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Jill Shearer

JILL SHEARER  (1936 - )

 Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    Playlab Press, Australia  


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

 Along The Road To         Boat, The         But I Won't Wear White         Catherine         Computer Man, The         Comrade         Echoes         Family, The         Foreman, The         Kite, The         Nocturne         Pickin' Thursday         Release Lavinia Stannard         Shimada         Ships That Pass         Stephen         Trouble with Gillian, The         Who The Hell Needs Whipbirds?         Woman Like That, A

Along The Road To

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Play One Act

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Male:  10            Female:  -            Other:  -

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

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Boat, The

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1st Produced:
Brisbane    1977

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in "Can't You Hear Me Talking to You?", University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1978   -

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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But I Won't Wear White

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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

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Catherine

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Goulburn, New South Wales    1978

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Edward Arnold, Melbourne, 1977   -

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Genre:
Full-Length 100 mins Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Computer Man, The

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Genre:
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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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

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Comrade

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Brisbane    1987

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Playlab Press, Ashgrove, 1987   -

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Echoes

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in "Echoes and Other Plays", Playlab Press, Ashgrove, 1980   -

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Family, The

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Public corruption is exposed in all the self-protective clannishness of institutions.

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Currency Press, Sydney,    -

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Genre:
2 Act 65 mins Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Foreman, The

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About the pressures upon an Aboriginal family living in a white community.

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1st Produced:
Brisbane    1976

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1st Published:
Woollahra, N.S.W : Currency Press, 1977.   0868190128

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Kite, The

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Brisbane    1977

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in "Echoes and Other Plays", Playlab Press, Ashgrove, 1980   -

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Nocturne

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1st Produced:
Brisbane    1977

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1st Published:
in "Echoes and Other Plays", Playlab Press, Ashgrove, 1980   -

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Pickin' Thursday

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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

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Release Lavinia Stannard

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Brisbane    1980

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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

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Shimada

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Problems at the factory when a Japanese businessman takes over evoking echoes of the war.

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1st Produced:
Melbourne    1987

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Currency Press, Sydney, 1989   -

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Genre:
Full length 110 mins

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Ships That Pass

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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

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Stephen

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by Flora McKay

1st Produced:
Brisbane    1980

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in "Echoes and Other Plays", Playlab Press, Ashgrove, 1980   -

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Trouble with Gillian, The

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Brisbane    1974

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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

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Who The Hell Needs Whipbirds?

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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

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Woman Like That, A

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1st Produced:
Brisbane    1986

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>, 1984

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