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Category: Plays
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Widows
Ariel Dorfman, Tony Kushner

In a war-torn village the men have disappeared. The women – their mothers, wives, daughters – wait by the river, hope and mourn. Their anguish is unspoken until bruised and broken bodies begin being washed up on the banks and the women defy the military in the only form of protest left to them.

Beauty and the Beast
Laurence Boswell

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, with music by Mick Sands drawn from traditional French folk melodies.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (ad. Edgar)
Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by David Edgar

A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.

The Venetian Twins
Nick Enright, Terence Clarke

This adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century comedy The Venetian Twins quickly earned a reputation as one of the most boisterous, vibrant and irreverent works of Australian musical theatre. 

In 1945, Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Now, after a half-century apart, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past.

Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe

The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.

The Alchemist
Ben Jonson

Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other.

Blackrock: the play
Nick Enright

It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club—and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead—raped by three boys and bashed with a rock.

Woyzeck
Georg Büchner Translated by Gregory Motton

One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Büchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today.

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.

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