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Patricia Cornelius

PATRICIA CORNELIUS

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    HLA Management Pty Ltd  

Patricia Cornelius, a founding member of Melbourne Workers' Theatre, is an award-winning playwright. She has written over twenty plays, including: Do Not Go Gentle. . . (winner of the 2006 Patrick White Playwrights' award), Cunning (with Irene Vella), Lilly and May, Jack's Daughters, Max, Platform, Who's afraid of the Working Class? and Fever (written in collaboration with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irene Vella), Hog's Hairs and Leeches, and Love. Her first novel, My Sister Jill, was published by Random House in 2002.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/451

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         Aftermath         Berry Man         Big Heart         Boy Overboard         Call, The         Do Not Go Gentle         Dusting Our Knees         Electric         Fever         Flying Emu, The (and Other Stories)         Good         Hog's Hairs And Leeches         Home Of A Stranger         Inside Out         Jack's Daughters         Last Drinks         Lilly And May         Little City         Love         Max         Meant To Be Spoken         Money         No Fear         Oh My God I'm Black!         Opa! - A Sexual Odyssey         Platform         Savages         Shit         Slut         Somewhere Else         Taxi, A Cabaret         War         What Goes Down In Vegas         Who's Afraid Of the Working Class         Witch         You Still Here?

Aftermath

Synopsis:
the story of workers who have undergone a long and successful strike. a friendship is formed on the picket line but is put under pressure when it becomes clear that their struggle is far from over.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon, Act     16 Nov 1989

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2053

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Berry Man

Synopsis:
The Berry Man is about growing things; potatoes, berries, babies. There are four characters; two men, a woman and a man who is still really a boy. It's about growing up - gathering all the elements of the past and letting them go, like scattering seed. It's about carrying secrets to the grave. It's about talk of the past and whether silence is sometimes a better way.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga, Vic     05 Aug 2010

Organisations:
HotHouse Theatre

1st Published:
Currency press   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96644

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Big Heart

Synopsis:
A white Australian woman adopts indigenous babies and babies from Africa and Asia

Notes:
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-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Boy Overboard

Boy Overboard
a story of adventure, ball control and hope. Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to soccer glory in the next World Cup. But first they must face landmines, pirates, storms and assassins. Can Jamal and his family survive their incredible journey and get to Australia? adapted for the stage by Patricia Cornelius from Morris Gleitzman's best-selling novel, Boy Overboard depicts a deeply human side of the 'asylum seekers' issue by following the journey of Jamal and Bibi from Afghanistan to Australia. Based on real life events, this is a moving play about young people overcoming the confusion of war, politics and the search for a safe haven.

Notes:
from the novel by Morris Gleitzman

1st Produced:
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Nsw     19 Jul 2005

Organisations:

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  6            Other:  some doubling opportunities

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/67172

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Call, The

Call, The
Funny, disturbing and bittersweet, the Call is an enthralling Drama about a young man looking to escape a suburban life. Gary stares into the eyes of a chook. after laying twenty thousand eggs and spending an entire life inside a tiny cage, she's facing the chop. Gary has had a confined life too - most of it spent looking for girls, stealing cars and wagging school. Now it's become a succession of dull, dirty and dangerous jobs. But Gary yearns for something that can make sense of life for him - give it meaning. He hears the call. One that roars inside him. a call of the wild, a call to arms, a call to prayer, a call of adventure. . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic     14 Nov 2007

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  musicians

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/72940

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Do Not Go Gentle

Synopsis:
In the world as we know it, full of aspiration and glamour, there is something monstrous about coming to our end full of regret. In Do Not Go Gentle, Patricia Cornelius introduces us to a group of ageing characters out on the ice to face their lives, their choices and their challenges. and they do it through the goggles of the ill-fated antarctic explorer Robert Scott.

Notes:
winner of the 2006 Patrick White Playwrights Award. winner of the 2011 VIC Premier's Awards Louis esson Prize for Drama.

1st Produced:
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic     06 Sep 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Collection 7, http://Australianplays.org/, 2008   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/86500

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Dusting Our Knees

Synopsis:
the women in a factory discover they are being paid less than the men for the same work and the discovery becomes the catalyst for them to take action.

