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Heather Nimmo

HEATHER NIMMO

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    Golvan Arts Management  

Heather Nimmo has written more than twenty plays for stage and radio, working with Australias leading actors, directors and designers. After many years in Western Australia, where she won a number of literary prizes, she returned to Adelaide in 2003. She teaches part-time in the Drama Department at Flinders University.

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

         Banana Split         Hope, The         I'll Write To Richie Benaud         Mean Deeds         One Small Step         Other Woman, The         Whispering Demons

Banana Split

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Hope, The

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It is 1987. Bet and Michael are newly married and their hearts are set on the Australian dream - to own their own home. Like generations before them they have crossed the Nullarbor to seek their fortune. 'The Hope' is a corrugated-iron mining town where few fortunes are made and few marriages survive. Bet and Michael are innocents among The Hope's hardy inhabitants: Mrs G - fourth generation goldfields; Charlie - the topless barmaid; Boss - the enigmatic boss man, and the eerie presence of generations of previous occupants.

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Sydney : Currency Press in association with Playbox Theatre Company, 1987
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Comedy drama 100 min

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I'll Write To Richie Benaud

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Steven is in his thirties. He was born with Downs Syndrome. He lives with his ageing mum, loves to watch the cricket on TV and is impressed that commentator Richie Benaud always knows all the answers. In times of stress or confusion, he says, 'I'll write to Richie Benaud', certain that Richie will provide a calm and fair judgement. But there are problems that other members of Steven's family must try to solve for themselves.

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25 mins One Act

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Mean Deeds

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Hole in the Wall Theatre Company

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One Small Step

One Small Step
One Small Step -- Regina, a young married woman, working in a Perth shoe factory, has a dilEmma. She's just been offered the supervisor's job -- should she take it? Everyone seems to be pulling Regina in a different direction. Will she be able to make a decision that pleases them all or should she follow her own head and heart

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in One Small step, Currency Press Pty Ltd (August 1, 1995)   978-0868194182

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Play/Drama

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Other Woman, The

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Shifting loyalties and political shenanigans in Australia's Parliament

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2 Act 85 mins Comedy

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Whispering Demons

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here are whispers...Anne is an Anglican. She wants to arrange things...and not just the church flower roster. There are more whispers...Anne is called to become a priest. At a time when her husband Davidis about to be made a bishop in a diocese where the devilwould be made more welcome than a woman priest! There are whispers about Anne's past...Must she abandon everything? For Anne it's all or nothing! Witty - deeply moving - at times confronting - very often hilarious.

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Full-Length 97 mins Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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