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| 24 |
Author |
Bailey, Bert |
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Title |
On Our Selection |
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Date |
1912 and after (evolved in production; several extant
versions) |
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Length |
Four Acts |
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Setting |
I Exterior of the Rudd family's home, "Single-Top".
II A Room in Dad's house.
III.i Exterior of Dave's hut, "Lillville".
III.ii Exterior of Dad's new house at Saddletop.
IV The interior of the barn on Dad's selection at
Saddletop. |
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Characters |
1. JOSEPH MURTAGH RUDD ("DAD")
2. DAVE RUDD, his son
3. JOE RUDD, Dave's brother
4. MALONEY
5. SANDY
6. REVEREND McPHERSON
7. JOHN CAREY
8. JIM CAREY, John's son
9. CRANKY JACK
10. MRS RUDD ('MUM')
11. SARAH, her daughter
12. KATE, her daughter
13. UNCLE RUDD
14. LILY WHITE, later Dave's wife
15. MRS WHITE, Lily's mother
16. BILLY BEARUP, in love with Sarah
17. BAILIFF
18. TROOPER |
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Cast | 1. Bert Bailey
2. Fred McDonald
3. Arthur Bertram
4. Edmund Duggan
5. Guy Hastings
6. Alfred Harford
7. George Kensington
8. George Treloar
9. Jack P. Lennon
10. Miss Alfreda Bevan
11. Miss Laura Roberts
12. Miss Mary Marlowe
13. Willie Driscoll
14. Miss Lilias Adesen
15. Miss Queenie Sefton
16. Alfred Harford
17. Arthur Joyce
18. Sam Ellerton
Note that the Characters of the Bailiff and the Trooper
are omitted from the text of the play, although included
in the first production. |
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Subject(s) |
Bush Life; Drought; Family Relations |
| |
Published |
Currency Press, Sydney, 1984. |
| |
Held in
MS/TS | See Helen Musa's essay "Who Wrote The Play?" in the
Currency Press edition (1984) for details of Manuscripts
A, B, C and other versions. ANL (MS 6141 series 2
folder 43-45) Manuscript A, Bailey's handwritten drafts
and Manuscript C.
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| 25 |
Author |
Bedford, Eric |
| |
Title |
Pendulum,
The |
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Date |
1932 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Four Scenes |
| |
Setting |
I Stanworth's library and study. A summer evening in 1931.
II
The same. A winter evening six months later
III.i The same.
A summer afternoon six months later.
III.ii The same. That evening. |
| |
Characters |
RICHARD
STANWORTH
MARGARET STANWORTH
DR PAUL RENAULT
JEFFREY DALE
MARTHA
DALE
OLETTE
LIONEL
SIR JOHN BLAYDON
YOUNG BLAYDON
MANSERVANT |
| |
Subject(s) |
Science |
| |
Published |
Australasian
Press Agency, Sydney, 1932. |
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| 26 |
Author |
Bedford, Ruth |
| |
Title |
Fear |
| |
Date |
1930 |
| |
Length |
One Act |
| |
Setting |
The
living room of a lonely cottage on a moor. At night. |
| |
Characters |
A HUSBAND
A WIFE |
| |
Subject(s) |
Verse
Drama |
| |
Published |
The
Author, Sydney, 1930. |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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| 27 |
Author |
Bedford,
Ruth |
| |
Title |
Murder
Next Door |
| |
Date |
1930 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts |
| |
Setting |
I
Mrs Fanning's House. The present.
II The same.
