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Tom Wright
Once upon a time, two children wander too far from home. They meet a colourful caravanserai of colonial pantomimics and are caught up in the hysterical performance of truculent and disreputable tales—tales to give a nation nightmares. Wright has hunted through our rich heritage of original Australian pantomimes to create this triumph of rhyme over reason. The result is part salute to a lost tradition, part banner to the future.
Cast : 3M, 4F Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-709-8 | PB
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Bill Reed
Burke's Company is a 'play of disillusion', writes Katharine Brisbane, which looks at 'the blindness of European exploiters like Robert O'Hara Burke who failed to manage his company or listen to their voices; and refused to acknowledge the Aborigines' offers of salvation. Burke's dream is to conquer the land, by traversing it from south to north. He wants their exploits gloriously recorded in Wills' writings. A play about class—in this case the moneyed class—for whom discipline is a tool of survival not always placed in the safest hands.'
Published in
Plays of the 60s Volume 3
Cast : 9M Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-562-9 | PB
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The play
Louis Nowra
Nowra’s vibrant play is set inside a psychiatric institution where Lewis, a university student, has been employed to direct a show. He becomes emotionally involved with his patients-cum-actors as his operatic production lurches forward and anti-Vietnam protests rage outside.
Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Drama.
‘Nowra has written a terrific play about theatre, madness, illusion, sanity, life: it’s a big, splendidly Australian epic’ Frank Gauntlett,
Telegraph Mirror
‘Nowra’s generous humour ... offers up a world of the most extraordinary, ordinary people; and a hilarious situation-comedy, to boot’ Angela Bennie,
Sydney Morning Herald
Nowra later adapted his play for the screen, and the screenplay of
Cosi is also available.
Cast : 5M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-403-5 | PB
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Nigel Planer
Based on the curious fact that the Scottish Presbyterian Robert Louis
Stevenson and the hedonistic Paul Gauguin both ended their days on the
South Sea Islands within a few years of each other, Nigel Planer’s play
compares and contrasts the very different, but oddly similar lives they
were living in their respective tropical paradises.
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Nick Hern | 978-1-84842-041-0 | PB
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Liz Lochhead
‘This powerful and poetic version… shrugs off all those fanged Hammer spoofs and restores real tragedy to Bram Stoker’s tale’
Guardian
The fabled figures of Jonathan Harker, the archetypal innocent abroad, Mina Westerman, his anxious fiancé, Renfield, Van Helsing and, of course, Count Dracula himself are brought brilliantly to life (or the undead) in this adaptation for the stage which sticks refreshingly close to Bram Stoker’s original while grounding the whole story in a believable reality.
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Nick Hern | 978-1-84842-029-8
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Catherine Shepherd
Sir John Franklin, governor of Tasmania and his wife, Jane, are passionately in love. They are determined to dramatically change the colonial outpost, from which Sir Franklin is later dismissed. Was Jane the real reason Franklin’s reforms were rejected?
Published in Tremendous Worlds: Australian Women's Drama 1890–1960.
Cast : 12M, 10F Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-576-6 | PB
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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.
Published in
Plays of the 70s Volume 1
Cast : 3M, 3F, plus extras Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-548-3 | 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 | 978-0-86819-156-0 | PB
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A modern Scottish classic, first staged at the Edinburgh Lyceum in 1987, Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots... is republished here in a revised version . It is the familiar tale of the enmity between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots, but retold by Scotland’s unofficial Poet Laureate with a ferocious iconoclasm. Needless to say, the play ends when Mary Queen of Scots gets her head chopped off…
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-028-1 | PB
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Liz Lochhead
A modern Scottish classic, first staged at the Edinburgh Lyceum in 1987, Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots... is republished here in a revised version . It is the familiar tale of the enmity between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots, but retold by Scotland’s unofficial Poet Laureate with a ferocious iconoclasm. Needless to say, the play ends when Mary Queen of Scots gets her head chopped off…
Performance Rights : Nick Hern
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-028-1 | PB
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