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Nick Enright

NICK ENRIGHT

  (1950 - 2003)
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    HLA Management Pty Ltd  

Nick enright (19502003) trained for the Theatre at New York University School of Arts after early experience in Australia including with Nimrod and MTC. He was an actor, director and teacher as well as a writer. His plays include On the Wallaby, Daylight Saving, St James Infirmary, Mongrels, a Property of the Clan, the Quartet from Rigoletto, Blackrock, Good Works, Spurboard and a Man with Five Children. With Justin Monjo he adapted Tim Winton's Cloudstreet for the stage. He has also written for film and television, including co-writing with George Miller the screenplay for Lorenzo's Oil which was nominated for an Oscar. He has written a number of musicals including the Venetian Twins and Summer Rain with composer Terence Clarke. He wrote the book for the Australian production of the Boy From Oz. among many awards were two Green Room awards for Best Play, and four Gold aWGIe awards, the 1998 Sidney Myer Performing Arts award and the NSW Premiers' Special award. as well as being a prolific writer, Nick was a noted acting teacher, particularly at NIDA and WaaPA.

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         Betrothed, The         Blackrock         Bobbin Up         Boy From Oz (Original Version)         Carnival Of the Animals         Cloudstreet         Confidentially Yours         Daylight Saving         Don Juan         Electra         Fatal Johnny         Female Factory, The         First Class Women         Good Ship Venus, The         Good Works         Harper's Hill         How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life?         King Stag         Man With Five Children         Marriage Of Figaro, The         Mary Bryant         Miracle City         Mongrels         Music Is         Oh What A Lovely War, Mate!         On the Wallaby         Playgrounds         Poor Student         Property Of the Clan, A         Quartet From Rigoletto         Servant Of Two Masters, The         Snow Queen (Libretto)         Spurboard         St James Infirmary         Summer Rain         Variations         Venetian Twins         Voyage Of Mary Bryant, The         Way I Was, The (Playgrounds)         Women Of Troy

Betrothed, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written with Ron Blair; music by David King. Based on "I Promissi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni

1st Produced:
Mount Lawley Theatre, Perth, Australia    15 Jun 1993

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Genre:
Musical

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Blackrock

Blackrock
One night on Blackrock Beach, an unspeakable act is perpetrated. This powerful play raises disturbing but potent questions about the way we live our lives in the 90s. What impact does the media have on our perceptions and behaviour? What effect does peer group pressure and the decay of family relationships have on today's teenagers? For the community of Blackrock - especially its youth - it's time to start looking for the answers.

Notes:
Revised version of Property of the Clan

1st Produced:
Stc's Wharf 1 Theatre    1996

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1996   978-0868194776

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  12            Other:  9 cast version available

Further Reference:
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Bobbin Up

Synopsis:
It is the late 1950s and the Russians launch the first Sputnik. a group of women sweat in the Jumbuck Woollen Mills in Sydney for breadline wages. the whistle blows - grime is washed from faces, hair combed, lipstick applied- and the workers emerge, women again, leaving the factory behind them. Out into the evening streets, flashing neon lights and the journey home to family and lovers. among them are Shirl, nineteen and four months pregnant; Dawnie, beautiful and fiercely chaste; Patty, singing in the dance halls; and Nell, an active Communist Party member. these women have their own dreams; but a common spirit binds them, and with Nell as their leader they will come together for the fight which lies ahead. . ..

Notes:
Based on the novel by Dorothy Hewett publ 1959

1st Produced:
Nida Theatre, Sydney    -

Organisations:
National Institute of Dramatic art, Sydney

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  7            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
Script in Rodney Seaborn Library, NIDA,

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Boy From Oz (Original Version)

Boy From Oz (Original Version)
Life of singer/songwriter Peter allen

Notes:
Music by Peter Allen

1st Produced:
Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney    1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   724349566026

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Carnival Of the Animals

Synopsis:
Poems for an Australian audience, to accompany the Carnival of the animals; a similar idea to Noel Coward's

Notes:
music Saint-Saens

1st Produced:
Sydney    1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
aBC Publications, Sydney, 1991   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Poems

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet
a sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton's enormously successful novel of the same name. a huge success at the 1998 Sydney & Perth festivals, the story follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth. Both the novel and stage adaptation have proven to be major works and have each left an indelible mark on the Australian Arts scene.

