doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Ross Barrett

ROSS BARRETT

  
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    n/a

Ross Barrett is a former scientist who began writing for the stage in 1987. He is currently a Committee Member of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), and a past Chair of the South Australian Writers' Theatre (SAWT). His produced plays include: Suns of Home (1992), Love in the Chook House (1993), Sherlock Holmes and the Coming of the Fairies (1994), Billy Hughes (1996 and 1999), How We Beat the Favourite (2002 and 2003), and Footsteps (2005). Two of his scripts were developed by the State Theatre Company of SA under a mentorship provided by the Australian Writers Guild.

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

         Billy Hughes         Footsteps         How We Beat the Favourite         Love in the Chook House         Sherlock Holmes And The Coming Of The Fairies         Suns of Home

Billy Hughes

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Footsteps

Synopsis:
Robert Miller, a chemist in a company which is moving its manufacturing operations to Asia to take advantage of weaker environmental laws, develops as strange relationship with the subject of a biography he is reading. Richard Steiner is a Nobel Prize winning physicist and a womaniser who helped develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. Although the two men have little in common, they forge a special bond that stretches across time and space from the character on the printed page to the reader. This is a play about love, family, the struggle for personal fulfillment and ethical problems that are as old as science.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2005

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

How We Beat the Favourite

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Love in the Chook House

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1993

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Sherlock Holmes And The Coming Of The Fairies

Synopsis:
This play is a bizarre comedy that commences as a conventional Sherlock Holmes melodrama. The comfort of this traditional genre is shattered when the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, barges into the plot. What we see is not Sherlock Holmes battling with Professor Moriarty, but Doyle struggling with his desire to be recognised as a major literary figure. A battle of the minds follows between Holmes and Doyle over who created whom. The resolution questions whether it is authors or their characters who are the most lasting, and explores whether what we do is more important than what we are.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1994

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Surrealist comedy 100 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Suns of Home

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page