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Category: Plays
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Crunch Time
David Williamson

Steve, a typical Aussie bloke, has retired from his company and passed the family business over to his confident son Jimmy, leaving his more sensitive son Luke out in the cold. Steve falls gravely ill and, wanting a measure of peace before the end, tries to make things right with Luke. Once Luke can finally see the love behind the bluster, he and Jimmy commit to doing whatever it takes to fulfil their father's dying wish.

Tuesday
Alison Carr Translated by Daf James

An ordinary Tuesday turns really, really weird when the sky over the school playground suddenly rips open. Pupils and teachers are sucked up to a parallel universe, whilst a new set of people start raining down from above. 

Rural New South Wales, 1899. Sybylla Melvyn is a force of nature—a young woman of spirit, born in the wrong time and place, but filled with dreams. Will she be a writer? An actor? An artist, a musician, a politician? Will she explore the world? Any one of these would be better than the path of wife and mother seemingly predestined for her.

Andy's Gone
Marie-Claude Verdier Translated by Alexis Diamond

In this contemporary Canadian retelling of the story of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city's perimeter comes to a head when a young princess named Alison tries to expose the truth of her beloved cousin Henry's death.

1984
George Orwell Adapted by Nick Hern

Constructed almost entirely from dialogue taken from Orwell's original novel, this bold and powerful dramatisation restores the blazing heart of Orwell's work: a doomed love story, with the lovers at its centre.

The IT
Vivienne Franzmann

A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. Eventually it takes over the entirety of her body.

Prayer Machine
Eric Gardiner

A pair of high-school lovers reunite in the twilight of middle age. They make dreams, and plans, and re-enactments. They try to remember, and they try to forget. Who can face a wasted life?

Samskara
Lanre Malaolu

Inspired by real-life testimony, four generations of black men are trying to understand themselves in a world which tells them they have to be strong.

A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story
Charles Dickens Adapted by Mark Gatiss

It's Christmas Eve. As the cold, bleak night draws in, the penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the spirit of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn't too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate. But first he'll have to face three more eerie encounters...

Wherever She Wanders
Kendall Feaver

At one of Australia's oldest residential colleges, scandal is rare. Writing the cheques this year is Jo Mulligan, the first female Master. For Nikki Faletau—student resident and aspiring journalist—this is a time for hope, for change, for reform… That all changes when a serious allegation is made against a fellow resident. 

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