STEPHEN SEWELL (1953 - )
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Stephen Sewell
Anger's Love |
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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: | Political satire musical | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Blind Giant is Dancing, The |
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1983 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | 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. | |||||
Boys, The |
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | 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. | |||||
Burn Victim |
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1983 | ||||
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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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| Notes: | written with others | |||||
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Dreams in an Empty City |
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1986 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Urban Tragedy | - | Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 11 |
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| Synopsis: | Examines the nature of human corruption against the background of international high finance | |||||
Dust |
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1993 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | 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 | |||||
Father We Loved On a Beach By the Sea, The |
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1978 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | 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 | |||||
Garden of Granddaughters, 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: | - | 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. | |||||
Gates of Egypt |
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney | 2007 | ||||
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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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Hate |
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1988 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | 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. | |||||
Identity By Helen Demidenko |
| 1st Produced: | Junction Theatre, Adelaide | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | Ace 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | an old fashioned revue on the theme of human identity | |||||
In the City Of Grand-Daughters |
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1993 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 7 |
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| Synopsis: | Comparisons between the generations | |||||
Isabelle Eberhardt |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1993 | ||||
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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: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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It Just Stopped |
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0868198170 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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![]() | 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? | |||||
King Golgrutha |
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Notes: | part of trilogy the "Garden of Fartkhly Delights" | |||||
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Miranda |
| 1st Produced: | Brisbane | 1989 | ||||
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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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Myth, Propaganda & Disaster In Nazi Germany & Contemporary America |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0868197050 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Political Thriller | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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![]() | 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. | |||||
Secret Death Of Salvador Dali, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe | 2002 | ||||
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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 | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | musician | |||||
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| Synopsis: | 14/888 | |||||
Sick Room, The |
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| Company: | Malthouse Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0868195855 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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![]() | 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 | |||||
Sisters |
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1991 | ||||
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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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Three Furies |
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Opera House | 2005 | ||||
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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 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. | |||||
Traitors |
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1979 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Historical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 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. | |||||
United States of Nothing, The |
| 1st Produced: | Stables Theatre, Sydney | 2006 | ||||
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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 | One Act | Parts: | 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. | |||||
Welcome the Bright World |
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| 1st Published: | Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Why We Hate You |
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| Company: | Theatre In Decay | |||||
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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: | Short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Originally performed as part of "All Of Which Are American Dreams" | |||||
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