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The Journey Plays (Bryan Nason, 2003)
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Bryan Nason has been creating and producing performance work for more than forty years.
The works in this volume span more than thirty years, from 1970-2002. From the epic . . .
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No Strings Attached (Hillary Beaton, 1994)
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A comedy thriller about sky diving, friendship and revenge where surrealism and reality combine in an hilarious and sometimes poignant way.
The play brings three old . . .
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Challenging the Centre: Two Decades of Political Theatre (ed: Steve Capelin, 1995)
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Challenging the Centre represents the first attempt to capture some of the key artistic endeavors that occurred in Queensland over the period 1974-94.
This best selling . . .
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Popular Front (Errol O'Neill, 1988)
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The final play of a trilogy and the second to be written, Popular Front is a dramatic recreation of 20 years of Queensland history. Sweeping across turbulent times from 1930 to . . .
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Drama for Life: Stories of Adult learning and Empowerment (ed: John O`Toole and Margret Lepp, 2000)
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A resource for people all over the world who are involved in drama and theatre education for adults. This book is full of unique ideas for starting points, basic approaches to work . . .
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Bag O'Marbles (Kathryn Ash, 2002)
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Bag O’ Marbles powerfully evokes the distance Australians have travelled in the past fifty years - from the innocent chauvinism of the 1950s, to the current reality of globalism . . .
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On the Whipping Side (Errol O'Neill, 1991)
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On the Whipping Side is the first play (although the last to be written) in a trilogy dealing with the history of the Queensland labour movement. In these historical plays, O`Neill . . .
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Faces in the Street (Errol O'Neill, 1993)
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Faces in the street is the second play (although first to be written) in a trilogy dealing with the history of the Queensland labour movement. It’s 1912, over 150 000 people call . . .
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Three Queensland One Act Plays for Festivals (Austin, Ian - Mc Kimmie, Jacqueline - Haenke, Helen, 1989)
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Two Men in Buckram (Ian Austin): A thought-provoking study of the humour and despair of two political prisoners.
The Kiss (Jacqueline McKimmie): A funny-scary look at a . . .
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Playlab Collection of Short Works 1994 (Curtis, Allan - Kelly, Ron - McInnis, Don - Nicholls, Tony, 1994)
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A gentle sex comedy, a Gothic mystery, an eccentric satire and a ripping parody of Ibsen... a mixed bag from four plawrights.
Immaculate Conception: Allan Curtis has created a . . .
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Re-Electing Roger (Ken Cotterill, 1989)
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Roger Bingley, a politician more self-centred than a liquer chocolate, is campaigning for a third term as MP. But is his political adviser working for the opposition? How loyal is . . .
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Comedy Tonight: Three Award-Winning One-Acters (Cotterill, Ken - Davis, Stephen - Curtis, Allan, 1989)
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Richard The Third's Revenge (Ken Cotterill): King Richard III of England, much maligned by history, returns to clear his name. An historical comeback of farcical proportions.
A . . .
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Comedy In Flight: Three One-Act Plays (Fraser, Douglas - McManus, Pamela - Woods, Pat, 1991)
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A volume containing three plays:
Flight of the Archaeopteryx (Douglas Fraser): A clever comedy full of imagery of the expectations of society: of a misfit trying to spread its . . .
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Cody Versus Cody (Leonard Radic, 1980)
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An unerring sensitive and honest play about the predicament of what the playwright describes as the lost legions of middle-class, middle-aged Australian women. Anna Cody is . . .
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Down Came a Jumbuck (Ian Austin, 1983)
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An advertising agency in the 1890s is trying to create a national song for a client. Andy, the budding copywriter (nicknamed Banjo) becomes captivated when the results are rejected . . .
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Caroline (Peter N. Pinne and Don Battye, 1981)
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A rollicking musical, set in 19th-century New South Wales and based on the life and times of Caroline Chisholm - the woman on the five dollar note. . . .
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Kidstuff (Rob Galbraith and Steve Wade, 1984)
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A musical for kids. Bruce has been at school for ten years; his parents and sister gain their satisfaction from deliberately upsetting him. Grounded on saturday night, he escapes . . .
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Two Magnificent Melodramas (Nevil Thurgood, 1984)
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The Furtive Fortunes of Fickle Fate: A light-hearted and amusing episode of Goldrush days, liberally interspersed with Music Hall songs of the era and divers diversions of . . .
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For Ladies Only: Five One-Act Plays (Ian Austin, 1988)
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Monday to Friday: A wife hits upon an intriguing method of getting rid of her husband's mistresses.
Private Worlds: When a retired vaudevillean tries to make a comeback to . . .
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Three Warana One-Act Winners (Jones, Heather - Fitzjohn, Eric - Woods, Pat, 1985)
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Anatomy of a Love Affair: A Delicate Operation (Heather Jones): Three aspects of a young woman's psyche and her relationship with her past lover - a fantasy of emotional interplay . . .
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Mr Ugg and the Bionic Budgie (Tony Nicholls, 1986)
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A fast-moving, highly entertaining pantomime in which the forces of Nastiness, led my Mr Ugg, the power behind all things ugly, battle the lovely heroine Alison - the Most . . .
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Man of Steel (Simon Denver and Ian Dorricott, 1988)
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A musical spoof for young and old based on the superhero characters. Devised especially for high school production with large cast school band. . . .
