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.
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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
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piece
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Male: 7 Female: 7 Other: -
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Anger's Love
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Political satire musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Blind Giant is Dancing, The
Brutality in the workplace, rage in the streets, seething in the home. The vulnerability of political parties when they've forgotten why they're there. The intellectual torpor of modern Australia. How power corrupts. The Blind Giant is Dancing is an angry and tender depiction of an idealist, Allen Fitzgerald, who becomes so embroiled in a party power struggle that he loses sight of what's at stake. When it premiered in 1983, The Blind Giant is Dancing felt like a sharp slap in the face. Now, in an age of ICAC, Union credit cards, speculative housing bubbles, a pulverised working class and vapid leadership in the 21st century, this Australian classic has lost none of its brute force.
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1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia
1983
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 978-0868194929
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Play/Drama
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Male: 10 Female: 6 Other: -
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Boys, The
Synopsis:
Based on the controversial stage playby Gordon Graham, the Boys is an unflinching analysis of the violence that lurks in Australian society. Returning home from prison, Brett sets about re-establishing control over his wayward brothers as he searches for an act the three brothers can participate in jointly, and thereby violate norms.
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the play of theBoys is Also Available
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Currency Press, Sydney, 1998 -
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Burn Victim
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written with others
1st Produced:
Sydney
1983
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Dreams in an Empty City
Synopsis:
Examines the nature of human corruption against the background of international high finance
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1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia
1986
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Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 -
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Urban Tragedy
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Male: 23 Female: 11 Other: -
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Dust
Synopsis:
A man and his daughter, grappling with grief, guilt and a desire for a better world, search their dreams for one another in the debris of a broken civilisation
Notes:
part of trilogy the "Garden of Fartkhly Delights"
1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia
1993
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 11 Female: 9 Other: -
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Father We Loved On a Beach By the Sea, The
Synopsis:
a powerfully felt study of an ordinary family caught up in the sudden depression of the late 1950s; and of the effects of that experience upon the children
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1st Produced:
Brisbane
1978
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1976 -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 6 Female: 1 Other: -
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Garden of Granddaughters, The
Synopsis:
Max, a world-renowned Australian conductor, returns unexpectedly to Melbourne with his wife Moriley for a family reunion. their three daughters are in various stages of decline, success and reproduction; their granddaughters are full of hope and dreams. Most of life's questions are evaded, avoided and ignored in this compassionate comedy.
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Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 7 Other: -
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Gates of Egypt
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1st Produced:
Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2007
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Hate
Synopsis:
One of Australia's richest men and a political force of the far right believes in a leaner, harder Australia.
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1st Produced:
Sydney
1988
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Currency Press, Sydney, -
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Identity By Helen Demidenko
Synopsis:
an old fashioned revue on the theme of human identity
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1st Produced:
Junction Theatre, Adelaide
1996
Organisations:
Ace Productions
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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In the City Of Grand-Daughters
Synopsis:
Comparisons between the generations
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1st Produced:
Melbourne
1993
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, -
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Male: 2 Female: 7 Other: -
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In The Club
Synopsis:
Four hard edged little tales reflecting the many facets of the Emnerald City.
Notes:
part of Sydney Stories 2: The Blessing / Two Wongs / In the Club / The Way I Was. [1995 Festival of Sydney and Carnivale]
1st Produced:
Wharf 1, Sydney, Nsw
19 Jan 1995
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Sydney Theatre company
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short play
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Isabelle Eberhardt
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1993
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Screenplay
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It Just Stopped
This savage comedy of manners explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell's play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions - what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival?
