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Joanna Murray-Smith

JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH

  (1962 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    42mp.com

Joanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne based playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Her plays, which include Honour, Rapture, Bombshells, Nightfall, Redemption, Love Child and Flame, have been produced around the world. Honour has been produced in over two dozen countries, including productions on Broadway and at the National Theatre in London and most recently in the West End. Both Honour and Rapture won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Best Play. Most recently, Melbourne Theatre Company produced the Female of the Species. Joanna has also published three novels Truce, Judgement Rock and Sunnyside.

Research:    https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/149

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         Angry Young Penguins         Art And Soul         Atlanta         Berlin         Bombshells         Confidentially Yours         Day One, A Hotel, Evening         Female of the Species, The         Flame         Fury         Ghost Trains         Gift, The         Hedda Gabler         Honour         L'Appartement         Love Child         Love in the Age of Therapy         Nightfall         Ninety         Passion         Pennsylvania Avenue         Rapture         Redemption         Ridge's Lovers         Rockabye         Scenes From A Marriage         Songs For Nobodies         Switzerland         Takers         Three Little Words         True Minds         Untitled
Angry Young Penguins

Synopsis:
As the title suggests, Angry Young Penguins dramatises the 1940s scandal of the Ern Malley poems, a literary hoax

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Church Theatre, Hawthorn, VIC     23 Oct 1987

Organisations:
Church Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/346

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Art And Soul

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Melbourne writers Matt Cameron (Whispering Death), Aidan Fennessy (The Slaughterhouse), Joanna Murray-Smith (Untitled), Tee O'Neill (Homage to Rembrandt), Melissa Reeves (Ray's Painting), Glenn Shea (Masterpiece) and Tom Wright (At Last the Famous Artist is Dead) have each written a short play in response to the same painting: Homage to Rembrandt by Australian artist Garry Shead. The set design recreates the environment of the painting and during the play the characters mirror the composition of the artwork.

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic     18 Nov 2000

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
one act plays

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79761

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Atlanta

Synopsis:
About a group of young people living in the nineties. Their common bond is Atlanta; Jewish, powerful and central friend of all, who has recently died. Reunited in a series of vignettes from past and present, the group investigate their relationship with Atlanta, with each other, and contemporary society.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, VIC     02 Aug 1990

Organisations:
Playbox Theatre Company

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox theatre, 1990   

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/12310

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Berlin

Berlin
Tom meets Charlotte in a bar. Toms a foreigner on his first trip to Berlin. Charlottes a beguiling bartender. Theyre both young, smart and charismatic  and in the early hours, they end up back at Charlottes Prenzlauerberg apartment. Over the course of the night, desire and longing dance hand in hand with devastating secrets. Are they just two young people falling in love, or are they contemporary victims of historys undiluted reach?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sumner Theatre, Southbank, VIC     25 April 2020

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/147298

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Bombshells

Bombshells
Six monologues made famous by the diva Caroline O'Connor, exposing six women balancing their inner and outer lives with humour and often desperate cunning. they range in age from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow yearning for the unexpected.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Fairfax Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne     01 Dec 2001

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London & Currency Press, Australia >>>, 2004   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Six Monologues

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/14285

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Confidentially Yours

Synopsis:
A rich tapestry of laughter, tears amd irony. A collection of short works by some of Australia's best-known Dramatists,written specifically for actor Deidre Rubenstein.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Wollongong, Nsw     31 Oct 2002

Organisations:
Merrigong Fringe 2006

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
collection of short plays

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17537

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Day One, A Hotel, Evening

Day One, A Hotel, Evening
Graciously irreverent, this play explores the revelations of three couples entangled in a web of extra-marital indiscretions. It asks us, What is love?' in a glaringly honest, deeply searching and ultimately sobering way.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Red Stitch Actors Theatre, St Kilda, VIC     16 Nov 2011

Organisations:
Red Stitch Actors Theatre

1st Published:
Playlab   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/153555

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Female of the Species, The

Female of the Species, The
Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970s Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work and numerous best-sellers followed. But now she has writer's block. Molly, an unannounced visitor and committed fan of Margot and her work, offers a potential solution - until Molly produces a gun and calmly informs Margot that she intends to kill her because she blames her for warping her mother's mind and ruining her life with her hit book the Cerebral Vagina. Joanna Murray-Smith's deliciously wicked comedy deftly walks the tightrope between satire and farce proving the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male. This latest gem from the pen of one of Australia's most outstanding playwrights was inspired by Germaine Greer's experience of being held captive in her country house in Essex in 2000

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne     26 Aug 2006

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/68485

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Flame

Flame
A woman encounters her dead husband in this raw, intense and poetic play.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW     28 Oct 1994

Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company

1st Published:
in "Passion", Currency Press, Sydney,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/26050