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1st Published:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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-

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Electric

Synopsis:
Following the famous SeQUeB dispute in Queensland workers were black banned, refused work in their own state, forced to leave their homes and friends. the play examines the emotional cost of a fundamental fight for rights to workers and their families.

Notes:
written by Patricia Cornelius, lyricist: John Romeril

1st Produced:
Junction Theatre, Thebarton, Sa     06 Mar 1990

Organisations:
Adelaide Festival of Arts

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2145

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Fever

Synopsis:
Fever is made up of four plays The Chair, Blunt, Savant and Psalms, and a composition, The River. The Chair: In a desolated house, a lonely woman is confronted by an intruder. She ties him to a chair, but gives him the chance to win his freedom by moving her with his story. Savant: The members of a deeply depressed and morbid little community gather nightly to eat fish and chips and whinge about how good things used to be. They come to believe their malaise can be traced to an evil baby born to a frightened pair of teenagers. Psalms: Two young men, childhood friends, quickly become enemies when their country is plunged into civil war. In a landscape of unrelenting horror, one finds himself haunted by the ghost of the other, who is asking back for the heart, tongue and genitals that were taken from him. Blunt: A group of women live on a desolate and stinking landscape where nothing good grows anymore. They fetch a baby out of the river, save it, give it every chance. And what does it do? The ungrateful little shit goes and dies on them.

Notes:
written by Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     16 Sep 2002

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
one act plays

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/81122

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Flying Emu, The (and Other Stories)

Synopsis:
Three stories by Sally Morgan that are designed for very small children to stimulate an interest in Aboriginal culture

Notes:
adapted from books by Sally Morgan

1st Produced:
Polyglot Theatre, South Yarra, Vic     10 Apr 1995

Organisations:
Polyglot Puppet Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  puppets

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/29536

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Good

Synopsis:
It's easy to be good for a while, but it's not so easy to stay good.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Seymour Downstairs Theatre, Chippendale, Nsw     24 Jan 2007

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Week 2

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79887

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Hog's Hairs And Leeches

Synopsis:
Hogs Hairs and Leeches is eight small discrete plays which, combined, talk about growing old, regrets, memory, fears and beliefs. It examines many relationships: between mothers, grandmothers and daughters, between women who dance together at their local elderly citizens club, between grandparents and grandchildren who can no longer speak one another's language, between men who fought for good working conditions and young men who would work for nothing. It brings together the old and the young in poignant and powerful Drama.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Arts House Meat Market , North Melbourne, Vic     27 Apr 2001

Organisations:
City of Darebin

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
70 mins One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1457

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Home Of A Stranger

Synopsis:
the experience of a group of migrants learning English in a government-sponsored language program for various reasons (including to obtain a visa, to qualify for university acceptance or the dole - or simply to fit in to Australian society). they must speak English 'in the present tense' - that is, they must leave any cultural baggage behind them.

Notes:
written by Adam Hatzimanolis; dramaturg: Patricia Cornelius

1st Produced:
Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Brunswick , Vic     20 Oct 1994

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/26116

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Inside Out

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Anthill Theatre, South Melbourne, Vic     04 Oct 1991

Organisations:
Sowaddayawant Women's Theatre Company

1st Published:
A heavily researched and socially relevant drama, which highlights the frustrations of prison life.   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
biographical drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/16194

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Jack's Daughters

Synopsis:
a man has been murdered, a Father of three, a returned soldier and P.O.W., slain. His eldest daughter admits to the crime. His middle daughter confesses that she and she alone is the murderer until the youngest daughter proclaims her guilt. a powerful and dangerous play which examines the effect of World War 11 on a generation of men and the effect of that legacy on their children.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, Vic     23 Jun 1989

Organisations:
Free Association Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1844

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Last Drinks

Synopsis:
It is a play about work practices. Specifically, it is about enterprise bargaining and job security, and about the fears experienced by workers as they see their conditions being systematically eaten away. . .the play is based on actual interviews with workers.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Various Workplaces, Vic     31 Aug 1992

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/98481

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Lilly And May

Synopsis:
Lilly and May is a hard hitting comedy that exposes the myth of a romantic life on the open road. the Bag lady has been potrayed in a popular mythology as a nuggety, rebellious, independent - and sometimes even rich - woman - whose special brand of madness has led her to prefer a free life on the streets, to Welfare or the restrictions of responsible social life. For Lilly and May the reality is far from this commonly held view of eccentricity.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company Melbourne, 1987   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/101884

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Little City

Synopsis:
Based around the idea of a community barricading itself inside the local town hall because it's fed up to the back teeth with indifferent and vindictive government cutbacks . . . Cuoculo's direction is inventive and controlled.

