doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Nathaniel Moncrieff

NATHANIEL MONCRIEFF

  
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    n/a

Nathaniel Moncrieff is a Perth-born playwright presently living in Melbourne. In 2009, on the basis of his first play Motel Rooms, he was selected by The Australian Theatre for Young People and Black Swan State Theatre Company to participate in their Fresh Ink and Young Writers Programs respectively. His following play, Sleepyhead, developed with the support of ATYP's Fresh Ink Program, won The Fellowship of Australian Writers' Di Cranston Award in their 2009 Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Award, which led to productions by MKA in Melbourne in May 2011 and by Perth's Upstart Theatre Company in conjunction with Blue Room Summer Nights in February 2012. His play Tinkertown received its inaugural season by MKA in conjunction with TheatreWorks in late February 2012, which was followed by The Comedians' September/October Perth season at The Blue Room. In 2013, his play A Perfect Specimen received a public reading by Black Swan State Theatre Company in November 2013 and received a High Commendation in the Fellowship of Australian Writers' 2014 National Literary Awards. His newest works, The Burning and A Circle of Buzzards, were performed as part of the 2014 Regional Arts Australia Summit and the 2015 Blue Room Summer Nights program respectively.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/448866

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 Nathaniel Moncrieff's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Burning, The         Circle Of Buzzards, A         Motel Rooms         Perfect Specimen, A         Sleepyhead         Tinkertown

Burning, 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:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Circle Of Buzzards, 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

Motel Rooms

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

Perfect Specimen, 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

Sleepyhead

Synopsis:
On an isolated rural property, there lives a father and his two daughters. All three are haunted by a past tragedy that has left the youngest daughter, Genevieve, crippled, and their mother covered in hideous burns; an affliction that eventually drove her to suicide. The father, unemployed and too destitute to send his daughters to school, has confined his daughters to the decrepit cottage. The eldest daughter, Eleanor, has started receiving phone calls in the dead of night from a mysterious stranger who, out of loneliness, she has fallen for. When their father suddenly leaves to borrow money from his brother, the two sisters are left to look after themselves. As the days pass, a policeman calls by to warn them of young girls having disappeared in the area, incidents often preceded by strange phone calls. Dismissing the Constable's visit, Eleanor continues to speak with the man on the phone, while her sister, suffering the loss of her beloved pet chicken, grows sadder and lonelier, relying on the spectre of her dead mother for company. Soon, however, the phone calls cease and Eleanor becomes increasingly forlorn. The girls' situation grows bleaker as it becomes apparent that their father's absence may be permanent. Then, unexpectedly, Eleanor and Genevieve receive a visit from a stranger one night - a girl covered in blood, shaken and incoherent. Genevieve, frightened, aware something terrible has occurred, nonetheless welcomes the girl, Polly, as a friend. Eleanor, on the other hand, suspects the stranger she is in love with must somehow be involved, and instead of being afraid, she is jealous. Polly is a rival, and she must be dealt with. . .

Notes:
Developed with the support of ATYP's Fresh Ink program, Sleepyhead won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Di Cranston Award in their 2009 Literary Awards And was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Award. the play has A distinctly mid-20th Century Aesthetic, the result, the playwright says, of living in Perth And reading way too much Southern Gothic Fiction.

1st Produced:
MKA, Level 1, 211 Chapel Street Prahran, VIC    10 May 2011

Organisations:
-

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

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:
Darkly Funny Gothic Thriller 80 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/92358

Top of Page Top of Page

Tinkertown

Synopsis:
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your relatives. Sometimes, you can kill them. And sometimes you can kidnap them, and the cops can conduct an hour-long chase scene in the desert. You can't choose them, either. For the first time in ten years, Chester is out of jail and seeing his daughter. But, like everything else in his life, he ain't going to get it right. In an alcoholic haze, he's going to get to know his daughter...and why, of all the people you could possibly kidnap, a 16 year-old girl is not the most favourable choice.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre Works, St Kilda, VIC    21 Feb 2012

Organisations:
MKA Theatre of New Writing

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:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/114961

Top of Page Top of Page