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Category: Plays
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Norm and Ahmed
Alex Buzo

Still alarmingly relevant in the 21st century, Norm and Ahmed has earned its place as a classic of Australian theatre due to its timeless themes and the heightened language, performance style and concern with the behaviour of Australians, its origins and causes that characterised the New Wave.

The Middlemarch Trilogy
George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

George Eliot's Middlemarch is peopled with some of literature's most memorable characters. In Geoffrey Beevers' dramatisation, all three interconnected plays can be performed as a trilogy, but each play can also stand on its own, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

Brothers Wreck
Jada Alberts

On a hot morning in Darwin, Ruben wakes to find his cousin hanging from the rafters. What follows is the story of a family, buffeted by constant tragedy, holding itself together—as their people have done generation after generation.

The Secret River
Andrew Bovell, Kate Grenville

Convict William Thornhill and his family seek to establish themselves in unfamiliar territory, they find that they are not the only ones to lay a claim to the land. The Hawkesbury is already home to a family of Dharug people, who are reluctant to leave on account of these intruders.

The Machine Gunners
Robert Westall Adapted by Ali Taylor

It's 1940, and Britain is at war. Young Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in town, but desperately wants it to be the best. Amidst the bombs and air raids, Chas and his friends plan their own war effort in their newly built bunker. Friendships are forged and loyalties tested, in the adventure of a lifetime...

A thrilling play about the race to be the first woman in space.

Stop. Rewind.
Melissa Bubnic

A disparate group of seven work colleagues in a local government office struggle to hold onto their dreams, as they desperately attempt to prevent being completely paralysed by their workplace, and by themselves.

Two plays from one of Ireland's leading dramatists. Our New Girl is a startling psychological drama about the darker side of modern parenthood. In Little Dolls, Vicky seeks counselling from John to overcome her intense fear of darkness. But what if there really is some truth in her anxiety, and what if the darkness really is a disease?

Ruben Guthrie
Brendan Cowell

Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He's 29, he's the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency, he's engaged to a Czech supermodel and Sydney is his oyster. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work, a drink to sleep and one spectacular night he drinks so much he thinks he can fly.

Who is Sylvia? and Duologue
Terence Rattigan

Two plays from one of the leading dramatists of the 20th century.

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