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Category: Plays
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Passing Places
Stephen Greenhorn

Alex and Brian are a pair of Scottish smalltown boys going nowhere, who get out the only way they know how – doing a runner with a prized surfboard in the only transport available: a worn-out Lada. But the surfboard belongs to Binks, Alex's psychopathic gangster boss, and he's hot on their heels as they head north for Thurso – where the surf is up all year round.

A stranger, Christy Mahon, arrives in a village bar in County Mayo claiming to have killed his father. The locals are impressed – some can even directly relate to the deed – and Christy is lauded as a folk hero. He can't believe his luck, and confidently pursues the affections of the barmaid Pegeen, until the arrival of his not-so-dead father takes the winds out of Christy's sails...

The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I. A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in.

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.

A young girl, Rowena, moves to a new country town and school. Although Rowena can hear, she is mute. Her widowed father has a penchant for satin cowboy shirts and embarrassing his daughter in public.

Fossils
Manuel Aston

Homo parentithicus. Found in most urban parts of Australia. Prone to roam in pairs. Overprotective towards their offspring. Parents! Fossils turns the spotlight on the complex relationship between teenagers and their parents.

Pentecost
David Edgar

A valuable fresco is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. As international and local art historians argue over who should claim ownership, the fate of the painting becomes a metaphor for the future of the emergent nations of Eastern Europe.

The Devil is an Ass
Ben Jonson

Pug, a junior demon, persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London. Taking over the body of a recently hanged thief, Pug becomes servant to a squire from Norfolk, Fitzdottrel, who doesn't believe that Pug is a devil but is happy that he asks no wages.

Dead White Males
David Williamson

Can an older male academic convert a young female student to a post-structural, post-patriarchal view of literature and seduce her at the same time?

Close To The Bone
Ned Manning

Close to the Bone is a story about a family’s survival in the face of adversity. Moving from the mission to Redfern and back again, it celebrates Redfern’s role in providing a focal point for dislocated Indigenous Australians.

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