ALAN SEYMOUR (1927 - )
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Alan Seymour
Break in the Music, A |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 |
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Synopsis: returns to Australia to deal with family memories of life there in the 1930's and 1940's | ||||
Committee, The |
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | others | |||
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Donny Johnson |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Float, The |
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1980 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: the interaction of public and private in peoples lives'. Climaxes in the fictional dismissal of the Australian head of government- a glace back to the sacking of the Australian Prime Minister gough Witlam in 1975 | ||||
Gaiety of Nations, The |
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow | 1965 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: on the theme of Vietnam | ||||
Oh Grave, Thy Victory |
| 1st Produced: | Canberra | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - |
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One Day of the Year, The |
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1960 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Angus and Robertson, Sydney | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: One of Australia's best known plays - April 25, Anzac Day is taken as the national focal point from which radiates perennial conflicts of father and son, comradeship and individualisation. | ||||
Pope and the Pill, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||
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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 | - |
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Screem From A Dark Cellar |
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: from Davis Magarshack's translation of 'Notes From a Dark Cellar' by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
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Shattering, The |
| 1st Produced: | Uproduced | 1971 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
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Structures |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Swamp Creatures |
| 1st Produced: | Canberra | 1958 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | 1955 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: A swamp where two elderly sisters and their servant perform weird experiments | ||||
Wind From the Plain, The |
| 1st Produced: | Turku, Finland | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: from novel by Yashar Kemal, produced in Finnish | ||||
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