doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Adam May

ADAM MAY

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Active Artists Management  

Adam May is an award winning playwright. His play Rising Fish Prayer about the disintegration of a fictional mine in Papua New Guinea, won the Australian Playbox Asialink Playwriting Competition, was awarded by the Australian Prime Minister, performed at the Malthouse Theatre, adapted and broadcast on the BBC Radio World Service, and originally published by Currency Press. The Age has described Adam as a 'fine craftsman and consummate storyteller'. Adam's other plays include Cobblestone 13, Waving at Strangers (with Zahim Albakri Dramalab Malaysia), Wax Parade (about Australia at Federation), The Victor (twice nominated for the Wal Cherry Playwrighting Award and performed at the Carlton Courthouse), No Prophet, No Angel shared winner of the Playbox Asialink Playwrighting Competition, Buckley's Chance and None(performed at the Carlton Courthouse), Diplomacy on Coconut Island(Theatreworks), Bare Friends (Universal Theatre), the community play Hotel on Heartbreak Hill, Family Hold Back (Schools tour), Infinity, A Very Special Day, and Helkovitch. Adam has been an active supporter of writing for the theatre being awarded a life membership of Melbourne Writers Theatre, facilitated the Ron Danielson Lecture at the Arts Centre ('Making Writers Making Plays'), and a founder of Writers Revenge on 3RRR and a writer of more than fourteen performed plays. He is also known to Australian audiences as an actor having begun his career in the feature film Flynn appearing alongside Steven Berkoff, Guy Pierce and Claudia Karvan, and then more steadily as the semi-regular lawyer Ellis Corby in Blue Heelers. Critics have described him as: 'an absolute delight to watch' with 'a contagious energy rarely seen in the theatre', a 'well disciplined performer' and 'full of sparkling energy and wicked humour'.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/9453

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

         Bare Friends         Buckley's Chance and None         Cobblestone 13         Diplomacy on Coconut Island         Family Hold Back         Helkovitch         Hotel on Heatbreak Hill         Infinity         No Prophet, No Angel         Rising Fish Prayer         Very Special Day, A         Victor, The         Waving at Strangers         Wax Parade

Bare Friends

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Buckley's Chance and None

Synopsis:
The part-legend, part-history, part-myth story of William Buckley, an escaped convict who lived among the Aborigines for 32 years in the early days of white settlement in the state of Victoria. Title is a pun on the truism about 'Buckley's Chance' as having no chance at all.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Carlton Courthouse, Carlton, Vic    21 Jul 1994

Organisations:
Buckley's Hope Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25135

Top of Page Top of Page

Cobblestone 13

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Diplomacy on Coconut Island

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, Vic    12 Feb 1997

Organisations:
St Kilda Writers' Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11636

Top of Page Top of Page

Family Hold Back

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
schools tour    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Helkovitch

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Hotel on Heatbreak Hill

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
community play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Infinity

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

No Prophet, No Angel

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Rising Fish Prayer

Rising Fish Prayer
a confronting and timely examination of the politics of business, the business of politics and a man whose life is brought to the very brink. Set in a fictitious Papua New Guinea gold mine. A play about love, patriotism, cruelty and sacrifice, a fast moving, semi-absurdist exploration of cultural contrasts and compassion

Notes:
A Playbox commission and winner of the 1997 Playbox-Asialink Playwriting Competition

1st Produced:
Cub Malthouse, Southbank, Vic    11 Sep 1998

Organisations:
The National Performing Arts Troupe of Papua New Guinea

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, 1998
http://australianplays.org/script/ASC-1624   978-0868194455

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Postcolonial Magical Realism 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60975

Top of Page Top of Page

Very Special Day, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Victor, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Full-Length 80 mins Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Waving at Strangers

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Written by Zahim Albakri and Adam May

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Wax Parade

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page