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Category: Plays
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What's Yours
Keziah Warner

Funny, messy, heart-breaking and hopeful, What's Yours offers new and unique insight to the growing childfree-by-choice movement, celebrating the enduring power of women's friendship and lives lived on their own terms.

sitting, screaming
Madelaine Nunn

At the doorway between innocence and maturity, simply getting through the day can feel like an eternity—especially when loneliness, grief and abuse of power get in the way. Shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award and longlisted for the Griffin Award, sitting, screaming is a raw and gripping exploration of how vulnerable young people slip through the cracks. 

Cyrano
Virginia Gay after Edmond Rostand

A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic play, Cyrano is a love letter to hope; to language and desire; to the lo-fi magic of theatre.

The Magic Hour
Vanessa Bates

Original fairy-tales were about bravado, fortune, destiny and courage. But always, watching from the edges, were the quiet ones. The bit characters. The weary mothers, the ugly sisters, the irrelevant queens, the grandmothers. In The Magic Hour, they get their chance to shine.

The Weekend
Sue Smith

Lifelong friends Jude, Wendy and Adele convene at their late friend Sylvie's beach house to pack up her belongings over Christmas break. And as the waves break upon the shore, so do many secrets they've long hidden in the deep. Adapted from the award-winning novel by Charlotte Wood.

Only Heaven Knows
Alex Harding

An ebullient and allegorical musical set in the 1940s and 1950s, telling the story of one young man's discovery of love and affection in the big city. 

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.

By Jane's Hand
Emma O’Brien

Jane Austen's life was censored by the patriarchy and romanticised by popular culture. Created/curated from an intergenerational feminist perspective, this work from old collides elements of music and verbatim theatre within a dreamscape.

swim
Ellen van Neerven

Genderfluid protagonist E negotiates the space between the men's and women's change rooms. They flex in front of the cute pool attendant. As they step onto the diving blocks, the words of their Aunty come to them—and suddenly, the crystalline blue tiles give way to much deeper water.

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 …

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