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Robert Reid

ROBERT REID

  (1976 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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As Artistic Director of the independent Theatre company Theatre in Decay in Melbourne, Robert's works include All Dressed Up and No-one to Blow,Screaming in America: the Bill Hicks Project, All of Which are American Dreams, A Mile in her Shadow, Sweet Staccato Rising and Empire. His works produced by other companies include Pat Sabatine's Eighth Birthday Party, presented by the Australian Theatre for Young People, the Man Who Had Gout broadcast by 3RRR FM and Portraits of Modern Evilpresented by Black Swan BSX. Robert directed Tyranny by Barry Dickens and This is Set in the Future by Glyn Roberts at La MamA. Robert won the St Martin's Playwright of the year award in 2000 for Pat Sabatine's Eighth Birthday Party. His play Empire was given a special commendation by Melbourne Fringe in 2004. He was given the RE Ross Trust Playwright Development Award for his play A Mile in her Shadow in 2005, which was workshopped at the final ANPC conference. His play Sad Bird Boy and the Scalpel Fingered Girl won both the Best Independent Theatre Company Prize and the Best Overall Performance Prize at Short and Sweet Melbourne 2005. Portraits of Modern Evil was shortlisted for both the Wal Cherry Award and the Griffin Award in 2007 and the New Black was shortlisted for the Kit Denton Award in 2009. Robert was an Affiliate Writer at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2006, an Associate Artist at the Storeroom and is currently a PhD candidate at La Trobe University.

Research:    http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/9187

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         All Dressed Up And No One To Blow         All Of Which Are American Dreams         Bathory         Customers         De Drei Marien am Grabe         Drops In the Ocean         Dumb Things         Eight Days - Descent One         Empire - Descent Four         Eric         Everything WIll Be Okay         Fat Black Pussy Cat, The         Flatfoot Used Facebook, The         Fuel         Garbage         Joy Of Text, The         Kaidan Short Works Project         Kindergarten         Kissing the Ground Goodbye         Knock at Your Door         Labotomist, The         Last Ride, The         Mata Gelap-Descent Five         Mile in Her Shadow, A         Names of Bright Stars         New Black, The         New Scum         Next Years Sluts - Descent Two         Noni Hazelhurst Is Dead         Owl in Spotlight         Pat Sabatine's Eighth Birthday Party         Pixels In the Picture         Portraits Of Modern Evil         Sad Bird Boy And Other Dreams Of the City         Screaming In America: the Bill Hicks Project         September         Skin         Sweet Staccato Rising - Descent Three         Taking Of Ramsey Street, The         Throwbax         Tinman         Well, The         Well, The (Redux)         Workspace         X - Pirates! Puppets! Adventure!         Your Life As A Hole

All Dressed Up And No One To Blow

Synopsis:
A young girl is pursued by a murderous clown. All Dressed up and No-one to Blow is a violent play, and I make no apologies about that. It's a violent world. Theatre in Decay is a writer and actor driven company. What you see onstage is a culmination of the collaborative efforts of writer, cast and crew. Everyone has an input into the work of Theatre in Decay, believing that two heads are better than one and so on ad infinitum. With our Theatre in Decay project we explore all the facets of audience/ actor relation. You are there in that auditorium not simply to sit and watch a show, slipping into a delusory suspension of disbelief

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Munster Terrace, North Melbourne, Vic    25 Sep 2001

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
macabre play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78393

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All Of Which Are American Dreams

Synopsis:
This large-scale collaborative work. . . takes as its central theme the corruption of America. . .. Its most powerful medium is metaphorical, expressed in an acting group that is freakish, violent . . . frightened and frightening.

Notes:
written by Barry Dickins, Ben Ellis,Melissa Reeves, Robert Reid and Stephen Sewell

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, Vic    04 Jul 2003

Organisations:
Theatre in Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/29257

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Bathory

Synopsis:
Countess Erzbet Bathory had over 650 girls murdered so she could bathe in their blood and keep young. the villagers re-enact her last night of freedom before she was walled up alive in her castle. Gameplays: Feast your eyes on Gameplays - theatre in decay takes you the audience to the next level theatre in decay have always been interested in the element of interaction inherent in theatre and the similarity it shares with games. We began exploring game play with Pixels in the Picture and Kindergarten and we now continue this exploration with Bathory . Usually in a play, when the character leaves the stage or the main story, the audience knows that their imaginal life continues, even though they are not privy to it. With Bathory this is not the case.

