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Lucy O'Brien

LUCY O'BRIEN  

 Nationality:    New Zealander
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below is a list of Lucy O'Brien's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Katydid         Postal         Who's Neat? You!

Katydid

Synopsis:
Kate is daddy's little girl. He feeds her, bathes her, and keeps her safe from the obstacle course of normal' life. But, when daddy gets sick, and a handsome boy arrives to pick up the slack, Kate sees an opportunity to flee the tower. She just needs to snare the prince before her mother does.
- theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
Winner of the Embassy Trust Prize for Playwriting, Katydid is A simultaneously funny And tragic look into the life of A nineteen year old woman living with Cerebral Palsy And A dysfunctional family unit.

1st Produced:
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, Wellington, NZ    18 Aug 2010

Organisations:
the Playground Collective

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Postal

Synopsis:
Your job sucks, your boss is horrible and your workmate is a weirdo. Welcome to the post office, trainee, now don't forget to smile. This Kiwi black comedy follows three tragic misfits in their desperate search for connection in the worst workplace in the world. Postal is based on Lucy O'Brien's experience working for Australia Post. She says, "It was one of the worst working experiences of my life. Part of that was because I had an incredibly overbearing, evangelical boss and part of it was because I was simply crap at the job. The bottom line is - nobody goes into a post office because they want to, not really. They're always there to pay a bill, do the banking, stuff that's really just an inconvenience to their day. I couldn't deal with all the flustered, miserable faces. But I was determined not to give up, so I started writing about it as a kind of therapy, which is where Postal was born."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Forge at The Court Theatre, Christchurch    26 Oct 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=3530

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Who's Neat? You!

Synopsis:
the 'hangout' - a ten-tonne truck outfitted as the home of the Happy Healthy mascot, Griswald the Manatee - is the venue for the black comedy, Who's Neat? You! which is based on the makers' experiences of childhood health education programmes in New Zealand. the creators of Who's Neat? You! hope that their unusual venue and subversion of nineties nostalgia will get people talking about the positive and negative effects of contemporary attitudes towards childhood education, particularly the message that 'you can be anything, as long as you work hard enough'. "We began with a sense of nostalgia," reveals director Alex Lodge, "then we took it somewhere a little darker, and asked ourselves, 'what would happen if it all went wrong?'"

Notes:
written by Lucy O'Brien And Ralph McCubbin-Howell

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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