SPECIAL: Order over $150 of books and get 10% off your purchase.

Search
Category: Plays
Cover Title Author
The Ham Funeral
Patrick White

Set in a squalid British boarding house, the play tells the story of a young poet, who lodges with Mr and Mrs Lusty, a bloated, gluttonous pair. When her husband dies abruptly, Mrs Lusty announces a grand funeral featuring a lavish feast, in his honour. Driven by her incontinent appetite, she attempts to seduce the young poet, with comically tragic consequences.

$25.99
The Witness
Vivienne Franzmann

Captured in an award-winning shot, Alex was rescued from Rwanda and adopted by the man behind the lens. Years later, she's back from university, returning to the Hampstead home in which she was raised. As a long-hidden secret is exposed, the distance between father and daughter stretches taut.

The Complaint
Nick Whitby

A chillingly Kafkaesque world where nothing is quite as it seems, and where office politics can lead to unlawful questioning, torture and even murder…

Angela’s Kitchen
Paul Capsis, Hilary Bell, Julian Meyrick

In 1948, Angela left Malta. Having gathered up five children, she sailed away leaving poverty and the war behind. Her destination: Australia, to build a bright new life Back in Malta, Paul Capsis has made a journey, returning to claim his past.

Misterman
Enda Walsh

A virtuosic study of one man's descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland.

The House Keeper
Morna Regan

A darkly humorous psychological thriller exploring the nature of possession, inheritance and corruption.

Mary Shelley
Helen Edmundson

Helen Edmundson's compelling play explores a crucial episode in the early life of Mary Shelley – her meeting and scandalous elopement aged sixteen with Percy Bysshe Shelley, and its consequences for her sisters, her stepmother and above all, her troubled father, the political philosopher William Godwin.

The Girls in Grey
Carolyn Bock, Helen Hopkins

Set in World War I, The Girls in Grey tells the story of three Australian Army nurses. The play shows how history can be dynamically interpreted through drama. It challenges the audience to rethink female identity in WWI and provides a female perspective on the ANZAC legend.

Goodbye to All That
Luke Norris

Frank has been married for forty five years. Three years ago he fell in love.

Luke Norris's taut and tender debut play, Goodbye to All That, asks if it's ever too late to start again.

Namatjira and Ngapartji Ngapartji go right to the heart of the intersection between Indigenous and non-Indigenous experience. These stories of family, friendship, land, myth, life and death are contextualised within the social and political framework of their times. They resonate universally, yet at the same time capture unique moments in Australian history and experience.

Page 88 of 128
Rows per page
Logo
Sign up to our Newsletter

Stay connected and updated to the happenings at Currency Press

We will never share your email with others