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Robyn Archer

ROBYN ARCHER  (1938 - )

 Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    Rick Raftos Management  


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

 Architektin         Bridge, The         Cafe Fledermaus         Colony Comes A Cropper         Conquest Of Carmen Miranda, The         Cut And Thrust Cabaret         Hallelujah, I'm A Bum / Living It Up On The Dole         I Magnifico         Kold Konfort Kaffee         Live-Could-Possibly-Be-True-One-Day-Adventures Of Superwoman         Pack Of Women, The         Song's For Sideshow Alley         Star Is Torn, A         Voyage To The Hemispheres

Architektin

Synopsis:
At the turn of the 20 century, Vienna was the epicentre of innovation and the crucible of the European avant-garde in the fields of art, literature, music, psychiatry, philosophy and theatre. The city was an extraordinary laboratory simmering with the ideas of pioneers like Freud, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Adolf Loos, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, Karl Kraus, Schnitzler and Wittgenstein. Margrete Schutte Lihotsky has a passion to design and build, but the political change brought about by the rise of Hitler treads heavily on her ambitions and her struggle to keep on building demands

Notes:
written by Robyn Archer and Duncan Graham

1st Produced:
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, SA    29 Aug 2008

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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/74111

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Bridge, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Robyn Archer And Russell Sare

1st Produced:
academy Theatre, Perth, Western Australia    24 Jun 1992

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Cafe Fledermaus

Synopsis:
Set in the period 1890-1918 when the austro-Hungarian empire is crumbling, and Vienna is on the brink of massive change.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne    28 May 1990

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1990   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Colony Comes A Cropper

Synopsis:
Full of clever bon mots and sexual subversion.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marivaux (new Act II)

1st Produced:
BAC, London >>>    1990

Organisations:
Monstrous Regiment

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Conquest Of Carmen Miranda, The

Synopsis:
Set in Copacabana night clubs world-wide. From pop chart fads to North America's imperialist ambitions

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1978

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Genre:
Music theatre compilation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Cut And Thrust Cabaret

Synopsis:
Brechtian look at the political cabarets of Berlin in the 30's

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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hallelujah, I'm A Bum / Living It Up On The Dole

Synopsis:
The issues of unemployment played in two styles, 30's depression and 70's punk.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
performed for one month on the streets of Sydney    1978

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Genre:
Two music theatre pieces

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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I Magnifico

Synopsis:
fifty years of Italian history concerned, amongst other things with the notion of patronage of the arts and inherited wealth

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1st Produced:
-    1980

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Genre:
Brief Chronicle

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Kold Konfort Kaffee

Synopsis:
Juxtaposition of contemporary music/monologue with political material from the past.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Nimrod Theatre, Sydney    1978

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Genre:
Cabaret

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 actors and 2 musicians

Further Reference:
-

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Live-Could-Possibly-Be-True-One-Day-Adventures Of Superwoman

Synopsis:
Larger than life sexual politics

Notes:
commissioned by S Australia TIE

1st Produced:
Theatre 62, South Australia    1974

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Music:
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Genre:
Youth play Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Pack Of Women, The

Synopsis:
Mixture of prose, poetry, song and outspoken political comment

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Genre:
Political

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Song's For Sideshow Alley

Synopsis:
Two middle aged women who have spent the best part of their lives working opposite each other in side-shows are forced to reflect upon their relationship and the slow murder of side-shows by the introduction of pin balls, when one of them things of leaving.

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Genre:
Play with songs Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  3 musicians

Further Reference:
-

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Star Is Torn, A

Synopsis:
Legendary torch-song singers reassessed to music

Notes:
written with Rodney Fisher

1st Produced:
Universal Theatre, Sydney    1979

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Voyage To The Hemispheres

Synopsis:
a space fantasy play with music

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Community Theatres, Elizabeth, South Australia    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play for little kids

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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