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Barry Lowe

BARRY LOWE

  

Nationality:    Australian
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Sydney based Australian playwright, Barry Lowe began his theatrical career as a lighting operator/actor/writer in children's Theatre. To pay the bills he worked as a journalist/production editor and performing Arts critic on magazines as diverse as "the National Times", "the Newcastle Morning Herald", "Theatre Australia", and "Performing Arts News" before joining the staff of the national gay magazine, "Campaign". He went on to edit the magazine for almost seven years. While at "Campaign" his autobiographical sex romp: Writer's Cramp, was presented as a Festival of Sydney Fringe event. He followed it up with ego Positioning and then formed his own Theatre company which performed a new work every six weeks at the Balmain Town Hall Hotel. His work moved interstate when the Barricade was produced at La Mama, followed by Dragon Fly and Sal, his first time working with Oz director Robert Chuter. their partnership resulted in the highly successful Shakin' the Blues away, the Death of Peter Pan [two seasons at La Mama and Universal Theatre], as well as adaptations of the Great Gatsby, a Difficult Young Man, the Turn of the Screw [Rippon Lea] and four productions of Homme Fatale in Melbourne and Perth. Homme Fatale, his most acclaimed play has also been produced in Adelaide, Brisbane, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Rome]. Barry's many plays include: Drycleaning the Shroud of Turin, auntie Magnesia and the Sex Museum, Seeing Things, Relative Merits, Rehearsing the Shower Scene from 'Psycho', Dutch Courage, Tokyo Rose, the extraordinary annual General Meeting of the Size-Queen Club, Scam! She's No angel - a Mae West Vaudeville and Oscar Wilde's the Importance of Being earnest [as Performed by the Inmates of Reading Gaol]. He co-wrote [with Andrew Creagh] the screenplay for Richard Turner's film, Violet's Visit. His short stories have appeared both in Australian and overseas anthologies.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/4627

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        7 Blowjobs         Auntie Magnesia and the Sex Museum         Barricade, The         Basic Plumbing         By the Short And the Curlies         Class Apart, A         Death Of Peter Pan, The         Diary Of A Nobody, The         Difficult Young Man, A         Dragon Fly         Drycleaning the Shroud Of Turin         Dutch Courage         Ego Positioning         Elbow Grease         Extraordinary Annual General Meeting Of the Size Queen Club, The         Finishing School, The         Funny Bugger: Kenneth Williams Carries On         Get Happy         Great Gatsby, The         Heir Raising         Homme Fatale: the Fast Life & Slow Death Of Joey Stefano         Indecent Exposure: Snapshots Of Robert Mapplethorpe         Lettuce Cutlets         Lip Service         Lyrics For A Lost Love Song         Nowadays         Oscar Wilde's the Importance Of Being Earnest [As Performed By the Inmates Of Reading Gaol]         Our Lady Of the Lavatory         Out Of Bounds         Pernickety Split!         Rehearsing the Shower Scene From "Psycho"         Relative Merits         Rosaleen: Wicked Witch Of the Cross         Sal         Saving Face         Seeing Things         Shakin' the Blues Away         She's No Angel: A Mae West Vaudeville         Tadzio         Teleny or the Reverse Of the Medal         There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden         Thousand And One Night Stands, A: the Life Of Jon Vincent         Tokyo Rose         Trench Mouth         Turn Of the Screw, The         Writer's Cramp



7 Blowjobs

Synopsis:
7 Blowjobs" is a satire about censorship of the arts, pitting a handful of conflicted conservatives against each other in a squabble that exposes their ludicrous hypocrisy. The play's climax chillingly depicts how the perennial debate over "values" can be used to deceive us.

