Bøger af Paul Michael Davies

The world's first play set and performed on an actual moving tram. "Storming Glenelg by Tram" took place on the Glenelg tram route in Adelaide South Australia while travelling from this outer suburban terminus to the City and back. Along the way various characters enter the tram and interact then either leave or are thrown off. As the story unfolds events become more and more out of control until finally the police arrive. Performed in both Adelaide and Melbourne (Storming Mont Albert and Storming St. Kilda by Tram) the "Tram Show" as it became known was performed over 400 hundred times taking its nightly audiences a total distance that would have seen the vehicle travel half way round the world. This text includes photos taken of a live performance and includes articles, reviews and a chapter on the show from the book "Really Moving Drama" by the same author

A fully illustrated print version of the first play to be produced on a moving tram. Originally performed in Melbourne on the Mont Albert line, the 'Tram Show' eventually played on trams in Melbourne and Adelaide over a dozen years from 1982 to 1994 trambulating a total distance that would have taken its combined nightly audiences half way round the world. Described as the "most surreal event to animate Melbourne theatre" the Tram Show kick started a revolution in theatre that saw similar plays produced on riverboats, in pubs, houses, cinemas and gardens throughout the 1980s.

The world's first "floating play" is an account of a divorce party which takes place aboard the MV Yarra Princess, flagship of Yarra River Cruises fleet, as she makes her serene and regal way along the Yarra River from Princes Bridge in the heart of Melbourne's CBD, to a landing four kilometers upstream in the very eastern suburb of Toorak - just opposite Herring Island and adjacent to Como Park; one of Melbourne's wealthiest areas. Here an interval occurs where refreshments are served by Lurlene Fowler, the specially hired Greek "French maid", who is assisted by Samantha's mummy's butler, Kurt. Afterwards the second half of the play unfolds as the MV Yarra Princess sails back to the City.The party is the result of Samantha Hart-Byrne's decision to invite 90 or so of her very bestest friends to help her celebrate her divorce from ex-husband Michael; and to introduce them to her new partner Nigel Davidson, a filmmaker from Sydney. Samantha's hydrotherapist Dr. Tamsin Smythe approves of the party as a way of helping Samantha overcome a debilitating mental condition: namely her complete inability to remember anything about her wedding to Michael. Along the way various events conspire to undermine Samantha's happy occasion including the arrival of Michael disguised as a gorillagram. At half time, Lurlene Fowler is left behind and the boat is soon raided by members of the Tax Squad, looking for evidence of fraud amongst this well heeled gathering. Lurlene however, soon returns in a hastily requisitioned rubber dingy and is full of high dudgeon at her abandonment. At this point Michael is finally exposed by the police for the fraudster that he is and decides to take matters into his own hands. He pulls a gun and dispatches his nemesis (in the form of Senior Sergeant Lance Tippler) off into the rubber raft handcuffed to Lurlene. And in a final act of desperation, Michael marries Lance's assistant, Constable Cathy Waterman (a case of love at first sight) and makes off with her into the night.

A fully illustrated print version of the first play to be produced on a moving tram. Originally performed in Melbourne on the Mont Albert line, the 'Tram Show' eventually played on trams in Melbourne and Adelaide over a dozen years from 1982 to 1994 trambulating a total distance that would have taken its combined nightly audiences half way round the world. Described as the "most surreal event to animate Melbourne theatre" the Tram Show kick started a revolution in theatre that saw similar plays produced on riverboats, in pubs, houses, cinemas and gardens throughout the 1980s.

"Living Rooms" is the fifth play in the Picture Play series by Paul Davies. It was originally produced by TheatreWorks as a site-specific work in 1986. The play takes place entirely within an historic mansion known as "Linden" situated at 26 Acland Street, St. Kilda, Melbourne. It deals with three key periods in the building's history: family mansion (1900), boarding house (1972) and art gallery (1988). These three scenes, set in three separate rooms (Drawing Room, Flatette and Gallery) are played simultaneously as the three separate audience groups rotate through the building. Thus, each group witnesses the whole play but in different orders. Finally all characters and audience members come together for a final, surreal scene in the hallway. The play deals with how St. Kilda originated as a wealthy Victorian suburb, then declined to a seedy, downmarket hub for drugs and prostitution until finally becoming regentrified in the late twentieth century.