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Mick Barnes

MICK BARNES

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Plays by Mick Barnes have been staged in most of Australia's bigger cities and in edinburgh. they include: Unit 46, directed by and starring Mark Lee at Sidetrack Theatre, Sydney, a revival toured Adelaide, Sydney and edinburgh; the King and Di, starring amanda Bishop and Russell Newman, premiered the Crypt Theatre, Sydney, then went to Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Wollongong, Glen Street, Sydney; Conspiracy, starring amanda Bishop, premiered at the Crypt Theatre, Sydney; eleven eleven, starring Michael Ross, played an extended season at the ensemble Theatre, Sydney; R.I.P. Ripper, directed by Denise Roberts, Balmain Town Hall, Ratbag Theatre Company, Sydney; the Runaway Man, La Boite Theatre, Brisbane; Inside-Out, Panorama Players, Adelaide. Rainbow Requiem for the Australian Writers' Theatre starred the late aboriginal actor Oodgeroo Noonuccle (Kath Walker) in the lead role. Please explain, a satirical one-woman show starring Rhoda Roberts, was a feature of the Carnivale Festival at Belvoir Street Theatre. Inquest on Joe Charles and the executioners were workshopped by Melbourne Theatre Company and the executioners also had a reading at Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney. Barnes has been a television scriptwriter and has written for a wide range of Australian magazines and newspapers as a feature writer, columnist and Theatre critic.

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

         Conspiracy         Eleven Eleven         Executioners, The         Inquest On Joe Charles         Inside-Out         King And Di, The         Please Explain         R.I.P. Ripper         Rainbow Requiem         Runaway Man, The         Unit 46

Conspiracy

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Eleven Eleven

Synopsis:
eleven eleven explores three focal November the elevenths in Australia's history - Ned Kelly's execution in 1880, the signing of the armistice in 1918 and Gough Whitlam's dismissal in 1975. Now, more than three decades on from the original production of eleven eleven the republican debate still waxes and wanes. . .This version of the script has been shortened from the original three acts to two.

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95 min farce

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  cast play multiple characters

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

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Executioners, The

Synopsis:
Three old men await death with their life's regrets. Each has had a chance to do something important and each has failed at the moment of truth. Whether they are in an old men's home, or an asylum, or merely captives of their own imaginations hardly matters. They are, in the words of one of them, refugees from their own consciences. Needled by each other, their memories come flooding out, comic and tragic in the reliving. Their one point of agreement is that, given the chance again, they would react in a different way. Of course, second chances never come. Or do they? When you live in a state of mind they just might come in the form of a larger-then-life revolutionary whose blood lust demands retribution. The Executioners is a tragi-comedy about power, self-delusion and hypocrisy, the church, the law and medical ethics-and second chances. Can three old men carry out their self-appointed task as executioners? Or is decisive action possible only from the two committed young women who cross their paths? The Executioners is a modern morality play exploring timeless issues. Set in the 1970s.

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Workshopped By Melbourne Theatre Company    -

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Genre:
tragi-comedy, 100 min

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Inquest On Joe Charles

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Inside-Out

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Panorama Players, Adelaide    -

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King And Di, The

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Please Explain

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Genre:
satire

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R.I.P. Ripper

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Balmain Town Hall, Ratbag Theatre Company, Sydney    -

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Rainbow Requiem

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Australian Writers Theatre    -

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Runaway Man, The

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La Boite Theatre, Brisbane    -

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Unit 46

Synopsis:
Cry with laughter as apartment enemies Tim and Diane strip, shower, drink and dream together without knowing it.

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Sidetrack Theatre, Sydney    -

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Complete Wellness Productions

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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