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Category: Plays
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Diving For Pearls
Katherine Thomson

With the town she grew up in changing all around her, Barbara is determined to change with it. Dreaming of a way out, she sets her sights on landing a job at one of the new resorts popping up all over town. Meanwhile, her partner Den is having change forced upon him. The arrival of Barbara’s daughter, Verge, just might be the thing that tips Barbara and Den over the edge.

The Drover’s Wife
Leah Purcell

A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's infancy into our complicated present.

The epic plot of Edmond Rostand’s original 1890s tragicomic French masterpiece spans a whole war, from Parisian bakeries to the bloody battlefront. This new adaptation by Damien Ryan brings the action forward to WWI, where Cyrano is a war poet like no other. Sport for Jove’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac won three Sydney Theatre Awards in 2013.

Girl Asleep
Matthew Whittet

From the wry, warm and wonderfully distinctive voice of Matthew Whittet comes a play about being lost in the jungle of teenagerdom and coming out the other side.

Lighten Up
Nicholas Brown, Sam McCool

John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams big, but his coloured contacts hide the fact that his skin is more brown than white. His mum wants John to marry a white Aussie woman, but he falls in love with Indigenous woman Sandy.

Lucy Kirkwood Plays: One
Lucy Kirkwood

This collection, with an introduction by the author Lucy Kirkwood, brings together five of her plays including Tinderbox, it felt empty when the heart when at first but is alright now, small hours, NSFW and Chimerica. 

Dags
Debra Oswald

Gillian is sixteen, suffers from the occasional ‘ack-attack’, and is worried about not having a boyfriend. She loves chocolate and is infatuated with the best-looking boy in school. 

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Dead Heart (play)
Nick Parsons

In the isolated community of Wala Wala, Senior Constable Ray Lorkin struggles to keep an uneasy peace between Aboriginal tradition and the law he is sworn to uphold. But when a local man dies in mysterious circumstances, Ray decides he can no longer do things 'blackfella way'.

Emerald City
David Williamson

Married couple Colin, a screenwriter, and Kate, a publisher, move to the ‘Emerald City’, where fame and fortune are there for the taking, but surprises are in store for them both.

Norm and Ahmed
Alex Buzo

Still alarmingly relevant in the 21st century, Norm and Ahmed has earned its place as a classic of Australian theatre due to its timeless themes and the heightened language, performance style and concern with the behaviour of Australians, its origins and causes that characterised the New Wave.

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