These seven plays are some of 7-ON alliance's personal favourites. They were awarded, or gloriously produced, or a risky breakthrough, or still burn with intense relevance but never made it into print — until now.

Summer of Harold: Backpackers Janet and Alison become housekeepers for Harold Pinter. Enfant Terrible: Gareth reflects on an evening of bitterness, triumph and discovery. Lookout: Jonathan and Rae connect overlooking the Blue Mountains.

Seven playwrights. Fifteen plays. Short plays, but whole worlds contained in them. Huge windows into the minds and times of seven extraordinary writers for the theatre.

A couple are reunited with their missing daughter. Frantic activity has sustained them through her long absence. But now that she’s home, her father struggles to recognise her. They’d thought some time away in their isolated beach house might help the family bond, might return Laura to her old self.

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.

In a bleak, remote town, a small child is murdered. Suspicion falls on nine-year-old Lizzie. Convinced her daughter is guilty, Lizzie's young mother must make the torturous choice between ignoring her intuition and presenting Lizzie to the police.