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Andrew McGahan

ANDREW MCGAHAN

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Andrew McGahan's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/244864

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

         Bait         Polaroid         White Earth, The

Bait

Synopsis:
The classic Australian story of dogmatic, bureaucratic propaganda that keeps a ntion of unemployed, terrified of losing social security.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD    1995

Organisations:
Dogs In the roof

1st Published:
in "The White Earth and Bait", Playlab Press, Australia (2009)   978-0908156863

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/21111

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Polaroid

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of "Four Play": Four short works by local writers; Above by Elaine Acworth, Twilight by Daynan Brazil, Polaroid by Andrew McGahan, and The Mutt by Fiona Munro.

1st Produced:
Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD    Feb 1997

Organisations:
Renegade Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/31712

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White Earth, The

Synopsis:
Following the death of his father, young William McIvor and his mother Veronica are taken in by Will's uncle John at Kuran Station. John grew up there, son of the station master. His proposal to the owner's daughter Elizabeth rejected, John has spent his life working to buy back the now-decrepit property that is the one place he truly knows. The encounter with would-be heir Will is the catalyst for flashbacks that tell how John's present tenure at Kuran came about and what it cost him. Epic in scope, The White Earth moves between 1992 and McIvor's antipathy for the incoming native title legis

Notes:
co-adapted by Shaun Charles And novelist Andrew McGahan

1st Produced:
Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove, QLD    25 Feb 2009

Organisations:
La Boite Theatre Company

1st Published:
in "The White Earth and Bait", Playlab Press, Australia (2009)   978-0908156863

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105716

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