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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Dear Australia
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Fifty short works commissioned by PlayWriting Australia as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and live-streamed simultaneously by more than thirty performing arts organisations across Australia on 2-5 July 2020. Each play was a monologue.

From the organisation:

At a time when a pandemic has forced reflection and change, 50 playwrights have responded to questions that get to the heart of where our nation is and where it might go.

These stories are postcards addressed to Dear Australia.

Playwriting Australia (PWA) invited 25 theatre organisations from across Australia to each nominate two playwrights. PWA then commissioned these 50 playwrights to each write a short monologue, which were then filmed by 50 extraordinary actors, many in their own homes.

Grouped over three nights, these 50 postcards are a unique account of these times and a striking moment of national celebration and reflection.

Source: PlayWriting Australia.

Production Details

  • Livestreamed over three nights (2, 3, and 5 July 2020) across the Facebook pages of multiple arts organisations and on PlayWriting Australia's YouTube channel. Scripts were published by Australian Plays in an anthology collection on 6 July 2020.

Includes

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y separately published work icon The Night the Bleeding Stopped Nakkiah Lui , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19656071 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon On Xenia Elena Carapetis , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19656173 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Hello Australia Willoh S. Weiland , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19656774 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Baby, I'm Home Ellen van Neerven , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19656896 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Ladies Against Lockdown Sam Nerida , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19657138 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Slow Doom Morgan Rose , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19657202 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon And My Body Claire Christian , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19657306 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Spirited Away Dan Giovannoni , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19657423 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon TapTapTap Bumpy Favell , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19657564 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Virginia Diane Stubbings , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658017 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Distance Mark Rogers , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658098 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Goodbye Papa Emele Ugavule , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658196 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Family Man Ross Mueller , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658292 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Shine Armour Scratch Repair Eric Gardiner , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658333 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon This Stretching Cloth of Silence Finegan Kruckemeyer , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658398 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Our Lot 44 Anchuli Felicia King , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658479 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon The Fly and the Wasp Bjorn Stewart , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658576 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Threshold Mary Anne Butler , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658613 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon If Only You Could Take a Step in My Shoes Glenn Shea , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658777 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Little Sister Jada Alberts , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658846 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Limbo Stephen Carleton , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19659439 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Home Is Where the Heart Is Chris Beckey , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19659475 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Home Schooling Aanisa Vylet , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19659513 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Skin Merlynn Tong , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19659562 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Spiderweb Brendan Hogan , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19659599 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Delivery Tasnim Hossain , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19659640 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Woman at the Bottle-o Catherine McKinnon , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19659676 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Server James Taylor , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19659735 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon The Oakwood Abattoir Kathryn Marquet , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19662898 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon The Flock James Elazzi , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19662943 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Long Gone Distant Future Kathryn Ash , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19663002 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon For Once Rachael Chisholm , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19663142 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon An Empty Church Julianne O'Brien , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19663219 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Barry Peter Cook , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19663714 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Polished Pebbles Susan Rogers , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19663757 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon The Passenger's Lament H. Lawrence Sumner , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19663932 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Hawk Donna Abela , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19663993 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Burning Barbara Hostalek , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19664104 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Allan Gretel Vella , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19664432 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon A Single Kiwi Fruit Liv Satchell , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19664489 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Flesh Lucy Combe , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19664542 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Gone Is Gone Janis Balodis , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19664769 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon The Fall Suzie Miller , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19665763 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon 2020 : 232 Years Kylie Coolwell , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19665825 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Nathan Maynard , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19665895 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Unconditional Love Matt Hawkins , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19665946 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon Second Coming Tariro Mavondo , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19666046 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon The Time Before the Time to Come Kamarra Bell-Wykes , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19666085 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon The Epidemy of Our Times Fidel Future , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19666128 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020
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y separately published work icon There Is the Light Richard Frankland , Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19666167 2020 single work drama Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020

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Works about this Work

100 Playwrights and Actors Join Forces in New Theatre Project Challenging Australian Identity Stephanie Honor Convery , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 22 June 2020;

'Nakkiah Lui, Suzie Miller and more in series exploring issues faced by the country in a world transformed by Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter.'
100 Playwrights and Actors Join Forces in New Theatre Project Challenging Australian Identity Stephanie Honor Convery , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 22 June 2020;

'Nakkiah Lui, Suzie Miller and more in series exploring issues faced by the country in a world transformed by Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter.'
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