Notes:
La Mama Explorations Season

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic    10 Jul 2002

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
experimental piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78391

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Customers

Synopsis:
Customers looks at the relationship between two prostitutes, Jerome and Claire. One is dying, the other beginning to coming to terms with a life that is a trap she has built for herself. Set in a world of sleaze and violence, It is a one act play in a Nouveau Guignol Style. The audience of no more than 20 people will be in a bedroom at Hotel BakPak where the performance will occur. In this performance onlookers and performers share the same intimate space, a space rarely violated by "traditional stage".

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hotel Bakpak, Melbourne, Vic    21 Jun 2000

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78400

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De Drei Marien am Grabe

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Seymour Downstairs Theatre, Chippendale, Nsw    11 Feb 2006

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Wildcards Week 2

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78827

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Drops In the Ocean

Synopsis:
Drops in the Ocean ain't experimenting with jack. It's a bit of fun, a little light relief from all the death and horror we usually deal with. As an interesting side note it might be worth mentioning that this is actually a project that began at the end of 1999 while I was still at school. This group and I worked on the show for about three months but just ran out of time to put it on before I graduated. I kind of felt like I wasted three months of everyone's time there and it's been nice to reclaim it. - Robert Reid.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic    03 Jul 2001

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11590

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Dumb Things

Synopsis:
Dumb Things is a tragi-comic three-hander that uses a faux 1930s American Deep South idiom in a post modern story of corporate espionage. Jewish, Apache and Danny are three entry level computer programmers who work for a faceless multinational company. In a desperate bid to make enough money to break free of their dead end careers they break into their building and begin a slow and hilariously befuddled climb to the company server and the 23rd floor.

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Genre:
45 min tragi-comic grunge

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Eight Days - Descent One

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. Eight Days looks at the theft of civil liberty, the transgression of basic human rights. . .. In 1992 Randy Weaver and his family were held siege in their home at Ruby Ridge by the Bureau of Alcohol Trade and Firearms. Randy was accused of dealing in illegal weapons and branded a white supremacist by the media. The events of this siege culminated in the deaths of a US Marshal, Randy Weaver's wife, Vicky and his son Sam. Descent Two: Next Year's Sluts; Descent Three: Sweet Staccato Rising; Descent Four: Empire; Descent Five: Mata Gelap.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic    26 Feb 2004

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65946

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Empire - Descent Four

Synopsis:
Empire is performed in the car. Two actors up front, three audience members in the back. Five casts, each with a different director and a different spin, perform it in five different locations simultaneously. . . Two friends sit in their car, the unconscious body of a young woman lying behind them. Together they are about to make a decision as to whether they will give her over to an angry mob of vigilantes as a sacrificial offering to balance the dead of the Bali bombing and the terrorist attacks on New York.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Intersection Box Office, North Melbourne, Vic    22 Sep 2004

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65920

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Eric

Synopsis:
One man sketch comedy performed by Scott Gooding

Notes:
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008. Written by Scott Brennan, Adam Cass, Emilie Collyer, Anna Den Hartog, Scott Gooding, Dominic Hong Duc Golding, Lally Katz, Michelle Lee, Ben McKenzie, Robert Reid, Glyn Roberts, Robert Rouke and Nic Velissaris

1st Produced:
The Dog Theatre, Footscray, Vic    08 Oct 2008

Organisations:
The Dog Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89334

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Everything WIll Be Okay

Synopsis:
Everything Will Be Okay uses marotte style puppets, object manipulation, diorama and digital sound design in a static performance influenced by flash animation. It utilises found text, sound and image combined with original work in a pastiche of eschatology and the post modern critique of authenticity.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic    23 Sep 2009

Organisations:
Melbourne Fringe Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
puppetry

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95518

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Fat Black Pussy Cat, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Horti Hall Gallery, Melbourne, Vic    07 Jun 2004

Organisations:
Lunchtime Theatre

1st Published:
A mini Melbourne musical set in a war time cabaret hall where all is not as it seems. . .experience lunchtime Theatre with soup, bread and Melbourne's freshest theatre!   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical theatre

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65668

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Flatfoot Used Facebook, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Seymour Downstairs Theatre, Chippendale, Nsw    28 Jan 2008

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Sydney Week 3

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80156

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Fuel

Synopsis:
Fuel is a series of eight monologues for six characters, designed to be played by one actor. Johnno, Fatty, Joey and Toad set out on the highway from Sydney together going to a party in Tuggeranong. theyve got booze and some pills from the local drug dealer Thumper and everything seems set for a good night& except that Johnno cant resist making an unscheduled stop to see his ex-wife, Toads sister, Simone where his temper gets the better of him. A story of testosterone, alcohol and drug-fuelled revenge told from the different perspectives of the people caught up in it. A tour de force for the right performer or a gritty, fast paced ensemble piece, Fuel would suit independent, student or community

