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Lorna Bol

LORNA BOL

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Lorna Bol began writing for theatre in 1977. Her first play, Treadmill, premiered at La Boite, as did But I'm Still Here. Both plays have been published. Other plays have been performed in Queensland and other states.

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

         Big Five-O, The         But I'm Still Here         they Had To Go         Treadmill

Big Five-O, The

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Wal and Vera are about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Two of their daughters are planning a surprise party - but skeletons are rattling in the family closet as lies, cover-ups and hidden emotions are about to surface. . .

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Full-Length 205 mins Black Comedy/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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But I'm Still Here

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Brisbane : Playlab Press, 1987   -

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2 acts Play/Drama

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they Had To Go

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Contained in: "Five Warana One act Winners" published by Playlab 1985   -

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One act

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Treadmill

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Life is tough for Ma McTaggart and Ma is tough on Ruby, her only daughter and daily annoyance. Ma and her son, the faultless fisherman Dick, together with Ruby, eke out an existence in a small town on the North Coast of New South Wales. Aside from visits from her docile friend Dot, Ruby finds nothing but hard work and harsh words at home. Seeking solace elsewhere, Ruby falls pregnant to a married man and so, unwittingly, she sets off a series of tragic events that see the treadmill of drudgery continue to turn. Simultaneously, as their fates unravel, Ma and her daughter grow further apart yet closer together than ever before. It seems there is no escaping the cycle that haunts them. Set in the 1940s in a North Coast town of New South Wales Treadmill captures the economic, educational and, arguably, emotional poverty that women such as Ma, Ruby and Dot were faced with. The three women of the play are trapped in bodies that will never be as useful as a mans. Their unique, authentic dialect is as raw and honest as the words they speak: their words damage, divide, drive apart and bring death. Yet they cannot harness the power of speech to change their path in an impoverished, patriarchal society. And thus the treadmill claims them.

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2 acts Play/Drama

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