Notes:
adapted by Nick enright & Justin Monjo from the novel by Tim Winton

1st Produced:
Berth 9, Darling Harbour, Sydney    1998

Organisations:
Company B Belvoir and Black Swan Theatre

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia >>>, 1999   978-0868195896

Music:
-

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Genre:
3 act adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  doubling

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Confidentially Yours

Synopsis:
A rich tapestry of laughter, tears amd irony. A collection of short works by some of Australia's best-known Dramatists,written specifically for actor Deidre Rubenstein.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Wollongong, Nsw    31 Oct 2002

Organisations:
Merrigong Fringe 2003

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
collection of short plays

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17537

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Daylight Saving

Daylight Saving
Felicity and Tom both have busy lives and demanding careers. Tom is travelling with his petulant protege Jason, the international tennis star, when Felicity receives a surprise call from an American boyfriend from her past. as she plans a candle-lit reunion dinner her highly stressed neighbour drops in . . . and so does her mother. the confusion becomes complete as each of them become involved in Felicity's evening.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Sydney    1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1990   978-0868192659

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Don Juan

Synopsis:
Usual story of nobleman parted from his riches

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia    1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1984   868190942

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Electra

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles; Written in collaboration with Frank Hauser

1st Produced:
Melbourne    1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Fatal Johnny

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia    1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Female Factory, The

Synopsis:
a zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. a child born within the institution tests the convictions of all

Notes:
a reworking of First Class Women directed by Terence Clarke

1st Produced:
University Of Western Sydney    1997

Organisations:
Theatre Nepean

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 120 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  Variable cast 10-15; Cast age 16 to 18, 18+

Further Reference:
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First Class Women

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New Theatre, Sydney    1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
New Theatre Script, 1982   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  7            Other:  1c

Further Reference:
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Good Ship Venus, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage play One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au, http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Good Works

Good Works
Provides us with a window into the lives of two Irish Catholic families, the Donovans and the Kennedys. Spanning several decades and three generations, this compelling story exposes some of the darker moments that colour many of our family histories. It is a play of remarkable insight, clarity and emotion that has earned a place of considerable importance in the national repertoire.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Premiere Q Theatre, Sydney    1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, 1995   978-0868194332

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  doubling poss

Further Reference:
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Harper's Hill

Synopsis:
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Notes:
there is An unpublished And unproduced play by Nick called Harper's Hill, which, for money, is the best play he wrote. I fancy that copy lies in the eunice Hanger collection in Brisbane; certainly, the Agent for his estate, hla Management, would have one.
Terence Clarke

1st Produced:
Unproduced    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life?

Synopsis:
freely based on 'a servant of two masters' by Carlo Goldoni

Notes:
re How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life. I seriously doubt that Nick, who would have been 22 At the time (1972) And, As far As I know, was not Associated with the Old Tote theatre Company, which produced it. Prof Adrian Kiernander (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=D4sJXr9fMkgC&pg=Pa128&lpg=Pa128&dq=How+Could+You+Believe+Me+When+I+Said+I'd+Be+Your+Valet+When+You+Know+I've+Been+a+Liar+all+My+Life&source=bl&ots=ypBuajhdfm&sig=ap0e0D0TeTSuQ6amhpVsJK1XN20&hl=en&ei=IpHtTcu1BtHHrQe2r6CHBa&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB4Q6aewaQ#v=onepage&q=How%20Could%20You%20Believe%20Me%20When%20I%20Said%20I'd%20Be%20Your%20Valet%20When%20You%20Know%20I've%20Been%20a%20Liar%20all%20My%20Life&f=false) says that it was 'devised And directed' by John Bell. I have, however, found An Attribution to Nick by Googling. Hmmm.re How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life. I seriously doubt that Nick, who would have been 22 At the time (1972) And, As far As I know, was not Associated with the Old Tote theatre Company, which produced it. Prof Adrian Kiernander (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=D4sJXr9fMkgC&pg=Pa128&lpg=Pa128&dq=How+Could+You+Believe+Me+When+I+Said+I'd+Be+Your+Valet+When+You+Know+I've+Been+a+Liar+all+My+Life&source=bl&ots=ypBuajhdfm&sig=ap0e0D0TeTSuQ6amhpVsJK1XN20&hl=en&ei=IpHtTcu1BtHHrQe2r6CHBa&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB4Q6aewaQ#v=onepage&q=How%20Could%20You%20Believe%20Me%20When%20I%20Said%20I'd%20Be%20Your%20Valet%20When%20You%20Know%20I've%20Been%20a%20Liar%20all%20My%20Life&f=false) says that it was 'devised And directed' by John Bell. I have, however, found An Attribution to Nick by Googling. Hmmm.

1st Produced:
-    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
entertainment two acts

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au, http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>,

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King Stag

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carlo Gozzi

1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia    1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Man With Five Children

Man With Five Children
In the early 1970s Gerry, a young film-maker, begins to track the lives of five young Australians. all he asks of them is a day out of each year of their lives, a day when he will follow them with a camera, charting their growth and development by interviewing and observing them. But as the years roll on, and the annual instalment of Five Children becomes a national chronicle, their lives becomes his. are they his subjects or his children? Or his creations?

