Welcome to Bluewater, Tasmania—a mining town with no mine, where the population is ageing or leaving, and the future is a tenuous daydream. If something doesn't change soon, there'll be no town left to stay for. So when a rich and charming count appears wanting to turn Bluewater's fortunes around, it makes sense to invite him in, doesn't it? And when strange accidents happen, vines grow healthy in barren soil and people start disappearing, that's all fine too. Isn't it?

Dot and Pearl live in Wittenoom, the blue asbestos mining town in WA's Pilbara. So begins the glorious days, when the Pilbara's stunning landscapes, magnificent wildlife and close-knit community shaped an idyllic lifestyle; wild-natured Dot making the most of every second, while teenaged Pearl tries to make sense of what her own life might be.

In multi-level marketing company Paradise, you're your own boss. In Paradise, you could make a fortune. Margaret Perry's Paradise Now! is a funny and raging play about ambition, exploitation and the search for connection in a fractured world.

It's 1567. James Melville is an intelligent, charismatic and skilled diplomat – and also one of the most loyal servants of Mary Stuart, the troubled Queen of Scots. Now he needs to decide who's guilty, who's innocent, and who is too dangerous to accuse. Change is coming, but at what price?

Set on the windswept edge of Western Australia, Cursed! is an outrageously witty deathbed reunion scene of epic proportions. With her nan on her way out of this world, her brother Sebastian on his way out of the closet, her sister Marie losing track of the lies she has told, and her mother Dawn losing her grip on reality, Bernadette wonders if she will be the only one left with the capacity to hold this disparate family together. Or the madness to try.

Amanda Whittington's Ladies Unleashed is the third play in her Ladies Trilogy. It is a moving comedy about friendship, growing older and living for today.

Two women, two plays, two powerful voices. This double volume pairs powerhouse playwright Patricia Cornelius, in collaboration with Susie Dee and Nicci Wilks, with rising star Benjamin Nichol in two searing monodramas about women who are dispossessed and dismissed.

Bea Roberts' blackly comic play Ivy Tiller: Vicar's Daughter, Squirrel Killer challenges our assumptions about who belongs and who thrives, and exposes the dark side of the rural idyll. 

Scotland, 1504, seen fresh through the eyes of new arrivals Ellen and Anne, two Moorish women who were expected to take their place at a royal court… but not this one. Both women now have to fight to find and keep a place in the dazzling, dangerous world of the Scottish court of James IV.

John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. His estranged wife plots the restoration of the family name.