CONTACT
Susan Schulman, Literary Agent
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Other Plays
Australian Plays
I wrote these plays in the hills behind Perth, Western Australia
Skin Hunger
Synopsis
A love affair, told through acting exercises. The actors explore contrasting attitudes to love, as well as the difference between what the lovers say and what they think or do.
Production history
1989 The Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, where it ran alongside a solo exhibition by Rob Yarber.
1985 Workshopped at the Western Australian Playwrights’ Conference
Review
"Skin Hunger peels away deceptions through its mirror images" The Centre Daily Times
Supermarket
Synopsis
A love story, set in a supermarket
Production history
1975 Darlington Theatre Players, Darlington, Western Australia
Reviews
"Sophisticated...Good incisive dialogue...Mary Gage has joined the promising talent writing for Australian theatre today!" Donna Sadka, The West Australian
Above: Skin Hunger, poster, with a Yarber drawing
Below: Emil Franz playing guitar in Supermarket
Gas
Synopsis
The actors chose their characters and invented a story through a series of workshops, about a wizard who changed children into fuel until the ecological pig farmer hero defeats him.
Production history
1974 Darlington Theatre Players,, Darlington, Western Australia
Joan Sydney as the Mother in Everyone's a General
Everyone’s a General
Synopsis
A family story, told through three weddings.
Production history
1976 The National Theatre, Perth, Western Australia
Reviews
"A strong, cynical play about suffering and inevitable defeat in marriage. Played lightly, but with deceit, self-delusion and the myth of happiness in marriage as dark sub-themes"