Dr D Bruno Starrs: 12 books

"Bollywood Extras" is a bold exercise in literary post-modernism and has been described as a bit like Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955) meets Nathanael West's "Day of the Locust" (1939). Unlike those two classics, however, this new novel by Dr D. Bruno Starrs is set...

A hilarious tale of cheap drugs, cheap sex and teaching English - on the cheap! The first edition of "I Woke Up Feeling Thailand" was written between 2002 and 2004, after the author returned from an eye-opening stint observing the lifestyles of English teachers in the Kingdom of Siam. After...

Dutch-born Australian director, Rolf de Heer, is Australia’s most successful and unpredictable film-maker, with fifteen feature films of widely varying style and genre to his name. Arising from the author’s 2006 – 2009 PhD research at the Queensland University of Technology (which focused on...

This a short play for two actors that follows a school-age boyfriend and girlfriend through a break-up. Suitable for all ages. No performance fee required as long as authorial attribution is correctly used. The play was short-listed for inclusion in the 2012 Short+Sweet Sydney theater festival.

In this bold and cheeky meditation on religion, middle-aged muscleman, uncertain Catholic and wanna-be academic Sterling de Bortoli is a self-described 'Octaroon': a one-eighth Aboriginal Australian. Neither black nor white, our part-blood Indigenous Australian hero struggles with concepts of identity,...

A short play about suicide, written in the absurdist tradition. First published in "Antithesis" by the University of Melbourne English Department, 14, 2004, pp. 151-155. There are no fees for production of this play, as long as the author is correctly attributed, no major changes are made...

"Conversion Rites and Wrongs" won the author the "Best Director" award when performed in Sydney's "Crash Test Drama" in 2012. It is a short play for a man and a woman, in which they discuss the pros and cons of converting to Islam. It is meanty to be comedic, not didactic. There are no fees for performance as long as the author is correctly attributed.

This two act stage-play is an English translation and stage adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 novella "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". It was submitted as the creative work component (30%) of the author's Master of Creative Arts thesis entitled "Faithfully yours: Werther...

"In The Big Picture, He'll Be Happier..." is the touching story of how one family deals with a mentally challenged loved one: A short play for 2 females and two males. This play is free of charge to perform as long as authorship is correctly attributed, no major changes are made without the author's permission, and the author is kept informed regarding any public performance/s.

"All Fours" is a humorous short play about contemporary gender differences, written in the absurdist tradition. It was first published in the literary journal "Movimiento Paroxista Revista Literatura" (online) by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma...

This is a short, dark, almost didactic stage play about the subject of pedophilia. It is not erotica, rather, a more accurate description would be black humor, religious horror! There are three characters, one male, two female, and this play is free of charge to perform as long as authorship is correctly...

This is the script for a short film, with one male and two female characters. Although it deals with the subject of pedophilia, it is not a work of erotica, rather the genre could be described as religious black comedy/horror. There are no fees for production of this film-script, as long as the author...