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Category: Plays
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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.

October
Ian Wilding

Tim and Angela are on the edge of something irrevocable. A stranger's accusation of infidelity has turned their perfect urban dream into a nightmare. Enter private eye, Dick, who may be exactly what the situation requires. 

The Seafarer
Conor McPherson

It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul.

The Winterling
Jez Butterworth

A comedy thriller from the author of the Olivier Award-winning Jerusalem.

Ruby Moon
Matt Cameron

In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward. Until the day when little Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again. The neighbourhood fractures into grief and suspicion in the search for answers to a terrible deprivation.

Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and become trapped in a timeless world, haunted by spirits of the past and tormented by the ominous Black Skirt, a cruel governess harbouring a mysterious past.

His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman Adapted by Nicholas Wright

A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials. 

Shining City
Conor McPherson

Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. John's wife has been killed in a car accident, and he keeps receiving visits from her ghost. John, with Ian's help, starts to recover. But what begins as an unusual encounter becomes a desperate struggle between the living and the dead – a struggle which will shape and define both of them for the rest of their lives.

Holy Day
Andrew Bovell

On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller's rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape.

Wolf Lullaby
Hilary Bell

In a bleak, remote town, a small child is murdered. Suspicion falls on nine-year-old Lizzie. Convinced her daughter is guilty, Lizzie's young mother must make the torturous choice between ignoring her intuition and presenting Lizzie to the police.

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