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.

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.

When the world map was full of gaps, the Amazon topped the list of places unknown to western explorers. In the twenty-first century are there any ‘unknowns’ left? On a trip to the Amazon, the writer ponders this and other questions as she struggles to deal with her father’s journey through Parkinson’s disease towards what is perhaps our last great unknown—death.

The jungle of bureaucracy, the drudgery of cleaning up yet another shattered plate, the isolation of responsibility. Caring for someone with a disability or enduring health need is no fairytale. But in this mix of documentary and fictional narrative, Noëlle Janaczewskaweaves a story of heroines and dragons — and battles fought both inside and out. 

Two plays by Noëlle Janaczewska. Good with Maps is sad and confronting, but it’s also funny and thoughtful, celebrating the power of literature to transport us to places both real and imagined. Teacup in a Storm is a window into the largely unseen world of carers and the power of love and determination.

Songket: What happens when one person's culture is another's crime? 

This Territory was developed in the wake of the 2005 Cronulla riots through a six-month research and consultation process with young people across Sydney.