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Jennifer Paynter

JENNIFER PAYNTER

  

Nationality:    Australian
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Jennifer Paynter's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/3508

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

        Balancing Act         God's People         House On Fire, A         Shackleton         When Are We Going to Manly?



Balancing Act

Synopsis:
Deals with "adolescent rites of passage in the 1950's".

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Civic Square, ACT    18 May 1990

Organisations:
Canberra Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/12089

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God's People

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Canberra, Canberra, ACT    May 1983

Organisations:
National Playwrights Conference

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95142

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House On Fire, A

Synopsis:
A play about failed and foiled motherhood in the prelude to the sexual revolution; play about revolution itself - the original inhabitants of Murriang are incapable of repelling invasion; a play about betrayal - a generational chain of betrayal and exploitation ending in desertion and death, and a tentative first movement towards understanding.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
Full-Length 120 mins Naturalistic

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Shackleton

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
[rehearsed reading] Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW    14 May 1989

Organisations:
Playworks

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1804

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When Are We Going to Manly?

Synopsis:
about mental illness

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW    11 Sep 1984

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Tragi-comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/61631

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