Yackandandah Playscripts Series 8 series - publisher   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Yackandandah Playscripts Series 8
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y separately published work icon Here Under Heaven Mona Brand , 1947 Z511842 1947 single work drama
— Appears in: Here Under Heaven : Three Plays 1969; Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999; (p. 143-208)
Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989
y separately published work icon Red, White and Boogie Don Battye , Peter Pinne , Peter Pinne (composer), 1973 Z482146 1973 single work musical theatre

Billed as 'a new musical of the 40s,' Red White and Boogie is a substantially re-written adaptation of Battye and Pinne's 1968 musical, It Happened in Tanjablanca.

Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989
y separately published work icon Lawson Oriel Gray , 1943 12005275 1943 single work drama
— Appears in: Australian One-Act Plays. Book Two 1962; (p. 7-22) One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools : Book Two 1962; (p. 36-50)

Lawson is Oriel Gray's first full-length play, and is based on the stories of Henry Lawson. These stories include 'Past Carin', 'At Dead Dingo', 'Arvie Aspinall’s Alarm Clock','‘The Man Who Forgot', 'Pretty Girl in the Army', 'Water them Geraniums' and 'Steelman’s Pupil'.

The narrative begins with Wilson, Macquarie and Lawson yarning round a campfire beside a drover’s track. Lawson is the group’s chief storyteller. As each story materialises, the fire and the figures around it fade out and a spotlight thrown on the opposite side of the stage illuminates each new set of characters.


Characters 

Act 1 Scene 1


THE BALLAD SINGER

JOE WILSON 

MACQUARIE

LAWSON 

BOBBY 

MITCHELL 

ORACLE

CONSTABLE 

SCOTTY 

THE LITTLE MAN 

SMITH 

BOSS 

SERVANT GIRL 

MRS. ASPINALL 

AGENT 

BILLY 

CHINNY

DRUNK 

MARGE 

BILL 

JIM


ACT 2 SCENE 1 


GENT 1 

GENT 2 

STEELMAN 

MARY WILSON 

DORIE SPICER 

MRS. SPICER 

FLOWER GIRL

JACK MOONLIGHT 

BOYS

THE ARMY

OFFICER 

LASSIES 

HANNAH

MATRON 

RATTY WOMAN

CAPTAIN

Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989
y separately published work icon Eliot Loves Diana Andrew Dal-Bosco , Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989 Z229563 1985 single work drama children's Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989
y separately published work icon Definitely Not the Last : A Rock'n'Roll Fable John Romeril , Z333123 1985 single work musical theatre Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989
y separately published work icon Duets : Two Plays Jack Hibberd , Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989 Z859782 1989 selected work drama Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989
y separately published work icon The Ballad of Angel's Alley : A Pocket Opera Jeff Underhill , Bruce George (composer), 1958 Z242790 1958 single work musical theatre

Chamber musical.

Set in Melbourne in the 1890s, The Ballad of Angel's Alley concerns that era's 'push' or larrikin gang wars. The narrative is peopled with thieves, cut-throats and riff-raff, and the action is presented in several locations, including Angel's Alley, the Thieves Kitchen and Melbourne gaol (both inside and outside). The story concerns the rivalry between two street gangs, one led by Tiddler and the other by Bill Fiddler. When Tiddler dies from influenza rather than in battle his gang is shamed, giving its enemy the upper hand. Matters turn back in their favour, however, when Tiddler's daughter, Maria, arrives on the scene and leads them with great success.

The authors have attempted to capture the quality of the old ballad melodramas by writing it in a mock-serious style.

Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1989
y separately published work icon Chidley Alma De Groen , Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1993 Z28016 1976 single work drama Montmorency : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1993

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