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What starts as just another night drinking down at the cricket nets soon gives way to an ecstatic vision that leaves a friendship in ruin.
History is about the heroes. Rainbow's End chronicles the lives of three generations of Koori women —unsung heroes who fight the good fight every day from their humpy on Yorta Yorta country.
Set on an abandoned cattle station in the Kimberley landscape, this one-woman play combines the poetry of a campfire story with the comedy of a great yarn.
Tommy Murphy's stage adaptation faithfully captures the book's heart-wrenchingly honest portrayal of a fifteen-year relationship, but also succeeds in transforming it into a unique theatrical experience that is wholly his own. The play won multiple awards and had seasons across Australia and internationally.
In his latest play, Rupert, Australia’s best known and multi-award winning playwright David Williamson tackles the rise and rise of ex-Australian citizen and one of the planet’s most powerful, influential and feared men, Rupert Murdoch.
Two teenage girls shack up together in the haunted house of a small town. Swamped by loneliness, drug abuse and psychosis, it seems their life choices will repeat indefinitely. When they're joined by a more precocious and popular girl from out of town, it can only lead to … the basement.
A woman. A dog. A campervan. And 4,500 kms of wide open road. Mot wakes up one morning to find that her heart is missing from her chest. She can breathe; she has a pulse—but she feels… nothing. So, she decides to go and look for it.
This monologue collection offers up a challenge: to perform with voices that aren't from play scripts. Working instead from fiction, non-fiction and poetry, these pieces are a fresh and sharp source of material for performance, auditions and workshops.
Will Drummond is bewildered. All the old certainties are coming apart. His parents are suddenly old, theatre is not what it used to be, people around him are losing their minds and losing faith, the world is shrinking, and what does it even mean to live in a society any more?
Looking deep into the heart of Sydney and beyond, Jump for Jordan unpacks the experience common to countless second-generation Australians of being caught between two cultures.
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.
On a hot morning in Darwin, Ruben wakes to find his cousin hanging from the rafters. What follows is the story of a family, buffeted by constant tragedy, holding itself together—as their people have done generation after generation.
Two plays by Declan Greene. Moth explores themes of friendship, bullying, mental illness, and the hierarchy of the schoolyard. Home Economics is a series of five vignettes balanced on the axis of sex and food.
Based on a true story of a young soldier who was returned home so badly damaged he was unrecognisable, apart from a single tattoo, Patient 12 tells the story of a doctor’s forensic journey to identify this man.
Thirteen delicious tales by some of the country’s best emerging playwrights, The Voices Project 2014: Bite Me is a collection of seven-minute monologues tailored for young adult actors.
Lisa, 45, is fighting feelings for Tom that could rob her of Dan, the person she's loved most in the world. Dan is a cheeky, exasperating mystery and brings Lisa joy she can’t explain. But her chance for a life with Tom is slipping away…
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.
Jake Wilson's thoroughly researched book takes a fresh look at the historical Dan Morgan as well as the film's colourful production history and its significance in the wayward career trajectories of its director and star. Above all, it interrogates the creative risk-taking drive that made the film, like the man himself, into the legend that it is.
Cut Snake is a comedy about growing up, dying young, and being extraordinary no matter what.
A Homeric Odyssey told from the perspective of a stray dog as he journeys through Melbourne's urban landscape. Raw performance, a designed soundscape and an epic and poetic text combine to create an extraordinary adventure.
In a small flat in Russia 1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky grafts out a novel for an unscrupulous publisher. All the time, though, he is haunted by a story from his past
Acts of Courage forges immediacy and honesty between a range of stories, generating forgiveness and hope. This trilogy celebrates not only the Australian spirit through times of hardship, but everyday, extraordinary, acts of courage.
Five plays are intertwined in one in this story of fringe dwellers living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly without work, and politically disengaged, they work at survival.
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.
Drama for Early Childhood contains 40 simple, easy-to-follow lesson plans appropriate for children between the ages of 3-8 years.
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