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KEVIN SCULLY |
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Nationality: Australian/British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Kevin Scully was born in Sydney, Australia, where he grew up and was educated. He started his professional life as a journalist, first in newspapers, then in television and radio. He trained as an actor at NIDA and combined the careers of acting and writing for ten years before moving to England. He has had ten stage plays produced, two radio plays broadcast, three books religious books published and has contributed to three other collections. He is a published poet and has won a number of short story competition prizes. He is a priest in the Church of England and lives in London. He is married to the singer Adey Grummet.
Plays by Kevin Scully
Asylum Thesaurus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Globe Theatre, Sydney | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Crispy Bacon Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45785 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Locked away from the world, a young man uses the objects around him to explore his past, present and his dreams. Words morph meaning as he struggles to find his way out and in. | |||||
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Glint Of The Irish, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | New Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45787 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A family gathers for a reunion without the encumbrances of husbands, wives and children. They are expected to pay homage to their father, 'the oldest angry young man of the left left'. As the evening moves through joyful reminiscence, convivial sharing of food and alcohol, confidences are disclosed. Nerves get rawer until there is an explosion after allegations of blame for their mother's death. | |||||
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Hard Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stables Theatre, Sydney | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Caravan Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45790 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Virginia, a recent graduate in social work takes over the running of a community centre. She is shown the ropes by a woman at the end of her tether. Intercutting between her relationship with her domineering lover and encounters at the centre, Virginia tries to fulfil what some might believe are unachievable expectations. In attempting to rise to the challenge she finds herself at sea in trying to deal with those who want her - but only on their terms. | |||||
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Last Rose of Summer, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52123 | |||
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Stretch of Canvas, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52124 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | What inspires art and life? Three generations of a family of painters step behind and away from their easels to look at the things that matter: love, art and death. A Stretch of Canvas, uses the metaphor of painting to look at the constraints and frustrations of individualism and freedom, and the struggle to express oneself fully against a background of generational ambitions. | |||||
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There's One In Every Unit | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Mama Theatre, Adelaide, Australia | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45789 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Then TOIEU (UK version) 1991; South London Theatre Centre new play winner 1990, South London Theatre Centre | |||||
Synopsis: | Robin and Eileen, are preparing to meet her grandparents who have recently moved to a retirement village. The older couple have made the move in an effort to deal with the old man's dementia. The action switches between the two houses to disclose parallels of obstinate behaviour of the men and the compassion required by their wives to deal with them. | |||||
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Thousand Miles From Care, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1988 | ||||
Company: | T.H.E Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45788 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Late one night on Manly wharf, an older couple sit: he fishing, she sketching. A young man, asleep after having been placed on the last ferry by his mates on his stag night, wakes up and starts chewing the fat with the man. His worried fiancee turns up. Trouble erupts when she cannot see or hear the older man and it becomes evident the young man has the same problem with the older woman. As one says, 'it might not be possible, but it's happening.' | |||||
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Urgent Copy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Worskhopped: Australian National Playwrights' Conference | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45786 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | There's a war on. A number of Australian journalists are trying to unravel what is going on. Three of them form an unholy alliance which is complicated by the abduction of a young radio reporter. The trio find themselves entangled in complicated negotiations for the young man's release. The negotiations - extreme and violent - give rise to the best story of the war and a major struggle on whether it should be reported. | |||||
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