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Joachim Matschoss

JOACHIM MATSCHOSS  

 Nationality:    Australian
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below is a list of Joachim Matschoss's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Alone Is Bliss         Anderson Street         As We Like It         Bad Girls Do The Best Sheets         Beauty Of Scars, The         By The End Of The Year         Caffeine         Chosen, The         Committee, The         Common Room, The         Eternal Flame         Fake Is Real         Flatmates         Fragility         Going Places         Hanged For A Living         Heartcore         I Wish I Could See You         Ice On The River         Impossible Balance         In The Company Of Whales         Karen         Lessons In Lunacy         Memory Sticks         Midnight Tea         One Step At A Time         Out And About. Melancholy         Roadwork Ahead         Same Day Service         Search For A Hero         Strange Shoes         Village With No Daughters         Weight Of Fire, The

Alone Is Bliss

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Most people, like the characters in this Drama have their public and their private face and often hide behind a mask to make sure that the truth stays hidden.

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Anderson Street

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A quiet street in a sleepy suburb in a large Australian city. Lisa is a bubbly teenager madly in love who lives a carefree life, partying on a Saturday night and working in a supermarket.

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As We Like It

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This is an adaptation of some of Shakespeare's plays, bringing the main characters of 'Romeo and Juliet', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Hamlet','Othello' and 'The Tempest' together in crazy romp

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Bad Girls Do The Best Sheets

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From the late nineteenth century through until the 1970s these homes took in girls, young women, between the age of 13 and 18.

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Beauty Of Scars, The

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A group of friends go away for the weekend to celebrate their friendship. Cracks appear and tragedy hits.

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Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama

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By The End Of The Year

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Caffeine

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A young woman meets a man. He wants her phone-number and writes it on a ten-dollar note, only to later pay with that note. This comedy follows the journey of the ten dollars and confusion it creates.

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Chosen, The

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Three people have survived a disaster which destroyed the planet we all live on. Only two of them are chosen to begin again, to start a new civilization. The audience will decide the outcome.

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Committee, The

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This satirical look at education is set in a run down school. Suddenly a glimmer of hope, because the school has inherited a large sum of money. . .

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Common Room, The

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This satirical look at education is set in the inner sanctum of a large school. Sophie is new to the world of teaching and just wants to get into the classroom and inspire young people,

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Eternal Flame

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A satirical look at reality television put on the stage. Mandy and Sam are in love. Sarah is very jealous, because she loves Sam more than Mandy.

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Fake Is Real

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This play deals with the issues of body image, peer pressure and communication breakdown in our time.

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Flatmates

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A satirical look at the intricacies of shared housing. Three men live together in Melbourne. They have a spare room and look for a flatmate. Jutta, a young woman with a lot of flair arrives. Sparks fly.

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Fragility

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A cemetery. A grave opens. A woman speaks to us: When I first dreamt of death, I sensed neither blood nor the feeling of exile, the trap of foreign words.

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Going Places

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A group of young people is embarking on a performance tour to Europe and somehow the performance and real life become interchangeable. This play is a satirical look at the wonderful world of theatre

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Hanged For A Living

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Mary Webster is hanged one evening for engaging in witchcraft. She is somehow still alive when a soldier cuts the rope in the morning and her body slumps to the ground.

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Heartcore

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A young woman tries to deal with the challenges of daily life and the fact that what she dreamed her life would like is far from what reality has in store for her. Will she survive. . .

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I Wish I Could See You

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Ice On The River

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A woman is waiting for a train, which will never come. She wants to go to Venice, hoping that the spirit of that city will give her back the strength to live and confront the demons of her past. Non naturalistic. Filmic in structure, scene-overlap.

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Impossible Balance

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Three women, two men. An intricate relationship-Drama set in Paris. Henny desperately wants a soul mate and if he would be a lover too that would be even better.

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In The Company Of Whales

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A young woman tries to deal with the challenges of daily life and the fact that what she dreamed her life would like is far from what reality has in store for her. Will she survive. . .

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Karen

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Karen grows up in rural New South Wales. Her mother is diagnosed with cancer and the family decides to move to the city to be closer to a hospital.

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Monologue/s 60 mins

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Lessons In Lunacy

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A strange man floats through the sky and randomly beams people far into the netherworld that is milky way, only to make them return soon after as a five year old boy with a short attention span, or a baby or a girl with. . .

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Memory Sticks

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A desolate place. Wires are singing. Wheels turn. Rinny and Venga near each other and yet not. Both carry a mobile phone. There is a laptop.

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Midnight Tea

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Erin and Joe were the perfect couple, but Erin has tragically passed away. Joe tries to come to terms with it, but Erin 'haunts' him,

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One Step At A Time

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Dealing with the marathon dancers during the great depression

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Out And About. Melancholy

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A group of friends go away for the weekend to celebrate their friendship. Cracks appear and tragedy hits.

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Roadwork Ahead

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Garry is an ordinary bloke. Honest and decent. From one day to another, he is a changed man. He could even be our next Prime Minister. This play is a satirical look at what it means. . .

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2 Act 120 mins Play/Drama

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Same Day Service

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A man brings a suit to a dry cleaning business. The proprietors discover a note in his jacket pocket, a note and a letter. He is planning to kill his wife.

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Search For A Hero

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A small child and a suitcase on a platform of a large train station in Europe. Trains are not running anymore. There is the threat of a bomb

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Strange Shoes

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Village With No Daughters

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Village with no Daughters' follows the story of Jasmine who works in a sweat-shop for a few cents to produce the type of jeans young fashion-junkies in the Western World so desire,

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Weight Of Fire, The

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A story of compassion, inner strength and the power of living life despite adverse circumstances. Three sisters, three lives, one family.

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