III The same. |
| |
Characters |
BARBARA
LAYTON, Mrs Fanning's niece
HETTY
MRS FANNING
OLIVER BLUNT,
Mrs Fanning's son
GREGSON, the detective
MATTHEW CALDWELL, Mrs
Fannings's uncle
BETTY CHESTER, another niece of Mrs Fanning |
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Subject(s) |
Murder |
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Held in MS/TS |
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| 28 |
Author |
Bedford, Ruth |
| |
Title |
Postman's
Knock (Original Title: The Legacy) |
| |
Date |
1930
ca |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
The
living-room of the Parkers' small house in a Sydney suburb. |
| |
Characters |
MR PARKER
MRS PARKER
JIM, their son
SHIRLEY DALTON
UNCLE SOL
BAKER
THE MATRON |
| |
Subject(s) |
Domestic
Life; Money; Social Status |
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Held in MS/TS |
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| 29 |
Author |
Beeby,
George S. |
| |
Title |
Banner,
The |
| |
Date |
1923 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Five Scenes |
| |
Setting |
I. The publishing office of the Boondi Banner.
II.i The drawing
room of the Crosslands' homestead. A week later.
II.ii The same.
Two nights later.
III.i A parlor of the Commercial Hotel, Boondi.
Five days later.
III.ii The publishing office of the Boondi
Banner. |
| |
Characters |
MICHAEL
RICE, Mayor of Boondi
JOHN PENNY, Proprietor of the Boondi Banner
MARGARET PENNY ("PEG"), his daughter
JAMES PENNY, his son (aged
16)
ALFRED MARTIN ("MARTY"), a compositor
PHINEAS BOOTY, M.P.
REV. A. CORNFORD, a Methodist clergyman
ANDREW DUNCAN, President
of the Boondi Shire Council
KENNETH SMITH, farmer and Shire
Councillor
PERCIVAL WHITCOMB ("GOLLY"), a jackeroo employed
on Crosslands' Station
GEORGE CROSSLAND, a sheep station owner
MISS CROSSLAND, his daughter
LADY BEAMISH, an aunt of Golly's
DIANA WHITCOMB, her niece |
| |
Subject(s) |
Bush
Life; Newspapers; Work and Business |
| |
Published |
Concerning
Ordinary People: Six Plays, Gordon and Gotch, Sydney, 1923. |
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| 30 |
Author |
Beeby,
George S. |
| |
Title |
Dregs |
| |
Date |
1923 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Seven Scenes |
| |
Setting |
I.i The Board-room of Bamfords Ltd. 1915.
I.ii The same. Three
months later.
II.i The Library of John Bamford's London home.
Twelve months later.
II.ii A dugout in France. Three months
later.
II.iii A corner of No Man's Land. The same night.
III.i
A private room in the "Blue Bird" Cafe. Three months after the
War.
III.ii The Library of Sir John Bamford's London house.
The same day. |
| |
Characters |
JOHN
BAMFORD, a manufacturing chemist and Mayor of Wingham, later
Sir John Bamford
MARGARET BAMFORD, his sister and Acting-Mayoress
of Wingham
JAMES and GEOFFREY BAMFORD, his sons
DOROTHY BAMFORD,
his daughter
AUDREY BAMFORD, wife of James Bamford
ALDERMAN
PYE
CANON DEBENHAM
GEORGE PURDY, a workman
COLONEL MARSH, LIEUTENANT
BROOKLEIGH, MAJOR LEE, LIEUTENANT COLLINS, PTE. SMITH, British
soldiers in France
ANTHONY ANTIL, a director of Bamford's Ltd
COLONEL HEIGHWAY, of the War Office (On Secret Service)
TOWNSPEOPLE
OF WINGHAM, etc. |
| |
Subject(s) |
Family Relations; Money; Science; War; World War I |
| |
Published |
Concerning Ordinary People: Six Plays, Gordon and Gotch, Sydney,
1923. |
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| 31 |
Author |
