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Category: Plays
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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.

Sunset Strip
Suzie Miller

At Sunset Strip the only people left are those who couldn’t leave. Arriving home after a bout of chemotherapy to this once-thriving summer hot spot, Caroline finds the lake completely dried up, the holiday-makers long gone.

Letters to Lindy
Alana Valentine

Letters to Lindy draws on correspondence and interviews with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. It is an enthralling, revealing, and long overdue dialogue between Lindy and the nation; a portrait of the wisdom and resilience of a grieving mother.

Sandy was the only Australian War Horse to return home from World War I. Through Sandy’s story we experience the lives of three men who fought in the war. This piece captures the brutality of war and the heroism of those who served.

Cold Light
Alana Valentine, Frank Moorhouse

An epic story of national significance, Cold Light surveys the transformation of Australia from the post-WWII Menzies era to the mid-1970s Whitlam government and asks timely questions about Australia’s relationship to women of vision and people of difference.

Darwin, 1942: Darwin is hit with more bombs than Pearl Harbour. Mr Takahashi turns the lens upon Darwin’s multicultural and Indigenous women whose lives were forever changed by the bombings of February 19.

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay Adapted by Tom Wright

On a summer’s day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading towards the beckoning Rock…

The Torrents
Oriel Gray

The gold rush is waning in Koolgalla and editors of the Koolgalla Argus must decide between protecting old interests and investing in the future. But when new editorial assistant, JG Milford, arrives and 'J' stands for Jenny, she creates havoc.

Yanagai! Yanagai!
Andrea James

Munarra is a black woman, thrown from the skies into the Dreaming so that she may heal her land, the mighty river Dhungula and her people. In the present day, the Yorta Yorta people are in court, fighting for a right to their land. Yanagai! Yanagai! is a war cry, the first recorded Yorta Yorta words spoken to the white men who went onto their land uninvited.

Good Works
Nick Enright

Would you ruin someone's life, separate them from their soulmate and their only son, all the time telling yourself you're doing the right thing? Leaping back and forth between the 1920s and the 1980s, Good Works follows the lives of two women and their two sons as they struggle to cram their complex lives within the narrow confines of Catholic morality. 

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