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Linda Aronson

LINDA ARONSON

  (1950 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown (Australia)Pty Ltd  

Linda Aronson was born in Britain and studied English Literature at the New University of Ulster and St Hilda's College, Oxford, before moving to Australia. Dinkum Assorted is her third mainstream theatre piece. Her first play The Fall Guy, had productions in Australia and the USA and was nominated for an AWGIE award. Her second play, Reginka's Lesson, won both the Sydney Theatre Company's Shorts Play Competition and the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Biennial Play Award. Her screen credits include the feature film Kostas, the mini-series adaptation The Young Wife, and episodes of Singles and Learned Friends, for which she won two AWGIES. In its first draft, Dinkum Assorted was shortlisted in the Mobil International Play Competition in Britain. Linda Aronson held the New South Wales Women and Arts Fellowship from 198687. She is married with two children.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/921

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

         Cardboard Box, The         Closing Down         Dinkum Assorted         Elegy for a Boy Musician         Fall Guy, The         Invitation to Eternity         Lonely for My Garden         Miss Bilby And the Moss Covered Cleric         Night With Robinson Crusoe, A         Reginka's Lesson

Cardboard Box, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Seymour Downstairs Theatre, Chippendale, NSW    11 Feb 2008

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Week 5

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80205

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Closing Down

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1st Produced:
-    1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C395709

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Dinkum Assorted

Dinkum Assorted
In winter 1942 15 female workers battle to keep the biscuits baking with 2000 American airmen nearby.

Notes:
an All female, All singing And dancing musical. Music, lyrics And book by Linda Aronson

1st Produced:
The Wharf Studio Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW    25 Nov 1985

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1989   978-0868192499

Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  15            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106503

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Elegy for a Boy Musician

Synopsis:
Australian National Identity

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Athenaeum Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC    07 May 1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
workshop performance

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/30412

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Fall Guy, The

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1st Produced:
Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, VIC    29 Mar 1977

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
Act I appears in the June 1977 edition of Theatre Australia and Act II in the July 1977 edition of Theatre Australia   -

Music:
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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/5884

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Invitation to Eternity

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1st Produced:
Nimrod Downstairs, Surry Hills, NSW    23 Aug 1982

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90807

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Lonely for My Garden

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-    1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C395710

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Miss Bilby And the Moss Covered Cleric

Synopsis:
the vicar is found dead. the local police inspector (and head of the local coven) says it was a heart attack - but his cook an ex-opera diva from Australia has other ideas.

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
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Genre:
90 min

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  plus crowd scenes

Further Reference:
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Night With Robinson Crusoe, A

Synopsis:
Six shop workers go on a Ladies Only cruise in Sydney Harbour. To their shock they discover that the stripper is the son of one of them

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, NSW    12 Jan 1990

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre Pty Ltd

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 120 mins farce

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2079

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Reginka's Lesson

Synopsis:
Reginka a Holocaust survivor reluctantly records her memories of the camps for her daughter

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA    29 May 1986

Organisations:
The Stage Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/101710

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