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Category: Plays
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Afghanistan. It's 2004. Farook and Samia broadcast live every day to the whole of Kabul, delivering ninety minutes of musical bliss: Britney, Backstreet Boys and Enrique Iglesias. But when their show starts to make waves, the two young friends must take on repressive forces to build a new Afghanistan.

Habibti Driver
Shamia Chalabi, Sarah Henley

Meet Ashraf and his 'Habibti' – his daughter Shazia. He's an Egyptian, Muslim taxi driver; she's half-Egyptian, half-Wiganese, and more interested in the last call at the bar than the call to prayer.

Samskara
Lanre Malaolu

Inspired by real-life testimony, four generations of black men are trying to understand themselves in a world which tells them they have to be strong.

Hungry
Chris Bush

Lori is a professional chef. Bex waits on tables to make ends meet. One night together in a walk-in fridge and it's the beginning of something beautiful. A play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.

Counting and Cracking
S. Shakthidharan

S. Shakthidharan's extraordinary multilingual play (English, Tamil and Sinhalese) Counting and Cracking traverses countries and decades to bring us an epic tale of family, love and politics.

Noughts & Crosses (Pilot Theatre version)
Sabrina Mahfouz Original author Malorie Blackman

This gripping Romeo and Juliet story by acclaimed writer Malorie Blackman is a captivating drama of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world.

Rockets and Blue Lights
Winsome Pinnock

A retelling of British history through the prism of slave trade — who owns Britain's past, and who has the right to tell its stories? Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award.

Running with Emus
Merrilee Moss

Seventy-six year old Patricia has dropped out of life. She is living on her verandah, waiting for her time to come, when her granddaughter arrives to stir up the town. This is a play about what it is to be Australian in a multicultural world.

Out of Sorts
Danusia Samal

Over one dramatic weekend, the lies Zara has been telling to keep her two worlds apart begin to unravel and she is forced to confront her real identity.

A Ghost in My Suitcase
Vanessa Bates, Gabrielle Wang

Twelve-year-old Celeste - 'half French, half Chinese and all Australian' - travels to China to scatter her mother's ashes. There she meets her grandmother, Por Por, a ghost-hunter. When Celeste learns she may have inherited her grandmother's talent, she must decide whether to acknowledge her gifts and use them to save her family and friends, and if she has the strength needed for the job.

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