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The human and political story of the last man to be executed in Australia, Remember Ronald Ryan won the 1995 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. This edition includes a new monologue spoken from Ryan’s perspective that ‘speaks to a new audience from his poor and unmarked grave’.
This collection features a keenly engaging discussion of our most dearly held values and their ramifications. Ludicrous and incisive, this collection invites us to confront those questions of morality most threatening to life as we know it. The collection includes Day One, A Hotel, Evening, True Minds, and Fury.
A family of three generations is guided through their last hours. With fear, loathing and existential guilt all present in the perverse relationships, can Everyman realign these individuals so warped and deranged?
True Minds is cogent and facetious. When two families on the brink of matrimonial union become stranded in a freak storm, will the couples’ dawning incompatibility coax them to fight for integrity as the only reliably stable choice?
In the harrowing unfolding of hypocrisies and brash pragmatism, Fury hones in on our true motivations and their lasting consequences.
Graciously irreverent, this play explores the revelations of three couples entangled in a web of extra-marital indiscretions. It asks us, ‘What is love?’ in a glaringly honest, deeply searching and ultimately sobering way.
The Nick Enright Songbook brings together 50 of the best songs from ten musicals for which Enright wrote the lyrics.
Sixteen-year-old Connor is angry. He doesn't know why, and he doesn't know where to direct it. People and things he once liked annoy him. His parents, his best friend, his once-cool uncle now officially suck. Then, the outburst. Connor is dropped in a forest … for a week … by himself … to calm down. But his anger has travelled with him.
The Berry Man is a searing indictment of the consequences of war, with the humour and fragile, flawed characters that are a trademark of Cornelius' writing.
In this wondrous play, Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition is a metaphor for the elusive journey of five elderly people facing the final leg of their travels.
In a wondrous world of riddles and hidden treasure, bumbling Jack Hare is on a race against time to deliver a message of love from the Moon to the Sun. But when Jack's mission goes topsy-turvy, Joe and his mum must come to the rescue, and the line between the two worlds becomes blurred forever.
This is the 2015 instalment of the Voices Project—the overwhelmingly successful annual program of monologues developed by ATYP, written by young people, performed by young actors around the country, and seen by over a million people globally online.
A brilliant surgeon can no longer bear to touch the living. Two voices connect fleetingly over the phone. A desperate mother begs to embrace her son one last time. A young woman seeks atonement.
In Dancing to His Song film critic Jane Freebury searches for the sources of Rolf de Heer's inspiration and finds the secret of his success in an ethic of hard work, flexibility and self-reliance that meets challenges with ingenuity and keeps a steady focus on his vision.
The Grumpiest Boy in the World is a playful escapade of the imagination celebrating ordinariness and extraordinariness—and the grumpiness that can come from thinking we have too much of one, or not enough of the other.
Razor sharp and tourniquet tight, The House on the Lake is a psychological thriller so crafty it's criminal. Mired deep in layers of deception, it's a puzzle of a play certain to engage the intellect and assault the nervous system.
Adapted by the team at Monkey Baa from the picture book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley, Pete the Sheep is a lively and mischievous award-winning musical about individual expression, for young and old.
In a dirt-dry town in rural Australia, a shot shatters the still night. A mother and her daughters have just welcomed home the man of the house—with a crack in the shins and a bullet in the neck. The only issue now is disposing of the body.
Maggie Stone is about loneliness and debt, the risk that comes from asking others for help and the cost of living a life owing nobody.
Williamson: Collected Plays Volume IV by David Williamson includes Jack of Hearts, Cruise Control, Dream Home, and Happiness.
Johann's super-sized rabbits are his pride and joy. Much to his surprise, the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has taken a special interest, and will stop at nothing to get his hands on them.
Mortido is a brilliant portrait of the Emerald City: familiar, bizarre, glorious and mean. A quintessential Sydney tale about crime, globalisation and the killer desire for a bigger house.
A masterclass in film history and theory, The Unusual Suspects is an analysis of the seminal works of cinema’s greatest artists written by one of Australia’s most prolific—and controversial—producers, Antony I. Ginnane.
Matthew Whittet’s beautiful play is a finely observant, optimistic work about the strains of youth, about transformation and, ultimately, letting go.
Journey through dark and beautiful territory to explore the relationship we have with our most precious possession—our mind. A tapestry of surprising encounters weaves stories of hope, escape and resilience.
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