Reed Independent: 30 books

A collection of six plays professionally performed but not yet published. They are:Living on MarsDaddy the 8thYou Want It, Don’t You, Billy?Truganinni Inside OutAuntie and the GirlMirror, Mirror Unlike the other Bill Reed plays, none of these works collected here have been published by leading...

‘… the Theatre of the Absurd and the Theatre of Cruelty are even more pervasively embodied in the plays of Alexander Buzo, Thomas Keneally and Bill Reed. In Buzo’s case it is Absurdism which is especially apparent; in Keneally and Reed, Artaudian ‘myth’ and language-in-space… ‘It...

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...

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....

‘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...

‘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 ‘So have I. The scar across my eye, you see.’--------------Take a hermit, innocent, Christ-like, withdrawn, foreign-looking, non-English-speaking; then place him where the innocent are getting raped in an insular...

In the cover photo here, the Golden Receiver by any other name only deigned to look down at me directly because I had meaty bites stuck up my nose. And how come I’m the only one to have aged since?-------------Ed: following is the Thomas-Nelson-Australia’s 1977 blurb for the original edition,...

‘Life’s a cow of a thing!’ a stage play by Bill Reed and Ron Edwards. 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 grog, start offering money for the best local yarn. You could take it that these five, gathered...

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...

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 all that time ago to pick up both infants. Part of his silence was the guilt of being on the end of what was then undoubtedly a child-racketeering...

‘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 of a small mining community, and Bunting, the old-timer, the ‘humpy’. The setting of the action deep...

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,...

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...

SPOUTING BLACK HOLES is a collection of sevenof Bill Reed’s most popular plays brought together in modernised form and language. The works collected here are: Mr Siggie Morrison with his Comb and Paper Burke’s Company Truganinni Bullsh (including More Bullsh) Cass Butcher Bunting Just Out...