Notes:
This play takes place over twenty-eight years in two locations: in Australia during the last quarter of the twentieth century, And in the mind of the film-maker. Nominated, Best New Australian Work Award, 2002 Helpmann Awards

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre Company    2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press   978-0868196916

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Marriage Of Figaro, The

Synopsis:
This celebrated and humane comedy by Beaumarchais takes place on one mad day when the valet Figaro keeps trying to marry the maid Suzanne despite all obstacles. This is one of the great plays of the 18th Century and of course the basis for Mozart's opera. This translation was commissioned and first performed by Lighthouse for the State theatre Company of South Australia in 1984.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Beaumarchais

1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia    1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
5 act Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  or 5F, 7M.

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au, http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Mary Bryant

Mary Bryant
Mary Brand is sentenced to seven years deportation to a penal colony in Australia. On the journey there she meets and marries fellow convict Will Bryant. they escape from the penal colony with their child and seven other prisoners. they steal a boat and sail to Timor where they are recaptured and sent to england for trial. Will and the child die. Mary is defended by James Boswell

Notes:
Music by David King; lyrics And book by Nick enright

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, Melbourne    21 Nov 1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   mb001

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Miracle City

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Nick enright And Max Lambert

1st Produced:
Wharf Theatre, Sydney    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mongrels

Mongrels
Burke is an ex-con. O'Hara is an invalid. Both are mongrels, and both are writers. United by their tenacity as well as by their relationship with the powerful elaine, they make an uneasy bond, a bond forged out of rivalry, affection and suspicion. Mongrels is a highly adult play, brutal and comic by turns, a study of love, ambition and human capacity for survival, set in the ferment of the Australian theatre in the 1970s.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Sydney    1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1994   978-0868193632

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  with doubling

Further Reference:
-

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Music Is

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia    1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Oh What A Lovely War, Mate!

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
play Joan Littlewood

1st Produced:
The State Theatre Company Of South Australia, Adelaide    1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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On the Wallaby

On the Wallaby
a musical play which traces through the Depression of the lives of a Port Adelaide family. the misfortunes of the O'Briens are seen in the light of the strategies and manipulations of the politicians of the time; while at another level the author presents us with the death of musical hall theatre and the arrival of radio entertainment.

Notes:
the phrase 'on the wallaby' means tramping, e g during the Depression

1st Produced:
The State Theatre Company Of South Australia, Adelaide    1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1982   978-0868190608

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical Play Musical

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
-

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Playgrounds

Synopsis:
Memories light the corners of my mind. . . Two linked plays about growing up in the outer western suburbs of Sydney. the first, the WaY I WaS, looks at adolescence and the confusion of young love. the companion piece, WHeRe aRe We NOW? jumps twenty years to Warwick the successful TV host returning to his roots in supposed triumph, but it becomes a night of emotional reunion with the past.

Notes:
the two plays can be done separately.

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre Company    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two 1 act Plays One act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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Poor Student

Synopsis:
Five years ago, Haddon Grey was an actor at the zenith of his profession. Now, disabled by a stroke, and too proud to be seen by his friends, colleagues or public, on or off the stage, he lives alone and perhaps in penury, a long way from the city which once acclaimed him. But thelma Cayley has her own reasons to be concerned for Haddon's welfare. She hires Jez, a young and inexpert actor, to present himself to the reclusive older man as a potential student. But the lessons on offer are lessons in life; the young student becomes a witness and then a participant in the relationship of two complex and vulnerable people. and in the end, the lessons are not only for the young.

Notes:
the play was the last production of the theatre company

1st Produced:
Marian Street Theatre, Sydney    2001

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Property Of the Clan, A

Property Of the Clan, A
I never even knew her! More than to say hello to. What do you want me to do? Bawl my eyes out like all the girls? What do you want me to say? I'm sorry? Course I'm sorry. What happened to her shouldn't happen to a dog. What else? What else do you want to hear? What you felt. What you're feeling."

Notes:
Commissioned by Freewheels theatre In education Company in Newcastle, And first performed in 1992.

1st Produced:
Newcastle, New South Wales    1992

Organisations:
Freewheels Theatre in education

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1994   978-0868193601

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling poss

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Quartet From Rigoletto

Synopsis:
Rigoletto, its staff of four and some of its clientele, a multi-cultural, multi-purpose, multi neurotic bunch, are united in their need for company. and caffeine. 'the Quartet from Rigoletto' is dedicated to the proposition that the greatest gift in life may be the ability to make the perfect short black. Nick enright comments "I spend a lot of my life in cafe society . . . I go there for the coffee, the food, the back numbers of magazines I wouldn't be caught dead buying and, of course, the people. the passers by. the staff: cheerful, abstracted, suicidal, brisk, vengeful, what will it be today? the customers: lost souls like myself who come to work on that novel, comb the classifieds, deconstruct that movie, reconstruct that relationship, kill that hour, plan that life.." a light, breezy romantic comedy.