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Tufff.../The Jade Garden (Bille Brown/Arthur Frame, 1990)
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Tufff...: For upper primary and lower secondary grades. The piece is about three primary schoolboys and what they can achieve together through understanding and tolerance.
The . . .
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Echoes And Other Plays (Jill Shearer, 1980)
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Echoes - Stephen - Nocturne - The Kite . . .
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Sex and Other Frustrations (Ian Austin, 1987)
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A three-in-one comedy full of unexpected surprises and deceptions. Characters deceive each other, the audience, and themselves. Each act is self-contained and can work as a . . .
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King Macbee and the Walking Trees (Bruce Clark, 1984)
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An hilarious school musical based upon Shakespeare's Macbeth . . . .
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The Girl In The Lime Green Bikini (Christopher Maver, 2003)
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Who is the girl in the lime green bikini? Why does she sing bass and not soprano? And what is she doing with a gravedigger in the cemetery after midnight?
Outrageously . . .
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Duet - String Trio - Quartet (Jane Bradhurst, 1987)
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The three plays in this book offer strong character parts for women, and in Quartet for men as well. . . .
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The Beekeeper's Boy (John O'Toole, 1986)
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What power can a young person have over his or her destiny? This freewheeling drama explores the early days of Adolf Hitler and his forebears suggesting that the child is, indeed, . . .
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From the 14th Floor You Can See the Harbour Bridge (Barbara Stellmach, 1980)
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A romantic comedy taking place in a Sydney motel overlooking the harbour. Two doctors arrive to attend a medical conference, having agreed to share a room. The hotel management is . . .
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But I'm Still Here (Lorna Bol, 1987)
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The story of a middle-aged woman, conditioned to frustrate ideas of a career and settle for marriage and children. Her own daughters liberated and gone their separate ways, she . . .
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Malice, Menace and Malevolence: 3 Sinister One Act Plays (Dugon, Nora - Fitzjohn, Eric - Fraser, Wiliam, 1984)
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The Waiting Room : A couple of petty criminals live on the edge of life and reality in an old shack. A haunting and powerful play.
Truscott: Two men imprisoned in adjoining . . .
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Theatre Restaurant: 3 Plays (Collings, Paul - Galley, R.L., 1993)
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Adolf's Last Wish: It is Christmas Eve 1944. In Europe there's a bit of a war going on and Adolf Hitler is throwing a little party at his alpine retreat.
Slaughter at Bluebeard . . .
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Noosa One Act Winners Vol 1 (Jones, Heather - Dell'oso, Anna Maria - Austin, Ian - Higgins, Peter, 1993)
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The Inquiry: a retired politician and his wife are happily enjoying the fruits of a successful political career when a reporter claims knowledge of an alleged government . . .
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Noosa One Act Winners Vol 2 (Cato, Nancy - Austin, Ian - Norman, Bronley - Whitehead, Anne C, 1994)
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Travellers Through The Night: It is night in an interstate highway roadhouse cafe. A woman and a man are attracted to each other but their lives are altered irrevocably by an . . .
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Raggedy Anne: A Children's Musical Fantasy (Jan Bates and Jay McKee, 1979)
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The story about the familiar floppy doll has been turned into a delightful children's musical for audiences in the age range 4-12 years old. . . .
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Perfect Murder (Ken Cotterill, 1993)
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Ben Harris is a murder writer on the slide down who is plotting a perfect murder - and this time it's for real. The climax of this full-length comedy-thriller is breathtaking. . . .
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The Bottom of a Birdcage (Helen Haenke, 1978)
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The author describes this play as an anti-thriller , stating that we should not be misled by the elements of mystery and humour in the play into expecting either a thriller or a . . .
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Not Even A Mouse: A Thriller in Three Acts (Barbara Stellmach, 1978)
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The story is about blackmail and murder. The theme is about feelings and emotions which govern us all, for better or for worse. (Barbara Stellmach) . . .
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Five Warana One Act Winners (Krebs, Ron - Dugon, Nora - Shaw, Gordon - Bol, Lorna - McManus, Pamela, 1984)
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We'll Dress Her Like Shirley Temple: In a family full of interpersonal tensions, the daughter finds herself pregnant. Her mother finds a diversion from her boredom and frustration . . .
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The Raja Who Married an Angel (Betty Beath and David Cox, 1979)
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This musical for children is based on a legend which is common in many South-East Asian countries. The authors have adapted the Balinese version of the story of Raja Pala. . . .
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A Christmas Service for Young People (Jennifer Blocksidge, ed., 1979)
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As presented in St. John's Cathedral, Brisbane. . . .
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How Sleep The Brave (Phillip Mann, 1982)
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Based on the actual disappearance of a naval vessel in WWII. Rather than focusing on the explosion itself, the play uses the backdrop of wartime tensions and violent behaviour to . . .
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Treadmill (Lorna Bol, 1977)
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Treadmill was born of the author's childhood memories of a family who lived in a small fishing and tourist resort on the north coast of New South Wales. The characters portray . . .
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My Of-Course Life (Allayialis, Toni, 2004)
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Hysterically funny, tragic and poignant by turns, My Of-Course Life by Toni Allayialis is a touching and courageous story of survival, and a celebration of the enduring nature of . . .
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