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these scripts are available FREE for
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performance licence for
any of these plays is now
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GEESE is a new dramatic work
involving surrealist
influences. Stylistically, it is
inspired by the writings
and efforts of Antonin Artaud and
current issues
surrounding the way we see the world.
The production feature elements of
Butoh and
Balinese Dance along with Theatre
Of Cruelty.
GEESE asks the question:
Is "belief" really just
delusion? or at best "illusion"?
Derived
from versions of the Faust myth by Christopher Marlowe and Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, Ich
Bin Faust is
set in the time of the Large Hadron Collider. It focuses on a group
of students, of diverse backgrounds and obsessions, who were
initially drawn together to produce a production of Marlowe's Doctor
Faustus . Their
real lives intertwine with the play. One suggests God is dead.
Another believes the devil is alive and well and just waiting for the
advent of the big bang! The limits of belief, knowledge and faith are
explored in the ensuring life and death struggle.
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge's brilliant unfinished poem, Christabel ,
is integrated into a sleek exposition of ambiguous relationship
between a young woman and the most dangerous person in her life. Such
people can herald the destruction or the making of an individual.
This Gothic style play utlizes Coleridges poem expanded into a
framework that blurs dreams and reality. Daemons and Night Walkers
from the forest of desires converge on the house that once protected
the young and innocent Christabel.
Sex&Violets.com is
certainly not for the faint hearted. Its crude and violent treatment
of sexual desire and fantasy is guaranteed to divide audiences. The
extreme sexual rituals enacted by the unconventional couple and their
obsession with Internet sex, makes the play open for adventuous and
exciting theatre. The play has had a number of presentations on three
continents and each one has provoked strong reactions. There are
undertones of La Belle Dame Sans Merci by
John Keats that haunt the setting. 'La Belle Dame sans Merci hath
thee in thrall!'
Sanctimonious is
a rewrite of Sanctimony presented
at The Street Theatre in Canberra in 1996. It is a rare bird; a
surreal depiction of public service in a public service town. There
is no morality and orders are given by the trophy birds on the
shelves of high ranking officers. It is a thriller about a deadly
substance put into the water supply by an eager public servant only
to find that the additive had a devastating effect on one's brain. It
engenders enzymes that digest people's brains. This becomes
euphemistically known as the "affliction". With changing
political and social values as a result, religion is utilized in the
creation of the Department of Heaven. We can safely say and guarantee
that there is nothing like it anywhere. The play will not be to
everyone's taste and its surreal sequences with the Kite Bird require
a very high level of movement from a trained dancer or martial arts expert.
Violine
is
based on the actual war time diaries of Jack Woodward who was
prisoner of war in Klagenfurt, Austria. It also deals with his
journey into dementia some sixty years later. The life shaping events
of one period become re-examined and changed over time. But even in
the hazy world of dementia, the leading character still plays the
violin with consumate ease. Violine is about the struggle for
dignity in a brutal and dirty world. Regardless of circumstances or
outward appearances, there are some for whom such a concept remains
paramount. Violine touches on the same world depicted in
Faure's music. The actor playing the central character MUST be able
to play classical violin at a very high level of expertise.
Shadow
In The Dark is
the stirring up of the forces within the wicker circle. It is the
story of a young woman teacher who is fascinated by a young student
and writes of her sexual fantasies about him in her diary. He finds
it and uses it to establish a hold over her. However, there is
another dimension at play here. Her past mental state is not quite as
it might seem. Late one evening after school when the rest of the
staff have gone home, all her demons from her past visit. And the
outcome is bloody ... There is magic embeded in this work and it
should be produced with great care. When produced in 1995 at The
Canberra Theatre Centre, there were a number of unforeseen and
frightening consequences. Reading it isn't a problem. You're safe !!!
APEis
a rewrite of Brother Apeproduced in 1981 at The PITS
in Canberra and causing near riots and uproar. Twenty of Canberra's
leading theatre "lights" from the invited audience stormed
out of the theatre at interval. After that, it played to nearly sold
out houses in the 180 seat PITS Theatre and bar at The Canberra Rex.
APE deals with the effect of the Ape Of God or the Trickster in
relationships. The casual affair leads to unforeseen consequences.
Ape cannot be killed off or diminished. The bestial nature of sexual
desire and family responsibility meets head on in this collision
course of a play. Producers need to leave a glass of wine or
Champaign out for the Trickster each evening after rehearsal or
performance. Otherwise, who knows what might happen in the real world
of vulnerable relationship and volitile desires ...
Deo
Dorez is
a difficult monologue set in an art gallery. Ideally, the paintings
and / photography on the wall around the audience and central
character should be able to move and come alive. The nude is
gradually distorted into a surreal world of art and life.
Zarathustra's
Rose is
a fictional account of an Iranian woman's affair with an Australian.
As she parts from him for the last time, she opens up about her
mother who was murdered by the Revolutionary Guards on the orders of
Ayatollah Khomeini. When originally produced at The Street Theatre as
part of the Platform Seven evening, it was attacked as racist for
daring to suggest some women in burkahs might not like wearing
covering from head to toe. With more information coming to light
about the plight of women in some Islamic countires, the play was
much better received when included in the Naked Goddess program at
DNA Studios at The Ralph Wilson Theatre in 2006. It is a strong
monologue for an actress seeking a challenge.
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licence for Professional productions is 10% of gross box office with
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audiences and the respective cultures where the work is to be
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