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I'm Not a Dentist single work   drama   - Two acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 I'm Not a Dentist
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Production Details

  • First previewed at the Hakoah Club in Bondi, Sydney, on 15 October 1995, organised by Lawrence Jackson. After a four week running in season at the Effie Crump Theatre, Perth, the play had its world premiere at the Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Sydney on 9 January 1997.

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First known date: 1995
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon One Life, Two Journeys Henri Szeps , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2003 Z1077091 2003 selected work drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2003 pg. 1-44
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Works about this Work

Henry Szeps : ‘It’s My Party’ – Acting For Life Anne Pender , 2016 single work biography
— Appears in: Players : Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film 2016; 'Actor and writer Henri Szeps speaks three languages fluently. He was born in a refugee camp in Switzerland during the Second World War. His parents had fled Poland in fear of the invading Germans in 1938, and he lived in two countries before arriving in Australia at the age of eight. He already spoke Swiss German, French and Yiddish. The young Henri discovered acting at Greenwich primary school in Sydney and taught himself tumbling on a grassy slope in the park at Lavender Bay. As a teenager he found a gymnastics teacher called George Sparkes who taught him to do back flips and had a profound impact on his life. It was this man, Sparksey, who eventually helped Henri to put together a club act. Szeps studied science and engineering at university and also took acting classes with Hayes Gordon at his boatshed theatre in North Sydney. In 1963 Gordon cast Szeps in a play by Durrenmatt called The Physicists, and he has performed at the Ensemble Theatre regularly ever since. Szeps recalls that Hayes Gordon advised his young student actors to do ‘vaudeville, variety, stand up comedy’. Szeps took his teacher’s advice, worked the clubs, and went on to become one of the most well-known comic rogue characters on Australian television, playing the selfish older son in the landmark series Mother and Son that ran from 1984-1994.' (Introduction)
Henri a Wizard? Yes, Really Alison Cotes , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 January 2000; (p. 38)
— Review of I'm Not a Dentist Henri Szeps , 1995 single work drama
Dropping The Drill Greg Burchall , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 March 1998; (p. 19)
— Review of I'm Not a Dentist Henri Szeps , 1995 single work drama
Thespian Adventures With Henri As Himself 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 January 1997; (p. 12)
— Review of I'm Not a Dentist Henri Szeps , 1995 single work drama
Henri Szeps Pulls No Teeth Diana Thorp , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 December 1996; (p. 5)
— Review of I'm Not a Dentist Henri Szeps , 1995 single work drama
Henri a Wizard? Yes, Really Alison Cotes , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 January 2000; (p. 38)
— Review of I'm Not a Dentist Henri Szeps , 1995 single work drama
Dropping The Drill Greg Burchall , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 March 1998; (p. 19)
— Review of I'm Not a Dentist Henri Szeps , 1995 single work drama
Thespian Adventures With Henri As Himself 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 January 1997; (p. 12)
— Review of I'm Not a Dentist Henri Szeps , 1995 single work drama
Henri Szeps Pulls No Teeth Diana Thorp , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 December 1996; (p. 5)
— Review of I'm Not a Dentist Henri Szeps , 1995 single work drama
Henry Szeps : ‘It’s My Party’ – Acting For Life Anne Pender , 2016 single work biography
— Appears in: Players : Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film 2016; 'Actor and writer Henri Szeps speaks three languages fluently. He was born in a refugee camp in Switzerland during the Second World War. His parents had fled Poland in fear of the invading Germans in 1938, and he lived in two countries before arriving in Australia at the age of eight. He already spoke Swiss German, French and Yiddish. The young Henri discovered acting at Greenwich primary school in Sydney and taught himself tumbling on a grassy slope in the park at Lavender Bay. As a teenager he found a gymnastics teacher called George Sparkes who taught him to do back flips and had a profound impact on his life. It was this man, Sparksey, who eventually helped Henri to put together a club act. Szeps studied science and engineering at university and also took acting classes with Hayes Gordon at his boatshed theatre in North Sydney. In 1963 Gordon cast Szeps in a play by Durrenmatt called The Physicists, and he has performed at the Ensemble Theatre regularly ever since. Szeps recalls that Hayes Gordon advised his young student actors to do ‘vaudeville, variety, stand up comedy’. Szeps took his teacher’s advice, worked the clubs, and went on to become one of the most well-known comic rogue characters on Australian television, playing the selfish older son in the landmark series Mother and Son that ran from 1984-1994.' (Introduction)
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