Beeby,
George S. |
| |
Title |
In
Quest of Pan |
| |
Date |
1924 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
Around
a camp fire in a remote forested ravine in Australia. |
| |
Characters |
THE MASTER
THE FIRST APOSTLE
THE MAJOR POET
SUNDRY MINOR POETS
THE MAJOR POETESS
SUNDRY MINOR POETESSES
PAN
SATYRS, FAUNS,
NYMPHS, BACCHANALS, MAENADS, CENTAURS, etc. |
| |
Subject(s) |
Art
and Artists; Fantasy; Lindsay, Norman; Verse Drama; Writers
and Writing |
| |
Published |
Sydney,
Tyrrells Limited, 1924, subtitled "Being a narrative...of certain
Hyperboreans in search of the Ultimate Form of Art Expression." |
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| 32 |
Author |
Beeby,
George S. |
| |
Title |
One
Touch O' Nature |
| |
Date |
1923 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
The
combined dining-room, kitchen, bath and laundry of the house
of the coal miner James Adams. |
| |
Characters |
JAMES
ADAMS, a coal miner
MARTHA ADAMS, his wife
JAMIE, their son
JOHNNIE COLEMAN, a coal miner
GEORDIE WATKIN, a coal miner
SUSAN
WATKIN, his wife
PARSON FENWICK, a Baptist clergyman |
| |
Subject(s) |
Trade
Unionism; Work and Business |
| |
Published |
Concerning
Ordinary People: Six Plays, Gordon and Gotch, Sydney, 1923. |
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| 33 |
Author |
Beeby,
George S. |
| |
Title |
Point
O' View, The |
| |
Date |
1923 |
| |
Length |
Four
Acts |
| |
Setting |
I
The living room of John Davidson's house.
II A sitting room
at "Marsland".
III The Central Criminal Court, Melbourne.
IV
The same as Act I. |
| |
Characters |
JOHN
DAVIDSON, boot machinist
MARTHA DAVIDSON, his wife
EVA DAVIDSON,
his daughter
JAMES DAVIDSON, his son
ALBERT DAVIDSON, his son
aged 12
VICTORIA MAY DAVIDSON, his daughter aged 14
MRS BARNES,
a next door neighbour
ANDREW THOMPSON, Pres. of the Boot Operatives'
Union
GUS STONE, Secretary of the Boot Operatives' Union
JULIUS
MARSLAND, a wealthy boot-manufacturer
GERTRUDE MARSLAND, his
wife
JOAN MARSLAND, his daughter
TED MARSLAND, his son
JEREMIAH
JACKSON, a wealthy boot-manufacturer
DOROTHY JACKSON, his daughter
ARCHDEACON SMYTH, an Anglican clergyman
MR JUSTICE HOLWEY
J.
HALSTON, K.C., a Crown Prosecutor
BRUCE MIDDLETON, K.C., a barrister
JUNIOR BARRISTERS, A SHERIFF'S OFFICER, TWO POLICE OFFICERS,
JURYMEN, etc. |
| |
Subject(s) |
Law and Justice; Trade Unionism; Work and Business |
| |
Published |
Concerning
Ordinary People: Six Plays, Gordon and Gotch, Sydney, 1923. |
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| 34 |
Author |
Beeby,
George S. |
| |
Title |
Potter
and Clay |
| |
Date |
1923 |
| |
Length |
Two
Episodes |
| |
Setting |
I
The sitting room of John Ashbourne's apartment, one of three
converted flats.
II The same. |
| |
Characters |
JOHN ASHBOURNE, a bachelor, Professor of Mathematics
MARTHA
GARSIDE, an old maid
MRS BLAND, a housekeeper |
| |
Subject(s) |
Marriage |
| |
Published |
Concerning
Ordinary People: Six Plays, Gordon and Gotch, Sydney, 1923. |
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| 35 |
Author |
Beeby,
George S. |
| |
Title |
Still
Waters (a.k.a. Five Nights in 'Frisco) |
| |
Date |
1923 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Six Scenes |
| |
Setting |
I.i
The dining room of Paul Conway's home at Roseville .
I.ii The
same.
II.i "The Cave", a San Francisco cafe.
II.ii A room in
a private hospital in San Francisco.
III.i The same as Act I.
