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The Gay Divorcee / A Manual of Trench Warfare / Furious / Blood and Honour / What Do They Call Me? / Mates / Pinball / Is That You Nancy?
Bruce Parr (ed)
A collection of gay and lesbian themed drama.
The Gay Divorcee
, by Margaret Fischer
Weaving together the language of fairytales with the psychodrama of modern lesbian relationships, Margaret Fischer explores today’s challenges with yesterday’s wisdom and a touch of Jewish humour.
A Manual of Trench Warfare
, by Clem Gorman
It is primarily survival that is on the minds of these soldiers fighting the Turks at Gallipoli, but a strong undercurrent of sexual tension is mingling with mateship and anti-authoritarianism.
Furious
, by Michael Gow
A family secret, a terrible betrayal and an obsession to rewrite the past combine in an explosive cocktail of fact and fiction. Michael Gow’s most uncompromising play.
Blood and Honour
, by Alex Harding
Racism and homophobia are explored in the relationship between a white Australian, Colin, and his Asian lover, Michael. The language of the stage elevates their dialogue with Colin’s mother to a hyper-real and hilarious performance of ideas.
Is That You Nancy?
,
by
Sandra Shotlander
This lively and literary play links lesbians of the past with those of the present in a delightful tapestry of telephone calls between Gertrude Stein, her friends and her fans.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-455-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Vocations / The Chapel Perilous / Historia / Murras / Remember / The Forty Lounge Cafe / Running Up a Dress
Peta Tait & Elizabeth Schafer (eds)
A collection of plays that charts some of the shifts in feminist thinking over the past twenty-five years and features some of Australia’s most renowned female dramatists.
Vocations,
by Alma De Groen
Two women, a writer and an actress, must try to separate their vocations from the nesting instincts of their mates.
The Chapel Perilous,
by 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.
Remember,
by Jenny Kemp
Sustaining a tension between a mundane domesticity and the surreal, exotic projections of Moderna’s inner world,
Remember
investigates the long-term consequences of the experience of rape.
The Forty Lounge Cafe
, by Tes Lyssiotis
A lyrical family story spanning three generations and two worlds.
Running Up A Dress
, by Suzanne Spunner
A collage of performed selves, this play depicts the ‘wear and tear’ on mother-daughter relationships through linguistic exercises on the extended metaphor of dressmaking.
Cast : Vocations - 2M, 2F + extras / The Chapel Perilous - 3M, 2F / Historia - 2M, 2F / Remember - 2M, 3F / The Forty Lounge Cafe - 9F (doubling possible)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-497-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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I Don't Wanna Play House / Conversations With the Dead / Enuff / Crow Fire / Belonging / Casting Doubts
Tammy Anderson et. al.
A collection of six plays from Victoria by Aboriginal writers which encompass a myriad of issues about the Aboriginal experience.
Contains:
I Don’t Wanna Play House, by Tammy Anderson
Tammy Anderson's moving story of her childhood. A truly remarkable account of the triumph of the human spirit.
Conversations With the Dead, by Richard J. Frankland
Imagine that you're a Koorie, that you're in your mid-twenties, that your job is to look into the lives of the dead and the process, policy and attitude that killed them.
Jack is employed by Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. In his role he listens to the stories of grieving families and re-creates the lives of those who have died. A powerful, savage play which takes you into the aching sorrow of deaths in custody.
Enuff, by
John Harding
A violent uprising is planned for Reconciliation Day in a future Australia. Will retribution or forgiveness prevail?
Crow Fire, by Jadah Milroy
The story of a young, urban Indigenous Australian woman and a man from a desert community lured into the city.
Belonging, by Tracey Rigney
Follows the taunts and temptations of a school girl, and her personal struggle to remain true to her culture and herself.
Casting Doubts, by Maryanne Sam
A funny and at times heart-wrenching play about an actors' casting agency with more colour charts than a paint shop, and the problems faced by Indigenous actors.