Notes:
B Sharp 2006 Season

1st Produced:
Seymour Downstairs Theatre, Chippendale, NSW    02 Jun 2006

Organisations:
Universal Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay, full length satire

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/69024

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Auntie Magnesia and the Sex Museum

Synopsis:
Talking sex all day, taking dick measurements, writing down sex adventures, setting up a museum devoted to his favourite subject - such was the life of neglected queer hero Magnus Hirschfeld (a.k.a. "the Einstein of Sex"). By day he was a mild-mannered sexologist. By night he transformed into Auntie Magnesia, trolling the gay and tranny bars of the Weimar Republic, riding the crest of the sexological wave, until the Nazis vandalised his sex museum and burned his books. Now in a new romp through gay history, Hirschfeld is back centre stage with his note pad and tape measure searching for n

Notes:
2005 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras

1st Produced:
Bar Me, Kings Cross, New South Wales    28 Feb 2005

Organisations:
Saucy Blade Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, full length comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/66045

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Barricade, The

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1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, VIC    Jun 1985

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Music:
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Genre:
2 act 115 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/72494

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Basic Plumbing

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By the Short And the Curlies

Synopsis:
a celebration of the outrageous British playwright Joe Orton and his sixteen year 'marriage' to Kenneth Halliwell, which concluded with their violent premature deaths

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Fitzroy Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC    25 Aug 2004

Organisations:
Performing Arts Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
Monolgue play. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65801

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Class Apart, A

Synopsis:
the story of architect, photographer and soldier Montague Glover and his boyfriend from the east end Ralph Hall

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Death Of Peter Pan, The

Synopsis:
Explores the relationship between James Barrie and one of his adopted sons, Michael Llewelyn Davies, who was a model for Peter Pan, and who drowned in a pool at Oxford in 1921.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
St. Martin's Theatre, South Yarra, VIC    17 Dec 1988

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre [aka Performing Arts Projects]

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 150 mins Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/86874

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Diary Of A Nobody, The

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Difficult Young Man, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from the novel by Martin Boyd. Part of the Sunday Afternoon Deckchair Readings, Rippon Lea

1st Produced:
Rippon Lea, Elsternwick, VIC    18 Jan 1998

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre [aka Performing Arts Projects]

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95389

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Dragon Fly

Synopsis:
Suburban mum, Vera, has won a trip to China in a bake-off competition on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's signing Hong Kong back to the Chinese Mainland. On the tour bus with her son, she meets an obnoxious Aussie blabbermouth, a pukka English Thatcherite, and two Americans who collect jade for Jesus. Although it's her first trip overseas, Vera strikes up a rapport with Peng, their official guide, and learns of his past as a singer with the Beijing Opera and his suffering during the Cultural Revolution.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Australia    1986

Organisations:
La Mama Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Drycleaning the Shroud Of Turin

Synopsis:
Taking a walk through Axel's part of town could lead anywhere: your darkest, dirtiest fantasies fulfilled (which Axel can do for a price) or face down with your wallet stolen. Axel is streetwise, sexy and makes his money selling what David Jones don¿t stock. This is a world where sex is currency, the currency is cheap and money dribbles through your fingers, then it's gone. But Axel has something others don't have.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, VIC    30 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/86808

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Dutch Courage

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. World War Two. the Nazis are occupying the Netherlands. a group of resistance fighters are determined not to let them win. there are seven members of the group - and they are all gay.

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Sean Peter. Book by Barry Lowe

1st Produced:
Australia    1997

Organisations:
Theatre 62

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/64369

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Ego Positioning

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bijou Room Town Hall Hotel, Balmain, NSW    17 Mar 1983

Organisations:
Hullabaloo Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93507

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Elbow Grease

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Patchs, Sydney, NSW    Sep 1983

Organisations:
Hullabaloo Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93508

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Extraordinary Annual General Meeting Of the Size Queen Club, The

Synopsis:
A straight man lives with a screaming queen for money so that he can pay for a penis enlargement. A show girl sells her soul to the Devil in return for winning an Oscar

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cafe de Lane, Darlinghurst, NSW    09 Feb 1996

Organisations:
Shrieking Violets at Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/28369

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Finishing School, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bijou Room, Town Hall Hotel, Balmain, Nsw, Australia    Jan 1983

Organisations:
Hullabaloo Theatre Company as 1983 Festival Of Sydney event

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93512

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Funny Bugger: Kenneth Williams Carries On

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Get Happy

Synopsis:
A musical cabaret based on the tunes of song-writer Harold Arlen

Notes:
original concept by Frank Garfield and Barry Lowe

1st Produced:
Studio Cafe 268, Sydney, NSW    17 Apr 1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
musical cabaret

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/109604

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Great Gatsby, The

Synopsis:
F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece adapted for stage. Explores the American dream gone sour. The greed and duplicity of US society in the 1920s through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carroway, who watches as bootlegger Jay Gatsby attempts to reignite his past love for the now married Daisy Buchanan.