Notes:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
90 min grunge Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Garbage

Synopsis:
Garbage is a grungy two-hander set just before dawn on the back of a council waste disposal truck. Two anonymous garbos trade stereotypically empty assertions of chauvinist masculinity and racist nationalism. their casually constructed identities are overturned however, when they discover the body of a young girl, overdosed and crumpled up in one of the garbage bins, and their true natures come out. Short, hard and fast, Garbage would suit independent, student or community theatre production.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
30 min grunge Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Joy Of Text, The

Synopsis:
Literary theory may seem harmless, but mix it with the impish personality of Danny, a precocious high school student, and the result is not deconstruction but sheer devastation. When a certain controversial book falls into his hands, its time to create his own provocative meta-narrative. As his actions send the school into chaos, he learns that, although the author is dead and meaning lacks foundation, the real world has no time for irony. Set against a backdrop of staffroom politics, the Joy of Text is a bitingly intelligent comedy on the nature of satire, the subjectivity of truth and the knife edge of student-teacher relations.

Notes:
reading at lawler Studio 29 Sep 2009

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic    10 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   978-0-9873929-7-8

Music:
-

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Genre:
satire

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/92174

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Kaidan Short Works Project

Synopsis:
Kaidan is Japanese for haunted tales, and this collection of short works is linked by the genre of the ghost story.

Notes:
Kaidan Short Works Project : Jamison / Ghost Gum / The Dog and the People / Constantly at the Airport / One Shallow Breath / Ripe. Written by Emilie Collyer, Ben Ellis, Geire Kami, Lally Katz, Nick parr and robert reid

1st Produced:
The Store Room, North Fitzroy, Vic    04 Dec 2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short experimental plays

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/21524

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Kindergarten

Synopsis:
Four brutal children marching from city to city across a post apocalyptic Europe. A trail of plague ridden dead in their wake. Set in a world of death and decay. It is a one act play in Nouveau Guignol style. performed on the rooftop of Hotel Bakpak, set against the Melbourne skyline. Theatre in decay are investigating a gritty new brand of modern urban horror. they expect their audiences to examine and re-examine what they see and how they are seeing it.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Hotel Bakpak, Melbourne, Vic    05 Oct 2000

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78397

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Kissing the Ground Goodbye

Synopsis:
Lilli is in the house cleaning blood from the walls. In the garden her son Nothing Boy sits covered in blood. An examination of violence in the tradition of the Grand Guignol Theatre of Paris

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon, Act    25 Oct 2001

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/13985

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Knock at Your Door

Synopsis:
A performance spanning two hundred years of shady characters, corrupt unions and underworld dealings. . .Our city's ghosts lead you through a history Melbourne tries to keep hidden.

Notes:
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2002

1st Produced:
Czech House, North Melbourne, Vic    28 Sep 2002

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
site specific

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20341

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Labotomist, The

Synopsis:
One of the plays in this year's Short and Sweet festival which neatly sums up the spirit of the whole competition - anything goes as long as it can be put on stage and is under ten minutes in length

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, Vic    05 Dec 2007

Organisations:
Short & Sweet 2007

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
ten min musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/75273

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Last Ride, The

Synopsis:
Death once again stalks the Belangalo State Forest and this time it sings. . .Ivor Biggun and his brother Ivor Whopper are collecting the tourists. Today death rides in a detailed black combie van and it's only destination is hell. This is the story of one man, his brother, their murderous rampage and the one cop who can track them down.

Notes:
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2002

1st Produced:
The Gooch, Thornbury , Vic    10 Oct 2002

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical farce

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/20386

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Mata Gelap-Descent Five

Synopsis:
In Mata Gelap we follow a young couple, Mickey and Elisheba, through four years of their relationship, set against the back drop of the War on Terror from 9/11 to the date of performance. Morphing puppetry, dance, instillation, movement, circus and music we watch as Mickey and Elisheba battle the seas of their own passions, while in the shadows behind them the forces which shape world history are made manifest.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, St Kilda, Vic    30 Nov 2004

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78388

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Mile in Her Shadow, A

Synopsis:
Depression and self harm. True does not want to die. True cannot wait for her life to be over. Robert Reid, playwright, has suffered from chronic depression and panic disorder for a decade and illustrates just what it is like to live with these conditions. . .The play succeeds at revealing how disorientating and frightening such a life can be, where day-to-day survival is an unlikely triumph.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Store Room, North Fitzroy, Vic    27 Nov 2003

