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Saplings
Hannah Belanszky

Saplings is collection of hilarious and heartbreaking stories about young people experiencing the youth justice system. It gives an honest, raw look into the adult consequences faced by some of our most vulnerable.

Yong
Jenevieve Chang

It's 1857, and the Australian Gold Rush is booming. Thirteen-year-old Yong and his father leave their small village in Guangdong, China, to cross the seas in search of fortune in the goldfields of Ballarat. But Yong doesn't want to be on this journey.

Mrs. Warren's Profession
George Bernard Shaw Edited by Dominic Cooke

Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Estranged from her wealthy mother, she delights in a glass of whisky and a good detective story, and is determined to carve herself a sparkling legal career in an age ruled by men.

Her mother, however, is a part of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune and paid for her daughter's expensive education – but at what cost?

Bernard Shaw's incendiary moral classic was written in 1893, but, after…

Cyrano
Virginia Gay after Edmond Rostand

A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic play, Cyrano is a love letter to hope; to language and desire; to the lo-fi magic of theatre.

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Adapted by Steven Canny, John Nicholson

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate, with a look of terror still etched on his face, and the paw prints of a gigantic hound beside his body, the great detective Sherlock Holmes is summoned from Baker Street, with Dr Watson in tow, to unravel the mysteries surrounding his death, and investigate the ancient curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles...

The Mermaid
Cassandra Fumi

A little mermaid trades her voice for legs. She dreams of a human world bathed in sun. A group of teenagers trade stories about life in 2020. They dream of all the worlds that could have been. Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairytale is radically re-imagined by a collective of teenage and adult theatre makers in The Mermaid by Cassandra Fumi.

My Brilliant Career
Sheridan Harbridge, Dean Bryant

Sybylla Melvyn is finding her voice. Growing up in the 90s – the 1890s, that is – life doesn't throw a lot of options at a girl. But life didn't reckon on Sybylla. Forced to choose between romance and her own genius, her family and a future she defines, she's decided she's having it all.

The Cake Man
Robert Merritt

On newly-declared terra nullius, a Priest, a Civilian and a Soldier watch an Aboriginal family.

This is a story told by those whom settler history has long spoken for; stretching from the violence of first encounter, to 'civil' captivity within the Aboriginal mission, to liberation on stage as the first professionally produced play written by an Aboriginal playwright.

RBG: Of Many, One
Suzie Miller

RBG: Of Many, One soars through the career of the Supreme Court Justice who sent tremors through the American, and global, legal system on women's rights. Of many, one speaks.

Black Sun/Blood Moon
Chris Bendall

Black Sun/Blood Moon by Chris Bendall follows Maddy, a ten-year-old climate champion, and Katie, the underachieving assistant of a climate-denying politician, as they set out to save the planet.

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