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Category: Plays
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Tender
Nicki Bloom

Sarah can’t remember what happened in the gardens. Her memory is fractured, her husband Michael seems barely present and her parents-in-law, Yvonne and Patrick, are losing patience. What is it that she has lost and can she get it back?

The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.

Minefields and Miniskirts
Terence O’Connell

If history is told by the victors, the story of war is usually told by the blokes. Now it's the ‘sheilas' turn. Nearly a thousand Australian women had a part in the Vietnam War as entertainers, typists, consular staff and army nurses.

Amigos
David Williamson

In a moment of glory at the 1968 Olympics, an Australian rowing team known as 'The Four Amigos' won bronze. Thirty-five years later, only two of the Amigos keep in touch. Then, the third Amigo turns up, ready to expose all about their past. And so the games begin…

Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks' play Topdog/Underdog tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.

The Return
Reg Cribb

A thug and his junior partner in crime take a late night train from Perth to Fremantle, menacing passengers along the way. For an hour they own the train.

Birthrights is a bittersweet play about motherhood. 

In Soulmates, Williamson applies his merciless humour to the literary world in a play about the slippery business of books, authors, and the readers who love them both. 

The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan

Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert Finney) and frequently revived.

The Jack Manning Trilogy
David Williamson

In this trilogy, David Williamson explores community conferencing—a process which brings together the victims and the perpetrators of a crime in an attempt at some kind of reconciliation.

Aftershocks
Paul Brown, Workers’ Cultural Action Committee

A moving documentary play drawn from the traumatic recollections of members of the Newcastle Workers' Club, which was destroyed in the 1989 earthquake.

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