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bedpanner · 22 October 2013
NON_COST ROYALTY FREE AUSSIE JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL BACKING TRACK "Scallywag" (1943) by Jack Lumsdaine (1895-1948) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTdaCGcPnm0 See copyright clearance at National Library of…
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Keeping up appearances; a farce in one act (1919) two male, one female One Act Comedy Simple and Spooky with room for slapstick. In their youth, sailor friends Silas and Bill make a death pact on the…
Read more →bedpanner · 5 September 2013
There is a short list of copyright expired pantomimes held in Australian National Library and probably a few in state libraries. Short titles are used. Surviving Australian works of a prolific pantomi…
Read more →bedpanner · 20 August 2013
Full Length Comedy Five Male Seven Female My big fat Greek-Roman statue bought the house down... do you know anybody with concrete figures in their garden? This play had 540 performances in the initia…
Read more →bedpanner · 27 July 2013
One act Two Male One Female Farce You won't find a text script for this piece easily, but I am posting as information. The story could be retold in contemporary setting using email instead of a typewr…
Read more →bedpanner · 7 July 2013
Full length Farce in four acts Seventeen Female, Five Male Fanny is a vaudeville singer whose stardom allows her to mix in fashionable circles. She marries an English nobleman and moves into his castl…
Read more →bedpanner · 1 July 2013
Nine Male Four Female Full Length Farce in three acts Plays enter the public domain in Australia if the author died before 1955. Many playwrights laid to rest before this date were active around the t…
Read more →bedpanner · 29 June 2013
Farcical Comedy full length three act Eight Female, Four male Ambient is better known for a musical smash hit, "Arcadians" (1909) written with Alexander Thompson (died 1948) with music by Lionel Monck…
Read more →bedpanner · 25 June 2013
fourteen male nine female Full length - three act Drama The 1930 film version starring Greta Garbo had minor alterations by a continuity editor. This play was notable for it's London run of 1049 perfo…
Read more →bedpanner · 23 June 2013
Nine male, nine female full length comedy Charles Kein published more than twenty plays that were produced in the west end and broadway, many were filmed. His most famous title "Potash and Perlmutter"…
Read more →bedpanner · 22 June 2013
Seven Male, Six Female Catholic Author The legend of Tristan and Isolde has been told many ways and there are at least a dozen versions in film, as recently as 2011. It was the subject of one of Wagne…
Read more →bedpanner · 17 June 2013
There is a growing collection of clever and delicious new commercial Aboriginal and multicultural writing managed by various agents. For example http://www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/177644…
Read more →bedpanner · 15 June 2013
Ian Hay AKA John Hay Beith Four Male Two Female One Act Comedy Running time 25 minutes A word of warning about Ian Hay - He was a prolific novelist with his name on a dozen plays, but most of his writ…
Read more →bedpanner · 14 June 2013
Australian Author Born in Sydney Six Male Four Female (One younger of each gender) Filmed in 1920 by Equitable Motion Pictures Corp. Three of his other plays were also filmed. Captain swift was filmed…
Read more →bedpanner · 13 June 2013
Three Male Three Female One act Comedy Running time 20 mins Setting mentions a staircase, cupboard and clock. Script mentions an old relative and ten year old, but the lines work with a teen, and adul…
Read more →bedpanner · 4 June 2013
Nine Male Dramatization of the french perspective (in english) about the 'miracle of the marne', a decisive battle involving British and French armies which halted the German advance toward Paris and…
Read more →bedpanner · 4 June 2013
nine male and seven female and four either (possibility for doubling) Children's comedy: A play of fancy and fact in three acts. Eleanor gates was an astonishing woman. Survivor of two marriages, she…
Read more →bedpanner · 4 June 2013
Four players of any gender Tragi-comedy in one act For those of you bought up outside the pantomime tradition, this is a good introduction. The language is a little antiquated. Ancient pantomime was o…
Read more →bedpanner · 3 June 2013
Musical Comedy by AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR five male, four female and Orchestra Roughly on the story of Ali-baba and the forty thieves (open sesame). One of the longest initial runs in history, with over 200…
Read more →bedpanner · 2 June 2013
Five Female Seven Male Side-splitting slapstick. A farcical comedy about a couple visited by a monster-in-law and her entourage. Her arrival soon turns the home into anything but peaceful. Features ex…
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