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Lissa Benyon

LISSA BENYON

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Lissa Benyon began her theater career as a member of the Canberra Youth Theatre, and was a founding member of the experimental ensemble Fools Gallery Theatre Company. Lissa left the company in 1981 to concentrate on full-time writing. Her writing career was launched with The Women of March the First, performed at Nimrod (now Belvoir Street) in 1984. She has since co-written Resistance, a feature film for the Macau Light Collective; and written plays The Margarine Conspiracy, The Real Matilda and Pennies Before the Holidays.

Research:    https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/471

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

         Love Seen In A Laundromat         Margarine Conspiracy, The         Passion         Pennies Before the Holidays         Real Matilda, The         Women Of March the First, The
Love Seen In A Laundromat

Synopsis:
a stylish play about the 'risks of passion' for mature, independent urbane persons.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW     28 Oct 1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Passion : six new short plays Australian women / edited by Ros Horin. Sydney : Currency Press, 1994    

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/26049

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Margarine Conspiracy, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Wharf Theatre, Sydney, NSW     09 Mar 1985

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/134528

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Passion

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Lissa Benyon, Jennifer Compton, Tobsha Learner, Joanna Murray-Smith and Linden Wilkinson

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW     29 Sep 1994

Organisations:
Company no.3,

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/153354

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Pennies Before the Holidays

Synopsis:
It focuses upon a young person's shallow perception of old age as a condition which denies individuality

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Universal Two, Fitzroy, VIC     03 Sep 1987

Organisations:
Spoleto Melbourne Festival of the Arts

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 150 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/307

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Real Matilda, The

Synopsis:
A mother of seven, and compulsive shoplifter, sets out on an epic quest for identity, self-knowledge and fulfilment. She is pointed along the way by meetings with other women, including those from her own past. Finally she is able to go back home. . . if she has ever really been away. Contains some songs.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rehearsal Room, Civic Square, ACT     03 Sep 1984

Organisations:
Theatre ACT

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Tragicomic musical monologue 75 mins

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/66327

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Women Of March the First, The

Synopsis:
Three Russian women make bombs on the eve of March the First, 1881, part of the revolutionary group which assassinated Tsar Alexander II on that day. As the long night passes, they look back over their lives and their paths to this fateful point.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Nimrod Downstairs, Surry Hills, NSW     13 Jun 1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 120 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11930

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