Plays for AdultsQuality plays for adults. A variety of play scripts suitable for performance in theatres and drama festivals / competitions. Also contain many good audition pieces.
ISBN 0 9578809 0 1
"Grand Tour" has four strong roles for women. It is the story of two sisters, Eve and Ruby, as they set out on their European tour. Set in Sydney in the 1950's and London in the 1990's, the play moves between the past, when as newly arrived immigrants from England they settle in Australia, and the present, when as tourists they return to London at the beginning of their Grand Tour. It is a journey from youth to later years, a journey filled with much humour and feeling.
Full length play.
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ISBN 0 9578809 7 9
One-act play.
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ISBN 0 9578809 6 0
"Two in a Room" is a bizarre encounter between a prostitute and her client.
One-act play.
First produced as a radio adaptation for the Australian Broadcating Corporation - Radio National.
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It is 1968. The Vietnam conflict rages. The Gods of War once more require the sacrifice of sons. Jim, a fifteen year old schoolboy, armed only with a rich imagination and a lively, irreverent sense of humour, gallantly resists the efforts of home, school and society to brutalise his nature and prepare him for the role of sacrificial lamb.
Full length play.
It is set in Sydney in 1968, but its theme is universal and its timing irrelevant. Though underlying serious, it is loaded with laughs from inspired mental images, innocent irreverence, delicious non sequiturs and youthful ingenuousness in general. - Sunday Telegraph
The play consists of many scenes, bursting with life and imagery each with its own climax. - The Australian
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It is 1838 and the young colony of New
South Wales is deeply divided by issues of race, rank and religion.
Now, to add to these problems, the newly appointed Governor to the
colony must deal with the worsening violence occurring between
Aborigines and squatters. In June, a band of white men massacre
twenty-eight Aboriginal people at Myall Creek. The Governor must act.
Under orders from London he must punish those guilty - an action he
knows many will vehemently oppose and one which will further divide the
colony. What to do? For the first time whites will hang for killing
blacks.
Massacre at Myall Creek is a play which explores the social and political climate in which this and other massacres took place. It examines the attitudes and policies that led to such inhumanity, while posing questiuons of ongoing and universal relevance.
Play includes
study units in the areas of English (issues and themes), drama, history
and Aboriginal Studies.
Read the script that has played to thousands of students and toured schools and other venues throughout Australia for 10 years.
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ISBN 0 86819 121 3
The play is one-act for two actors (one male, one female). Running time approximately 30-40 mins. The play is part of the "Popular One-Act Plays Volume 2" series and is available from Currency Press.
This play is available in book form NOW from Currency Press
"Memories of a Brainless Girl"
- a play about murder and the mind
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The play is set in Queensland, Australia in 1980. Sometimes called the 'Deep North'- to suggest similarity with the 'Deep South', USA - Queensland during the 1980s saw heated debates on abortion, homosexuality, the teaching of evolution in schools and inquiries into police and political corruption.
This is the world Natalie inhabits and one in which she must confront two mysteries - murder and the mind.
Experience the memories of a brainless girl.
Full length play.