Notes:
written by Patricia Cornelius, Daniel Keene and Melissa Reeves

1st Produced:
Brunswick Town Hall, Brunswick, Vic     01 Dec 1996

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/29100

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Love

Love
Tanya, Annie and Lorenzo are on the bottom of the heap. They're young but already the youth has been wrung out of them. They've been abused, they're abusive, and they're difficult to like let alone to love. But it is love in all its distorted and mutated forms that holds them together. Annie and Tanya make a pact; their love will protect them from an unloving world and it will endure. Even the dreadful and charming Lorenzo will not threaten it. Only doubt in each other's love can put a wedge between them.

Notes:
Patricial Cornelius's uncompromising play won the 2003 Wal Cherry Award for Play of the Year And the 2006 Australian Writers' Guild Award (aWGIe) for Best Play.

1st Produced:
The Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga, Vic     27 Oct 2005

Organisations:
HotHouse Theatre Season 2005

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/66888

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Max

Synopsis:
Max's mother has sacrificed everything to remain with Max. She and Max live in a boarding house and sell newspapers in the city and she has devoted her life to her son's well-being. He is her son and it's her job to look after him and that's all there is to it. But Max is 40 and he yearns for independence which he finds in a friendship with a young junkie named Maureen and in a rich and liberating imagination.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, Vic     09 Oct 1990

Organisations:
Theatreworks

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/12706

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Meant To Be Spoken

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Some of Melbourne's most exciting playwrights present their own work in a Sunday afternoon celebration of new Australian playwriting. Featuring: Adam Cass, Patricia Cornelius, David Mence, Declan Green, Tee O'Neill, Hannie Rayson and Amelia Roper, hosted by Robert Reid.

1st Produced:
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic     21 Feb 2010

Organisations:
2010 Searchlight Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90312

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Money

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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No Fear

Synopsis:
Two workers take extreme action against their employer when they are asked unreasonable demands. they act impulsively, righteously and they look mad and desperate.

Notes:
written by Patricia Cornelius and Vicki Reynolds

1st Produced:
Staff Canteen At The Jolimont Tram Depot, Vic     04 Oct 1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/16188

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Oh My God I'm Black!

Synopsis:
A one-woman cabaret style monologue, with songs, dreams and the stories of two little girls from Thursday Island

Notes:
devised by Patricia Cornelius, Maryanne sam and Irine Vela

1st Produced:
Budinskis Theatre Of Exile, Carlton, Vic     17 May 1995

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical show

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/29313

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Opa! - A Sexual Odyssey

Synopsis:
a vulgar and bawdy musical about women's sexual fantasies, OPa is the story of Penelope as she waits the return of her husband, the wandering Odysseus. But twenty years is a long time and Penelope has her own sirens to lure her to new and dangerous places, to lands of lustful imaginings. When Odysseus finally returns he finds a changed woman.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Athenaeum Theatre Two, Melbourne, Vic     26 Jan 1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
music theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20714

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Platform

Synopsis:
On an ugly inner suburban train platform in a working class part of a large city young people come and go, some to school, some to hang out, some to sleep at night, some to watch the trains move in and out. Platform is about young people on the brink of adulthood, doing it tough, working through stuff, trying to make sense of things.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Opa Theatre Productions,

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
70 mins One act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  chorus

Further Reference:
-

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Savages

Savages
Savages takes a tough look at masculinity and misogyny amongst a pack of ordinary young men. Four friends embark on the holiday of a life time - but their excitement is soured by anger, bitterness and the disappointment of their own lives . . . as the pack forms, the dark side of mateship takes over.

