Contemporary Australian Plays (eBook)

Ron Elisha's first play, In Duty Bound (1979), was produced throughout Australia and since then he has had plays staged nationally and internationally. They include Einstein (1981), Pax Americana (1984), The Levine Comedy (1986), Safe House (1989), Esterhaz (1990), Impropriety (1993), Choice (1994) and The Goldberg Variations (2000). He also wrote a quartet for the stage entitled Affairs of the Heartless which won two AWGIE awards, bestowed by the Australian Writers' Guild. His other works include By My Own Authority, a film script which won the Gold Award for Best Screenplay at the Houston International Film Festival, the television screenplay Death Duties (SBS), the novels The Hangman's Table, Paris and Paper Cuts, and a one-man show entitled Pulpit Fiction. His play Two, which won the AWGIE for Best Stage Play and was produced across Australia, New Zealand, London, the State, Europe and Israel where it was the inaugural production of the Elisha Theatre Company, was published by Methuen Drama in 2001 in Contemporary Australian Plays.