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Errol O'Neill

ERROL O'NEILL

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Errol ONeill has worked since the early 1970s as an actor, playwright, director, dramaturg and producer, specialising in the creation of new work for the theatre. He was an actor, then a resident writer-director with the Brisbane-based Popular Theatre Troupe (1977-82), where he performed in, wrote and directed many political satires which toured throughout Queensland and nationally.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/195

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below is a list of Errol O'Neill's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Australia         Faces In the Street         Hands Across the Pacific         Hope Of the World, The         It's M.A.D.         Mayne Inheritance, The         On the Whipping Side         Out Of Work, Out Of Mind         Popular Front         Red Soil White Sugar

Australia

Synopsis:
a short play concerning this country's origins, its social composition and history

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Faces In the Street

Synopsis:
a play about the 1912 Brisbane general strike

Notes:
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1st Produced:
La Boite Theatre, Milton, QLD    16 Sep 1983

Organisations:
Brisbane Repertory Theatre,

1st Published:
Playlab Press, Australia   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/94946

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Hands Across the Pacific

Synopsis:
The show looked at the effects of foreign control on our politicians and the decisions they made from World War Two to the present.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Eraring Power Station, Eraring, NSW    1982

Organisations:
Popular Theatre Troupe

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
historical play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60803

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Hope Of the World, The

Synopsis:
The union strikes in Queensland in the 1980s...how the strikes affect two generations of union members. Set in Brisbane in the mid to late 1980s, Jim, a union secetary and his wife Clare are struggling to make their marriage work. When Red, a radical friend from university days returns to sort out his life, questions arise as to Red's real intentions. Is he trying to rekindle past passions with Clare or rekindle the fervour of youth?

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1st Produced:
Cremorne Theatre, South Brisbane, QLD    03 Oct 1996

Organisations:
Queensland Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/28919

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It's M.A.D.

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
60 Waterworks Road, Red Hill, QLD    25 Jul 1981

Organisations:
Popular Theatre Troupe

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95066

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Mayne Inheritance, The

Mayne Inheritance, The
A grisly murder, inherited madness, and a family in ruins& Patrick Mayne was a poor Irishman who emigrated to Australia in the first half of the twentieth century. Settling in Brisbane, he built his fortune as a butcher, landowner, and town councillor, and left an extraordinary legacy: a deathbed confession of murder that had a profound impact on the lives of his wife, his children and the colonial society he helped to build. Inspired by the book The Mayne Inheritance by Rosamond Siemon, Errol O'Neill has crafted a taught psychological thriller that reverberates through several generations of the Mayne family and the society they generously supported.

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1st Produced:
Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove, QLD    11 May 2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playlab Press 2004   908 156812

Music:
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Genre:
play 2.5 hours

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/60587

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On the Whipping Side

On the Whipping Side
When landowner Frederick Fairbairn asks the shearer's - including old hand Mick Keegan and the more youthful Frank Connolly - to pay for their own equipment and take a pay cut, the ripples begin to spread ... On the Whipping Side chronicles the drama and politics of the 1891 Queensland Shearer's Strike and challenges audiences to consider issues of worker's rights, fair representation, and the employee-employer relationship. Squatters, shearers, unionists, journalists, business owners, politicians, their families - all are represented in Errol O'Neill's sweeping epic. On the Whipping Side offers audiences insight into the impacts and a legacy of Australia's early labour movement and, in so doing, gives context to Australia's contemporary industrial landscape.

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1st Produced:
Pilbeam Theatre, Rockhampton, QLD    16 Aug 1991

Organisations:
Royal Queensland Theatre Company

1st Published:
Playlab Press   0 908 156 413

Music:
-

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Genre:
play 2.5 hours

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  with doubling

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/31798

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Out Of Work, Out Of Mind

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Errol O'Neill And Popular theatre Troupe

1st Produced:
Relaxation Block, St Lucia, QLD    10 Oct 1980

Organisations:
Popular Theatre Troupe

1st Published:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95072

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Popular Front

Synopsis:
Set in the highly conservative Queensland, Australia, depicts the trials and tribulations of the labour movement between 1930 and 1950

Notes:
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1st Produced:
La Boite Theatre, Milton, QLD    02 Apr 1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playlab Press, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/102673

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Red Soil White Sugar

Synopsis:
play about the 1911 sugar strike, set in Childers

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Childers    -

Organisations:
Creative Regions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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