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32981

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Names of Bright Stars

Synopsis:
Maddy is a smart kid, she may be the smartest eleven year old in the world. When she goes missing from a school camp, Tim, her dad, takes his flatmate, their mute friend and his ex-wife out into the night to search for her. An exploration of themes of colonialism and the shifting nature of communication with and without words.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic    07 Nov 2010

Organisations:
La Mama

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play reading

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90132

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New Black, The

Synopsis:
the New Black was prompted by two media events during 2008 - he first being the controversy over the Roslyn Oxley 9 exhibition of artist Bill Hensons work and, the second, the much publicised reaction of local communities to the relocation of convicted serial pedophile Dennis Ferguson. the core argument of the New Black is that the kind of staggering over reaction to the Henson case and the hyperbole and mob like response to the presence of Ferguson are symptomatic of deeper contradictions within our own communal identity that realistically continues the cycle of violence by blunting our understanding of it. these events highlighted deep concerns over the adult conception of childhood innocence and adolescent sexuality that really must be addressed if we are to mature as a healthy and integrated society; that we, as a community, allow our opinion to be shaped by the shrillest voice of complaint, that we are not well educated, thoughtful or curious enough to make our own inquiry but rather choose a broad morality as outlined by agenda driven hacks, is a serious flaw that allows the culture wars to carry on. A convincing argument can be made in the case of child abuse that to demonize to the assailant is to trivialise the assault. the nature of the crime is so much greater if it has been committed by one of our own, because it places on us, as a society, the onus of understanding the crime and even potentially finding in ourselves the capacity for it. the New Black is, before anything else, a satire of modern contemporary Australian culture, exploring the superficial, ego driven and potentially destructive nature of emulating fashionable opinion. the rapid-fire dialogue and biting sense of humor make the New Black an hilarious roller coaster ride through one of the most sensitive and complex issues facing contemporary Australia.

Notes:
A studio production of a new play by Robert Reid -a pitch black satire of the ultra conservative and the ultra hip in the search for the new black

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic    02 Nov 2008

Organisations:
La Mama

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
55 min satire

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/80383

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New Scum

Synopsis:
Stories of a number of down and out young people. Two junkies try out various pills they have found. A teenage girl overdoses and is found in a wheelie bin. Two bored teenagers gouge each other.

Notes:
Melbourne Comedy Festival 2001

1st Produced:
The Empress Hotel, Fitzroy North, Vic    03 Apr 2001

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short plays

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78394

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Next Years Sluts - Descent Two

Synopsis:
Descent Two in 'The Year of Descent Series'. "In Next Years Sluts we see the shock and violence that can occur when our youth are marginalised by the media and failed by the institutions there to protect and nurture them. It examines the trend of extreme violence and murder committed by children, which has risen significantly in recent years."

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Builders Arms Hotel, Fitzroy, Vic    08 Jul 2004

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65751

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Noni Hazelhurst Is Dead

Synopsis:
Going to the Comedy Festival this year? On your way, take a good long look at the heroin addicts and the fourteen year old prostitutes on the streets. See the homeless curled around their bottles, sitting in their own shit. Pretend not to notice the Club X's and brothels. don't go in that pub, the cops are beating up faggots in there. The man sitting next to you goes home and beats his wife then rapes his daughter Someone you know will contract AIDS and you will probably develop the first stages of cancer Start laughing. This world is schizophrenic. Nothing is funny anymore. No

Notes:
Written by Robert Reid And Elliot Summers. Melbourne Comedy Festival 2000

1st Produced:
Mayfields, Fitzroy, Vic    30 Mar 2000

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78401

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Owl in Spotlight

Synopsis:
Alternative puppetry for Halloween, incorporating the shows 'How Dort Taught The House To Behave' and 'A Little Something Before Bedtime'. Eight year old Dort and her family have moved into their dream home but the house is not too happy about it. In fact, it wants them gone and does everything in its power to scare them away. Hideous ghouls and nightmarish monsters emerge from the houses dark shadows but they haven't reckoned with Dort.