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1st Produced:
The Ensemble Theatre (Sydney)    1995

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  doubling poss

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Servant Of Two Masters, The

Servant Of Two Masters, The
Truffaldino couldn't be happier with his change of circumstance balancing two jobs and earning double the wage. But his masters' turn out to be separated lovers on the run staying at the same inn. With one disguised as a man, the wily Truffaldino tries to handle the chaos. Hoop-la and hilarity take hold in this comedy of love gone wrong and mistaken identity in romantic Venice.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni, Adapted by Nick enright And Ron Blair

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Adelaide, Australia    28762

Organisations:
State Theatre Company of Sa

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Snow Queen (Libretto)

Synopsis:
One act opera in based on the story by Hans Christian anderson.

Notes:
music Graham Dudley, story Anderson

1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia    1985

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Spurboard

Spurboard
a spurboard is a solid wooden structure on which bareback riders train; it can train muscles and judgment, but it doesn't buck like a real bronc. Four young people in a rural town in western NSW mount the spurboard as they face the end of school and challenge of choosing a path in life. For Mitchell, high school dropout and skilled rider, it's the thrills and spills of the weekend rodeo circuit; for his high-achieving brother Greg, it's the night sky seen through his grandfather's telescope. For Mitchell's girlfriend amy, it's a job in her mother's beauty salon as she commits herself to Mitchell for better or worse; for amy's best friend Karen, it's flight from an abusive and uncaring family to the Police academy and a rookie posting in the Big Smoke.

Notes:
This play was commissioned by Australian theatre For Young People, And has since been produced by Drama schools And community youth theatres. It can be performed by A large ensemble cast in A number of combinations.

1st Produced:
-    1999

Organisations:
Australian Theatre for Young People

1st Published:
Currency Press   978-0868196435

Music:
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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  doubling poss

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St James Infirmary

St James Infirmary
In a Catholic boys' boarding school during the Vietnam war a gifted young artist makes a stand against Australia's involvement in the conflict. His fall from grace divides the school and the people closest to him, particularly the young matron of the school infirmary.

Notes:
Commissioned by, And first produced by, NIDA in 1990 under the title St James Infirmary Blues; first professional (i e non-student) production Q theatre, Penrith NSW, in 1992

1st Produced:
Q Theatre, Penrith Nsw    1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1993   978-0868193441

Music:
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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Summer Rain

Summer Rain
the proprietor of the only pub in town emerges: 'We got no rooms.' the troupe is about to leave when the clouds open, ending a long drought, flooding the creek, and closing the bridge. Town and Troupe are stuck with each other. the Troupe has no money, so they suggest putting on a show in the School of Arts. the past is faced, reconciliation follows.

Notes:
a musical by Nick enright And Terence Clarke. Commissioned by, And first produced by, NIDA in 1983 in the Parade theatre, Sydney

1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre    1989

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868195636

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  six musicians

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Variations

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Nick enright And Terence Clarke. Best Drama, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 1983

1st Produced:
Nimrod Theatre    1982

Organisations:
Nimrod Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  including a teenage couple (boy must be accomplished banjo player), and a Senior couple (violinist and cellist, but can be faked).

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Venetian Twins

Venetian Twins
This musical romp is based on Carlo Goldoni's celebrated comedy of mistaken identity: twin brothers let loose on one mad day in eighteenth Century Verona. the double central role is a gift to a bright young comedian. One of the female roles requires a good coloratura soprano.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni. Book And lyrics by Nick enright, music by Terence Clarke

1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre    1979

Organisations:
Nimrod Theatre Company for the Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1996   978-0868194745

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  Five musicians

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Voyage Of Mary Bryant, The

Synopsis:
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I know Nick enright wrote A musical version of "the Voyage of Mary Bryant". the musical was written with the help of Musical theatre students of WaaPa Around 1996-97. I was A lighting student involved with the production At the time. You would have to go to WaaPa Archives to get more info on the production which was in the Studio now known As the Nick enright theatre.
Fiona Reid

1st Produced:
Waapa    -

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Way I Was, The (Playgrounds)

Synopsis:
Four hard edged little tales reflecting the many facets of the Emnerald City.

Notes:
part of Sydney Stories 2: The Blessing / Two Wongs / In the Club / The Way I Was. [1995 Festival of Sydney and Carnivale]

1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, Nsw    19 Jan 1995

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/30832

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Women Of Troy

Synopsis:
euripides' Tragedy is a frightening parable of the after-math of war: Hecuba, dethroned queen of defeated Troy, must see her city burned, her family humiliated, as she and her women wait to be lead into exile.

Notes:
This version of the play was commissioned And broadcast by ABC.

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  chorus of women, doubling possible

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