PAMELA VAN AMSTEL
| Nationality: | Australian |
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Plays by Pamela Van Amstel
Are You Lonesome To-night? |
| 1st Produced: | Nimrod Downstairs, Sydney | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>> | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | 2 Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Mum, in outer suburbia, has brought up her three children in the Elvis cult. Daughter rebels | ||||
Late Arrivals |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Popular Short Plays for the Australian Stage 2", Currency Press, Sydney | 1985 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Neighbourhood |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Set in a neighbourhood centered in an inner city area threatened by progress, the theme of this work is the breakdown of social and family networks and the increased dependence on the state. The center is run by a welfare worker with her own informal style of helping but she, in the end, is made redundant by progress | ||||
Once in a Blue Moon |
| 1st Produced: | Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Feather, an aging artist who lives on the rooftop of a private hotel, befriends a boy who has come to the city for the first time only to fall into male prostitution. | ||||
Public Images |
| 1st Produced: | Canberra Youth Theatre | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A play about teenagers who live in the shadow of their famous/infamous parents | ||||
Strawberry Girl |
| 1st Produced: | Canberra Youth Theatre | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Christine, shy and seventeen, feels compelled to adopt the extroverted personality of her imaginary friend to impress the Young Man who comes calling. | ||||