PETER SHELLEY
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Peter Shelley
Above And Beyond |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 90 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written for the Rodney Seaborn Foundation | ||||
Synopsis: After she is the victim of an assault, a woman undergoes a personality change | ||||
Amado Mio |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 120 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Developed at the Australia National Playwrights Centre Playwriting course with Timothy Daly in 1994. Given a public reading at the Pilgrim Theatre, Sydney, in 1996 | ||||
Synopsis: Patrick D'Amour is a cross-dressing homosexual with a passion for Rita Hayworth and latter Kurt Weill. His big break in showbiz is threatened by the romantic Russan dinner his friend John Johnson is preparing for his boyfriend Paul, the imminent labour of John's friend Sonya, the criminal agenda of Paul's ex Christina and the arrival of porn director Matt Cougar. | ||||
Any Port In A Storm |
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre, Newtown | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 60 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Developed at the NIDA Playwrights Studio in 1995, where it was given 3 readings. Extended into a full length play, then edited into a 1 act play for the New Theatre | ||||
Synopsis: Competing marine biologists Vanessa and Tristan have their professional and personal lives threatened by the arrival of escaped criminal Bart Climpson | ||||
Belladonna |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 120 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Given a reading at the Actors Centre, Sydney, in 1998. Scene 1 of this play was read as Contract at the Stables, Kings Cross, in 1998. See also Grotto. | ||||
Synopsis: Marion fakes her own death to escape an unhappy marriage, agreeing to allow her husband's mistress Belle to raise her son, Paul. However the death of the Italian patriarch brings Marion back after 10 years to reclaim what is hers. | ||||
Beyond The Horizon |
| 1st Produced: | The Acting Factory | 2008 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 150 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A teenage girl leaves Western Sydney with the hope of a better life in the city. | ||||
Blonde Fury: The Ordeal Of Frances Farmer |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 120 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Drafts of this play received a reading at Parnassus Den and The | ||||
Synopsis: The struggle between Hollywood actress Frances Farmer and her mother, Lillian | ||||
Dance Me To The Gallows |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 120 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Various drafts of this play were read at Parnassus Den, and The New Theatre | ||||
Synopsis: The saga of Jean Lee, the last woman to be hanged in Australia. | ||||
Day Care |
| 1st Produced: | Pink Shorts, Newtown Theatre | 2006 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Lookout Theatre | ||||
Synopsis: An HIV+ man challenges the policy of an AIDS day care centre | ||||
Diary of a Mathematician |
| 1st Produced: | Newtown Theatre | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Short & Sweet | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Read at Dangerous Desires, The Pride Centre, 2001. Production directed by the writer. | ||||
Synopsis: A mathematician turns the theory of abstract science of space and numbers into practice. | ||||
Etheric Double, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | mystery | 10 min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Short-listed for the 2005 Sydney Short & Sweet Play Festival | ||||
Synopsis: A Swedish housewife believes her estranged twin sister is responsible for a series of fires in her community. | ||||
Fight Or Flight |
| 1st Produced: | Pact Theatre | 2006 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A teenage boy and his alter ego contend with their abusive father | ||||
Fit |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama (teleplay), 30mins | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Produced as an episode of Twisted Tales for television. | ||||
Synopsis: A gay man is a victim of homophobia at a gym. | ||||
Goose, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edge Theatre, Newtown, Australia | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Theatre Songe | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama, 30 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The climactic rooftop scene was produced as a 10 minute play, also entitled The Goose, in the Short & Sweet Festival, Newtown Theatre, in 2002. | ||||
Synopsis: Mother Goose narrates the meeting between a budding writer and The Goose, a flamboyant homosexual, who can fly | ||||
Grotto |
| 1st Produced: | Short & Sweet, Newtown | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Developed at the NIDA Playwrights Studio and given a reading at the Australian National Playrights Conference in 1995. Incorporated as scene 2 into the full length play Belladonna. The production at Short & Sweet is to be directed by the writer. | ||||
Synopsis: Belle visits her prodigal son-in-law Paul in the grotto and tries to persuade him to come home to see his dying father | ||||
Handyman, The |
| 1st Produced: | Old Fitzroy Hotel | 2009 | ||
| Company: | Tamarama Rock Surfers | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 90 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A lonely widow is terrorized by a psychotic drifter. | ||||
Her Lover |
| 1st Produced: | Short & Sweet, Melbourne | 2007 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Also to be produced for Short & Sweet Sydney 2008 | ||||
Synopsis: A Russian clerk helps his landlady communicate with her lost lover | ||||
Her Name is Barbra |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 120 min | Play with Songs | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: This play received staged readings in the Queer as Folk Festival at the Lookout Theatre, and Dangerous Desires at The Stables Theatre, both in 1999. | ||||
Synopsis: A play about the emergence of 18 year old Barbra Streisand from actress to singer. | ||||
Hors De Combat |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Serio/Comedy. 60 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: When the wife of a deceased playboy claims her inheritance she has to face her hostile brother-in-law | ||||
Hunger |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | comedy 30 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Read at The Pilgrim Theatre. This play was also rewritten as Nagasaki Noodle, for the Australasian Short Play Festival. | ||||
Synopsis: A mature-aged married woman has an affair with a mature-aged lesbian, who has another secret. | ||||
Lady of the Camelias |
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 90 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A staged reading was directed by the writer who adapted the classic Alexandre Dumas Fils play. | ||||
Synopsis: A dying courtesan falls in love with an innocent younger man in 1848 Paris | ||||
Mask |
| 1st Produced: | Short & Sweet Melbourne | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | drama | 10 Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Also to be produced in Short & Sweet Sydney, in 2008 | ||||
Synopsis: A soothsayer gives a homely woman a second chance at romance | ||||
See You In Hell |
| 1st Produced: | Newtown Theatre | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Short & Sweet | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Read at Parnassus Den 2001, and at Newtown Theatre 2003. The production was directed by the writer. | ||||
Synopsis: A HIV+ man considers suicide | ||||
Shadow of the Phoenix, The |
| 1st Produced: | Read at Dangerous Desires, Bar Me | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama, 60 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A semi-fictionalised account of the comeback attempt of actress Frances Farmer. | ||||
Snatched From The Jaws Of Death |
| 1st Produced: | The Old Fitzroy Hotel | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Tamarama Rock Surfers | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 60 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A comic treatment of composing a kidnapping ransom note, inspired by the JonBenet Ramsay case. | ||||
Tell It To The Marines |
| 1st Produced: | reading by Parnassus Den | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 120 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The events that lead to a violent incident are re-enacted from different points of view | ||||
Tight Spot |
| 1st Produced: | Newtown Theatre | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Short & Sweet | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written in the style of Noel Coward | ||||
Synopsis: A married couple become stuck in an elevator | ||||
Tiny Horse Pin With Amethyst Eyes, The |
| 1st Produced: | Parramatta Riverside | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Hook Line and Sinker | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Drama, 15 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: This play has parallels to The Glass Menagerie and Cinderella. It was also produced in the Short & Sweet season at Newtown Theatre in 2003. | ||||
Synopsis: A man remembers his mother | ||||
Twice Shy |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 120 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A female pianist considers a second romance with her former lover. | ||||
Visitations and Dispensations |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | 120 min | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A collection of the 4 short plays The Goose, Grotto, Act of Contrition, and See You In Hell. | ||||
Synopsis: 4 short plays all with religious themes | ||||