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Fury

Fury
Welcome to the charming inner city life of Alice (Sarah Peirse) and Patrick (Robert Menzies), successful professionals who after twenty-odd years of marriage still adore each other. they enjoy their status in the intelligentsia, their home, literary success and, most importantly, bringing up their son Joe together. When Joe is accused of an inflammatory act, secrets from Alice's past emerge and suddenly the safe, politically-correct world they've built around themselves blows apart. In this brilliant play of ideas Murray-Smith deftly examines generational differences, wrong versus right, and the difference between protest and terrorism. All this with the lightness of touch and dexterity of dialogue that has made her one of Australia's most performed playwrights, both at home and overseas. Fury is a play about the people who live next door to you: their concerns, their ideologies and, most poignantly, their yearning for redemption.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Wharf 1 Theatre, Sydney     15 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Playlab   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105402

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Ghost Trains

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written by Joanna Murray-Smith and Raymond Gill

1st Produced:
Guild Theatre, Parkville, VIC     09 Oct 1984

Organisations:
Melbourne University Student Union Inc

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/140228

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Gift, The

Gift, The
Sadie and Ed meet Martin and Chloe at a holiday resort and instantly hit it off, despite coming from completely different worlds. When Martin saves Ed's life, everyone knows the debt can never be properly repaid. But Ed is rich and Chloe and Martin have a need so great it seems divine providence when Ed, wanting to show his gratitude, gives the young couple a year to decide on an appropriate gift. Yet when the year is up, surely Chloe and Martin's wish is something no-one could possibly grant? Wrapped in Joanna Murray-Smith's glinting dialogue, the Gift is a witty examination of our modern moral confusions.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sumner Theatre, Southbank, VIC     28 May 2011

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/91572

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Hedda Gabler

Synopsis:
A heroine. A victim. A villain. Hedda Gabler is all of these and more - a woman filled with a restless passion for life that cannot be satisfied by her marriage or her perfect home. Henrik Ibsen's towering classic will be given a sharp contemporary adaptation by Joanna Murray-Smith (the Female of the Species, Lovechild, Honour). Reared to take her place as a society hostess but without the means to support such a lifestyle after her father's death, Hedda is trapped in a loveless marriage and must live out her life according to a set of standards totally alien to her upbringing. As she strives to find a way to fulfil her desires, an old flame from the past reappears - the brilliant Lovborg whose prodigal talent serves to highlight the dull and plodding world of her husband. the connection cannot be resisted and leads to violent and tragic events even she could not have predicted or control.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Dunstan Playhouse, Australia     26 Apr 2013

Organisations:
State Theatre Company of South Australia

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adabtation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/103228

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Honour

Honour
Gus and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. they have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist - on an assignment to 'profile' Gus - quite deliberately seeks to undermine that understanding. the fallout is dreadful - but beautifully and convincingly portrayed in all its painful consequences. . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Gallery Space, Brisbane, QLD     1995

Organisations:
On Giant's Shoulders

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60080

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L'Appartement

Synopsis:
Razor-sharp and whip-smart, this edgy new comedy marks the directorial debut of one Australias most accomplished storytellers, Joanna Murray-Smith.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cremorne Theatre (1985- ), South Brisbane, QLD     03 Aug 2019

Organisations:
Queensland Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/143849

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Love Child

Love Child
The story of two women who come to terms with each other and themselves, as a daughter adopted out at birth and a mother who gave up her baby

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC     18 Jun 1993

Organisations:
Playbox Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
75 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18772

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Love in the Age of Therapy

Synopsis:
An intriguing, playful examination of love, passion, infidelity and betrayal in the lives of apparently successful people living in our own time and place. . . Beneath the seemingly beautiful world of books and rugs, trips to Europe and the analyst, suppressed desires and illict passions are exposed.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Melbourne, VIC     17 Oct 2002

Organisations:
Oz Opera

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Music Theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  singers

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/19980

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Nightfall

Nightfall
A middle-aged couple sit expectantly in their comfortable drawing-room, waiting for the doorbell to ring. In a few minutes, a young woman will arrive at their home. Emily and Edward Kingsley have dreamt of this moment for seven years. An opportunity to meet the child they lost and confront the secrets of a troubled past. As night falls, the truth waits patiently in the shadows. . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC     16 Nov 1999

Organisations:
Playbox Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/77515

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Ninety

Ninety
It is no use, but William gives Isobel ninety minutes anyway. they were once married, but something happened. Something broke deep down in the mechanism of their lives together and, seeing no way to repair it, they threw it away. But perhaps they were too hasty. Perhaps there was something they could have done. Isabel just wants ninety minutes. Soon William will be married again, so ninety is all she has to make her case. Ninety to remember what they had. Ninety to regain what was lost. Just ninety to rediscover love or call it a day, forever.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC     22 Aug 2008

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/76011

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Passion

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Written by Lissa Benyon, Jennifer Compton, Tobsha Learner, Joanna Murray-Smith and Linden Wilkinson

