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Norm and Ahmed
Alex Buzo

Still alarmingly relevant in the 21st century, Norm and Ahmed has earned its place as a classic of Australian theatre due to its timeless themes and the heightened language, performance style and concern with the behaviour of Australians, its origins and causes that characterised the New Wave.

Highway of Lost Hearts
Mary Anne Butler

A woman. A dog. A campervan. And 4,500 kms of wide open road. Mot wakes up one morning to find that her heart is missing from her chest. She can breathe; she has a pulse—but she feels… nothing. So, she decides to go and look for it. 

Irish Shorts
Selected by Aideen Howard

A collection of short plays by exciting new Irish writers, selected and introduced by the literary manager of the Abbey Theatre.

The River
Jez Butterworth

The River is a… ‘Raw, riveting reflection on love, relationships and illusion.’ (Time Out)

Who is Sylvia? and Duologue
Terence Rattigan

Two plays from one of the leading dramatists of the 20th century.

No Romance
Nancy Harris

Laura has a secret. Joe's has been revealed. Peg's been keeping hers for years. Rich with the absurdities, hypocrisies and vulnerabilities that course through our lives, Nancy Harris's No Romance playfully observes the longings, fears and desires we reveal - and don't reveal - in our closest relationships.

St Petersburg comprises three scenes involving three characters, an old man, his middle-aged daughter, and a ten-year-old boy. Limbo is a monologue in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to. Catherine Medbh is a bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.

In Stacy, Rob finds life confusing in a world of unwritten rules. If there's no one around to tell him right from wrong, except for a copy of FHM and a call-centre supervisor, he just has to guess. But he's never been very lucky, and sometimes he gets his guesses very wrong... Fanny and Faggot presents two distinct moments in the life of Mary Bell: her trial when accused of the murder of two small boys, and her escape from the open prison…

Purgatorio
Ariel Dorfman

A powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos and Euripides' Medea. From the author of Death and the Maiden.

trade & generations: two plays
debbie tucker green

Two plays from the acclaimed playwright debbie tucker green. trade is a short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism. generations is a 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...

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