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Category: Plays
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Doctor Scroggy's War
Howard Brenton

An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War.

Chicken Shop
Anna Jordan

Hendrix is growing up. Or at least he's trying to. In a desperate attempt to prove his masculinity, Hendrix enters a very adult world. He meets Luminita, a young girl enslaved in an unbearable life, and their secret friendship grows in snatched moments in a room above a chicken shop.

Regeneration
Pat Barker Adapted by Nicholas Wright

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland 1917. Poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon has been institutionalised in an attempt to undermine his public disapproval of the war. His Army Psychiatrist, Dr William Rivers, has been tasked with returning shell-shocked officers to the trenches, yet under Sassoon's influence, has become tormented by the morality of what is being done in the name of medicine.

Ugly Mugs
Peta Brady

A girl on a footy field cops a blow to the head and her bag is stolen. A teenage boy questions his role in a disturbing event. A woman relives a nightmare while her doctor looks on. None of them were ready for what happened next.

Odyssey
Andreas Litras, John Bolton

Andreas Litreas weaves the stories of his family through the legend of Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War. In this beautifully crafted autobiography we witness Greek tragedy, comedy and the everyday.

Truck Stop
Lachlan Philpott

Sam and Kelly live out west, waiting desperately life to begin. Bored one recess, the girls escape through a hole in the fence. Hanging out at the truck stop, a truck pulls up. The truckie's young. And hot. Sam issues Kelly a dare ...

The Middlemarch Trilogy
George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

George Eliot's Middlemarch is peopled with some of literature's most memorable characters. In Geoffrey Beevers' dramatisation, all three interconnected plays can be performed as a trilogy, but each play can also stand on its own, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

Jandamarra
Steve Hawke

Jandamarra is a legend of the Bunuba people. He led one of the longest and most successful campaigns to defend Aboriginal country in Australian history.

Parramatta Girls is based on the testimony of dozens of GTS old-girls. This vibrant play is a joyous and harrowing dramatisation of the experiences of eight inmates and their reunion 40 years later.

Eyes to the Floor chronicles the experience of girls sent from Parramatta Girls Home to the Hay Girls Home for even more brutal, punitive treatment. 

The Wardrobe
Sam Holcroft

A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Across seven centuries, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid old wardrobe. It’s the safest place they know – but is it safe enough?

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