1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW     29 Sep 1994

Organisations:
Company no.3,

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/153354

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Pennsylvania Avenue

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sumner Theatre, Southbank, VIC     08 Nov 2014

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Music Theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  singers

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105109

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Rapture

Rapture
A vivid, timely new play that shines a revealing light on Australia's unsettled soul. the play is set among intelligent and educated people whose cynicism appears to answer all questions and who navigate uncertainty with ease. What could possibly shock or unsettle them? the answer is: faith. When two of their number claim to have found God, the consequences are profound. Ethics and certainties are tested on a battleground of inexplicable belief. Long-term friendships are pushed to the limit as the faithless wrestle with the affront of moral judgement.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC     08 Nov 2002

Organisations:
Playbox Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20582

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Redemption

Synopsis:
A woman rummages through her ex-husband's flat after his death and talks to his brother

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, Southbank, VIC     19 Aug 1997

Organisations:
Playbox Theatre Company

1st Published:
Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University Melbourne, 1997   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11838

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Ridge's Lovers

Synopsis:
Murray-Smith's attentions centre on the relationships of young adults, in this case Ridge and his three lovers. Murray Smith: "was written out an amused and confused engagement with both the fantastic and prosaic dimensions of contemporary love-life...The fluidity of the play takes its cue from the fluidity of our internal conversations, where what we think we ought to be or want struggles with how we really are and the inexplicable ambitions of the heart."

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, VIC     13 Mar 1992

Organisations:
La Mama

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/15317

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Rockabye

Rockabye
Sidney can feel her career slipping down the plughole. No one loves a pop star when she's forty - not if she isn't Madonna or Kylie. So unless she wants to join the ranks of the has-beens on the casino circuit, she better get herself a hit. But what if she regains the whole world and still feels that something's missing? Baby hunger. Returning to the feisty mood of her hit the Female of the Species, Joanna Murray-Smith in Rockabye gives our self-involved, celebrity-obsessed culture a satirical duff-up.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sumner Theatre, Southbank, VIC     08 Aug 2009

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/82000

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Scenes From A Marriage

Synopsis:
a portrait of extraordinary intimacy and a searchingly honest and moving love story. We follow Johan and Marianne from their seemingly perfect happy marriage through betrayal and loss to warring contenders in divorce and beyond. - See more at: http://www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/events/scenes-from-a-marriage/#sthash.xwinwP6f.dpuf

Notes:
based on the 1973 Ingmar Bergman film

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Queensland Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/126931

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Songs For Nobodies

Songs For Nobodies
When a great singer lets her voice float out over the anonymous crowd, or form the grooves of thousands of records, or flow through radios into millions of homes across the world, she makes countless unknown connections with people. the singer has her story and the listener hers, and should those stories touch each other, there can be magic. We meet five anonymous women whose brushes with fame had a profound effect on their lives, interleaved with the songs that gave them heart.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Blakiston Theatre, Geelong, VIC     13 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  musicians

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89090

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Switzerland

Switzerland
Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, grande dame of crime literature Patricia Highsmith lives with an impressive collection of books, and a somewhat sinister collection of guns and knives. She finds solace in her solitude, her cats, and cigarettes. But when a mysterious international visitor arrives at her perfectly secluded home, her love of fictional murders becomes a dangerous reality.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW     03 Nov 2014

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company by special arrangement with the Geffen Playhouse

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2016) >>>
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105580

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Takers

Synopsis:
A portrait of student life the '80s.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Guild Theatre, Parkville, VIC     25 Mar 1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/129110

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Three Little Words

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sumner Theatre, Southbank, VIC     18 Apr 2017

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/127598

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True Minds

True Minds
Meeting your future mother-in-law is an anxious moment for any young woman. the last thing Daisy needs is her lefty parents turning up uninvited, or her alcoholic ex-boyfriend cracking open the cellar door! How on earth can she win the approval of Australia's answer to Margaret Thatcher? True Minds is not only a hilarious battle of the sexes and political polarities, but also a rewarding exploration of the triumph of modern love.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, Melbourne     25 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
Playlab   

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/105351

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Untitled

Synopsis:
An artist tries to win back his muses after selling out to commercialism

Notes:
Melbourne writers Matt Cameron (Whispering Death), Aidan Fennessy (the Slaughterhouse), Joanna Murray-Smith (Untitled), Tee O'Neill (Homage to Rembrandt), Melissa Reeves (Ray's Painting), Glenn Shea (Masterpiece) and Tom Wright (At Last the Famous Artist is Dead) have each written a short play in response to the same painting: Homage to Rembrandt by Australian artist Garry Shead. the set design recreates the environment of the painting and during the play the characters mirror the composition of the artwork. Event titled Art and Soul.

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre (Aust)     18 Nov 2000

Organisations:
Commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company in 2000

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/79761

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