Cast : I Don't Wanna Play House - 1F + 1 musician / Conversations With the Dead - 5M, 1F + 1 musician / Enuff - 5M, 2F / Crow Fire - 3M, 2F / Belonging - 1M, 3F (doubling required) / Casting Doubts - 3M, 3F
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The Woman with Dog's Eyes / The Marvellous Boy / The Emperor of Sydney
Louis Nowra
After an extensive period of writing for film, Louis Nowra returns to the stage with
The Boyce Trilogy, an epic saga about the Boyce family, a family made wealthy through property development.
The Woman with Dog's Eyes
Introduces us to the Boyce family as they gather to celebrate the parents’ 40 th wedding anniversary. Inspired by events that traumatised Sydney’s Moran family, the play explores the universal themes of family, love and disappointment.
The Marvellous Boy
Unwraps the story of this notorious Sydney family. Malcolm Boyce is dying at a time when his biggest building project—and so his whole empire—is threatened by protesters. He hires an important criminal, the charismatic Ray Pollard, to threaten his enemies. Malcolm gets his son, Luke, to liaise with Ray. Luke not only falls under Ray's spell but also finds himself involved with his father's mistress. The results are tragic. This story follows Luke from detachment into an emotional involvement that will be liberating and then shattering as the consequences of his and his father's moral duplicity emerge.
The Emperor of Sydney
The three sons fight for control of the company as their father lays dying in the master bedroom above the huge Beauchamp mansion living room. The company is near bankruptcy because of a huge stalled project (their father's personal vision) and they are facing a criminal investigation into the father's role in the suspicious death of the project's outspoken critic.
Cast : The Woman with Dog's Eyes - 4M, 1F / The Marvellous Boy - 5M, 1F / The Emperor of Sydney - 3M, 2F
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Jenny Kemp
Kemp's experimental performance text is an investigation into the psyche and its ability to function creatively in a modern world.
Published in
Performing the Unnameable
Resources
Cast : Cast: 1M, 4F + extras
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-420-2 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Bitin' Back / Black Medea / King Hit / Rainbow's End / Windmill Baby
Vivienne Cleven et al
Five plays from around the country which illustrate that the rich tradition of indigenous storytelling is flourishing in contemporary Australian theatre.
‘Each play is a durable, resilient stone that both builds upon Indigenous traditions but also lays the foundation for the generations that will follow.’ - Professor Larissa Behrendt, from her Introduction.
Bitin’ Back, by Vivienne Cleven
Adapted from her award-winning novel, this is a ‘zany and uproarious black farce’ -
National Indigenous Times
Black Medea,
by Wesley Enoch
A richly poetic adaptation of Euripides
Medea that blends the cultures of Ancient Greek and indigenous storytelling to weave a bold and breathtaking commentary on contemporary experience.
Review
A visceral impact and lasting, disturbing imagery -
SMH
King Hit, by David Milroy and Geoffrey Narkle
Strikes at the very heart of the Stolen Generations, exploring the impact on an individual and a culture when relationships are brutally broken.
Rainbow’s End, by Jane Harrison
Set in the 1950s on the fringe of a country town, this is a thought-provoking and emotionally powerful snapshot of a Koori family which dramatises the struggle for decent housing, meaningful education, jobs and community acceptance.
Windmill Baby, by David Milroy
Set on an abandoned cattle station in the Kimberley landscape, this one woman play combines the poetry of a campfire story with the comedy of a great yarn.
Awards
- 2003 Patrick White Playwright's Award
Cast : Bitin' Back 5M, 3F (doubling required) / Black Medea - 2M, 2F, including 1 boy / King Hit - 3M, 1F / Rainbow's End - 1M, 3F / Windmill Baby 1F
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Jonah / Top End / Lost Weekend / The Floating World
John Romeril
This collection, introduced by John McCallum, includes three previously unpublished works:
Jonah
A Brechtian musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel of the same name
Top End
A political drama set in Darwin during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor
Lost Weekend
Takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'.
They are published together with Romeril's best-known play -
The Floating World
The story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan.
Romeril's writing conveys the immediacy of the times that stems from his beginnings as an agitprop writer, but he focuses on everyday lives. The plays in
Damage explore the twentieth century stresses and strains, the damage we do and the damage done to us.
