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Tony Strachan

TONY STRACHAN

  (1948 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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below is a list of Tony Strachan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Between The Rock And A Hard Place         Eyes of the Whites         Food         Friction         Harlequin Shuffle         Interpretation         Life and Times of George Tudor         Plot,The         Slice         Smiling Prisoner, The         Soak, The         Solution, The         State Of Shock

Between The Rock And A Hard Place

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1st Produced:
ANU Arts Centre, Acton, ACT    10 Sep 1988

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Eyes of the Whites

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Alternative Publishing Co-op 1983   978-0909188818

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Food

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-    1977

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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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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Friction

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Friction combines the power of gestural and physical storytelling with a visceral form of live music. While strongly theatrical it is sprinkled with moments of unsettling comedy. Images are projected onto semitransparent walls to set mood and connect scenes. A gambling factory worker lives with a romantic, while a butcher shares space with a woman who will not leave the apartment. Doors slam, the men compete on garbage night and small-talk is non-existent. But when a strange young woman arrives, she is like a walking challenge to all of them. She seems to have fallen to earth, is curious about simple things and sees a world beyond the boxes they live in. Eventually, at a spontaneous party, all of the burried issues home to the surface in a surprising resolution. Friction is driven by a new music score specifically designed to be appreciated by both hearing and deaf audiences. the latter will be able to experience sonic changes through vibrations, while the former will be afforded earplugs with their free programs, so they can (if they so desire) drop the sonic impact down a notch or two. the score is written, and performed live, by Llew Kiek (Australian World Music Awards Instrumentalist of the Year 1999, producer for such varied artists as Coda, Cafe at the Gat of Salvation, Tensing Tsewan, the Voice Squad and Mara, and a multi-Aria Award nominee).

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scripted by Tony Strachan And Kate Gaul

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Presented by Australian Theatre of the Deaf and Darlinghurst Theatre Company

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Piece

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Harlequin Shuffle

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1st Produced:
Nimrod, Surry Hills,NSW    15 May 1983

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1st Published:
Currency Press 1985   978-0868191270

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Interpretation

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A deaf family. Two sisters try to cope when their parents are killed

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1st Produced:
The Performance Space, Redfern, NSW    20 Nov 2003

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One act

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Life and Times of George Tudor

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1st Produced:
Town Hall, Unley, SA    14 Noc 1985

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Plot,The

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1st Produced:
Grant Street Theatre, Southbank, VIC    23 Nov 1982

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Slice

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Music by Michael Carlos; lyrics and book by Tony Strachan

1st Produced:
Nimrod, Surry Hills,NSW    29 Jul 1981

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Genre:
Musical

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Smiling Prisoner, The

Synopsis:
Does a political prisoner have any power if kept in isolation

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1st Produced:
The Performance Space, Redfern, NSW    17 May 2000

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Soak, The

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1st Produced:
Focus Club, Adelaide, SA    28 Jun 1980

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Solution, The

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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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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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State Of Shock

State Of Shock
Aboriginals shaped and destroyed by their artificially created environments on Queensland reserves.

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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney (1986)   978-0868196190

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