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Tony McNamara

TONY MCNAMARA

  (1967 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    HLA Management Pty Ltd  

Tony McNamara's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Cafe Latte Kid, The         Give And Take, The         Great, The         Grenade, The         John Wayne Principle         Personal Effects         Present Tense         Recruit, The         Resurrection of Grudge Graham         Unlikely Prospect of Happiness, The         Virgin Mim

Cafe Latte Kid, The

Synopsis:
Highly charged and savage satire on the corruptions that can eat away at families in the 1990s. A young man leaves a mental institution and goes home to his family. they aren't there immediately, but when they do get together he finds the only way he can get their attention is to hold a gun on them. Screamingly funny, cutting and accurate.

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1st Produced:
The Wharf Studio Theatre, Walsh Bay, Nsw    27 Aug 1994

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre company

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
65 mins One Act comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25411

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Give And Take, The

Synopsis:
Executive Don cannot keep his mind on his job. His wife tells him she is going to Tuscany to have fantastic sex. Don tells his twenty something children about this but they are only interested in his money. Don quits his job and puts everything he owns on to a horse race

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1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Melbourne, Vic    26 Jun 2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Great, The

Great, The
A take on the life of Catherine the Great of Russia

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press 2008   978-0868198392

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Grenade, The

Synopsis:
A political lobbyists has upset a number of people over the years - but any of them enough to throw a grenade into his living room?

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1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Melbourne    10 Apr 2010

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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John Wayne Principle

Synopsis:
In a single gunshot, Robbie is catapulted from 90s househusband to corporate tycoon. Suddenly his world spirals into a comic frenzy of jerks in jackets and suaves in suits while his designer wife dreams of overthrowing Osh Kosh . . . what's a man gotta do to keep his head? A hilarious contemporary satire.

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1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre Company    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1997    868195146

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Personal Effects

Synopsis:
the scene is the living room of the Mallory's Midwestern home, where Kevin Mallory, a rather meek and malleable high-school student, who has a history of striking out with girls, has decided to give a party (hopefully an orgy) in his parents' absence. Encouraged by his more "sophisticated" friends, Artie and Bill, Kevin invites Eileen Sorenson, a new girl at school whom he'd like to get to know better and who, his buddies claim, is "hot" for him. However, all of Kevin's plans go quickly and hilariously awry, and the party descends into chaos as fights break out, advances are rejected and resentment mounts. After the dust settles, Kevin comes to terms with the fact that he and his cohorts have behaved like jerks and that in order to be accepted by a girl she must be treated like a person and not an object. the blinding realization points Kevin toward a new direction in his relations with women and augurs for a better future as the play comes to its touching, bittersweet conclusion.

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1st Produced:
Manhattan Punch Line, Ny    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Present Tense

Synopsis:
It's the day of the high-school prom, and Norm Prescot, a love-smitten teenager, is beset with doubts. Will his girlfriend, Ann, keep their date or will she claim that she has to stay at the bedside of her aunt Gladys, who (she says) has been stricken with gallstones? As he waits, Norm's agonies multiply: Does Ann really have an Aunt Gladys? Or is she just using that as an excuse to pick up with her ex-boyfriend, Doug, a thick-headed jock, who is not only captain of the football, baseball and basketball teams but also Norm's obnoxious editor on the school newspaper? In a series of imaginative (and very funny) blackouts Norm's worst fears become real as we see all that is going on inside his head through wildly exaggerated daydreams depicting the fear and embarrassment of possible rejection by the girl he loves and the gnawing suspicion that she has not been faithful to him. All ends happily, however, when Norm is jarred back to reality by Ann's arrival-and, with a sign of relief, accepts her assurances that she really does love him after all.

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1st Produced:
Circle Repertory Company, Ny    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Recruit, The

Synopsis:
Stuey's brother Jimmy has committed suicide. Stuey finds himself persuade by two soccer agents who want to sign him up. The two agents bet on which one will sign up the talented Stuey

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, NSW    07 Jan 2000

Organisations:
Blue Tongue

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:

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Resurrection of Grudge Graham

Synopsis:
Heavy metal rocker Grudge Graham returns from a year in re-hab for his comeback tour. But is his long time manager and friend, Manny, ready for the new improved Grudge? Exciting, intelligent humour from an important new Australian talent.

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
2 Acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Unlikely Prospect of Happiness, The

Synopsis:
A married man who always does the right thing meets a single female accountant. She soon takes over his office, takes stock and takes her clothes off. She's a woman in control. He's a man desperate to let go

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre, Millers Point, NSW    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Virgin Mim

Synopsis:
When Ed and Steve meet old friends for dinner, they're hot. they're cooking. they're on the threshold of a million dollar deal. But tonight they're not talking money. Tonight they're here because Mim is coming home. Mim McDermott, ruthless lawyer extraordinaire, is back from a Catholic community in Ireland. She's a born-again believer and when she tries to save their souls, she plunges them all into holy hell. Tony McNamara's new play is a tidal wave of comic mayhem, as Mim zealously exposes the cracks in her old friends' marriages, the soul-destroying compromises in their work, and the fraudulent foundations of their friendships.

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
2 Acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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