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Dorothy Hewett
The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts—through her school days, lovers, marriage and politics—to extract meaning from her environment. Music by Frank Arndt.
Cast : 3M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-814-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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David Williamson
Williamson’s famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. This is a play set behind the scenes, a head-on tackle of brawn versus bureaucracy.
Resources
Cast : 6M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-013-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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David Williamson
It's election night 1969. Don and Kath, hope that there will be a change of government, and give a party to watch the results. As the tide turns against Labor, the good cheer palls and the faded ideals and disappointed hopes of the characters begin to show.
Williamson's brilliant satire examines a society on the threshold of emerging from a generation of comfortable, conservative political and social values.
Resources
Cast : 6M, 5F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-530-8 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Louis Nowra
Inner Voices
The son of Catherine the Great, who has been locked away since childhood, is set upon the throne of Russia knowing only his name. Music by Sarah de Jong.
Albert Names Edward
A black comedy that demonstrates Nowra's early preoccupation with isolation and the exercise of power through imagination. An amnesiac takes shelter with an urban hermit.
Cast : Inner Voices - 10M, 3F / Albert Names Edward - 2M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-078-5 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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White with Wire Wheels / Dimboola / A Stretch of the Imagination
Jack Hibberd
Three early plays from Jack Hibberd which continue to be performed, studied and read for pleaure.
White with Wire Wheels (1967)
Hibberd satirises the culture of masculinity expressed in cars, booze and work, a world in which women are marginalised and ultimately disposable. This provocative and unconventional comedy throws a spotlight on a society that can tolerate the intolerable.
Dimboola (1969)
Playfully vulgar, bawdy and boisterous,
Dimboola plays out the wedding reception from hell, with the audience actively playing the roles of the guests. A celebration as much as a satire, the play joyously takes a familiar ritual and turns it uproariously on its head.
A Stretch of the Imagination (1971)
Monk O’Neill, the lonely misanthropist has become an archetype of the Australian character since he first appeared on our stages in 1971.
Cast : White with Wire Wheels - 3M, 4F (doubling required) / Dimboola - 9M, 7F / A Stretch of the Imagination - 1M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-632-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Alex Buzo
Macquarie traces the decline of Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s authority in the infant colony of New South Wales between the years 1810 and 1822, and draws parallels with the fate of a liberal conscience in modern Australian politics.
Cast : 7M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-356-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Alex Buzo
East meets west in this subtle romantic comedy when a handful of tourists and adventurers converge on the ruins of an old Indonesian port. Buzo moves away from satire to examine at a deeper level the ennui and alienation behind the laughter.
Includes an authoritative introduction by Frank Palmos, an Indonesian correspondent and interpreter for the president during the Sukarno era.
Cast : 5M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-021-1 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Dorothy Hewett
This comic musical play celebrates life in a country town at the time of the Great War, conjuring its light and dark sides into an old fertility dance.
Cast : 6M, 8F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-917-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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The Legend of King O'Malley / The Joss Adams Show / Mrs Thally F / The Removalists
Katharine Brisbane (ed)
The bicentennial celebrations in 1970 of the arrival of Captain James Cook aroused a new interest in Australia's history and culture. The plays in this volume were landmarks in the development of a rough new all-Australian theatre which celebrated the rude colour of Australian language and mores.
It was a period of comedy and satire, but these plays show that beneath the larrikinism, sharp social criticism was at work. Ordinary people were becoming alienated and exploited, living largely unexamined lives.
The plays in this volume are:
The Legend of King O'Malley by Michael Boddy & Bob Ellis
A landmark play when it was first produced in 1970,
The Legend of King O'Malley
draws on vaudeville traditions to create a larrikin form from which the Australian New Wave theatre took its direction. The underlying story is based on a real life Texan idealist who became a member of two Australian parliaments and was defeated in 1917 for opposing conscription.
The play begins with a prairie revival meeting and takes a journey of adventure and hardship, culminating in a satirical view of federal parliament as a bunch of clowns. Beyond the irreverence, Australian myths can be glimpsed in the portrait of the lonely outsider and farseeing idealist in conflict with conservative pragmatists.
The Joss Adams Show by Alma De Groen
One of the first new wave plays to raise female consciousness in a movement which was almost entirely male-dominated.
Joss gives a unique insight into the state of mind of a woman with post-natal depression. A savagely comic play whose strength lies in the tension between the comic inappropriateness of the social behaviour and the 'reality' in the mind of the audience—in this case the death of a baby.
Mrs Thally F by John Romeril
A long one-act play based on a real-life murderer, devised for the Australian Performing Group's Portable Theatre Company.
Resources
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 Watch John Romeril in The Lost Repertoire - on remembering, recognising and rejoicing in our Australian theatrical repertoire.
A Stretch of the Imagination by Jack Hibberd
Monk O’Neill, the lonely misanthropist has become an archetype of the Australian character since he first appeared on our stages in 1971.
The Removalists by David Williamson
A young policeman’s first day on duty becomes a violent and highly charged initiation into law enforcement. Remarkable for its blend of boisterous humour and horrifying violence, the play has acquired a reputation as a classic statement on Australian authoritarianism and is a key work in the study of Australian drama.
Awards
- 1972 AWGIE Award - Best Stage Play and Best Script.
Also available -
Cast : The Legend of King O'Malley - 3M, 3F + extras / The Joss Adams Show - 2M, 2F / Mrs Thally F - 4F (doubling possible) / The Removalists - 4M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-548-3 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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A Hard God / Coralie Landsdowne Says No / How Does Your Garden Grow / The Cake Man
Katharine Brisbane (ed)
The years 1973-75 are famously remembered as 'the Whitlam years' (after the then Labour Prime Minister Gough Whitlam), and the plays of this period reveal a new sense of direction and a desire for political and cultural rejuvenation.
After experiments with social satire, nudity and challenges to public order, the playwrights in this volume turn to the domestic arena to examine more seriously the way in which the individual is shaped by society. There is also a new preoccupation with personal morality and ethics, and hints of the fear and disillusion that change can bring about.
The volume includes -
A Hard God by Peter Kenna
The story of the Cassidy brothers and their wives is counter-pointed by a brief involvement between two teenage boys.
Resources
Coralie Lansdowne Says No by Alex Buzo
A woman's struggle for her sense of self in a play that reflects as much on the enduring need for commonplace emotional security and comfort as on the need for social progress.
How Does Your Garden Grow by Jim McNeil
Examines a prisoner’s need for domestic comforts.
The Cake Man by Robert Merritt
This landmark play portrays life on a mission in Western NSW. A simple, moving story which shows white Christian paternalism from a black point of view.The Cake Manwas the first play by an Aboriginal writer to enter the repertoire of the white theatre.
Published with notes on Wiradjuri country and memories of the mission where Merritt was raised.
Cast : A Hard God - 5M, 2F / Coralie Landsdowne Says No - 4M, 3F / How Does Your Garden Grow - / The Cake Man - 5M, 1F, including 1 boy
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-552-0 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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