KATHERINE THOMSON   


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Plays by Katherine Thomson

KATHERINE THOMSON
Barmaids
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Barmaids tells the story of Nancy and Val who know how to run a pub. But when the Arms is bought by a syndicate, accountants start hatching new schemes. A play full of colourful stories and worrying rumours evoking the loyalty between barmaid and drinker.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Darlinghurst Nights
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A musical play set during a day and hot night, in Darlinghurst and King's Cross in the late 1920's. A poet, Ken, sits in his Elizabeth Bay 'eyrie' wanting to conjur up the old King's Cross. From the harbour lights comes his cartoonist friend Joe, long dead but as wild and anarchic as ever, and Joe takes Ken back to their time together as young men. Back to the Gunmen's Girl, the Iceman, the Woman in the Green Roll's Royce and all their interweaving stories in which Ken and Joe were involved. (Please note that rights for poerty have to be acquired for each season of the show as well).
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Diving For Pearls
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Currency Press, Sydney
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A glossy resort grows in place of the old community of steel workers and two ordinary people attempt to adjust to the new order,
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Fragments of Hong Kong
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1st Published:
1999
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Genre:
60 mins
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A school girl wanders the neighbourhood planning her suicide, watched by an ambitious young woman being fitted out not only for her wedding dress, but also for her political role. Mrs Ma folds letters on behalf of Chinese dissidents, while a Filipina maid worries that the family is planning to emigrate, but if they are, why is she being sent to buy a car space? It's been raining for a week and the embankment is seeping. Fragments is the story of these women interwoven around an inquest at which all but one must testify.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Harbour
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: On the Wednesday before Easter, 1998, a few hundred metres away from the site of the new Sydney Theatre, one of the most dramatic events in recent Australian history took place. It was the culmination of a tightly planned scheme between the Federal Government and a stevedoring company. An attempt to smash the Maritime Union of Australia -- the wharfies. This play is set against the backdrop of this explosive industrial dispute. Sandy - a retired wharfie - comes home after a six year absence to find his family divided. His kids have moved on -- and up. They're on opposite sides of the political divide. His wife doesn't want to be in the same room as him. The world has changed, and it seems he no longer has a place in it. But he's a battler, with a burning desire to unite his family and set the past to rights. A past full of explosive secrets that threaten to blow them apart forever.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Kayak
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1st Published:
2001
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Genre:
40 mins
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A moral thriller that begins on Sydney Harbour when a sole woman kayaker, in search of isolation from human contact, is pelted with doughnuts by a boy in a passing 'tinnie'. The woman seeks revenge, the boy's guardian becomes involved, and the tables are turned again and again as all three characters struggle for the moral high ground. A fast-moving thriller with strong comic undertow.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
King Tide
1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, Sydney
2007
Company:
Griffin Theatre Company
1st Published:
Currency Books, Australia
2008
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Three years ago, Sal was an award-winning investigative journalist. Uncovering government corruption and public scandals she was forever on the front line. But her son's death robbed Sal of her willingness to engage. Increasingly reclusive, she opted out, choosing to live in a borrowed beach house as she struggles to come to terms with her loss. When her teenage daughter brings home a Japanese surfer to stay, Sal finds herself confronted with a sense of danger that was once so vital to her life. King Tide is a surprising story of hope, emerging out of the love and vulnerability of two very different people.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Mavis Goes To Timor
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: written by Katherine Thomson, Angela Chaplin and Kavisha Mazzella. Education Resource Notes for this play are available from the Malthouse Theatre. The notes include interviews with key artists, playwrights and directors plus activities and questions for discussion and analysis. For more information go to malthousetheatre.com.au.
Synopsis: Stung into action by the suffering of the East Timorese, an 86-year-old retired haberdasher from regional Victoria decides that she can make a difference. Along with her daughter, Mavis takes her sewing machines to Timor and sets in motion her practical contribution. Twenty-three sewing centres later, more than 119 tonnes of donated household goods have made their way from Maviss place in Yarrawonga to the newly independent nation of Timor, and the sewing co-operatives continue today. Based on a true story.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Navigating
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing', observed Edmund Burke. The courage of ordinary people in the face of economic upheaval or public corruption is at the heart of Katherine Thomson's writing. In Navigating we meat Bea, an embattled woman who finds herself in possession of damaging documentary evidence. The seaside town in which her and her sister live is riddled with corruption and buried secrets, as the forces once responsible for a holiday tragedy now conspire to win the contract for a private prison. Unwilling to recognise the fear and deceit around her, Bea confides in one hollow friend after another. Her small world crumbles. Silence, she discovers, is as damaging as speech. A dense, powerful, witty human drama which goes to the heart of small-town politics and finds sources of unexpected wisdom.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Sporting Chance, A
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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:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A play for young people, the action takes place in the course of an under 15's AFL game. Michelle is worried that her footy days are over and Ferret, playing opposite her, wants more than anything to please his father who has finally come to watch him play. Nancy hates her breasts, falls down a crumbling cliff, and spends the entire game-time climbing to safety, while Terry can only watch the footie from the sidelines dreaming of the day that they "pick me!" Highly physical.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
This Hospital Is My Country
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1st Published:
2000
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
2
Parts Other:
musician
Notes: -
Synopsis: This moving play examines the life of Elena, a refugee from the Greek civil war who has dedicated her life to working in a children's hospital. Now, with the threat of privatization, she may be asked to go and the memories come flooding back. As Elena locks herself in her beloved laundry, she finds a young girl taking refuge. A young girl who is, like Elena, afraid to face her future.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Tonight We Anchor In Twofold Bay
1st Produced:
Theatre South in Wollongong, Sydney
1985
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1st Published:
1985
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Genre:
2 Act 110 mins
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: It is an epic piece telling the tory of the NSW south coast town of Eden, stories of fishing, whaling, wood cuting and social life. It is based on the oral history recorded by th author from stories told by residents and descendants.
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KATHERINE THOMSON
Wonderlands
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia
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Genre:
2 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The Yirralong people have lodged a native title claim for the right to "possess, occupy and enjoy their ancestral lands". Lon, a third generation pastoralist is terrified that his dream of passing the family property on to his son-in-law will be shattered. As the pressure mounts, long buried secrets begin to unravel. This is a play about white belonging, black belonging. It's about the dust storm of forgetfulness and about finding new ways to move forward. It's about the struggle to find the balance of a shared history - personal and political - and that binding, that connection, that sets our hearts free.
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