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Kathryn Ash Kathryn Ash i(A66838 works by)
Born: Established: 1962 Goondiwindi, Goondiwindi area, Darling Downs, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Long Gone Distant Future Kathryn Ash , 2020 Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19663002 2020 single work drama
1 y separately published work icon Here We All Are. Assembled Kathryn Ash , 2017 Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2019 17267889 2017 single work drama

'A twisted tale of two hapless characters who dare to question. Suspended in a rotting dystopian landscape, forgotten by the world, these two are comforted by blissful ignorance, turning a blind eye to the impending Armageddon. Rising from the detritus comes the voracious, clever and manipulative 'worm' set to divide the slavish trust of our heroic duo. This witty, insightful and poignant play will seduce you into a collapsing world where you will bear witness to the final showdown between truth and delusion... to be or not to be?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Paradise Is Singing Michael Gow , Mark Gaal , Kathryn Ash , 2016 single work drama

'Three playwrights take great joy in propelling their characters through the streets of the tourist city that is Cairns. Our story opens with a busker on the ‘narde painting musical images of a night on the Esplanade where backpackers and locals swim in the tropical miasma that is the wet season. The tension rises as the nightclubs empty and the Esplanade fills.

'We are then introduced to our Sydney-sider souvenir entrepreneur arriving to open her souvenir (read tacky) emporium. A new business venture that promises to end her money woes. But will it come crashing down around her?

'We are then taken to a winters’ night in Melbourne where lonely Moira has invited her fellow Cairns Reef & Rainforest Tour buddies for a slide night reunion where they all see themselves through Moira’s eyes.' (Production summary)
1 Cake Kathryn Ash , 2009 single work drama humour 'Step into 3 delightful kitchens in a small Queensland town just about anywhere. There's outrage! Old Mr Barry Baxter has just married a woman less than half his age and she can't even bake a cake! This Odessa woman is not from around here! Birdie Crab thinks she's a cheeky strumpet, Cooee Gunn thinks she's nothing but a gold-digger, and Mardi McMaster thinks the girl's had a personality bypass. These three Queensland country women pull on their aprons and take on the task of teaching the new-comer a thing or ten about cakes and Queensland. They bake, they dance, they sing, they share some awful secrets. Straight from the kitchen to you comes a mad baker's comedy full of passionfruit slice, fluffy pumpkin scones and champion fruitcake. Gird your girdles, this one definitely has no fat-free content!' Source: www.tropicsun.com.au/ (Sighted 02/02/2009).
1 1 Surviving Jonah Salt Surviving Jonah Salt : A Northern Myth Kathryn Ash , Stephen Carleton , Gail Evans , Anne Harris , 2004 single work drama
— Appears in: From the Edge : Two Plays from Northern Australia. 2004; (p. 135-218) The Australian Play Bundle # 1 2013; 'Three crazy women and one angry young man get lost and found in the desert of the Northern Territory. This is a brutal but beautiful, haunting but hilarious road-trpi into the Never-Never. Ruby goes on the run from Darwin and is hitch-hiking to freedom. Trish's husband has mysteriously disappeared from their roadside store in the Daintree, so Trish takes off in the ute. Jonah has been dumped in the desert by his alcoholic mother and her lunatic boyfriend. Patricia is an aging ex-hooker, heading North on the night bus from Brisbane to Three Ways.' http://www.jute.com.au (Sighted 13/08/04)
1 2 Flutter Flutter : A Modern Pishrogue Kathryn Ash , 2002 single work drama
— Appears in: From the Edge : Two Plays from Northern Australia. 2004; (p. 14-125) The Australian Play Bundle # 1 2013; 'In the height of a summer outback in Central Queensland, something weird is going on. Vic Flutter has returned from his first year in Art College for the hoildays, and he's looking even stranger than usual. He's locked himself in the shed, is creating weird sculptures out of road kill, and is seemingly behind a series of strange events unfolding for his family and their small community.' http://www.playlab.org.au/ (Sighted 13/08/04)
1 Introduction Suellen Maunder , Kathryn Ash , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bag O' Marbles 2002; (p. 5-8)
1 7 y separately published work icon Bag O' Marbles Kathryn Ash , Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2002 Z947039 2002 single work drama
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