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Category: Plays
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Rupert Goold, Ben Power

Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.

Singing the Lonely Heart depicts an unconventional Southern upbringing and its inevitable clash with the narrow-minded attitudes of small town America—particularly its racial and sexual prejudices.

In Ozone, a man has been stripped of his skin just as the world is being stripped of its protective membrane of life-saving ozone. 

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.

Toy Symphony
Michael Gow

Roland Henning has writer's block. When he tries to explain the situation to a therapist, his story begins to tumble back and forth between his childhood in the Shire and his work as a playwright. At the root of it all is that extraordinary day in primary school which shattered his boyhood and plunged him headlong into the dizzy circus of life and art.

Kindertransport
Diane Samuels

Between 1939 until the outbreak of World War II, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken from their families in Nazi-occupied Germany and sent to live with foster families in Britain. Diane Samuels’ seminal play, Kindertransport, imagines the fate of one such child. 

Blood Wedding
Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.

Educating Agnes
Liz Lochhead

A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely. Adapted from Molière's classic comedy The School for Wives by Liz Lochhead.

Stories in the Dark
Debra Oswald

A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war-torn city. Into his life steps Anna—older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood.

Beautiful Words
Sean Riley

An epic chronicle of the refugee experience, Beautiful Words weaves together three very different stories of survival, told through the eyes of three children in different times and place. From the horrors of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in the final days of World War II, to Taliban-ruled Kabul, to present day Australia.

Bliss
Olivier Choinière Translated by Caryl Churchill

On their break, a cashier and her fellow workers flick through celebrity gossip magazines. 'See You Later, Celine,' says a headline. What's wrong with Celine? And how is her story connected to the story of an unknown woman on the facing page? 

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