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Seven playwrights. Fifteen plays. Short plays, but whole worlds contained in them. Huge windows into the minds and times of seven extraordinary writers for the theatre.

What Do They Call Me?
Eva Johnson

Three monologues from one of the most respected Indigenous voices, that each present a different view of how changes in the law from the 1940s to 1970 affected Aboriginal people. 

The Motherhood Project
Kalhan Barath et al

The Motherhood Project draws together dramatic monologues and real-life reflections by some of the UK's leading writers, artists and thinkers, and explores all the guilt, joy and absurdity, the regrets, pressures and taboos surrounding motherhood.

Dogged
Andrea James, Catherine Ryan

A farmer's daughter howls into the night, run ragged by hunger and grief. Over the course of one long night, the Woman and a Dingo forge an alliance to claw closer to the things they ache for… but it's a dangerous deal to make.

The Crump family is adrift and in trouble, plagued by a recent death and the enduring racial prejudice of living as African-Americans in 1950s Brooklyn. But things change quickly when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows up…

Little Wars
Steven Carl McCasland

Set in the French Alps in 1940, Steven Carl McCasland's Little Wars is an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women – and a thrilling fiction based on truth.

Fangirls
Yve Blake

Meet Edna: she's 14, she's a misfit, she's kind of a genius and ... she's in love. With Harry. There's just one problem: Harry doesn't actually know that she exists. Because Harry is in the world's biggest boy band, True Connection. But to Edna, that's just a small obstacle.

The Curve
Bates et al

Loneliness, fear, bad dreams, repressed attraction or repugnance, lockdown and sudden escapes, jigsaw puzzles, food deliveries, bad tempers and penguins. Like a modern-day journal of the plague year, this collection of monologues and scenes is a time capsule reflecting the lived experience of these five playwrights during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mongrels
Nick Enright

Inspired by the lives of two of Australia's most influential playwrights of the 1970s, Jim McNeil and Peter Kenna, Mongrels addresses the difficulties and complexities of the creative artist in life and art.

This accessible, systematic guide will teach you how to memorise your lines quickly and effectively, and let go of the fear of forgetting them.

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