Notes:
From the Novel By F. Scott Fitzgerald

1st Produced:
Rippon Lea, Elsternwick, VIC    28 Dec 1997

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre [aka Performing Arts Projects]

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Site-specific [as stage adaptable], 120 mins

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/31465

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Heir Raising

Synopsis:
On the eve of their partnership ceremony eden discovers that Taylor has not told him everything. a teenage girl is on their doorstep claiming Taylor is her father

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Fuse Box Theatre, Sydney    2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Homme Fatale: the Fast Life & Slow Death Of Joey Stefano

Synopsis:
tells Stefano's life story, from getting turned on aged nine by his dad's video of Debbie Does Dallas his entry into making gay porn films, to his superstar status in this field, to dying alone in a hotel room with a needle in his arm, at 26

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St. Kilda, VIC    01 Feb 2000

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
biographical. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/86939

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Indecent Exposure: Snapshots Of Robert Mapplethorpe

Synopsis:
The Australian PM has disappeared and conspiracy theories abound: he was kidnapped by aliens, he was whisked away in a Chinese submarine, he was killed by the CIA. Only one man, Declan Tulloch, knows the truth. Twenty years later, Declan and the PM's daughter struggle for Liberal Party preselection. Meanwhile, Brita, an ambitious young ACT-UP activist, is on the trail of a good lay and a good story and he doesn't care how he gets it. Indecent Exposure explores the underbelly of modern party politics as well as the pros and cons of outing and the true nature of modern love and desire.

Notes:
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Genre:
2 act 100 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Lettuce Cutlets

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bijou Room Town Hall Hotel, Balmain, NSW    09 Sep 1982

Organisations:
Hullabaloo Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93509

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Lip Service

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bijou Room Town Hall Hotel, Balmain, NSW    Feb 1983

Organisations:
Hullabaloo Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93511

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Lyrics For A Lost Love Song

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Nowadays

Synopsis:
A composite of songs from a number of musicals by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sondheim

Notes:
compiled by Campion Decent and Barry Lowe

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, Nsw    14 Sep 1994

Organisations:
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Genre:
composite musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25831

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Oscar Wilde's the Importance Of Being Earnest [As Performed By the Inmates Of Reading Gaol]

Synopsis:
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Notes:
an All-male Adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play

1st Produced:
Australia    2002

Organisations:
New Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Our Lady Of the Lavatory

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Australia [As A Playreading]    1988

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre [aka Performing Arts Projects]

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Out Of Bounds

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Pernickety Split!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Australia    1999

Organisations:
Whitehorse Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Children's Play Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Rehearsing the Shower Scene From "Psycho"

Synopsis:
Norman is a recluse, who lives with his invalid mother, and gets his kicks from hiring rough trade to act out his favourite scenes in violent movies. He meets his match in Crowe, who turns out to be not fantasy but the real thing. And so is Crowe's brother, Hawk, who later turns up searching for his missing sibling. Or is he? This very black and very bleak comedy explores the Aussie pastime of poofter-bashing and the fine line between fantasy and reality with a nod to Psycho and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cafe de Lane, Darlinghurst, NSW    23 Nov 1995

Organisations:
Cafe de Lane

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 80 mins black comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60020

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Relative Merits

Synopsis:
explores the relationship between 19-year old Clay, who leaves home to join his older brother, and football hero, adam in the city. they have not seen each other in ten years and Clay's homophobia and misconceptions about masculinity have to be confronted when he discovers that his brother is not only gay but HIV+

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, King's Cross, Nsw, Australia    1993

Organisations:
UmbrElla events in association with Les Solomon Management

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
70 mins One act. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20691

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Rosaleen: Wicked Witch Of the Cross

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Australia    1982

Organisations:
Hullabaloo Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Sal

Synopsis:
Hollywood actor Sal Mineo holds a press conference to announce his come-back as a stage performer and talks about his life as a Sicilian-American, his life as a star, including acting with James Dean, and his life on the skids when his luck ran out. Later that night he is stabbed and killed on his way back to his apartment. The actor playing Sal Mineo also plays Sal's mum and various other characters.

