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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…

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.

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.

Rainbow’s End
Jane Harrison

History is about the heroes. Rainbow's End chronicles the lives of three generations of Koori women —unsung heroes who fight the good fight every day from their humpy on Yorta Yorta country.

The Harp in the South Trilogy: the play
Kate Mulvany and Ruth Park

The Harp in the South Trilogy follows the trials and tribulations of the Darcy family over thirty years, from country New South Wales in the 1920s to the inner-city slums of Surry Hills in the 1950s.

The Unfriend
Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice. 

City of Gold
Meyne Wyatt

Young actor Breythe left Kalgoorlie dreaming of a dazzling career.

Now he's found himself starring in a controversial Australia Day ad that pays big, but draws the ire of his mob. 

Returning home, Breythe's just as alienated from country and lore. His cultural capital distances him from furious brother Mateo and activist sister Carina, all of them struggling with regret and responsibility after their father's death.

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