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Lorae Parry

LORAE PARRY

  (1955 - )
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Literary Agent:    Playmarket Inc  

Lorae Parry is a New Zealand playwright who was Writer in Residence at Victoria University in 1988 and was awarded an M.N.Z.M. in 2001 for Contribution to Perfoming Arts in New Zealand.

Research:    https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/256626

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

         Bloomsbury Women and The Wild Colonial Girl         Cracks         Eugenia         Frontwomen         Girls         Kate And Mrs Jones         Ridgetop Raiders         Sex Drive         Strip         Truth About Love, The         Vagabonds
Bloomsbury Women and The Wild Colonial Girl

Bloomsbury Women and The Wild Colonial Girl
Katherine Mansfield's friendship with Virginia Woolf and Ida Baker

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1st Published:
Women's Play Press 2010   

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Genre:
Lesbian historical characters drama

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Cracks

Synopsis:
Set in the suburbs of Sydney, Cracks (Maxine) sings in a sleazy karaoke bar by night and a factory by day, she's wacky, working class and in love with her best friend, and when her sophisticated sister returns from London, after fifteen years, with her filmmaker boyfriend, and a new class identity, the battle begins.

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1st Produced:
Taki Rua, Wellington. New Zealand     1993

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1st Published:
the Women's Play Press, 1994   

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Genre:
comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Eugenia

Eugenia
EUGENIA is set in two time frames: 1916 and the present and tells the extraordinary story of Eugenia Martelli, an Italian immigrant to New Zealand at the beginning of last century, who lives as a man and marries a woman without revealing her true gender.

Notes:
6 Actors play 14 roles And play can be done with An expandable cast. Inspired by the life of Brandon Teena.

1st Produced:
Taki Rua, Wellington. New Zealand     16 Jan 1996

Organisations:
Taki Rua Productions

1st Published:
Victoria University Press, 1996   

Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian drama full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  optional various

Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/28871

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Frontwomen

Frontwomen
the story of a love affair between two women which focuses on the impact their relationship has on their family and friends and on their own lives and the resulting media expose, which forces them to face personal fears and public outrage.

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1st Produced:
Taki Rua, Wellington. New Zealand     1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
the Women's Play Press, 1993   

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Genre:
Lesbian drama full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Girls

Synopsis:
Three women buy their dream house - then discover that there are plans to build on their front garden

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1st Produced:
-     1993

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Kate And Mrs Jones

Synopsis:
a play about throwing caution to the dogs and career and consensus be damned, an amble through a tumultuous month in two working womens' lives, Fran- wife, mother, and nascent Labour MP - is desperate for some media attention to resuscitate her ailing electoral campaign. She gets rathe more than she bargained for from Kate, a glamorous news anchor, also embroiled in her own race for a plum presenter's job. Personal ambition, desire and honesty tussle on the stage.
- Lucy Powell, Time Out London

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1st Produced:
Pacific Playhouse, London     2008

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Genre:
Lesbian drama full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Ridgetop Raiders

Synopsis:
Three women buy a house only to discover unscrupulous property developers have plans for the area around them

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sex Drive

Synopsis:
Three women working in a chicken factory

Notes:
Written by lorae Parry and Pinky Agnew

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Strip

Synopsis:
the lives of three strippers

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1st Produced:
-     1988

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Genre:
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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Truth About Love, The

Synopsis:
Candy Cox and Sandy Sugars give a seminar on all aspects of love

Notes:
Written by lorae Parry and Pinky Agnew

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Vagabonds

Vagabonds
Set against the backdrop of New Zealands' Waikato Land Wars, Charlotte Badger, an escaped convict with a Colorful past meets up with a stranded group of traveling actors in the New Zealand bush and the fun and high Drama begins

Notes:
This play exuberantly explores Aspects of New Zealand's history, with three of the country's real-life historical figures, including first recorded Pakeha woman, convict Charlotte Badger, And Actress Mrs. Foley.

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1st Published:
Victoria University Press, 2001   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  optional 4

Further Reference:
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