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Speaking American
Bruce G. Shapiro

A simple and accurate guide to speaking in a General American (GenAm) dialect.

Life After George
Hannie Rayson

Peter George, charismatic academic, idealist, lover of life, is dead. His wife, two ex-wives and daughter gather for his funeral. As the true nature of the man and his life unfolds, so these women discover much about themselves and the lives they have lived both within and outside his shadow.

The Great Man and Sanctuary
David Williamson

Two plays that investigate the divergence of self-interest and truth in public life. Includes The Great Man and Sanctuary.

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After January: the play
Philip Dean, Nick Earls

Alex is marking time while awaiting his school results—body surfing, watching TV and playing pool are meanwhile his primary concerns. So, he's not prepared for the who cuts past him on a wave and draws him into a new way of looking at the world.

The Changeling
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley

Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance meeting in a church – but Beatrice has already been promised to another man. Unable to marry the man she loves, she employs the hated De Flores, her father's servant, to murder the man her father bids her marry. As payment, De Flores demands Beatrice. And then things get worse...

White with Wire Wheels (1967) examines the insecurity inherent in male cultural attitudes towards women and cars. Dimboola (1969) is a Rabelaisian account of a country wedding. A Stretch of the Imagination (1971), a monodrama about an outback philosopher, brought us the archetypal Australian character of Monk O'Neill, the lonely misanthropist.

The Antipodes
Richard Brome

An ingenious satirical comedy, often considered playwright Richard Brome's masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of the Caroline era, presenting a farcically topsy-turvey view of London in the 1630s.

Peregrine Joyless has become obsessed with travel books, and his obsession is ruining not only his life, but the lives of everyone around him. Step forward the crafty physician Doctor Hughball and the mysterious nobleman Letoy, who have a plan to rid Peregrine of his unhealthy…

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Abandonment
Kate Atkinson

Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. She's moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, character, woodworm and rot. But worse than that she's besieged by invaders of the human kind.

Luck of the Draw
Ned Manning

Luck of the Draw deals with the tragic consequences of the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families. It focuses on the impact this policy had on the parents who lost their children and the children who lost their identity.

Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, which ran for four years in London's West End; and an earlier monologue, A Night in November, exploring the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

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