III.ii The same. |
| |
Characters |
PAUL
CONWAY, a solicitor's accountant
ESTHER CONWAY, his wife
CORNELIUS
CONWAY, his son (a medical student)
JULIA and LETITIA CONWAY,
his daughters
DR CAMMIDGE, a suburban physician
MARY, a housemaid
JANE JONES, of San Francisco
DR AYLWARD, an English physician
CONNIE BRIGHT, LOU ADAMS, PETROVSKI, LUDO, ARISTO, CLAUDIA,
and OTHERS, habitues of "The Cave"
NURSE COLLINS, of San Francisco
MAY ASHLEY, PAUL DIBLEY and NORMAN THWAITE, members of the Roseville
Literary Circle
WAITERS, POLICE OFFICERS, etc. |
| |
Subject(s) |
Art
and Artists; Theatre Life; Writers and Writing |
| |
Published |
Concerning
Ordinary People: Six Plays, Gordon and Gotch, Sydney, 1923. |
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| 36 |
Author |
Bell,
Harold G. |
| |
Title |
Died
of Wounds |
| |
Date |
1938 |
| |
Length |
One
Act |
| |
Setting |
A
living room in John Sturdee's house. About 8.00 p.m. |
| |
Characters |
JOHN
STURDEE, Master grocer
MARY STURDEE, his wife
LENNY, their eight years old son
DAVID STURDEE, John Sturdee's brother |
| |
Subject(s) |
Anzac
Legend; Family Relations; Politics and Ideology; Returned Servicemen;
Suicide; War; World War I |
| |
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| 37 |
Author |
Biaggini,
Ernest Gordon |
| |
Title |
Dream
Corner |
| |
Date |
1950 |
| |
Length |
Prologue,Three
Acts, and Epilogue |
| |
Setting |
Prologue:
A Drawing Room. A Red Cross Post behind the Lines.
I.i A room
in Lady Mannaford's Baby Bank.
I.ii The same. Twenty minutes
later.
II The same. Two years later. Epilogue: The same as Prologue.
Later in the evening. |
| |
Characters |
1. PAUL FRY, Red-Cross orderly
2. DR McWHIRR, President W.M.A.
3. DAN JONES
4. JOHN SMITH
5. DYING SOLDIER
6. MRS GIGGLETON
7. MRS BROWN
8. MARY BROWN
9. LADY MANNAFORD, a philanthropist
10. BISHOP OF WOBBLEBURY
11. JOAN SLOW
12. PROFESSOR QUECK,
Director of Baby Bank
13. MRS NEWUN
14. BILL GIGGLETON
15. PRIME
MINISTER
16. G MEN, THE VOICE, NEWSBOYS |
| |
Cast |
1. Thomas Byrne
2. Frank Bailey
3. Colin Lovering
4. Robert
Leach
5. Graham Nance
6. Claudia Mather
7. Rhoda Bone
8. Phyllis
Baker
9. Valerie Peacock
10. Jack Miller
11. Betty Simpson
12.
Joan Bailey
13. Lila Eberhard
14. Norman MacLucas
15. John Rohde
16. Dean Roberts, Kenneth Partington, Raymond Osborn |
| |
Subject(s) |
Fantasy;
Nuclear Threat; Pacifism; Science; War |
| |
Held in MS/TS |
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| 38 |
Author |
Blackett, Harry |
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Title |
Darwin
Calls Us |
| |
Date |
1930 |
| |
Subject(s) |
Bush
Life |
| |
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| 39 |
Author |
Blewett,
Dorothy |
| |
Title |
First Joanna, The: A Play in Three Acts |
| |
Date |
1941 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts: Five Scenes |
| |
Setting |
I The verandah of the Old House at Chateau Deveron, a vineyard
in South Australia. The summer of late 1945.
II.i The drawing
room of Sir Bertram Taverner, Governor of a Women's Gaol in
Tasmania. The autumn of 1837.
II.ii The living room at Chateau
Deveron in 1862.
II.iii The same. October 1885.
III The same.
