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Stephen House

STEPHEN HOUSE

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Stephen has had 19 plays and four short films produced, and four solo multimedia exhibitions. He has been artistic Director of many productions and Arts events. Stephen is commissioned often and directs and performs his work. His plays have been profiled and published, available through the Australian Script Centre and Currency Press. He has won two aWGIe awards from the Australian Writers Guild, an Adelaide Fringe award and many press awards and was shortlisted for the Patrick White and Queensland Premier Drama awards. He has received International literature residencies from the Australia Council to Canada, USA and Ireland, an asialink literature residency in India and an Island of Residencies to TasmaniA.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/116

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

         Almost Face To Face         Appalling Behaviour         Borrowed Time         Catching the Juice         Cracks In the Wall         Drapes         Go By Night         Gorge         I Said A Word         Just Like That         Miss Blossom Callahann         One Plus One         Thing Called Snake, A         Trade, The         Vin         Walk In Dirt         Yum Yum Room, The

Almost Face To Face

Synopsis:
Written during an Irish Literature Residency, Almost Face to Face takes a risky journey into a hidden Dublin world. Moving, brutal, dark and funny, this new work about indulgent creative chaos and lives on-the-very-edge, asks  is it ever too late to finally face up to what you have become?

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1583   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Solo Monologue Drama / Black Comedy 60 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Appalling Behaviour

Synopsis:
Written on the streets of Paris, direct from hit seasons nationally, aWGIe award winning playwright & actor Stephen House takes you on an unforgettable journey into the seedy Paris underworld

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, SA    28 Jul 2010

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/93600

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Borrowed Time

Synopsis:
In an attempt to relive a glorious past, seven aging television stars regroup after thirty-five years apart. Can anything ever be as it was? Only time will tell. and time is running out. . . fast.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, SA    25 Jul 2008

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
75 min Black comedy / Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/76648

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Catching the Juice

Synopsis:
A philosophical cabaret on the meaning of life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Horsham, Horsham, VIC    Oct 2003

Organisations:
No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Music Theatre Cabaret

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95114

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Cracks In the Wall

Synopsis:
Explores the many shades of grey in human sexuality

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 62, Hilton, SA    1993

Organisations:
Not So Straight Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
LGBT full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/23634

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Drapes

Synopsis:
How do you deal with the fact that a family member is a lesbian or is gay?

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 act 100 mins Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Go By Night

Synopsis:
about a deprived youth in self denial of his gayness on an odyssey of drug abuse, transvestism and prostitution blends bleak realism and aching realism

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 62, Hilton, SA    16 Oct 1996

Organisations:
Lunist productions

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black comedy/drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/29018

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Gorge

Synopsis:
hot young companies each interpret a brand new identical script, then offer you the chance to deconstruct the experience

Notes:
Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble, Riverland Youth Theatre, Urban Myth Theatre of Youth

1st Produced:
Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide, SA    08 Mar 2005

Organisations:
Come Out 2005

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
TYA comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/66174

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I Said A Word

Synopsis:
at a party resentments come to the surface - bullying, homophobia and peer pressure.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 70 mins Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Just Like That

Synopsis:
Bennett goes to the beach each day to read. One day a man dies - a stranger - thinking that they were together comforts Bennett. Bennett realises the stranger is Clive someone he was close to fifty years ago.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/, 2006   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Human drama, heightened realism. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Miss Blossom Callahann

Synopsis:
after a drunken night out, Blossom wakes up in her run down flat in bed with Max. then her landlady comes calling for the rent money

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide, SA    01 Jun 2005

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-Length 60 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/66556

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One Plus One

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 62, Hilton, SA    Aug 1995

Organisations:
Not So Straight Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
LGBT full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106618

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Thing Called Snake, A

Synopsis:
Him and Her try to scrape an existence in the suburban underworld. Into their lives comes Snake a transvestite

Notes:
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1st Produced:
[reading] The Space, Adelaide, SA    21 Sep 2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/, 2005   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Black comedy. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/19668

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Trade, The

Synopsis:
The Trade is a bleakly comic insight into the humdrum lives of your common or garden variety house painters. Steve, Stu and Gav paint houses for a living. Steve is already immersed in disappointment but wont admit it. Stus got a mean streak and his love of modern art seems incongruous. Gavin is not the sharpest knife in the drawer but has a great memory for trivia. At 28 his parents insisted that he move out of home so he moved around the corner & Three men thrashing out their differences between coats of paint and cups of tea.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Backspace, Hobart, TAS    20 Sep 2012

Organisations:
Tasmanian Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/104354

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Vin

Synopsis:
Vin a street wise charming young man forces a wedge between two teenagers who have been friends for years

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Courtyard Studio, Civic Square, ACT    16 Jun 2005

Organisations:
Jigsaw Theatre Company

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Naturalistic drama 50 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/66772

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Walk In Dirt

Synopsis:
A man's struggle to find himself

Notes:
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1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, VIC    25 Jan 2001

Organisations:
Midsumma Festival,

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/61

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Yum Yum Room, The

Yum Yum Room, The
the Yum Yum Room was commissioned by the City of Mount Gambier as a response to high rates of youth suicide in the region. Honest, moving and intimate this country town story goes straight to the heart and reflects all the paradoxical complexities of living in the here and now.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Queen's Theatre, Adelaide, SA    26 May 2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Refuge" published by Currency Press 2009   978-0868197661

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/81763

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