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Don Reid Don Reid i(A12504 works by) (a.k.a. D. Reid)
Born: Established: 1931 ; Died: Ceased: 9 Apr 2013
Gender: Male
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1 5 Biddies Don Reid , 2012 single work drama 'Five ordinarily marvellous women find themselves back in their infants school classroom plying their needles in a good old-fashioned session of "stitch and bitch". Their confessions are frank, their rivalries intense and their jokes outrageous. They discover a common frustration with the limitations of being female and mature in a world still largely defined by men.

Accidentally locked in the classroom, with nothing but ingenuity, Adora Cream Wafers and a bucket to get them through the crisis, unknown reserves come to the fore. Released from their own constraints, they rediscover their capacity to love, forgive - and take control. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

Men see their wives, adult children see their mothers, grandchildren see Nana and the mature Australian woman sees herself...' (Source: Riverside Parramatta website)
1 6 Codgers Don Reid , 2008 single work drama humour

'Ageing, racism, sexual diversity, inclusion, acceptance - all wrapped up in peoples' secrets...

'Five senior Aussie men, four of them mates since war service, meet one morning each week in a gymnasium...they exercise together, chew the fat together about their families, laugh, tease and sing. They solve the problems of the world, agreeing to disagree. But some surprising and disturbing elements enter to test and challenge their comfortable relationships to one another and to the world around them. Secrets, differences and loss of trust threaten to destroy the long-established friendships.

'JIMMY, the jokester, worries about having something to leave his grand-daughter, and the real estate deal that LES sets up to help grow JIMMY's nest egg starts to look shonky in the face of LES's increasing forgetfulness - while old LES has to cope with losing his marbles. Conservative PATRICK suspects his mate of an affair and his confidence in the rightness of his own moral view is deeply shaken by Sar-major KEITH's revelations about the nature of his masculinity. Good-natured ribbing about old political sores becomes tense when newcomer STANLEY CHANG's enthusiasm to join the group ruffles everyone's feathers and exposes long-held prejudices. ROD, the youngest of the troupe, struggles to manage the discord:

'They begin to see that the vulnerability of one is the vulnerability of all - and commonality begins to re-assert itself. Seeing each other and themselves in a different light: they learn that 'difference' is more a matter of point of view; that you 'wouldn't be dead for quids'; and, no matter what - that you gotta laugh!'

Source: Codgers website, http://www.codgers.com.au/home.php
Sighted: 05/08/2008
1 3 Navigating Flinders Don Reid , 2005 single work drama
1 Doing the Poet Justice Don Reid , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 April 2001; (p. 5)
— Review of John Shaw Neilson : A Life in Letters John Shaw Neilson , 2001 selected work correspondence
1 3 A Whimsical Fellow : An Encounter with John Shaw Neilson Don Reid , 1993 single work drama
1 y separately published work icon Scales of Justice Don Reid (editor), Frank Bladwell (editor), Sydney : Currency Press Artmoves , 1984 Z143025 1984 anthology drama interview (taught in 1 units)
1 y separately published work icon Peter Kenna's A Hard God : A Critical Introduction Don Reid , Frank Bladwell , Sydney : Currency Press , 1983 Z1380848 1983 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Zoom In : Television Scripts of the Seventies Don Reid (editor), Frances De Groen (editor), South Melbourne : Macmillan Australia , 1977 Z1380856 1977 anthology screenplay
1 Peter Kenna's A Hard God Don Reid , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Theatre Australia , July vol. 2 no. 3 1977; (p. 68-69)
1 y separately published work icon In Focus : Scripts from Commercial Television's Second Decade Don Reid (editor), Frank Bladwell (editor), South Melbourne : Macmillan Australia English Teachers Association of New South Wales , 1972 Z1380866 1972 anthology screenplay

A selection of Australian television scripts from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some of these had been fully developed at the time of publication (including directions and camera directions), while others were still waiting to be produced and hence contain dialogue and directions that were undergoing development.
1 y separately published work icon Close-Up : Scripts from Australian Television's Second Decade Don Reid (editor), Frank Bladwell (editor), Sydney : Macmillan Australia , 1971 Z159243 1971 anthology screenplay A selection of scripts from television programs telecast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission between 1965 and 1970. (See note below for the accuracy of this date span.)
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