Notes:
Part of the 1987 Spoleto Fringe Festival, Melbourne

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, VIC    22 Sep 1988

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre [aka Performing Arts Projects], Spoleto Fringe festival

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue/s 45 mins. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95283

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Saving Face

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Seeing Things

Synopsis:
Clarrie discovers the ghost of his favourite gay porn movie star living in the wardrobe of his new flat. But even though the spirit is willing - the flesh is weak. Love eventually triumphs with the help of a lesbian clairvoyant and Clarrie's nerdy friend Mac.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Edge Theatre, Newtown, NSW    04 Nov 1993

Organisations:
JB Production

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 120 mins satire farce. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/22957

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Shakin' the Blues Away

Synopsis:
play about four of the most famous Torch singers of the late 20's early 30's

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Butterfly Club, South Melbourne, VIC    25 Apr 2005

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre @ the Butterfly Club

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical Play Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/86895

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She's No Angel: A Mae West Vaudeville

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Australia    1999

Organisations:
Lookout Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Tadzio

Synopsis:
In the summer of 1911 the German writer Thomas Mann visited Venice in the company of his wife Katia. there in the Grand Hotel de Bains, as he waited for the dinner gong the writer's eye was drawn to a nearby Polish family, the Moeses, consisting of a mother, three daughters and a sailor-suited son, who to Mann exuded an almost supernatural beauty and grace. Inspired by this chance encounter, Mann wrote "Death in Venice" and the infatuated writer made the boy Wladyslaw Moes one of the 20th century's most potent and enduring icons.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
[reading] Rippon Lea, Elsternwick, VIC    08 Feb 1998

Organisations:
Midsumma Festival 98

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/100915

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Teleny or the Reverse Of the Medal

Synopsis:
Did Oscar Wilde pen this classic gay erotica? The Reverse of the Medal is a pornographic novel published in 1893. The authorship of the work is unknown, but it has been attributed to Oscar Wilde. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, it concerns the magnetic attraction and passionate, though an ultimately tragic, affair between a young Frenchman named Camille de Grieux and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny.

Notes:
Based on the novel "Teleny" allegedly by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Midsumma Festival, BrightSpace Studio, St Kilda, VIC    23 Jan 2010

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/88677

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There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bijou Room Town Hall Hotel, Balmain, NSW    1982

Organisations:
Hullabaloo Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
music theatre

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/107107

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Thousand And One Night Stands, A: the Life Of Jon Vincent

Synopsis:
A Thousand and One Night Stands is a play about the sordid and tragic life of Jon Vincent... His life involved years of male prostitution, a long career in gay porn, all sorts of addictive drugs and alcohol and several marriages. Barry Lowe's play is based on the book of the same name written by Vincent's friend, Hope A. Carson, and conceived in the months before Vincent's death from a heroin overdose.

Notes:
From the Book By Hope A. Carson. Part of the 2004 Midsumma Gay & Lesbian Festival, Melbourne

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St. Kilda    28 Jan 2004

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre [aka Performing Arts Projects]

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/61441

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Tokyo Rose

Synopsis:
Tokyo Rose was the name given to the female announcers who broadcast propaganda over Radio Tokyo, which was beamed to the Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War Two. U.S. born Iva Toguri, however, was the only one charged with treason in an orchestrated witch hunt by journalists and politicos to increase their power and prestige. Using the Andrew Sisters and Uncle Sam as counterpoint, the play explores the gross miscarriage of justice which led to her ultimate tragedy. Tokyo Rose can be performed as a musical or a straight play.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Boite Theatre, Milton, QLD    11 Oct 1989

Organisations:
La Boite Theatre

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical or 45 min play

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2007

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Trench Mouth

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Turn Of the Screw, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
From the NovElla By Henry James

1st Produced:
Rippon Lea, Elsternwick, VIC    26 Dec 1999

Organisations:
Fly-On-the-Wall Theatre [aka Performing Arts Projects]

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Site-specific [as stage adaptable]

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/86888

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Writer's Cramp

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Corner of Crown and Foley Streets, Sydney, NSW    07 Jan 1982

Organisations:
Gay Theatre Company at Festival of Sydney

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93513

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