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  • Me, the Old Man

    by 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. Children discovered him but did not tell their parents. Instead they fed him a biscuit and a bottle of water once a day for three weeks. When he was eventually rescued, the flesh on his legs had become putrescent. He could ... Read more

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  • Water Workout

    by Bill Reed ...
    WATER EXERCISES FOR EVERYONE: NON-SWIMMERS AND SWIMMERSAs current as the day it was first floated as one of the very first, if not the first, international book of water-fitness regimes!Experience the pleasure of exercising in water.Use the pool as a general-age gym for: general day-by-day fitness beauty body building sports training and injury recovery pregnancy help aches and pains relief ... Read more

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  • The Rhyming Cutlets of Pirip

    by Bill Reed ...
    We cannot blame Charles Dickens for not meeting our national Arts treasure Philip P. Pirip, but:go blame yr rottern Fate;whos flushs beat yr faces straightsIt could be said, though, Dickens did lend his major characters to Philip P. Pirip, although 'lend' might not be the best word; rather freedom opened the door to its wide-open spaces to allow them to escape and give vent to their grievances ... Read more

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  • The Wolfman of Oz

    by Bill Reed ...
    You could say man into wolf and wolf into man got blasted into existence. You could also say the Tasmanian Aborigines and the Tasmanian Wolf got blasted out of existence too. It's called extinction and it lasts forever and, when Ihe the wolfman did the sums of early Tasmania, it all added up. This was except for one thing… the existence of the truly last Thylacine Wolf hiding out somewhere life ... Read more

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  • Wi

    by Bill Reed ...
    Surely you all remember Wi, a name especially chosen to fit our attention spans? Him, the world-record kidnappee, nabbee, swipee, snatchee, hoisted so many times even he's lost count? (How about those three times in five minutes effort? That takes real talent, that does.) I mean, if it wasn't for our Wi how many of these yabbers, yarns, shaggy dogs and yank-your-chain whoppers could I trot out for ... Read more

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  • Auntie and the Girl

    by Bill Reed ...
    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 travel to her mother-in-law in Chennai to relate what little she does know. This, she dreads doing, not just because this once-Australian, everyone's 'auntie' has always turned a blithe deaf ear to her, but more because the old ... Read more

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  • You Want It, Don't You, Billy?

    by Bill Reed ...
    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 the general alarm put out to be on the alert for a serial murderer thought to be in the district.In the heavy night of the Mornington countryside, their weekender cottage offers scant protection from what is determined to befall ... Read more

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  • Living on Mars: The Play

    by Bill Reed ...
    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 up very noisily with some young turk Australian postgraduate in his (Henry's) own home. He had a housekeeper until she left in built-up disgust claiming Henry continuously confessed to some vague past unspeakable crime. Henry also had this itch which ... Read more

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  • Mirror, Mirror

    by Bill Reed ...
    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 18 years and she is on the other side of the world working in an Amsterdam hotel with little time to listen to an excuse for a Dad.Just as his working life in the field with the UN Childrens Fund now seems only smoke-and-mirrors, ... Read more

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  • The Storyteller's Shadows

    by Bill Reed ...
    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.It is not a puppet show. It does not demand actors contort themselves into amazing shapes like trees of elephants. It is a play-behind that theatrically lies in the unfurrowed field between mime and the theatre we ... Read more

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  • Lankan 1001 Nights Part 1

    by Bill Reed ...
    O King, his name mightn't be Scheherazade, but if he was a she, it might well have been. You never know. And, anyway, to sing for his supper or else be despatched, the Talls-reteller must spin his cut-it-out ways to your royal self. If you had ever been listening, you might be able to admit wiling your Lankan nights away on his pull-this-one shaggy-dog yarns, especially about the misadventures of ... Read more

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  • Shorts

    by Bill Reed ...
    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 Centre to be listed for viewing or purchase on its website Australianplays.org.These twelve plays are designed either for full production or as workshop exercises with allowances for a few or a goodly ... Read more

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