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Karin Mainwaring

KARIN MAINWARING  

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Literary Agent:    Cameron Creswell Agency  


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

 Binge         Rain Dancers, The         Stiffs

Binge

Synopsis:
about eating disorders and family secrets. Was produced for "adult" audiences but would actually be a good TIe piece. There's a bit of searing in it but this might not be the problem it was when it was produced in 1985. easily cleaned up. aDeLe lives in two worlds, One, her secret, a sensitive world of deep self-hatred, compels her to eat compulsively. The other, the outside world, is fraught with expectation and peer group pressure. Two weapons help adele survive in this enemy zone; her smart mouth and her drop-dead gorgeous friend, MaRY. Mary, full of snappy, new-age speak, urges adele to confront her demons. adele's demons are more than snappy. They're voracious. The girl has courage though and she does indeed confront her demons. a sense of self-worth is her reward.

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Genre:
Comedy, with songs

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rain Dancers, The

Synopsis:
an outback comedy with serious bite. DaN, the man, comes home to a run-down and isolated outback station after a 25-year absence. He returns to the three significant women in his life - his mother, his wife and his daughter. The country is deep in drought. For the women, who haven't really seen a man for 25 years, it has been a drought of a different kind. His wife, RITa, has been concentrating her venom in his absence. The last thing she expects to feel is her love for him. The drought breaks with tragic consequences for all.

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Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC    13 Jul 2001

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Five Islands Press, Australian Playwright Signature series, Australia,    -

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Genre:
outback comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11586

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Stiffs

Synopsis:
an urban comedy with serious bite. a drug deal goes very badly wrong for aNGeL and her boyfriend LeSTeR. angel's family home, home to her dying mother and two sisters, is the only collateral these two desperate junkies have. In order to secure the home, Mum has to be bumped off and the sisters have to be force-fed a truckload of lies. This doesn't, at first, appear to be too hard. One sister has had a reality by-pass and the other, a deaf-mute, can surely be assumed to be true to the old medical terminology, Dumb. But family are the ties that bind us and are not easily buried. as Lester, rather gruesomely, finds out. "Don't fuck with the girls".

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Genre:
urban comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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