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Elaine McKenna

ELAINE MCKENNA  

 Nationality:    Australian
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below is a list of Elaine McKenna's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Colonial Capers         Eighty-Eight, Eighty-Eight         Isadora

Colonial Capers

Synopsis:
a co-devised script which teaches school-children how to make, play and enjoy a bush-band

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Theatre Daytime    1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  adaptable parts

Further Reference:
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Eighty-Eight, Eighty-Eight

Synopsis:
a story about women in Australian history - and how they keep getting written out. Two young girls working on a school project, find themselves in the basement of the National Library. When they stir the dust, they are visited by women of the past who have much to comment upon. Their mission, if they will accept it, is to save the Queen Victoria Hospital and the future of independent women.

Notes:
Quote:
Maureen: 'Germaine Greer? Who's she?'.
Tracy: 'I dunno, 'parently she wrote some book or somethink, 'bout unicorns.'

1st Produced:
-    1987

Organisations:
Commissioned by the Australian Bicentennial Authority

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  8            Other:  sundry small parts for men

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Isadora

Synopsis:
about the life of inspirational dancer Isadora Duncan

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Australia    1984

Organisations:
T.G. Williams Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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