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Category: Plays
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernières Adapted by Rona Munro

Kefalonia, 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island as part of the Axis occupying forces. SThe captain is soon thrown together with Dr Iannis's strong-willed and beautiful daughter, Pelagia, who discovers all of the complexities of love.

Danny Fisher
Matthew Ryan

Danny Fisher is coming of age at a time when Australia faces the threat of invasion. When his beloved brother Frank is killed in the bombing of Darwin, Danny's family is ripped apart. Ignored by grieving parents, the awkward Danny is left to fend for himself, and to try to fill the shoes left behind. Thrust headlong into the threat of war and the hope of love, Danny, like his city, is growing up fast.

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Adapted for the stage by Peta Hanrahan

In Peta Hanrahan’s dynamic version of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, four actors play aspects of Virginia Woolf’s mind in conversation with herself and the audience. The piece both debates and reflects on the history of gender disparity, while keeping Woolf’s striking use of metaphor and charming humour alive.

Whisky Galore
Compton Mackenzie Adapted by Philip Goulding

It's 1955 and the Pallas Players, an all-female theatre company, are putting on a play: Whisky Galore. Philip Goulding's stage adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's comedy classic is a tribute to the feisty all-female touring theatre companies of the post-war years.

Young courtier Shahrazad poses as a ‘Smuggle’ (a refugee) about to be executed by the despotic King Shahrayar. To save her life, she tells the king a story he can’t resist. It’s a tale of magic and transformation, demons and lovers, adventure and terror.

Small Island
Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.

The Servant of Two Masters
Rosa Campagnaro, Carlo Goldoni

Hungry servant Truffaldino bites off more than he can chew when he agrees to serve two masters at the same time! Now he must hold everything together without exposing his scam and woo his love interest, spicy Smeraldina, all at the same time. A calamitous comedy unfolds as Truffaldino skids and schemes his way through multiple beatings, mistaken identity and love gone awry on the streets of decadent 18th-century Venice. 

Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov Adapted by Cordelia Lynn

In a room in a house in a provincial town, three sisters wait for their lives to begin. Olga, the eldest. Masha, the middle child. Irina, the youngest. The clock strikes. A candle is lit. The clock stops. Something catches fire. The clock strikes. They wake up.

Miss Julie & Creditors
August Strindberg Translated by Howard Brenton

August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power – both written in the summer of 1888 – in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton.

Nora : A Doll's House
Stef Smith Original author Henrik Ibsen

A reframing of Henrik Ibsen's classic in three different historical periods: the suffragette movement, the Swinging Sixties and the modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past hundred years?

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