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1st Produced:
Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, Vic
05 Apr 2006
Organisations:
Malthouse Theatre Summer / Autumn Season 2006
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Comedy
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King Golgrutha
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King Golgrutha - A business titan fights the most important fight of his life - The struggle for his own deformed soul. King Golgrutha (Gutso) is a colossus of consumption. He is the id, the unconscious who wants everything. He has no morality and gets everything immediately. He is in conflict with the material world, with the frustration of other people. But they don't really contain him, he's constantly bursting forth. While the play has the form of a financial drama or comedy, the main thrust of it has something to do with the magnificence of human folly. It is a development from Dreams In an Empty City which was analytical with a strong thread of moral questioning through it. Golgrutha goes beyond that - the evil of the shenanigans is assumed, the details are essentially irrelevant. Gutso has created the world around him and given everybody nicknames- Hunchback, Gloucester, Lady Trollope- they are the goblins of his imagination. The storyline concerns the link between Gutso and the woman Golgrutha. Her name is an invention but it is a corruption of Golgotha. She is Gutso's hill of desolation, his calvary. Golgrutha represents the knowledge of suffering which trails all of us, and if we cared to listen to it, would make us better human beings.
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part of trilogy the "Garden of Fartkhly Delights"
1st Produced:
Adelaide, Australia
1991
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Currency Press, Sydney, -
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Political Satire 100 min
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Male: 9 Female: 7 Other: -
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Miranda
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1st Produced:
Brisbane
1989
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Myth, Propaganda & Disaster In Nazi Germany & Contemporary America
This tough political thriller, based in the Liberal Arts department of New York University, is no play for the timid. But its violent language and extreme brutality, brilliantly choreographed, are essential elements for an enthralling study of a polarised world turned backto-front - a Kafka-esque nightmare of state terrorism condoned by liberty lovers in defence of the Land of the Free.
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Political Thriller
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Male: 5 Female: 4 Other: -
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Nathan the Wise
Synopsis:
It is the tale of a Jewish merchant in Muslim Jerusalem at the time of the Christian CrUSAdes-a tale which makes a remarkable plea for brotherhood. This timeless story of a world clinging to hope during an era of chaos poses the timeliest questions about tolerance and truth. In what is certain to become a holiday tradition, Nathan the Wise invites audiences to believe in reason and in the unlimited power of storytelling to bring good to the world.
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Original Playwright - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1st Produced:
Theatre 80, New York
2002
Organisations:
Pearl Theater Company
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Translation
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Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: -
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Secret Death Of Salvador Dali, The
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe
2002
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Play/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: musician
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Short Circuits
Synopsis:
Seven Australian playwrights' vision of the nation's largest city.
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written by Geoffrey Atherden, Beatrix Christian, Campion Decent, Bill Neidjie, Sam Sejavka, Stephen Sewell, Beth Yahp
1st Produced:
New South Wales, Nsw
04 Jul 1994
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Festival of Sydney
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short play
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Male: 5 Female: 2 Other: -
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Sick Room, The
brings together three generations of a family under the one roof to care for a terminally ill teenager. As she faces impending death, the other family members find themselves confronting their own lives
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Malthouse Theatre
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Currency Press, Sydney, 978-0868195855
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Sisters
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1st Produced:
Melbourne
1991
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Three Furies
Synopsis:
It's just before the Paris retrospective that would anoint the celebrated Anglo-Irish artist Francis Bacon as the greatest figurative painter of the twentieth century. On the eve of the exhibition Bacon's model, muse and lover, George Dyer, commits suicide. An exploration of the sexy, stormy and dangerous relationship between the couple, using Drama, dark poetry and satire.
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1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House
2005
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Play with songs Play with Music
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Traitors
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Set in Russia in 1927 against the background of unrest at the dawn of Stalinism, Traitors charts the triumph of paranoia and betrayal over truth and innocence, as it simultaneously examines conflicts between the personal and the political.
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1st Produced:
Melbourne
1979
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Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Sydney, 1983 -
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Genre:
Historical Drama
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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United States of Nothing, The
Synopsis:
Part satire, part biting political critique, this Katrina-inspired play focuses on a small white family left behind in the rush to leave Louisiana ahead of a hurricane. Set in a Superdome, the play takes an irreverent look at an America knee deep in trouble as it tries to bring democracy to the Arabs when it can't even evacuate hospital patients from a storm. Playwright Sewell peels away layers from initial caricatures to reveal humanity beneath Chip and Jackie and their children, Randy and Ashley.
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1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Sydney
2006
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Play One Act
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Welcome the Bright World
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Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Sydney, -
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Why We Hate You
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Originally performed As part of "All Of Which Are American Dreams"
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Theatre In Decay
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Short play
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