Resources
-
Watch John Romeril in The Lost Repertoire
- on remembering, recognising and rejoicing in our Australian theatrical repertoire.
Cast : Various
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Kid Stakes / Other Times / Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler
OUT OF STOCK. ETA FOR REPRINT 2014.
First staged in 1955, no play has been more important to the history of Australian theatre than
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Twenty years later, Lawler returned to his lovable Carlton household and created two more plays:
Kid Stakes and
Other Times.
Kid Stakes
A joyful portrait of the summer of the first doll, in which a chance encounter brings Olive and Emma, Roo and Barney, into the shabby Carlton terrace to begin a seventeen year journey of seasonal love and argument.
Kid Stakes
introduces the fun-loving Nancy, who has left the scene by the seventeenth summer, adding a new poignancy to the story.
Other Times
The middle play of Ray Lawler's
Doll Trilogy.
Set during the Second World War, in late winter, when Barney and Roo are on leave from the army.
Other Times
is the fulcrum of the three plays in which the characters stop being kids and become adults. Middle age is looming and life is no longer just a game. Things are changed forever by Nancy's decision, setting the stage for
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler's revised script (2012) of his (and Australia's) most famous play, in which two larrikin canecutters and their women awaken to middle-age. The impact of
The
Doll
cannot be over-stated. Its success both here and abroad was quickly recognised as a defining moment in Australian theatre history.
Cast : Kid Stakes - 3M, 4F / Other Times - 3M, 4F / Summer of the Seventeenth Doll - 3M, 4F
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Too Young For Ghosts / No Going Back / My Father’s Father
Janis Balodis
Now available on
iTunes
Written over a period of ten years from 1985,
The Ghosts Trilogy follows the lives of a group of young Latvians who emigrate to North Queensland in 1948. The chronicle of their struggles over forty-five years is paralleled by the narrative detailing the unsuccessful journeys made by German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Queensland in the years 1845-46.
Too Young For Ghosts
The first major Australian play to deal with post-war immigration,
Too Young For Ghosts draws a parallel between the story of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt and the arrival of a group of displaced persons from war-ravaged Europe. The first play in
The Ghosts Trilogy.
No Going Back
The second play continues the intrigues of the group of young Latvians who emigrated to North Queensland in 1948.
My Father’s Father
The final play explores the relationships and experiences, over forty-five years, of the group of young Latvians who emigrated to North Queensland in 1948.
Cast : Too Young For Ghosts - 6M, 3F / No Going Back - 6M, 4F / My Father’s Father - 6M, 4F
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The Chapel Perilous / This Old Man Comes Rolling Home / Mrs Porter and the Angel / The Tatty Hallow Story
Dorothy Hewett
From teenage rebel to elder stateswoman, Dorothy Hewett's life as a poet and dramatist has followed the steps of Sally Banner, her iconic heroine in
The Chapel Perilous
doing battle on behalf of the forces of life. In turn she has shocked, outraged and seduced her public.
The Chapel Perilous
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.
This Old Man Comes Rolling Home
A play centred on family life in working-class Redfern in the 1950s which captures the colour, spirit and political character of the inner-city suburb. Hewett who lived in Redfern during the Cold War, wrote that her aim was 'to write of a self-contained world ... with its own language, its own folklore, its own values, its own ethos, to write of it with both realism and poetry'.
Also published -
Mrs Porter and the Angel
An exploration of the frustrations of domesticity and marriage in the lives of academic women.
The Tatty Hallow Story
No two versions of Tatty are alike in this conjuring of fantasies about an enigmatic, ageless blonde. A black comedy about ageing, faded beauty and accepting eccentricity.
Review
No one writes plays—and certainly not in Australia—of such rich complexity and poetic force. -
The
Australian
Cast : The Chapel Perilous - 3M, 2F / This Old Man Comes Rolling Home - 9M, 9F (doubling possible) / Mrs Porter and the Angel - 7M, 6F / The Tatty Hallow Story - 6M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-166-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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