a permanent third partner in our relationships, particularly the repercussions for a family when a 30 year-old "new man" moves in with their 62 year old mother.
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HANNIE RAYSON
Scenes From A Separation
1st Produced:
Melbourne
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
1996
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Andrew Bovell
Synopsis: There are two sides to every separation. Two truths. A fascination collaboration between two of Australia's most exciting writers. A story which will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost. Mathew and Nina have been married for twelve years. He is forty; a successful publisher. Always in control, his pace is enormous and his path is littered with the discarded souls of those who tried to keep up. Nina's thirty-eight; a journalist. she hasn't worked since the birth of the children. She's restless; looking for something. So when Mathew suggests she takes on the biography of Lawrence Clifford, tycoon, philanthropist and now Australian of the Year, she throws herself into the project with an all-consuming enthusiasm. A play about love and betrayal, about sex, sacrifice and survival, of break-up and break-down.
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HANNIE RAYSON
Two Brothers
1st Produced:
Melbourne Theatre Company, Australia
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The Benedict brothers are on opposite sides of the political divide. Eggs is the Minister for Home Security and prime minister-in-waiting. Tom is a refugee advocate and the head of a charitable foundation. The brothers have a relationship based on affection and respect. And in the jumble of family life they have managed to accommodate their ideological differences. But on Christmas Day an Indonesian fishing boat packed with refugees goes down in the Indian Ocean. Two hundred and fifty people drown, and one man survives. What happens when two powerful, passionate and socially-committed brothers encounter deadly conflict?
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HANNIE RAYSON
Wall Street Creche
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Ten Min
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
baby
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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