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Bill Reed
A collection of seven of the most popular plays by Australian playwright Bill Reed
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Smith and his son Terry find themselves in Indian child rackets, caste realities, and the cultural foeticide so prevalent even today. Nandi Baba, the gooky priest, gave them hope until…
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…
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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, resembling Queen Victoria…
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…
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…
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…
‘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, based on…
This is an introduction to the spicier, kinky side of life. This book explores various kinks in a how to approach them with an emphasis on safety. If you have…
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…
SAFE HARBOR A BOY’S STORY Each of us has a story to tell, and this is Bill Reed’s. It’s a story of a boy growing up in a dysfunctional family…
From the early days of minstrelsy to Black Broadway, this book presents the story of African American entertainment as seen through the eyes of its most famous as well as…
This secretive load I have shuffled around with… ———-John Tasker is a divided, but enjoined, man. Physically he is running from the law while hunting down his own father, just…
A collection of mainly award-winning or hightly-commended short stories from national competitions. Extinction is forever, give or take a day. And there’s always Redemption trying to take that one precious…
‘You have the stigmata, ’ his grip firming when she tries to pull her hand away. ‘So have I. The scar across my eye, you see.’————–Take a hermit, innocent, Christ-like…
Ed: following is the Thomas-Nelson-Australia’s 1977 blurb for the original edition, but here annotated, in italics, by the author for this reprint.‘Bill Reed’s first novel is a celebration of the…
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…
‘In Australian drama it was Bill Reed with his Burke’s Company who pioneered Artaudian techniques in a play of stature. The play powerfully exemplifies one of life’s strongest metaphors -…
‘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-home product…
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…
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…
Here are the award-winning or noted short-form plays whose productions range from a few minutes to lengthy one-acters. Each inclusion in this collection has been selected by the Australian Script…
EXPATRIATES IN PARIS is an historical mystery set in the roaring 20s on the legendary Left Bank, brought to life through time, place and real-life writers Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott…
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…
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…
They would write a ridiculing play about you if led hundreds of settlers off to terra incognita, then you were unable to move off the beach while your people died…
Their fifty-seven-year honeymoon is a statement unto itself. From celebrating their love in southern Florida on OUR BEACH, to meeting HOT LIPS THE BEAR… We are sitting at the picnic…
In Lanka, the Australian Wi becomes the world champion in the number of kidnaps he endures, while being hired out to anyone who wants to use a foreigner to do…
Truganinni stood alone, a living relic of her race who witnessed the whole range of degradation her people suffered. As she approached her end, she had the memories of the…
If it wasn’t for other human beings, he would have become the most polished and the most talented Australian. As it was, what with Australian Aborigines and Sri Lankans and…
She knew nothing about the teenager making the predictions about the murders of all-religion'saints’ across Asia and Australasia… or why her boy Jimmy got killed with the priest in Cairns…
The live-acted shadow play of today uses live actors to evoke fantasy combined with realism to illustrate a fully-rounded play narrated by a storyteller sitting in full audience view.
Ihe the wolfman must search for the last remaining Tasmanian Wolf he just knows has to be hiding from the human hunter somewhere in Australia and the world. But, always…
We cannot blame Charles Dickens for not meeting our national treasure Philip P. Pirip, but:
go blame yr rottern Fate;
whos flushs beat yr faces straights
It could be said…
Use your local pool to get fit; to develop your muscles; to exercise while you enjoy yourself, even while pregnant; to help with muscle aches, to free you from general…
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We cannot blame Charles Dickens for not meeting our national Arts treasure Philip P. Pirip, but:
It could…
Bill a Reed
In Lanka, the Australian part-Aborigine Wi becomes the world champion in the number of kidnaps he endures, while being hired out to anyone who wants to use a natural victim…
Peter Tuffrey
This collection of over 168 colour photographs, which date from 1958 to 1967, features the Western Region of B.R., formerly the territory of the Great Western Railway, and its motive…
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The author provides a broad view of the Southern Region and the steam engines employed in the last years before the diesel takeover. Bill Reed’s superb colour photographs have made…
This is the hardback version. Legendary man-of-many-faces Leonard Reed and historic Black show business come alive through the eyes of someone who saw it all. From beginnings in medicine shows…
Edward Nugent,Bill Reed
‘I not only write books. I am this book. The actual person or persons.’———–After a flash flood in 1965 an elderly man became trapped down a Sydney parkland storm drain…
Murray Rose,Bill Reed
THE POOL IS A GREAT GYM… FOR ALL AGES!You don’t have to be a swimmer or sprightly to experience the joys of water and the benefits of water exercising.In your…
Ron Edwards,Bill Reed
‘Life’s a real cow of a thing!'You can take five locals virtually locked out of their Outback pub by a bunch of city-slickers up from Sydney who, deep into the…
Carl Molesworth
The moving biography of Lt. Col. William Norman Reed, a World War II fighter ace who fought with the Flying Tigers and died in defense of the nation he loved.
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