Notes:
devised by Robert reid and Sayraphim Lothian

1st Produced:
Carlton Courthouse, Carlton, Vic    20 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Terrible Comfort

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
puppetry

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89665

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Pat Sabatine's Eighth Birthday Party

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of "Reclaim the Stage

1st Produced:
Atyp Studio, Walsh Bay, Nsw    09 Oct 2001

Organisations:
Australian Theatre For Young People

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/12600

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Pixels In the Picture

Synopsis:
What do we do with those amongst us who do not fit in?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Trobe University Theatre, Bundoora, Vic    1998

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96722

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Portraits Of Modern Evil

Synopsis:
In the winter of 1942, Melbourne's shadowy streets were the scene of three brutal stranglings by the elusive Brown-Out Strangler. these killings took place as World War II wore on to its bloody climax and as Melbourne was invaded by its allies: an army of hard-drinking American soldiers living loudly and lewdly. Portraits of Modern Evil imagines what might have happened if two men on whom the war left an indelible mark had crossed paths: Albert Tucker, one of Australias greatest modern painters, and Eddie Leonski, better known as Australias first serial killer. Filled with haunting images, this is a surreal and frightening tale.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
90 min Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Sad Bird Boy And Other Dreams Of the City

Synopsis:
This is the tragic story of Sad Bird Boy and the only girl he ever loved, Scalpel-Fingered Girl. It's told in mime, shadow puppetry, music and narration. A fairy tale of modern alienation. The story of two freaks who find each other too late.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Blackbox , Melbourne, Vic    07 Dec 2005

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay. Short & Sweet Top 30 Week 3

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78387

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Screaming In America: the Bill Hicks Project

Synopsis:
To escape her life Alice sets up a website in the name of the dead comedian Bill Hicks - pretending to be his ghost

Notes:
2002 Melbourne Comedy Festival

1st Produced:
The Store Room, North Fitzroy, Vic    27 Mar 2002

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
multimedia black comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/15610

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September

Synopsis:
What are we being taught to think? Who are you so afraid of? Who could possibly be that much of a threat? Who could possibly consider us that important? No one. So what is this really about? September 11 2001. A chorus of voices across time and space search for reasons and explanations, definitions and solutions. September dares to expose the real consequences of history. It asks questions rather than provides answers. But most importantly it dares to hope. Four years on we have enough distance to feel the reverberations of the world's truama.

Notes:
part of "In The raw"

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Darlinghurst Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/68175

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Skin

Synopsis:
Punch is now a sleazy sex kitten and Judy a psychotic child

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Sweet Staccato Rising - Descent Three

Synopsis:
In Sweet Staccato Rising we meet Gunner and Slit-Fish, two teenagers struggling to survive on the poverty line. In their world there's nothing to do and nothing matters. Gunners Father is dead and Gunner went to high school with his mother's new boyfriend, whilst Slit-Fish's family just doesn't care. Sweet Staccato Rising is a stark representation of the emptiness of life for these kids. Low wages, unemployment, the erosion of public education and health care together with rampant materialism have created a generation who feel they live in a world not made for them.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Store Room, North Fitzroy, Vic    04 Aug 2004

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
http://australianplays.org/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
70 min Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65815

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Taking Of Ramsey Street, The

Synopsis:
Fisher dumps boyfriend Gunnar in favour of surfer Aiden. Gunnar turns to the mob to help with his revenge

Notes:
The first workshop production of a new musical inspired by the script Reichstagg 3131, commissioned by St Martins Youth Arts Centre in 2005

1st Produced:
Lithuanian Club, North Melbourne, Vic    29 Sep 2006

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay. 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black musical comedy. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/76554

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Throwbax

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Originally performed As part of "All Of Which Are American Dreams"

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Tinman

Synopsis:
a devised work exploring broken relationships through fractured narrative.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bar Open, Fitzroy, Vic    28 Jan 2000

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78402

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Well, The

Synopsis:
When the earth's magnetic poles flip and the planet falls out of orbit, life on the ground gets colder and crazier. Long extinct civilizations turn up in the drive through, ex-girlfriends turn into crude oil and the end of the universe is a giant super-charged cloud of candy floss.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  10            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Well, The (Redux)

Synopsis:
When The Angel of the New collides with the earth Montezuma leads the last of his people on a thousand year journey into the suburbs beyond North Fitzroy. A new angel must rise. A king must fall. But Gareth'll find a way to screw it all up though, right? A re-imagining of last year's sold out La Mama/MUST show, The Well.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Workspace

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Devised by Elliot Summers, Robert Reid & Verity Charlton. Written by Robert Reid

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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X - Pirates! Puppets! Adventure!

Synopsis:
The most famous pirate in the world, Honoria Whitelace has abandoned the swashbuckling life and spends her days at the bottom of a bottle of rum. But she can?t escape her past as her life long enemy Captain Steakheart returns to search out the hidden treasure they lost long ago.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Lithuanian Club, North Melbourne, Vic    23 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Terrible Comfort

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
TYA puppetry

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/95519

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Your Life As A Hole

Synopsis:
Artist Francis Bacon ponders how to rate your life

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Theatre In Decay

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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