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Tony Moore

TONY MOORE  

 Nationality:    Anglo-Australian
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Tony Moore was born in the UK, emigrated to Australia as a child and has lived and worked in both the UK and Australia in the amateur and professional theatre worlds. He began writing to produce short scripts for young people he was teaching and discovered he enjoyed it. He is now resident in Adelaide South Australia and is happily working and writing there. His work has been performed in the UK, the USA, Greece and Australia. Agent: Geoff Duncan cgduncan@bigpond.net.au

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below is a list of Tony Moore's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 And Then What Happened?         and then you die!         Boiled Cabbage         Coping         Difficult Loves         Dracula         I Thinks It Is Time We Had A Talk         Jane Was Sixteen Yesterday         Made In Heaven         Mothers Day         Murder at Doom Manor         ReCreation         Rick         Seconds Out         Solipsism         Table, The         Vampyre!

And Then What Happened?

Synopsis:
A budding playwright takes a bunch of scripts to his aunt - an agent

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Short Sweet and Sour" published by New Theatre Publications   978-1840946130

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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and then you die!

Synopsis:
the story of seven friends and the glue that holds their relationship together. The play spans a period of seventeen years starting with the funeral that breaks the relationship and running backwards in time to the day of their University Graduation, finally revisiting the funeral. Through examining each of the seven times these people are alone together over the period it studies friendships and how they form and change, how politics and friendship can affect each other. It's funny and tragic and about real people. It's an ensemble piece for four men and three women.

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1st Produced:
Maidstone BTEC college    2000

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Boiled Cabbage

Synopsis:
A pastiche of Absurdism intended to highlight some of the changes to the world that occurred as a result of the Second World War. Thrill to the adventures of John and Janet as they experience everything that War can offer. Sympathise with Mum as she throws off the shackles of patriarchism and learns to think for herself. Watch as Dad withdraws into the mouthing of unthinking cliches in order to protect his own bankrupt world view.

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New Theatre Publications,    -

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Coping

Synopsis:
Coping consists of 2 monologues for a mature actress. The first "No Privacy" deals with the plight of a homeless woman who ended up on the street because of her gambling habits. The second "Tom" examines the effects of Alzheimers disease on a family through the eyes of the wife of the sufferer. The two plays were presented at the Adelaide Festival Fringe in 2006 to critical acclaim.

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1st Produced:
Goodwood Institute    2006

Organisations:
Spotlight Theatre Company

1st Published:
Moore Books Adelaide, 2006   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Difficult Loves

Synopsis:
In ILLMET an angel and a vampire accidentally meet on the last Christmas Eve of the Old Millennium. They discuss the very nature of their existence and of good and evil. LOST features two people caught in a love affair, or are they ghosts fated to repeat the same events? Finally in DEADLOCK a serial kidnapper and his victim are caught up in an unresolvable paradox. All three plays feature one man and one woman.

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New Theatre Publications,    -

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Genre:
three short plays One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dracula

Synopsis:
A young woman dies of apparent anaemia in a Surrey Sanatorium. When her best friend begins to exhibit the same symptoms her Doctor sends for an expert from Holland called Van Helsing. He advises that he believes that a vampire is involved. The others scoff but eventually suspicion begins to point to a new neighbour Count Dracula. The action mounts to an eventual climax in the cellars of Carfax, Count Dracula's home. What more can be said, it's based on the original book, a script from the 1920's and a film script from the 1950's but most of the dialogue is original except what comes direct from the book.

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1st Produced:
Stag Theatre    1997

Organisations:
Stag Theatre Company

1st Published:
New Theatre Publications,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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I Thinks It Is Time We Had A Talk

Synopsis:
Phyl is in a psychiatric ward with her best friend Lando - a stuffed cat

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Short Sweet and Sour" published by New Theatre Publications   978-1840946130

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Jane Was Sixteen Yesterday

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Made In Heaven

Synopsis:
A couple meet accidently after twenty years - will things carry on where they left them at High School?

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Short Sweet and Sour" published by New Theatre Publications   978-1840946130

Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mothers Day

Synopsis:
Joan is having a lazy day until her daughter spoils it

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Short Sweet and Sour" published by New Theatre Publications   978-1840946130

Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Murder at Doom Manor

Synopsis:
The Caruthers family are gathered to receive some momentous news. Which of Celia's three sons will inherit the estate and the Doomstone? Just as the question is about to be answered the proceedings are interrupted by the arrival of an uninvited body and, at the height of a dreadful storm, a pair of eccentric detectives. Who has stolen the Doomstone? Who killed the unknown caller? Who made the wet patch halfway up the dining room wall? Follow the adventures of Chloe as she attempts to get her nightcap up the stairs and thrill to the denouement as all is revealed in the final scene.

Notes:
written by Tony Moore And Kathleen Morgan

1st Produced:
La Mama Theatre, Adelaide    1993

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications,    -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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ReCreation

Synopsis:
A scientist's wife dies young from a genetic disease. He is determined to discover a cure for the disease and to get his beloved wife back and in the process of the research needed to find a cure for the disease, illegally clones his dead wife. He discovers tragically that the clone while physically identical to his wife is not the same person and she runs away from him losing herself in the city of London. The tragic ending of the play shows the disaster that can be faced by those who challenge fate.

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1st Produced:
Panache Productions Sevenoaks UK    1998

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  28 named parts, doubling

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Rick

Synopsis:
A group of friends gather together for the school reunion. They have not seen each other for ten years and the reunion is marred by the shadow of the missing member of their group Rick. Rick died during their final year at school and the mystery of his death has never been solved. Perhaps unwisely they begin to discuss the death and gradually many details of events on the weekend of Rick's death are revealed. It seems that Rick was not the person his public image showed. Eventually everything that happened on that Saturday night is revealed and the discoveries surprise everyone.

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1st Published:
Moore Books, Australia   978-1921918001

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Seconds Out

Synopsis:
Ben has forgotten Jenny's birthday. There is only one way to settle the ensuing argument -FIGHT!!

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Short Sweet and Sour" published by New Theatre Publications   978-1840946130

Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  4 either sex

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Solipsism

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Bite Sized Theatre Festival    Jul 2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Table, The

Synopsis:
A young married couple buy their first piece of good furniture - a table. A year later the marriage is on the rocks

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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Short Sweet and Sour" published by New Theatre Publications   978-1840946130

Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Vampyre!

Synopsis:
In a small village miles from anywhere life is going on as usual. The pub sells its two pints a week, the squires gardener only work at night and the sexiest milkman, er, milkmaid, er, milkperson in the world delivers the milk every morning about 3am. Enter a Professor in search of a vampire and a handsome but incredibly stupid young hero and the complications begin to twist and twist until the plot is completely braided.

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1st Produced:
Spotlight Theatre Company Adelaide    2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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