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Dallas Winmar
Traces the true story of three Aboriginal sisters whose mother was determined to keep her children when officials wanted to remove them following the death of their father.
The story is that of the three sisters of the playwright Jack Davis.
Review
Humanity and humour are at the fore … a gentle and vibrant evocation of an Aboriginal family’s relationship with each other and the land on which they struggle to live. - Bryce Hallett,
Sydney Morning Herald
Awards
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2003 VIC Premier's Literary Awards - Louis Esson Prize for Drama (Shortlist)
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2002 Kate Challis RAKA Award
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2002 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - Play Award (shortlist)
Cast : 2M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-688-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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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?
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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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Rita Kalnejais
A group of more or less
ordinary Sydneysiders go about their lives: Anna makes toast, Henry dresses for
work, Milla catches the train to school, Moses deals drugs. But hovering above
this unholy parade of life is the sobering fact that Milla will die before her
15th birthday.
Babyteethlooks at the
humdrum world around us and sees something radically alive. Dogs, Paganini,
figs, an eight-year-old Vietnamese violin prodigy, morphine, clear skies and a
Latvian immigrant are amongst the magnificent conflagration of ingredients
which make up this wonderful, funny play, written specially for Belvoir.
Cast : 4M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-926-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Tee O'Neill
Barassi is the story of a champion Australian Rules footballer and coach, Ron Barassi. Barassi’s premiership footballer father wore number 31 in the 1940 VFL Grand Final and was later killed as a soldier in Tobruk. He left a small boy who dreamed of one day being just like his father. That same boy was developed into a champion by a loving, but no-nonsense mother and a formidable foster father, Norm Smith.
This is the story of the boy who becomes the legend, and who shapes the mighty game we know as Australian Rules Football—our indigenous game, the game that demands courage, skill, determination, innovation, selflessness, and the bit of 31 that is in us all.
Cast : 7M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-959-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Sue Smith
Bastard Boys
is the story of the fight that stopped the nation—the 1998 battle for Australia's waterfront. More than just a dispute over reform, it became a campaign for the hearts and minds of all Australians. Controversial, all-consuming and combative, it forced people to pick a side and fight for their beliefs. Political thriller, war film, buddy movie, love story and courtroom drama all rolled into one, this is the story of the people behind one of the most significant events in Australia's recent past.
Iconic Australian actors Jack Thompson and Colin Friels lead an outstanding cast that includes: Geoff Morrell, Dan Wyllie, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon and Lucy Bell.
Bastard Boys has been written with the cooperation and participation of all parties to the dispute. It is the first time participants such as former Patrick CEO, Chris Corrigan and ACTU Secretary, Greg Combet have agreed to tell their stories.
Awards
- 2007 QLD Premier's Literary Awards - Television Script
Review
The world of the wharves, the boardrooms and war rooms are places most of us will never visit or understand.
Bastard Boys
takes us there, makes sense and great drama all at once. It’s amazing.
- Ruth Richie,
Sydney Morning Herald
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-809-5 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Michael Futcher & Helen Howard
An Iranian family living in Australia attempts to escape memories of torture endured back home. Their role in the 1992 raid on the Iranian Embassy in Canberra leads to persecution by the Australian government. Based on a true story.
Cast : 6M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-605-3 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Mary Morris
Adapted from the popular Morris Gleitzman novel.
A young girl, Rowena, moves to a new country town and school. Although Rowena can hear she is mute. Her widowed father has a penchant for satin cowboy shirts and embarrassing his daughter in public.
A story about disability, friendship, fitting in, and how children and adults try to co-exist.
Cast : 2M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-421-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Rosemary Johns
A fictionalised account of a true
incident—the grounding of British Airways Flight 149 at Kuwait International
Airport during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990—Black Box 149 explores the
impact of war and terror on the lives of civilians. Written as an intense
psychological and emotional journey, the play explores secrets, betrayal and
guilt, and how the personal is impacted by the political.
Cast : 2M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-943-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Jenny Kemp
A woman leaves her children for an evening to go to a nightclub. In a moment of indecision she glances back, slips and falls. Money, desire and dreams converge as she enters a surreal world of haunting colours and lyrical distortions.
Cast : 2M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-466-0 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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