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Jennifer Compton

JENNIFER COMPTON

  (1949 - )
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Born in Wellington in 1949, Jennifer Compton attended drama .school in Auckland for two years. She won the 1975 Newcastle Playwriting Competition jointly with John Romeril with NO MANS LAND (subsequently retitled CROSSFIRE). This play was presented at Sydney's Nimrod Theatre and then in Brisbane and Wellington. She was awarded a State Literary Fund grant and a Katherine Mansfield Memorial award in 1977. Now resident in Martinborough, Jennifer Compton writes stage and radio plays, poetry, short stories, TV soap operas, TV commercials and film scripts. (1979)

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         Adolf, Fantasies Between Bars         All the Time In the World         Barefoot         Big Picture, The         Crossfire         Getting To Know You Time         Julia's Song         One Of Those Girls         Passion         Quick Brown Fox, The         Stream Of Consciousness         they're Playing Our Song
Adolf, Fantasies Between Bars

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Further Reference:
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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All the Time In the World

Synopsis:
Barbara has retired to a small cottage in the countryside. Three visitors all turn up at the same time, an ex-lover, her uncle and her sister

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Genre:
Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Barefoot

Synopsis:
about women with a passion for passion

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-     1994

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

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Genre:
farce One act

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Big Picture, The

Synopsis:
Fran, Mandy and Joy, single mothers living at the end of the road in some neglected country town, support each other with jokes about Tupperware and faithless men, fighting with hope the realisation that they are trapped in a cycle of poverty and despair. 'seriously funny' is how Jennifer Compton describes the lives of her three heroines. 'If you don't laugh you gonna cry'

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Currency Press, Sydney,    

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Genre:
2 act Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Crossfire

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By comparing family life in the 1910s with the 1970s, Crossfire raises sensitive questions about women's imprisonment by, and liberation from, domestic structures

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in Plays of the 70s Vol 3, Sydney : Currency Press, 2001   

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Getting To Know You Time

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Julia's Song

Synopsis:
With her young children in bed Julia talks about her life

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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One Of Those Girls

Synopsis:
Carole is not looking forward to yet another dinner party

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Passion

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

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

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Company no.3,

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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

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Quick Brown Fox, The

Synopsis:
a poet tries to juggle her writing career and her marital one

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 boy; 1 girl

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Stream Of Consciousness

Synopsis:
the people in em's life

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-     1970

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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they're Playing Our Song

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