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Blood and Honour
Alex Harding

Commissioned by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1990, Blood And Honour tells the story of a mother, her son and his lover facing the threat of the AIDS epidemic, moral panic and the possibility of a conservative win at the coming Federal election.

Weather Girl
Brian Watkins

Stacey Gross is a California weather girl. An underpaid harbinger of our coming extinction. But today, her regular routine of wildfires, Prosecco and teeth whitening descends into a scorched earth catastrophe, before she discovers something that will save us all.

Kelly Jones's My Mother's Funeral: The Show playfully tackles the inequalities we face around death, and the cost of turning your loved ones into art. 

Red Speedo
Lucas Hnath

Ray lives to swim. He is within touching distance of international glory and a life-changing sponsorship deal. But everything changes when performance-enhancing drugs are discovered in his swimming club's refrigerator. As tensions run high, Ray's brother wants them destroyed, his coach wants to call the authorities, his ex-girlfriend doesn't want to know, and Ray wants the drugs back.

Surrender
Sophie Swithinbank With Phoebe Ladenburg

Mother is in prison. Daughter has come to visit. Closely watched by security, they have one hour to undo the damage of eleven years of separation. Surrender explores what it takes to survive in a punishing and dysfunctional penal system when your child is on the outside.

Some Demon
Laura Waldren

Sam's eighteen and her life's about to start. Zoe's forty-something and hers never did. They don't have much in common. Just a love of '80s new wave, and an illness that wants them dead. Thrown together in an eating disorder unit, their most intimate secrets exposed, they form a complicated bond. 

The Sugar Wife
Elizabeth Kuti

Dublin, 1850. The delicate balance at the heart of an affluent couple's marriage and family business is challenged when two visitors – a former enslaved woman and her emancipator – come to Ireland to speak to the public about trade, money and the abolition of slavery.

Bindweed
Martha Loader

Four men convicted of domestic abuse offences meet each week to undergo a perpetrator programme. But as Jen, the new group facilitator, starts to make progress with the men inside the room, life outside begins to buckle.

Fanny
Calum Finlay

Meet Fanny Mendelssohn. You'll probably know of her younger brother Felix, who was such a huge star that Queen Victoria requested a private concert, during which she sang her favourite of his compositions, a song called 'Italien'.The only problem is, that particular piece was actually composed by Fanny, though it was published under her brother's name. When Fanny intercepts the letter inviting Felix to play for the queen, she decides to hide it away, don her brother's clothes, and take his…

Never Closer
Grace Chapple

Northern Ireland, 1987. Deirdre is stuck – between arguments, nations, and the lives she almost lived. But when her old schoolfriends gather in her kitchen yet again for Christmas Eve, their growing differences push to the surface a powder-keg, awaiting the tiniest spark. And then one of them turns up with her surprise fiancé.

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