THOMAS SAINSBURY
| Nationality: | New Zealander |
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Plays by Thomas Sainsbury
And Then You Die |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Black comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | The three employees of a shoe shop all have voices in their heads telling them what to do. | |||||
Basement |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | To avoid all his problems Paul decides to hide out in a cellar for a month. Three months later he is still there and he is now convinced that he is not alone. | |||||
Beast |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Three siblings are their way to a funeral when their car breaks down in an isolated town. The town's inhabitants are reluctant to help - then the sister disappears | |||||
Butt Ugly |
| 1st Produced: | BATS, Wellington, NY | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Young and hungry | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Caustic |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | Playmarket, Downstage and Downstage Theatre Society | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | William Lonsdale is chained to the wall of a filthy room in the "incurables wing" in London's infamous Bedlam at the turn of the 19th century. He doesn't know how he got there or if he will ever get out. | |||||
Christmas Monologues, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Wine Cellar, St Kevins Arcade (K Rd), Auckland | 20 Dec 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Fingerprints & Teeth Productions | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Monologues | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 7 | |||||
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| Synopsis: | The Christmas Monologues are a series of stories dealing with the dark and macabre of a holiday we all cherish. Have a merry Christmas because it might be your last . . . | |||||
Eulogy, The |
| 1st Produced: | Te Karanga Gallery, Auckland | 18 Feb 2010 | ||||
| Company: | Fingerprints And Teeth Productions | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | part of The Awkward Monologues. A series of ten-minute monologues, on the theme of awkwardness, showcases the work of seven mostly-new writers. For some it’s their theatre-writing debut. Many of them have a background in other writing fields, such as journalism or film. | |||||
| Synopsis: | a foul-mouthed, white trash 'widow' giving an unwelcome speech at her ex-boyfriend's funeral | |||||
Feminine, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Science Fiction | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Adam is diagnosed with testicular cancer. During an operation he goes into a coma from which he does not wake up for fifteen years. Everything is different for one thing there does not seem to be any men around. | |||||
Gas |
| 1st Produced: | Auckland, NZ | 2008 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Piece | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | devised by Thomas Sainbury, Yvette Parsons, Toby Leach, Rashmi Pilapitiya, Tahi Mapp-Borren, Rina Patel | |||||
| Synopsis: | Join forces in this dark comic story of a petrol station, set amongst the bright lights of K' Road | |||||
Hideous Progeny |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Victor is creating something in his laboratory | |||||
Loser |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Black comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | A school reunion and ten years on the ex-pupils still have many issues to sort out | |||||
Love Bite |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Olivia returns from a trip to China. She has discovered a gross violation of human rights there and plans to return and expose it. Before she can return she starts feeling unwell. One morning when she wakes up she finds she has transformed into a snarling monster | |||||
Luv |
| 1st Produced: | Tristan Bates, London | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Fingerprints & Teeth | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Black comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A group of people desperate for love and attention Jaques a gay man is the subject of a television reality programme - he is followed everywhere by a camera crew - the director demands more and more outrageous behaviour from him. Ricki believes that constantly bombarding the objects of his affection with text messages and breaking into their homes will get him the girl. Gemma meets the man of her dreams in a bar and determines she will do anything to get him. Michelle undergoes do-it-yourself cosmetic surgery with disastrous results. | |||||
Main Street |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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: | Junior and Cain spiral into a world of crime | |||||
Mall, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Black comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | The people who work or hang around the mall do not realise that they are all in danger from a vengeful Chinese food worker and a depressed cinema attendant. | |||||
My London Sojourn |
| 1st Produced: | , NZTe Karanga Gallery, Auckland | 25 Nov 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Fingerprints & Teeth | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | "I never thought in a million years that one day I'd end up living in a basement with no windows, sharing my bed with a Brazilian Faggot." You are all cordially invited to the theatre event of the year. It's the blackest shit, ever. Think murder, think prostitution, think drugs, think incest, think pole-dancing for a geriatric . . .Sainsbury's latest play is about his harrowing time in London. And it ain't pretty. | |||||
Psychopaths |
| 1st Produced: | The Shed 10 , Street: Entrance 77 Cook St, Cbd, Auckland, New Zealand | 02 Feb 2010 | ||||
| Company: | Fingerprints & Teeth Productions | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | horror play | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Amy moved to New York to pursue her musical dreams, but things have soured after only four weeks. Life seems to be a painful struggle against the constant stream of bills, unsmiling faces and repeated rejection. And then, to top it all off, someone terrorises her in her home. They wore a white mask, they wanted her blood, and they will come again. Will she be ready for them . . .? | |||||
Sunday Roast |
| 1st Produced: | Te Whaea - SEEyD Space, Wellington | 01 Mar 2010 | ||||
| Company: | The Moving Theatre Company | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | 2 Actors. 8 Characters. The Giles family is inviting you for dinner. | |||||
| Synopsis: | The beast is fattened and ready for the slaughter. Father's on carving duty. Mother is on vegetables. Daughters Courtney and Diane have dessert covered. Son-in-law Francois is in charge of looking good while actual son, Anthony, just wants to be left alone. Granddaughter Tamsin wants her desires satisfied. And adopted son, Rupert? Well, he just wants everyone to have a good time. . . | |||||