Up-and-coming comics Alex and Ben have been booked in the warm-up spot for a beloved but fading double act's comeback tour. When it's revealed that a Hollywood director is in the audience, both acts glimpse a final chance for their big break.

S. Shakthidharan's extraordinary multilingual play (English, Tamil and Sinhalese) Counting and Cracking traverses countries and decades to bring us an epic tale of family, love and politics.

When George Hobbes—scientific genius­—dies, his widow, Meridee, hosts a lunch for three friends. As secrets unravel through their reminiscences, Meridee's genteel Blue Mountains idyll dissolves into a battleground.

Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned specialist in the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. But during the course of her illness – and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy programme – she comes to reassess her life and her work with profundity and an unbearably moving wry humour.

This gripping Romeo and Juliet story by acclaimed writer Malorie Blackman is a captivating drama of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world.

In Thirroul, Emily sits on the beach with her kind of ex-boyfriend, figuring out how to deal with her unwanted pregnancy. In Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jana goes to get groceries and slams into the reality of the European refugee crisis.

Georgia Christou's Bright. Young. Things. is a funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are. It is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.

All Mona sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet

In the legendary rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, great forces are at play, with nations at stake and citizens ready to fight for the just cause. On the one hand there is principle and ideology; on the other, jealousy and pride. But there is also love. For who else could understand what torments a queen better than another queen?

A small town in the middle of nowhere. A family is talking about everything and anything except what's really going on. Through fantasy and hyper-realism, desert, 6:29pm ponders if it's possible to ever truly know someone you love.