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Grahame Bond Grahame Bond i(A29382 works by) (a.k.a. Aunty Jack)
Born: Established: 1943 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 3 y separately published work icon Jack of All Trades, Mistress of One Grahame Bond , Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2011 Z1827371 2011 single work autobiography 'Things were never quite the same once Aunty Jack roared onto our television screens in the 1970s, threatening to rip our bloody arms off. In this funny and moving memoir, Grahame Bond celebrates and at times curses his most famous creation.' (Trove record)
1 4 My Imaginary Family Grahame Bond , 2011 single work drama humour
1 y separately published work icon Captain Bloody Grahame Bond , Jim Burnett , 1984 Z850214 1984 single work musical theatre

'Captain Bloody is an Australian musical comedy by Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett.

It concerns a young gynaecologist, Eric Blood, whose closet fantasy is to be Errol Flynn. He finds out about a club, Heroes Anonymous, where people can live out their fantasies without hurting anyone, run by a man who thinks he is Winston Churchill.

Captain Bloody opened at the Footbridge Theatre in Sydney on 1 May 1984 and ran to 23 June 1984, produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Dunsinane Enterprises. It then played a short season at the Canberra Theatre from 3-7 July 1984. The cast included Bond, Arky Michael, Elizabeth Lord, John O'Connell, Greg Stone and George Washingmachine. A Melbourne season played at the Princess Theatre from March 1985.

The Sydney Morning Herald described the musical as "a Boys Own adventure, slightly bent but harmless enough. It features snappy dance routines, excellent music, and jokes about police corruption and Young Liberals are kept to a tasteful minimum."Bond reflected that Captain Bloody "did well in Sydney but was savaged in Melbourne". (Source website)
1 2 y separately published work icon Boy's Own McBeth : A Really Rotten Tragedy Grahame Bond , Jim Burnett , 1979 (Manuscript version)x401044 Z284330 1979 single work musical theatre humour
1 form y separately published work icon The Tea Ladies Grahame Bond , Jim Burnett , Don Catchlove , ( dir. Maurice Murphy ) Australia : Lyle McCabe Productions Paradine Productions , 1978 Z1821414 1978 series - publisher film/TV humour

As Moran notes in his Guide to Australian TV Series, this was (like other productions of the same period, including Are You Being Served? and Father, Dear Father) an importation of a British concept: unlike the other programs, however, this was based on a concept for which William Stewart had produced a pilot, but that had never been picked up for production.

The series revolved around tea ladies working in Parliament House, Canberra. Moran notes that 'The short series made at ATV Channel 0 in Melbourne cost $500 000. Each episode was aired almost immediately after studio shooting and was screened at 8:30pm to small audiences with almost no reviews.'
1 y separately published work icon Aunty Jack in the Gong Grahame Bond , 1975 (Manuscript version)x400142 Z850211 1975 single work musical theatre
1 form y separately published work icon Flash Nick from Jindavick Grahame Bond , Bill Harding , Gary Reilly , John Wood , Tony Sattler , 1973 Australia : ABC Television , 1973 Z850208 1973 single work film/TV humour

A 'surreal' sitcom set in the nineteenth century, Flash Nick from Jindavick tells the exploits of bumbling Jack Bradshaw (aka Flash Nick) as he attempts to carve out a career as a bushranger. These attempts include robbing a mail train while disguised as a roller-skating emu and trying to steal a black opal at a Country Women's Association Kung-Fu tournament, this time disguised as a harem girl. Throughout the series, he is pursued by Captain Magpie.
1 1 form y separately published work icon The Aunty Jack Show Grahame Bond , Tim Gooding , Rory O'Donoghue , Peter Weir , Geoffrey Atherden , Dick Barry , Peter Best , Peter Bicevskis , Ric Blakeney , John Brendan , Tony Coote , Michael Cove , Ronald Evans , Glenn Jones , Sharman Mellick , Maurice Murphy , Paul O'Sullivan , Wendy Skelcher , ( dir. Maurice Murphy ) Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1972-1973 8013420 1972 series - publisher film/TV humour

A television series conceived around a violent, motorcycle-riding tranvestite boxer and his/her off-beat friends and acquaintances, The Aunty Jack Show ran from 1972 to 1973 on the ABC. From its first broadcast the show attained cult status with much of the country's youth.
1 y separately published work icon Filth Grahame Bond , 1971 (Manuscript version)x400141 Z850205 1971 single work musical theatre
1 y separately published work icon Hamlet on Ice Ron Blair , Michael Boddy , Marcus Cooney , Aarne Neeme , Grahame Bond (composer), Rory O'Donoghue (composer), 1971 (Manuscript version)x400122 Z850115 1971 single work musical theatre

Play with music.

A satiric pantomime-style piece of music theatre, based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which 'the rottenness in the state of Denmark turns out to be a rampant permissiveness which has led to a complete breakdown in sexual identity. Hamlet has fallen for his best friend Horatio. In the grips of this unnatural passion he has gone to Wittenburg where Dr Yorik has carried out a successful sex-change operation' (Brian Hoad 1971, p37).

The authors suggest that community singing from the audience is to be encouraged whenever possible.

1 y separately published work icon Drip Dry Dreams The Candy-Striped Balloon Grahame Bond , 1970 (Manuscript version)x400140 Z850202 1970 single work musical theatre During his time as a student at the University of Sydney Bond wrote and performed in numerous student productions, notably the Architecture revues The Great Wall of Porridge and Balloon Dubloon. The later revue was developed into The Candy Striped Balloon, which was staged by the Phillip Street Theatre in 1969 and revised in 1970 as Drip Dry Dreams (presented both in Adelaide, as a Fringe Festival production, and in Sydney).
1 y separately published work icon Balloon Dubloon The Candy-Striped Balloon Grahame Bond , 1969 (Manuscript version)x400139 Z850199 1969 single work musical theatre During his time as a student at the University of Sydney Bond wrote and performed in numerous student productions, notably the Architecture revues The Great Wall of Porridge and Balloon Dubloon. The later revue was developed into The Candy Striped Balloon, which was staged by the Phillip Street Theatre in 1969 and revised in 1970 as Drip Dry Dreams (presented both in Adelaide, as a Fringe Festival production, and in Sydney).
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