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Walking into the BignessRichard Frankland
A theatrical collection of stories and songs from Richard Frankland’s extraordinary life as a child abattoir-worker, a young soldier, a fisherman and a field officer for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. $25.99
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Antigone and Cyrano de Bergerac: Two adaptations for Sport for JoveDamien Ryan, Sophocles, Edmond Rostand
The epic plot of Edmond Rostand’s original 1890s tragicomic French masterpiece spans a whole war, from Parisian bakeries to the bloody battlefront. This new adaptation by Damien Ryan brings the action forward to WWI, where Cyrano is a war poet like no other. Sport for Jove’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac won three Sydney Theatre Awards in 2013. $31.99
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The FerrymanJez Butterworth
County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor. $24.99
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The Yellow WaveJane Miller
Soldier of fortune Philip Orloff and salt-of-the-earth Dick Hatten vie for the hand of stoic heroine Heather Cameron against a backdrop of invasion by a pair of Russian rail barons leading a Mongol force into the heart of Queensland. $25.99
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Melbourne TalamRashma N Kalsie
Three young people see each other across a crowded Flagstaff station. They just missed the train. Now they wait. And think. They think about home: Punjab, Delhi, Hyderabad. And about how they just can't seem to get Melbourne's rhythm right. And of all the impossible things they must do to stay. And their time is running out. $25.99
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Cold LightAlana Valentine, Frank Moorhouse
An epic story of national significance, Cold Light surveys the transformation of Australia from the post-WWII Menzies era to the mid-1970s Whitlam government and asks timely questions about Australia’s relationship to women of vision and people of difference. $25.99
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Mark Colvin’s KidneyTommy Murphy
Mary-Ellen Field is a successful Australian business consultant in London—until she's accused of betraying the secrets of her supermodel client to the press. Her life comes crashing down: her job, her health and her standing in society collapse. When it emerges that her client's phone had been hacked by reporters, Mary Ellen sets out to defiantly restore her reputation. $25.99
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Mr Takahashi and other falling secretsSandra Thibodeaux
Darwin, 1942: Darwin is hit with more bombs than Pearl Harbour. Mr Takahashi turns the lens upon Darwin’s multicultural and Indigenous women whose lives were forever changed by the bombings of February 19. $25.99
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Girl AsleepMatthew Whittet
From the wry, warm and wonderfully distinctive voice of Matthew Whittet comes a play about being lost in the jungle of teenagerdom and coming out the other side. $25.99
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Lighten UpNicholas Brown, Sam McCool
John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams big, but his coloured contacts hide the fact that his skin is more brown than white. His mum wants John to marry a white Aussie woman, but he falls in love with Indigenous woman Sandy. $25.99
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