PATRICK WHITE   (1912 - 1990)


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Plays by Patrick White

PATRICK WHITE
Big Toys
1st Produced:
Parade Theatre, Sydney
27 July 1977
Company:
Old Tote Theatre Company
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1978
ISBN/ASIN
0-86819-019-5
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Big Toys
mannered rituals are a cover for social and political exploitation and personal corruption
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PATRICK WHITE
Bread and Butter Women
1st Produced:
Bryant's Playhouse, Sydney
1935
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PATRICK WHITE
Cheery Soul, A
1st Produced:
Union Theatre Repertory Company, Melbourne
19 Nov 1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
A Cheery Soul - A Long Story. (The London Magazine. Volume 2, No 6, September 1962)
in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985
ISBN/ASIN
0-86819-124-8
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
10
Female
18
Parts Other:
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Notes:
from own story
Cheery Soul, A
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PATRICK WHITE
Ham Funeral, The
1st Produced:
Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia
15 Nov 1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Tragical farce
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
originally written 1947
Synopsis:
deals with the inability of a sensitive and self-conscious Young man with aspirations as a poet to engage meaningfully with life.
- Belonging, John McCallum
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PATRICK WHITE
Netherwood
1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia
11 Jun 1983
Company:
Lighthouse, State Theatre Company of South Australia
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983
ISBN/ASIN
978-0868190716
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Netherwood
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PATRICK WHITE
Night on Bald Mountain
1st Produced:
Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia
09 Mar 1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985
ISBN/ASIN
0-86819-124-8
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Night on Bald Mountain
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PATRICK WHITE
Return To Abyssinia
1st Produced:
London
1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
scheduled for production in London in 1939 but the War intervened.
Synopsis:
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PATRICK WHITE
School For Friends, The
1st Produced:
Bryant's Playhouse, Sydney
1937
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PATRICK WHITE
Season At Sarsaparilla, The
1st Produced:
Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide, Australia
14 Sep 1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Plays", Currency Press, Sydney, 1985
ISBN/ASIN
0-86819-124-8
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Genre:
Charade Of Suburbia
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Parts:
Male
9
Female
7
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Season At Sarsaparilla, The
offers a eulogy to what in the 1950s had been damned as the greatest obstacle to an Australian culture - the inarticulate Australian voice.
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PATRICK WHITE
Shepherd On the Rocks
1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia
09 May 1987
Company:
State Theatre Company of South Australia
1st Published:
in Collected plays vol 2, Currency Press, Sydney, 1987
ISBN/ASIN
978-0868193052
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
8
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PATRICK WHITE
Signal Driver: A Morality Play For the Times
1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia
05 Mar 1982
Company:
Lighthouse Company
1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983
ISBN/ASIN
978-0868190686
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A wry allegory of Australia and how it missed the boat
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