The evening of the same day as Act I. |
| |
Characters |
THE
SECOND STEPHEN DEVERON
MRS COLLINS
THE SECOND JOANNA DEVERON,
Stephen's wife
HALLEY VAN DRYTEN, U.S. Army Captain
JOCELYN
CUMIN, Stephen's second cousin
MISS EDITHA AND MISS VIOLA DEVERON,
Stephen's twin great aunts (aged 92)
JACKSON, the chauffeur
THE FIRST STEPHEN DEVERON, aged 22, 47, 69
SIR BERTRAM TAVERNER,
Governor of a Women's Gaol
LADY CAROLINE TAVERNER, his wife
MISS BEATRICE TAVERNER, his sister
CAPTAIN (LATER MAJOR) JULES
SMITH, aged 29,54
JOANNA MILLAY (THE FIRST JOANNA), aged 17,
42,64
AUGUSTA DEVERON, aged 20
PHILIP DEVERON, aged 14
THE YOUNG
EDITHA AND VIOLA, aged 10
MRS HATTIE VAN DRUYTEN, Halley's mother
MRS SWINNERTON
COLONEL SWINNERTON |
| |
Subject(s) |
Colonial Period; Family Relations; Pioneers; Social Status |
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Held in MS/TS |
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| 40 |
Author |
Blewett, Dorothy |
| |
Title |
Quiet
Night: A Play in Three Acts |
| |
Date |
1941 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts |
| |
Setting |
I
The service section of one of the wards in the Memorial Wing
of St Agnes' Hospital. The Present.
II The same.
III The same. |
| |
Characters |
1. SISTER MURPHY
2. PROBATIONER
3. SISTER RANKIN
4. NURSE SINCLAIR
5. NURSE SPARROW
6. NURSE WILLIAMS
7. PATSY
8. SMITH
9. ROBERTS
10. RUSSELL KEANE
11. DR. MacREADY
12. LEILA CLAYTON
13. MATRON
14. DR CLAYTON |
| |
Cast |
1.
Netta Thompson
2. Marjorie Jones
3. Carmen Virgoe
4. Mary Fitzgerald
5. Betty Little
6. Nita McLeod
7. Kathleen Morris
8. Joy Blackall
9. Joy Blackall
10. Dudley Pollard
11. Jim White
12. Clarice
Graham
13. Kitty Virgoe
14. William Clarkson |
| |
Subject(s) |
Hospitals |
| |
Published |
Australasian
Publishing Co, Sydney, 1944. Acting edition, Australasian Publishing
Co, 1953. |
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| 41 |
Author |
Boyd,
Susan |
| |
Title |
Heritage |
| |
Date |
1933 |
| |
Length |
One
Act: Two Scenes |
| |
Setting |
I.i
The Library at Bromleigh Hall. England. The present.
I.ii The
same. |
| |
Characters |
SIR
JASPER BROMLEIGH
FRANCES FANCOURT
DONOVAN, a manservant
LADY
ELIZABETH BROMLEIGH
GERALD BROMLEIGH
SIMON BROMLEIGH |
| |
Subject(s) |
Family
Relations; Paranormal and Spiritual |
| |
Held in MS/TS |
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| 42 |
Author |
Boyes, W. Watson |
| |
Title |
First
Fratricide, The |
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Date |
1865 |
| |
Length |
Four
Acts |
| |
Setting |
I.i Near the gate of Eden. Evening.
I.ii The same.
I.iii The
same.
II.i Before Adah's house.
II.ii Cain's work place.
II.iii
In Cain's house.
III.i Near Eden.
III.ii The garden of Cain's
house.
III.iii Wood.
IV.i Near Eden.
IV.ii Where Abel was murdered. |
| |
Characters |
ADAM
CAIN
ABEL
LUCIFER
EVE
ADAH
ZILLAH
TWO ANGELS
FAIRIES |
| |
Subject(s) |
Murder; Mythology; Religion |
| |
Published |
Smithson
Bros., Melbourne, 1921. |
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| 43 |
Author |
Brand,
Mona Alexis |
| |
Title |
Flood
Tide |
| |
Date |
1955 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Seven Scenes |
| |
Setting |
I.i
The downstairs sitting room in the Cooper's two-story home in
the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. One morning towards the
end of the summer of 1955.
