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Tom MacLachlan

TOM MACLACHLAN

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    HLA Management Pty Ltd  

Tom Maclachlan was awarded a scholarship to attend the NIDA Playwrights' Studio in 2003 and was also selected to attend the World Interplay Conference for young playwrights in Townsville. His plays include And Everyone Is Being So Nice (part of the 24 Hour Play Project at B Sharp's Rough Cuts, Belvoir St Theatre, October 2003), 88 Per Cent Happy (NIDA Director's Projects 2003) and One Thumb Out (performed at the Old Fitzroy Hotel as part of the Top Shorts program for the Naked Theatre Company, 2002. Winner of the Write Now! Young Playwrights' Competition, 2002)

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

         91 Per Cent Are Happy         Bones Love Gringo, The         One Thumb Out

91 Per Cent Are Happy

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Bones Love Gringo, The

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Two misfit aussies are banished without money or means to a communist country they've never heard of. To get home, and to escape "the Cuban menace", they must find the one Australian ally that they know of, but he's stuck in Guantanamo Bay.' Source: /www.fortyfivedownstairs.com -

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Fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne     2008

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Comedy

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One Thumb Out

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Present day. The war in the Middle East has escalated and conscription has been introduced to Australia. But Olly has no intention of dying for something he doesn't understand. He escapes from the training barracks days before he is due to fight in Iraq. His brother Joe, who has also been conscripted, tries to find Olly and turn him in. Olly meets up with Gemma, a violent activist who has been ejected from her collective for trying to spill blood for peace. Olly and Gemma both hate the war, but for different reasons, and they begin to make plans to avoid the law and Joe. Gemma also plots to use Olly to boost her reputation in her activist group. But when Olly's best friend, Chick, dies from an enemy bomb, Olly is torn between the desire to fight for his friend's honour and the need to continue his journey towards freedom. An energetic drama that explores the young Australian's sense of duty and asks where our loyalty lies - with our family, our friends, our country or ourselves?

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Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre, Woolloomooloo, NSW     29 Nov 2002

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60 min Naturalistic comedy drama

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/24939

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