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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
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-709-8 | PB
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$19.95 ex GST
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Graham Sheil
Set in Bali at the time of Dutch rule, the play shows how the conflict between Christianity and Hinduism led to defeat and victory on both sides. Includes English and Indonesian text.
Cast : 7M, 1F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-240-6 | PB
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$29.95 ex GST
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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
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-562-9 | PB
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$29.95 ex GST
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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
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-576-6 | PB
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Alfred Dampier
This lively melodrama, adapted from the novel by Rolf Bolderwood, was a huge success in 1895 and played to enthusiastic audiences for some fifteen years thereafter. Edited by Richard Fotheringham and published with Australasian Drama Studies.
Cast : 18M, 7F, plus extras
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-137-9 | PB
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$27.23 ex GST
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Douglas Stewart
Stewart, best known as a poet, was also a masterful verse dramatist. His 1951 play
Shipwreck recreates the infamous mutiny that occurred after the Dutch ship Batavia foundered off the northwest Australian coast in 1629. It is a complex and literary play which depicts with sympathy the anarchic mutineers Cornelius, Huyssen and Seevanck.
Published in
Plays of the 50s Volume 1
Cast : 10M, 5F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-627-5 | PB
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$26.32 ex GST
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An Appalling Mistranslation by Peter Oswald of a Roman Comedy by Plautus
Peter Oswald
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Oberon Books | 978-1-840025-85-9 | PB
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