I.ii The same. Just after 6.00 pm
the same evening.
II.i The upstairs room in the Cooper's home.
Early the next morning.
II.ii The same. The same night.
II.iii
Two days later, in the morning.
III.i The same as Act I. The
next day.
III.ii The same. Late the same afternoon. |
| |
Characters |
EVELYN COOPER
JOAN ROBERTS
FRANK WYBURN
JIM COOPER
CAROLINE
BARTON
MARGARET WYBURN
HARRY COX
WILL COX
FRED, TINY, LES, STAN,
JOCK, coal miners
BERT
SID
ANOTHER COAL MINER |
| |
Subject(s) |
Bush
Life; Flood |
| |
Held in MS/TS |
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| 44 |
Author |
Brand,
Mona Alexis |
| |
Title |
Here
Under Heaven (a.k.a. Lola) |
| |
Date |
1947 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Four Scenes |
| |
Setting |
The
living room at Mingana, a Queensland sheep station.
I An afternoon
early in March 1942.
II Early the next morning.
III.i Before
dinner that evening.
III.ii After dinner the same night. |
| |
Characters |
RICHARD HAMILTON, son of Amelia Hamilton
REYNOLDS, an overseer
MRS AMELIA HAMILTON
HELEN HAMILTON, aged 14
ROSIE, a servant
girl
JILL RAMSAY
IRIS HAMILTON
LOLA HAMILTON
SHIRLEY BLAIR
MRS
HETTY CARROW |
| |
Subject(s) |
Assimilation; Race Relations |
| |
Published |
Here
Under Heaven: Three Plays by Mona Brand, Wentworth Press, Sydney,1969.
Yackandandah Playscripts, Melbourne, 1989. Also Published in
Russian and possibly in Chinese. |
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Held
in MS/TS |
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| 45 |
Author |
Brand,
Mona Alexis |
| |
Title |
No
Strings Attached |
| |
Date |
1958 |
| |
Length |
Three
Acts: Seven Scenes |
| |
Setting |
I.i
Taikong Airport.
I.ii The living room at the Wrexell's private
suite at the Hotel de Paris in Taibang. Two days later.
II.i
The same. Several days later. About 9.00 p.m.
II.ii The same.
Two days later. In the afternoon and evening.
III.i The same.
A week later. In the afternoon.
III.ii The same. The same day.
About 8.00 p.m.
III.iii Taikong Airport. A week later. |
| |
Characters |
MR DOPPELDANGER, an American tourist
NORMANBY TEMPLETON, an
Englishman
MRS TEMPLETON, his mother
HANK and SHELLEY RICHARDSON,
an American honeymoon couple
TAIKONGESE HOSTESS AT TAIKONG AIRPORT
TAIKONGESE WAITER AT AIRPORT
DELLA WREXALL
ANNE CAROLINE WREXALL
JUDD WREXALL, an American businessman
HARVEY CRANE
A SMALL GROUP
OF PLANE TRAVELLERS
LAN, Taikongese waiter at the Hotel de Paris
ARMAND DESCARTES, a French journalist
SOKRA, a Taikongese wine
merchant
PRINCE SARAPPAKIM "SMITH"
KAPPERKAHM, Prime Minister
of Taikong
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER
AMERICAN PRESS AGENCY CORRESPONDENT
PRINCE SISSAKIM
A SMALL CROWD OF TAIKONGESE OFFICIALS |
| |
Subject(s) |
Politics and Ideology |
| |
Published |
Plays,
Progress Publications, Moscow, 1965. |
| |
Held
in MS/TS |
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| 46 |
Author |
Brand, Mona Alexis |
| |
Title |
Pavement Oasis |
| |
Date |
1958 |
| |
Length |
Three Acts: Four Scenes |
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Setting |
A Sydney milk bar, "The Oasis", not far from Taylor Square.
