An unsuccessful barrister and even more unsuccessful murderer are the subjects of Mortimer’s first play, The Dock Brief. This was followed by What Shall We Tell Caroline? and then Lunch Hour, another short play about love and lies in the lunch-hour. The Collaborators covers the wear and tear of a marriage subsequently fortified by the threat of a third party.

A Voyage Round My Father, one of Mortimer’s greatest theatrical successes, is a celebration of the Shakespeare-quoting, eccentric, brave and impossible barrister who was John Mortimer's father.

Cast : 28, 4, 2, 4, 3

This second volume of Oberon's new edition of John Mortimer's Collected Plays contains two full-length works, The Wrong Side of the Park and Edwin, and four short plays known collectively as Come As You Are and individually named after parts of London: Mill Hill, Bermondsey, Marble Arch and Knightsbridge.

In Edwin, young Edwin  whom we never see is coming from Canada to meet the family; but is he the son of a retired judge who can't stop trying things, or of a free-living, opera-whistling potter?

In The Wrong Side of the Park, a wife's romantic memories of her husband are disturbed by a new lodger.

Mill Hill concerns a dentist, his wife and a friend who likes to dress up as Sir Walter Raleigh for the purpose of making love; in Bermondsey, the well-adjusted life of a London publican, his wife and the man who loves him is disturbed by the presence of a young girl at Christmas time. Knightsbridge deals with the misunderstandings and confusions that arise when the mother of a girl about to be married puts up a number of dubious advertisements in and around Knightsbridge. Marble Arch is the story of an ageing film star who believes that her rich lover has died in her bathroom and that it falls on her to dispose of the body.

Five bite-size pieces of theatre that deal with perception.

The characters in these theatrical hors d'oeuvres find their view of themselves at odds with the way the rest of the world sees them. Bittersweet and highly original, these 'mini marvels' cleverly break down the barrier between audience and actor, whether it's backstage at an opera, lost in the mind of would-be film-maker Margaret, or on a flight of freedom with air stewardess Polly.

The pieces are: A New York Threesome ( My Brother's Conversion; Madam Butterfly's Child; Manhattan Breast Company), Mad Margaret's Revenge and The Jolly Folly of Polly, The Scottish Trolley Dolly.

A long one-act play based on a real-life murderer, devised for the Australian Performing Group's Portable Theatre Company.

Published in Plays of the 70s Volume 1

Cast : Cast: 4F, doubling possible

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Cast : Cast: 2M

Performance Rights : Performance Rights: Emma Buzo, The Alex Buzo Company http://alexbuzo.com.au/rights/rights.html

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Ron Blair's second volume of short plays includes:

John Mulligan: The Sex Life of Snails
Daisy and her husband have a perfect marriage. After five years of bliss they are still completely unfaithful. It wasn't easy at first but fidelity can be overcome by the practice of self-control. A comedy about what is good for the goose.
Cast: 2F, 1M

Gordon Graham: Innocent Bystanders
Two cargo packers at Sydney Airport are overcome by a trio of stowaway terrorists who think they have arrived in Argentina. A comedy thriller in which the terrorists prove as muddled as their victims.
Cast: 1F, 1M

John Summons: The Coroner's Report
Irene works hard and lives alone after her mother's death. She is one of life's aunties. But why is she telling her story to this unknown man? His questions, some of them harsh and prurient, make for a gripping and grim interrogation.
Cast: 1F, 1M

Pamela van Amstel: Late Arrivals
People have their own reasons for going to Brolga Point: a lost housewife, a destitute boy, a ranting old deadbeat. Then two pill-popping teenagers arrive, looking for action. With this cross-section of rejects the author develops her theme of isolation.
Cast: 3F, 2M

Mil Perrin: Is This Where We Came In?
Alan is delivered to Carole's place. He is a demonstration model with only 150 hours in 'service'. The only trouble is, he has a major defect. Still, Carole has taken a liking to him and so have the other girls...
3F, 1M

A rich portrait of Australia in the mid-1960s where, in the 1966 federal election, conscription and the Vietnam War were the major public issues.

Published in Plays of the 60s Volume 2.

Cast : 10M, 3F

Performance Rights : HLA Management Pty Ltdwww.hlamanagement.com.au

Edgy, provocative and emotionally honest, each of these twelve short plays explores the nuances and subtleties of a meeting between two people.

Based on the ancient Chinese cosmology, The Twelve Branches of Life, the plays are a revealing mosaic of human interaction across a range of emotional landscapes.

Performance Rights : RGM Associates www.rgm.com.au/lit.html

Over three years, Australia's new writing theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, presented fourteen unique short plays across its mainstage seasons. Seen for one night only, The Fates, Seasons and The Seven Needs were three play-cycles provoked by the classical mythology of man's inescapable destiny, the seasonal patterns and Maslow's Pyramid of Human Needs.
Now, this eclectic and fascinating collaboration of ten-minute plays by some of the country's most established and emerging playwrights becomes Short Circuit.