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Kevin Summers

KEVIN SUMMERS

  (1950 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Has worked in all facets of the performing Arts industry as an actor for film, television, radio and the corporate sector. Writing includes plays, political opinion pieces for various newspapers and freelance magazine work. Agent: Actors Agency, Melbourne

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below is a list of Kevin Summers's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ammendment To Terror         Blamey: Power, Politics and Whiskey         Empty Say, The         Patient Twelve (out the back)         Salvation Jane         True Native Son

Ammendment To Terror

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Lamama Courthouse, Sydney    2007

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Blamey: Power, Politics and Whiskey

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A one man play concerning the life of Thomas Blamey, Australia's military leader during World War Two. His colourful life encompassed action at Gallipoli, the Western Front, allegations of corruption, sexual excess and drunkenness. He led a right wing secret army ready to take over government from the red menace. He dealt with some of the great figures of the forties - Churchill, Roosevelt, Curtin and MacArthur.

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1st Produced:
St Kilda Rsl    2003

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St Kilda RSL

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Empty Say, The

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Bill Files is the Federal Opposition Leader, head of the Labor Party. He is convinced that he will be the next Prime Minister. But his best friend in politics, a shadow minister, informs him that he is about to switch support to an emerging populist. Files decides to fight to retain his position with the support of his socialist dad and his alienated wife but events conspire against him and he hands power to a man he despises.

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Later (2001) produced At Chapel off Chapel theatre, Melbourne.

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La Mama Theatre

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Political Drama Play/Drama

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Patient Twelve (out the back)

Synopsis:
A survivor of the battle the trenches of the Western Front lies in his hospital bed after repatriation: an unknown soldier in a vegetative state, his body battered and burnt, his face eaten away by explosives and rats. A medical officer resolves to find his loved ones, thus assembling a group of disparate of men and women shaken by loss in very different ways. A snapshot of Australia in the days following the war to end all wars.

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Salvation Jane

Synopsis:
Jane is a popular and glamorous Labor politician. Polls indicate she is the most admired woman in the country but her moves in the party are countered by the incumbents who conspire to force her to resign over her sexual activities. the plan backfires when Jane's ex-husband lies, and sacrifices his reputation, to protect her. A modern day morality tale.

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Chosen by the ABC's Drama critic As the play of the month, May, 2000.

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Chapel Off Chapel Theatre, Melbourne    2000

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Genre:
political entertainment Play/Drama

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True Native Son

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