The Present.
I About six o'clock one evening
II About two weeks
later, about 5 pm
III.i several weeks later, about 3.30 pm
III.ii
About 10 days later, around 8 pm |
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Characters |
JOE FRENCH, milk bar proprietor
JIM, young building worker
CHRIS,
ditto and also Greek migrant
JOY WATSON, milk bar assistant
DARLENE and CAROL, teenagers
SERGEANT BOYCE, policeman
KATHIE
BARTON, aged 15
SPIKE, KEN, STEVE, CHARLIE, HARRY, teenage members
of motorbike club
WALLY HURST, young factory worker
FLIP and
CHERYL, teenagers
MRS RANKIN, voluntary social worker
VAL, JOAN
and LYNETTE, teenagers |
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Subject(s) |
Youth |
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| 47 |
Author |
Brand,
Mona Alexis |
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Title |
Strangers in the Land |
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Date |
1952 |
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Length |
Two
Acts: Four Scenes |
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Setting |
The living room of a Malayan planter's bungalow.
I One afternoon
in early April 1952.
I.ii About midnight the same day.
II.i
The next day, shortly before lunch.
II.ii A week later, towards
evening. |
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Characters |
SENG LEE, the head house boy
CHRISTINE WARREN
JOYCE STREETER
JOHN GIFFORD ("GIFF")
DOUGLAS STREETER
RODERICK HOWARDS
MERVYN
SPENCER
NAN PRICE
BASIL PRICE
DAWN SPENCER |
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Subject(s) |
Assimilation; Race Relations |
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Published |
Two
Plays About Malaya, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1954. Russian
trans. Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1955. Plays, Progress Publications,
Moscow, 1965 [In English]. Chinese, Latvian and Bengali editions.
Here Under Heaven: Three Plays, Wentworth Press, Sydney, 1969. |
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| 48 |
Author |
Bray,
John Jefferson |
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Title |
Papinian: A Tragedy |
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Date |
1955 |
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Length |
One
Act |
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Setting |
Anteroom
in the Imperial Palace in 212 A.D. |
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Characters |
THE
EMPEROR CARACALLA
AEMILIUS PAPINANUS, an eminent jurist and
Praetorian Prefect under the last Emperor, Septimius Severus.
DOMITIUS ULPIANUS AND JULIUS PAULUS, eminent jurists and members
of the late Emperor's Privy Council.
FIRST SLAVE, a Christian
SECOND SLAVE, a Stoic
THIRD SLAVE, a Materialist
A SOLDIER
SOLDIERS,
OFFICIALS, etc.
THE EMPRESS JULIA DOMNA, widow of the late and
mother of the reigning Emperor
MARCIA, Wife to Papinian |
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Subject(s) |
Historical
Events or Characters; Law and Justice;
Murder; Verse Drama |
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Held in MS/TS |
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Campbell Howard Collection. |
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| 49 |
Author |
Brereton,
John Le Gay, Jr (attributed to Garstang, Paul) |
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Title |
So Long Mick |
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Date |
1931 |
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Length |
One
Act |
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Setting |
A
station kitchen. |
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Characters |
1. KATE
2. MICK FORD
3. MRS WILTON
4. JACK FAHEY |
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Cast |
1.
