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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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written by Nick Marchand, Ben Ellis, Victoria Gleeson, Tommy Murphy And Emma Vuletic

One election, two actors, five writers, ten characters and 360 positions. A play about love and sexual politics

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Can we bend our world? Students have a historical obligation to participate in the dawning of social change but sometimes they can't even manage the washing up. Bendy captures the voice of a generation struggling in a world that prioritises money over thought. It's about a trippy time of life when you can get off your head with history's great thinkers or fly out the window of a dirty terrace hand in hand, with a friend, float across the city and bang on the windows of big business. It might be a time of life when you can change the world.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, AUS

2006

Griffin Theatre Company

Currency Press, Australia >>> , 2006

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Adapted from Timothy Conigraves classic memoir

Tim Conigrave was an actor and NIDA graduate and his moving memoir Holding the Man has theatre in its veins. It is also one of our greatest stories of love and loss, and won the 1995 UN Human Rights Award for Non-fiction. This story is a breathtakingly honest, achingly funny and completely heart-wrenching account of a 15-year relationship that weathered disapproval, separation, temptation and, ultimately, death. Its a story, and a celebration, that speaks across generations, sexual preference and cultures.

Parade Playhouse, Sydney, AUS

2007

Cranbrook School

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Cranbrook School commissioned Tommy Murphy, to respond to stories and improvisations of 18 extraordinary drama students. Precipice is a vivid and comic celebration recalling the child in us all. Sitting on the edge, summoning our courage to jump. Precipice recalls feelings that stay with us throughout our lives. "I have never written a play before where I began with the actors. I have also never written a play for eighteen of them, " Tommy Murphy said. " We genuinely started with no preconceived ideas," he said. Director Robert Wickham said, " it is exciting theatre, the process began with the students and with Tommy they have shaped a wicked and entertaining play". Students contributed thoughts, ideas, stories and experiences and from this collection, called "the fodder file", Murphy has constructed a powerful narrative which captures the emotion and thoughts of the students. " Precipice is by no means an exclusively teenage domain - our thoughts as adults are shaped by the precipice of youth and these moments stay with us through our lives," Tommy Murphy said.

Wharf 2 Theatre

2008

Sydney Theatre Company

Currency Press, Australia, 2008 >>>

9780868198408

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Saturn has returned, and a moment of doubt changes everything. The universe conspires against Matt and Zara, and Zara is jettisoned into orbit. Sex on drugs has become sordid, but the allure of the threesome is still tempting. The prospect of having children is no longer odious, but mortgages and responsibility remain objects of contempt. It's time for lock down. But who's playing? Shifting perspectives on identity and Tommy Murphy's trademark comic flair combine to create a lively theatre of insight and ingenuity.

SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, AUS

2005

Griffin Theatre Company

Currency Press, Australia >>> , 2006

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This play follows the story of Shane as he arrives in Kings Cross, Sydney. He is a boy unsure of his sexuality and even more unsure how to find intimacy. He has been forced out of his family and yearns for another. An unlikely mother figure arises in John, a 50-year-pld single gay man. Small domestic events like running a bath become moments where respect and love are expressed between two men from different generations. A warm, insightful and generous comedy. Tommy Murphy was moved to write this play having encountered two brothers who haven't spoken to each other for three years. Tommy set out to explore the binds within family. No matter how deep the wound, can Shane erase his family? Is it possible to be born into the wrong family? The play also provides an opportunity to explore the relationships between four very different men. The dialogue captures Australian male voices, both urban and regional and both young and old, that are seldom portrayed with such truth and poetry

Chashama, NY, USA >>>

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The Production Company

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The Production Company presents The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back!, a program of new works by Australian playwrights. The following description is from the show's press release: "Twelve acclaimed Australian playwrights create pieces based on their perceptions of the United States. The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back! includes new plays from some of Australia's most celebrated playwrights. The Production Company's work promotes and deepens cultural exchange between the United States and Australia and encourages artists to explore the relationship between the two countries."
- nytheatre.com

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The nation's capital forms the backdrop to this story about youthful romance, hope, responsibility and the time immediately after leaving school. The main interest in the writing process of Troy's House was to capture the specific language of teenagers from Canberra

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