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Mary Morris

MARY MORRIS  (1944 - )

 Nationality:    Australian
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MARY MORRIS - a Scottish-born Australian - has written several award winning plays including the hugely successful adaptation of Two Weeks With the Queen, which has enjoyed many international productions, Blabbermouth and Boss of the Pool. Morris also writes for adult and childrens television in Australia and the UK and has written many award winning and BAFTA nominated episodes of childrens Drama for the BBC.

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

         All Of Me         Blabbermouth         Blue Roof, The         Boss Of the Pool         Misery Guts         Shark Island Stories         Too Far To Walk         Tracy Beaker Gets Real         Two Weeks With the Queen         Voices

All Of Me

Synopsis:
the performance takes the form of a number of snapshots from the interwoven existence of a family.

Notes:
devised by Nigel Jamieson, Mary Morris, Thor Blomfield, Beth Kayes, Brian Keogh And Bernadette Regan

1st Produced:
the Performance Space, Redfern, NSW    07 Sep 1993

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Performance Recording: All Of Me, University of New England, Stage on Screen Collection, 8 November 1993

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/22302

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Blabbermouth

Blabbermouth
Blabbermouth is the adaptation of another popular Morris Gleitzman novel and is about a young girl, Rowena, who moves to a new country town, and school, with her widowed father who has a penchant for satin cowboy shirts and embarrassing his daughter in public. Rowena hears, but cannot speak and the play explores many issues including disabilities, friendship, fitting in, and how children and adults try to co-exist.

Notes:
novel by Morris Gleitzman

1st Produced:
Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, VIC    10 Sep 1993

Organisations:
Melbourne International Festival of the Arts

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868194219

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/22206

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Blue Roof, The

Synopsis:
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's death, Joe is alone. No one believes what happened that night on the beach. One place holds the truth.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
the Street Theatre, Acton, ACT    17 Sep 2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
multimedia Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/19056

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Boss Of the Pool

Boss Of the Pool
Adapted from Robin Klein's best-selling novel. Shelley is embarrassed when her mother starts working at the retard farm. Why can't she get a decent job? Petra's mother gets cheap cassettes from hers. At the pool, Ben is afraid of the water but hangs around the edge and Tania in the wheelchair is organising a disco.

Notes:
adapted from the novel by Robin Klein (1936 - )

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre, Perth, WA    05 Jul 1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press, 1993   086-8193550

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  1b 1g

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/12415

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Misery Guts

Synopsis:
young Keith has a problem. His parents are miserable. He does everything he can to cheer them up.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Laycock Street Theatre, North Gosford, NSW    01 Aug 1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama TYA

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25426

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Shark Island Stories

Synopsis:
Sally Morgan's children's book, the Flying Emu and other Australian stories...A young Koori warrior, Nardu is the protagonist. His efforts to satisy the hunger of an insatiable spirit see him caught up in a variety of spells cast by the Magical Bee and old Granny.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Shark Island, Point Piper, NSW    03 Jan 1994

Organisations:
Festival of Sydney

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20640

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Too Far To Walk

Synopsis:
Too Far to Walk tells the story of sisters Clarissa and Olivia and how they are re-united after more than fifty years. After the death of her mother, Clarissa is placed in a mental institution as there are no places available in children's homes. Meanwhile her sister, Olivia is encouraged by the authorities to forget she ever had a sister. Clarissa slowly becomes institutionalised, yet on her release searches for her sister who has long since emigrated to Australia. Eventually they are re-united in Perth and Clarissa has finally travelled the distance that all her life was too far to walk. the play was inspired by a number of real life incidents concerning people who were inappropriately classified and incarcerated by pre and post war social services.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Deck Chair Theatre, Fremantle, WA    11 Jun 1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
90 mins One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25061

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Tracy Beaker Gets Real

Tracy Beaker Gets Real
he most popular teenager in Britain comes to the stage! Tracy Beaker Gets Real has been adapted by Mary Morris with music by Grant Olding from one of the most successful children's books ever, Jacqueline Wilson's the Story of Tracy Beaker. We join Tracy, aged 15, as she returns to the "Dumping Ground" and looks back on the last four years of her life, from being fostered - and dumped - and fostered again, to finding a happy, if not altogether harmonious home with writer Cam. When Tracy's mum unexpectedly reappears in her life, Tracy hopes that her days of being passed around like a parcel are over, but she soon comes to realize that the people she has always tried to push away are the ones she really needs the most. Touching and very funny, this play brings Tracy Beaker's trademark talent for troublemaking, fun and friendship to any production.

Notes:
Book And lyrics by Mary Morris. Music And Additional lyrics by Grant Olding. From "the Story of Tracy Beaker" by Jacqueline Wilson

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London >>>   978-057318041-5

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2-5            Female:  4-11            Other:  chorus

Further Reference:
-

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Two Weeks With the Queen

Two Weeks With the Queen
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Morris Gleitzman. Colin has a mission. He wants to speak to the Queen about his brother Luke who has cancer. Cousin Alistair would like to help but stress brings on his dandruff. Colin takes the lock off the back door and goes out alone.

Notes:
Music by Rob Hartmann; lyrics by Rob Hartmann And Mary Morris; book by Mary Morris. Based on the novel by Morris Gleitzman

1st Produced:
Riverside theatres, Parramatta, NSW    04 Jan 1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868199320

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  2b

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/13210

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Voices

Synopsis:
the tale of women POWs in Sumatra during World War II who, living in appalling conditions and surrounded by death, formed a choir and began singing difficult pieces of classical music.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Fremantle Prison, Fremantle, WA    01 Apr 1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama TYA

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32912

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