Lali Le Gay Brereton
2. Garry Byrne
3. Marie Boyers
4. Alfred
Race |
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Subject(s) |
Bush Life |
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Published |
Angus
and Robertson, Sydney, 1931. |
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| 50 |
Author |
Brereton,
John Le Gay, Jr |
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Title |
To-morrow |
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Date |
1910 |
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Length |
One
Act |
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Setting |
The
interior of Appleby's cottage in London, about 1592 |
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Characters |
ROBERT
GREENE
APPLEBY
TOM NASH
WILL MONOX
MARY APPLEBY
DOLL GREENE |
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Subject(s) |
torical
Events or Characters; Moral Degeneration;
Verse Drama; Writers and Writing |
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Published |
Angus
and Robertson, Sydney, 1910. |
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| 51 |
Author |
Brereton,
John Le Gay, Jr and Hope, A.D. et al. |
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Title |
Temple
on the Hill, The: A Mask |
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Date |
1928 |
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Length |
One
Act |
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Setting |
The Great Hall of the University of Sydney. |
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Characters |
CLIO, the presenter
POSTHAC, a Student of the Future
WILLIAM
JACKSON, a Student of the Present
ALMA MATER
KNOWLEDGE
WISDOM
THE COLLEGES
THE FACULTIE
CHARACTERS IN THE HISTORIC SCENES
STUDENTS
ATTENDANTS |
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Subject(s) |
Historical
Events or Characters; Mask; Pageant;
Universities; Verse Drama |
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Published |
Australasian
Medical Publishing Co Ltd, Sydney, 1928. |
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| 52 |
Author |
Brodney, Spencer (Leon Brodzky) |
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Title |
Rebel Smith, A Play in Three Acts |
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Date |
1925 |
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Length |
Three
Acts |
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Setting |
The
bar of the Dilligar Hotel, Central Queensland. |
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Characters |
BILL SMITH
TOM CARRAWAY, licensee of the Dilligar Hotel
MRS
CARRAWAY, his wife
GEORGE HARRINGTON
HON. EDGAR BATES, MLA,
a Cabinet Minister
ROBERT OUSELY, Private Secretary to Bates
JOE HERNE |
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Subject(s) |
Politics
and Ideology; Trade Unionism |
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Published |
Siebel,
New York, 1925. |
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Held in MS/TS |
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| 53 |
Author |
Brown, Frank P. |
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Title |
Mate |
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Date |
1923 |
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Length |
One
Act |
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Setting |
Bush shanty near opal field. |
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Characters |
1.
JOE, a disqualified jockey
2. BILL, a shearer
3. CARRIE, a barmaid
4. NED DEVINE, Carrie's husband |
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Cast |
1.
Reg Moyle
2. Leo Burke
3. Ruby May
4. J. O'Connell |
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Subject(s) |
Bush
Life; Mateship |
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Held in MS/TS |
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| 54 |
Author |
Brown,
W. Jethro |
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Title |
Who Knows? |
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Date |
1923 |
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Length |
Four
Acts: Five Scenes |
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Setting |
I The Blue Mountains in New South Wales
II The veranda at Paroomba
Station.
III The living room at Wundary Station.
IV.i Rachel
Holmes' flat overlooking Sydney Harbour. Evening. Six months
later.
IV.ii The same. Next morning. |
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Characters |
HUGH
HOLMES, owner of Paroomba Station
RACHEL HOLMES, his wife
MRS
AINSWORTH, Rachel's mother
WILSON, RYAN and GUNSTONE, station
hands of Paroomba
SALLY, a maid
CYRIL FORDE, owner of Wundary
Station
THOMSON, His friend
ELSIE, housekeeper at Wundary
JONES,
a private detective |
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Subject(s) |
Law and Justice; Marriage; Women's Issues |
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Published |
Hassell
Press, Adelaide, 1923. Printed for private circulation only. |
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| 55 |
Author |
Burke, Alan |
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Title |
Woman
Bites Dog |
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Date |
1944 |
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Length |
Three Acts |
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Setting |
A broadCasting studio, high in a New York radio building I 6.30
p.m. on a November evening.
II The same. About 10.00 a.m. the
next morning.
III The same. Early the same afternoon. |
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Characters |
KAY HUBBARD
CAROL STANLEY
TOM
GARTH
ERNEST GRIFFIN SNR.
ENGINEER
AUDREY MACK
ERNEST GRIFFIN JNR.
ANNOUNCER
MARK SOMERSET |
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Subject(s) |
Radio
life; Women's Issues; Work and Business |