Plays
Spears' theatrical works include:
- Africa: A Savage Musical (1974)
- People Keep Giving Me Things (1975)
- Roaring Boy (1975)
- There Were Giants In Those Days (1975)
- Young Mo (full title "The Resuscitation of the Little Prince Who Couldn't Laugh as Performed by Young Mo at the Height of the Great Depression of 1929") (1975), about the Australian comedian Roy "Mo" Rene
- The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin (1976), closely identified with the career of the actor Gordon Chater.
- When They Send Me Three and Fourpence (1976)
- The Death of George Reeves (1978)
- King Richard (1978)
- The Time of the Bodgie (1980)
- Froggie (1983)
- Glory (1988)
- Namatjira Park (1992)
- A Little Theatre (1995)
His final theatre work was The Dance Angelic (1995).
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Famous quotes containing the word plays:
“At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. With Shakespeare it is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.
RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”