You would have to wonder why a Rhodes Scholar, a VC winner and a Commissioner of Police named his son Frank E. R. Stein by way of a ha-ha 'monstrous joke'... or why he cackled d...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Bill Reed.
'... the Theatre of the Absurd and the Theatre of Cruelty are even more pervasively embodied in the plays of Alexander Buzo, Thomas Keneally and Bill Reed. In Buzo's case it is...
'Don't let them cut me up Bury me behind the mountains 'Fear, violence and race prejudice are themes with which we are all sadly familiar. Bill Reed's three plays-on-a-theme, ba...
'Cass Butcher Bunting' begins with an explosion and a cave in down a mine shaft. Three miners are trapped there; Cass, the local golden boy, Butcher, the mentally-heavy, stay-at...
MR Siggie Morrison with His Comb and Paper
Bill Reed · ISBN 9780994322760
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
Blurb (Act I) PARSONS: I'm beginning to feel what his friends must have gone through when they were really seeing him off. The longer they wait, the more improbably it is that t...
Living on Mars: Six Other Plays
Bill Reed · ISBN 9780994322784
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti nidottu
A harvesting of six full-length plays by Bill Reed. Unlike most of his other plays, none of these works here have been published in print by leading Australian book publishers o...
Living in Black Holes: Five Plays
Bill Reed · ISBN 9780994531100
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti nidottu
LIVING IN BLACK HOLES is a first-time collection of five of Bill Reed's most popular and/or performed plays. The works collected here are: Mr Siggie Morrison with his Comb and P...
An ensemble of actors who are about to start rehearsing a play about the Moree race riots visit Endeavour Lane in Moree to get a feel of the lie of the land. This is where the y...
Seven years after King Billy's death, Truganinni stood alone, arguably the most important living relic of her Tasmanian race. She would walk the streets of Hobart Town, resembli...
Dorothy is married to a south Indian surgeon who has been shot in a gang-related murder in Melbourne. She knows nothing about what's behind this but she feels obliged to travel...
Stranded in his Sydney flat, the journalist John Rinner tries to explain his Dad-dud existence to his daughter by telephone. This is not easy since he hasn't seen her in 18 year...
Henry had one good eye until the surgeon lost even that one's lens down some drain. He had a wife he could call his own until she started to shack up very noisily with some youn...
He hadn't told his son he was adopted, nor that his son had a twin sister who hadn't been handed over with him when they travelled from Melbourne to India all that time ago to p...
Bill and Billy are having marital problems but these pall when compared to the problems they have to face from their next door neighbour. If that wasn't enough, there is the gen...
Just Out of Your Ground: Or, the Floundering of W.A.
Bill Reed · ISBN 9780995395763
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti nidottu
This is a rollicking play about one of the founding and/or foundling fathers of Western Australia... Thomas Peel, first cousin of the then British Prime Minister. He was the lea...
Hotel of Strangers: Three Novellas
Bill Reed · ISBN 9781070189031
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
"You've missed the point... Men like me have to do what we do, which is to poke and prod at the lazy amongst us. It is in our nature to be compelled to take our shots. If what h...
"Locked deep into the snows of anguish, every searing pain that sends screams from the depths of your bowels up through the startling doubts and stark surprise, like a flash and...