Notes:
shortlisted for 21012 Griffin Award

1st Produced:
45 Flinders Lane - Melbourne     16 Aug 2013

Organisations:
fortyfivedownstairs

1st Published:
Playlab, Australia   978- 1 921390 86 9

Music:
-

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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Shit

Synopsis:
What of the women and girls who defy gender demarcations, who transgress the boundaries and restraints of social order and expectation? When a girl spits, or swears, or screams, or shouts, or pulls down her pants to moon someone from a car, or she laughs too loudly, or she's too shrill, or she pulls up her t-shirt and flashes her tits, or she fights, really fights, head butts and with her fists, or she fucks too much or cuts her hair too short, and wears too much lipstick or none at all, or tells everyone she's got a dick and she's not a girl at all, all we want to do with this girl is lock her up and throw away the key. Out of control girls - angry, nasty girls - are a sight to behold. They're terrifying, electrifying, they're everything girls shouldn't be, and we hate them. This is a work about these girls. Their names are Billy, Bobby and Sam.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1667   978-0-9577544-0-9

Music:
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Genre:
Heightened Naturalism 90 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Slut

Synopsis:
Only girls get called sluts. No, sometimes boys get called sluts but it's like the biggest compliment. And sometimes girls try to own it. A girl might say, Yeah, I'm a slut, and I love it.' But in the end she'll be worn down by it. It's a no-win situation to be a slut no matter how much a girl thinks her life's her own and she can do whatever she wants. A slut's a slut. One young woman described it as being like a bag to piss in. Lolita is the queen of sluts. And she puts in an almighty fight to maintain her reign. Eventually she is hauled mercilessly from her throne. Slut is a play with a central character, Lolita, and a chorus of young women who watch her rise and final devastating fall. It is adaptable to virtually any sized cast.

Notes:
part of An original double-bill, 'slut' written by Patricia Cornelius And 'Ugly' by Christos Tsiolkas

1st Produced:
Fortyfivedownstairs,45 Flinders Lane Melbourne     07 Mar 2008

Organisations:
Platform Youth Theatre Tenderness

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

Music:
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Genre:
50 min gritty poetic

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  any size cast

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78029

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Somewhere Else

Synopsis:
a play for children up to age 10. there is a woman so shy she doesn't speak. the umbrElla man is obsessed with keeping dry. the careful man is obsessed with being safe. the neat woman is obsessed with keeping clean. and then there is Reve the dreamer.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon, Act     03 Sep 1988

Organisations:
Jigsaw Theatre Company,

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act TIE

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1506

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Taxi, A Cabaret

Synopsis:
Stories and songs of race and migration in a cabaret form. a taxi driver is after two young women who avoid paying their fare.

Notes:
written by Patricia Cornelius and Vicki Reynolds

1st Produced:
Footscray Community Arts Centre, Footscray, Vic     1990

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre,

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/102546

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War

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Newtown Theatre, Newtown, Nsw     30 Jan 2002

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Week 4

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78958

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What Goes Down In Vegas

Synopsis:
What Goes Down In Vegas has a group of young men take a trip to Thailand

Notes:
part of Three plays from the AWGIE Award-winning playwrights Cornelius, Betzien and Reeves, exploring the gap year for thousands of young people at the end of their secondary school year.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in The Gap: What Goes Down In Vegas, Au Pair, Welcome To Bulgaria, http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1666   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Who's Afraid Of the Working Class

Who's Afraid Of the Working Class
Melbourne at the end of the twentieth century - modern economic miracle or a society imploding with savage politics and despair? the story is of fringe-dwellers, living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly out of work, and politically uninterested, they work at survival. a gritty portrayal of real life in an urban wasteland.

Notes:
written with Andrew Bovell/Patricia Cornelius/Melissa Reeves/Christos Tsiolkas And Irene Vela. Part of Melborne Tales

1st Produced:
Trades Hall, Carlton South, Vic     01 May 1998

Organisations:
Melbourne Workers Theatre,

1st Published:
Published as "Melbourne Stories", Currency Press, 2000   978-0868196299

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  10            Other:  doubling poss

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/33092

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Witch

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/91093

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You Still Here?

Synopsis:
a play about being young and Tasmanian, living on an island and dreaming of leaving it and fearing the separation from it.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://Australianplays.org/ 1991   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
50 mins One act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  9            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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