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Stephen Measday

STEPHEN MEASDAY

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Stephen Measday is an award-winning scriptwriter and the author of seventeen books for younger readers. His awards include an Australian Writers Guild (AWGIE) Award for the original radio drama, Partners, and a Media Peace Award from the United Nations Association of Australia for an episode of A Country Practice. Stephen has had two plays professionally produced: Blow Fly Blow by La Boite Theatre, Brisbane, and Mark Twain Down Under: The Most Beautiful Lies by Playbox Theatre, Melbourne. Mark Twain Down Under also featured at the Mackay Arts Festival in 2007. His plays have had dozens of amateur productions. He has been Script Editor for eleven series on the Logie Award-winning educational variety program, Hi-5 (series 3-12, 2001-2011) and Hi 5 House(series 3-4, 2014). The program was nominated for U.S. Emmy Awards in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Stephen has also written for Erky Perky, New Macdonald's Farm, Blue Heelers, GP, Wicked, Mirror, Mirror 2, The Ferals, Ship to Shore andSkytrackers 2. He has written an original feature, The Time Game (also published as a novel). Stephen's novels have been published in Australia, Germany, the UK, France, Indonesia and South Korea. His current time travel novel series, Send Simon Savage, has just been published in Germany (2014) by DTV as Time Agents: Treffpunkt Zukunft.

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

         Blow Fly Blow         Mark Twain Down Under         Plainclothes Hamlet, The         Well Beeton!

Blow Fly Blow

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Mark Twain Down Under

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Mark Twain Down Under (subtitle The Most Beautiful Lies) recreates an evening with mark Twain during his highly celebrated and successful tour of Australia in 1895. Railway food, sharks, the Melbourne Cup, gold strikes and the witty explanation of why "reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" are explored in this humorous and entertaining look at Australia through the eyes of America's most celebrated author. Ideal for regional touring.

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Genre:
Realistic comedy 90 mins

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Plainclothes Hamlet, The

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The sun is setting on the court of Elsinore. King Hamlet is a buffoon, Queen Gertrude follows the fillies of fashion and kingly brother, Claudius, plots and schemes for a more modern monarchy, kingship with a logo, sovereignty tied to industry and commerce. Prime Minister Polonius sways with the prevailing political breeze, Ophelia broods over lost love - and Prince Hamlet has renounced his title and taken up screenwriting in Hollywood. When King Hamlet's body is found in the garden a new character steps into the picture - Inspector Horatio, Elsinore C.I.B. Who is behind this nefarious deed? What's the motive? Why do bodies keep piling up in the castle? Are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the pay of the Secret Service? And what will Hamlet do on his return to Elsinore? The Plainclothes Hamlet reveals all. . .

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Genre:
2 Act 120 mins Detective comedy drama

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Male:  5            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Well Beeton!

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A delicious feast of food and fun. The famous 19th Century cookery writer, Isabella Mary Beeton, was the Delia Smith, the Margaret Fulton, the Julia Child of the Victorian era and her Book of Household Management became famous throughout the world. In Well Beeton!, 'Bella' Beeton is magically transported to the present day and onto the set of the top rating television show, Book The Cook. Hosted by stand up comic, Paul Koffey, Mrs Beeton gets involved in a fierce, competitive cook-off with Australia's 'Queen of the Outback Chefs', Dawn Dawson. Friction and tension stirs up between the two rivals and the heat escalates in the studio kitchen. Isabella and Dawn are not only from different eras and different countries, but also hold fervently different attitudes to food, cooking, housekeeping and personal relationships. Clashes are inevitable. Can Paul keep the peace? Can he stay sober? And will the show ever get to air? Well Beeton! involves the audience in a dramatic cooking show that crosses Knives and Time, with an entertaining focus on both past and contemporary attitudes to food and household chores.

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Genre:
comedy of cooking 100 min

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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