STEPHEN SEWELL   (1953 - )


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Plays by Stephen Sewell

STEPHEN SEWELL
Anger's Love
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Genre:
Political satire musical
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Blind Giant is Dancing, The
1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia
1983
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
6
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Synopsis:
Sewell's passionate examination of the way political power can corrupt the individual and society at large is now published in a radically revised edition following its revival at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney in 1995.
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Boys, The
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Currency Press, Sydney, 1998
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Male
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Female
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Notes:
The play of TheBoys is also available
Synopsis:
Based on the controversial stage playby Gordon Graham, The Boys is an unflinching analysis of the violence that lurks in Australian society. Returning home from prison, Brett sets about re-establishing control over his wayward brothers as he searches for an act the three brothers can participate in jointly, and thereby violate norms.
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Burn Victim
1st Produced:
Sydney
1983
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Male
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Female
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written with others
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Dreams in an Empty City
1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia
1986
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983
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Genre:
Urban Tragedy
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Parts:
Male
23
Female
11
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Synopsis:
Examines the nature of human corruption against the background of international high finance
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Dust
1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia
1993
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
9
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Notes:
part of trilogy the "Garden of Fartkhly Delights"
Synopsis:
A man and his daughter, grappling with grief, guilt and a desire for a better world, search their dreams for one another in the debris of a broken civilisation
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Father We Loved On a Beach By the Sea, The
1st Produced:
Brisbane
1978
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1976
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
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Synopsis:
a powerfully felt study of an ordinary family caught up in the sudden depression of the late 1950s; and of the effects of that experience upon the children
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Garden of Granddaughters, The
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
7
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Synopsis:
Max, a world-renowned Australian conductor, returns unexpectedly to Melbourne with his wife Moriley for a family reunion. Their three daughters are in various stages of decline, success and reproduction; their granddaughters are full of hope and dreams. Most of life's questions are evaded, avoided and ignored in this compassionate comedy.
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Gates of Egypt
1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2007
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Hate
1st Produced:
Sydney
1988
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,
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Play/Drama
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Male
3
Female
2
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Synopsis:
One of Australia's richest men and a political force of the far right believes in a leaner, harder Australia.
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Identity By Helen Demidenko
1st Produced:
Junction Theatre, Adelaide
1996
Company:
Ace Productions
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Play/Drama
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Male
1
Female
1
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Synopsis:
an old fashioned revue on the theme of human identity
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STEPHEN SEWELL
In the City Of Grand-Daughters
1st Produced:
Melbourne
1993
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
7
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Synopsis:
Comparisons between the generations
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Isabelle Eberhardt
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1993
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Male
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Female
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STEPHEN SEWELL
It Just Stopped
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978-0868198170
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Comedy
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Male
2
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2
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It Just Stopped
This savage comedy of manners explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell's play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions - what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival?
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STEPHEN SEWELL
King Golgrutha
1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia
1991
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,
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part of trilogy the "Garden of Fartkhly Delights"
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Miranda
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Brisbane
1989
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Myth, Propaganda & Disaster In Nazi Germany & Contemporary America
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2004
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978-0868197050
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Genre:
Political Thriller
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Parts:
Male
5
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4
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Myth, Propaganda & Disaster In Nazi Germany & Contemporary America
This tough political thriller, based in the Liberal Arts department of New York University, is no play for the timid. But its violent language and extreme brutality, brilliantly choreographed, are essential elements for an enthralling study of a polarised world turned backto-front - a Kafka-esque nightmare of state terrorism condoned by liberty lovers in defence of the Land of the Free.
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Secret Death Of Salvador Dali, The
1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe
2002
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Play/Drama
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Male
1
Female
1
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musician
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Synopsis:
14/888
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Sick Room, The
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Malthouse Theatre
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,
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978-0868195855
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Sick Room, The
brings together three generations of a family under the one roof to care for a terminally ill teenager. As she faces impending death, the other family members find themselves confronting their own lives
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Sisters
1st Produced:
Melbourne
1991
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Play/Drama
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Female
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Three Furies
1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House
2005
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Genre:
Play with songs
Play with Music
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
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Synopsis:
It's just before the Paris retrospective that would anoint the celebrated Anglo-Irish artist Francis Bacon as the greatest figurative painter of the twentieth century. On the eve of the exhibition Bacon's model, muse and lover, George Dyer, commits suicide. An exploration of the sexy, stormy and dangerous relationship between the couple, using drama, dark poetry and satire.
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Traitors
1st Produced:
Melbourne
1979
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1st Published:
Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Sydney, 1983
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Genre:
Historical Drama
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Male
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3
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Synopsis:
Set in Russia in 1927 against the background of unrest at the dawn of Stalinism, Traitors charts the triumph of paranoia and betrayal over truth and innocence, as it simultaneously examines conflicts between the personal and the political.
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STEPHEN SEWELL
United States of Nothing, The
1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Sydney
2006
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Genre:
Play
One Act
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Male
2
Female
2
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Synopsis:
Part satire, part biting political critique, this Katrina-inspired play focuses on a small white family left behind in the rush to leave Louisiana ahead of a hurricane. Set in a Superdome, the play takes an irreverent look at an America knee deep in trouble as it tries to bring democracy to the Arabs when it can't even evacuate hospital patients from a storm. Playwright Sewell peels away layers from initial caricatures to reveal humanity beneath Chip and Jackie and their children, Randy and Ashley.
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Welcome the Bright World
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Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Sydney,
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STEPHEN SEWELL
Why We Hate You
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Theatre In Decay
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Genre:
Short play
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Notes:
Originally performed as part of "All Of Which Are American Dreams"
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