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The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory Adapted by Mike Poulton

Based on Philippa Gregory's internationally bestselling novel, The Other Boleyn Girl is a brilliant evocation of intrigue at the Tudor court – a racy and riveting drama of events that changed the course of English history. 

Testmatch
Kate Attwell

Present day, it's the Women's Cricket World Cup: England vs India. There's a rain delay. Tensions mount, ambitions are laid bare and a whole new tactical game begins. Calcutta, in the eighteenth century. Two British colonial administrators encounter challenges on the field of play that threaten the entire regime. In this game of integrity and power, past and present collide…

Garage Girls
Candace Miles, Madelaine Nunn and Anna Rodway

It's 1920s Melbourne—society reels from the aftermath of World War I, women's fashion sets startling trends and the city hums with the music of the motorcar. Meanwhile, one small woman defies convention and makes her mark …

James V: Katherine
Rona Munro

Katherine Hamilton is a nineteen-year-old woman facing arrest and trial in the King's court, with only her quick wit as defence against execution. James V: Katherine is a dramatic interpretation of key events during a turbulent time in Scotland's history, events that changed the nation forever. It is also a play filled with hidden histories, deft comedy and a secret love story between two young women.

Cassie and the Lights
Alex Howarth

Alex Howarth's play Cassie and the Lights is a tender and playful examination of what makes a family and what holds it together.

Gunter
Lydia Higman, Julia Grogan, Rachel Lemon

1604. A small village outside Oxford. Two boys have been murdered by local brute Brian Gunter at a football match and their mum wants justice. But Brian is also the richest and most powerful man in the village, and has an ego too fragile to tolerate public slander… A nasty feud begins, and when Brian's daughter Anne starts demonstrating strange afflictions, an allegation is made: she has been bewitched.

The Plan (and Other Plans)
Bridie Connell and Grace Rouvray

Rosie and Gen's parents are divorced, making their trips back to their hometown a complicated journey of passive aggression and massive regression. There's something about going back to your hometown that makes you feel so big yet so small at the same time. When their Paul Kelly-obsessed dad falls ill, they alternate taking leave from their jobs to care for him. Introducing: the Cancer Calendar. Why use emotion when you have Excel Spreadsheet?

The Great Divide
David Williamson

Golden sands, turquoise waters and a lush green golf course — Penny Poulter leads an almost idyllic life in one of Australia's best kept secrets, Wallis Heads. But when this hidden coastal gem is discovered by the ruthless and immensely wealthy Alex Whittle, ambitious plans to put the town firmly on the tourist map spark a bitter rivalry. Can this human bulldozer with money to burn ever be stopped?

The Human Body
Lucy Kirkwood

1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, socialist and Labour Party councillor, is working tirelessly to implement Nye Bevan's National Health Service Act and its revolutionary promise of free healthcare for all. At home she is a mother, and wife to a fellow GP, an ex-Navy man scarred by the war. But a chance meeting with George Blythe, a local boy who has made it to Hollywood, turns her quiet, certain world upside down.

RBG: Of Many, One
Suzie Miller

RBG: Of Many, One soars through the career of the Supreme Court Justice who sent tremors through the American, and global, legal system on women's rights. Of many, one speaks.

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