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The School Drama Book is essential reading for teachers and theatre practitioners who want to educate confidently with drama, either through the STC’s School Drama program or on their own. It uses drama as a critical pedagogy, and encourages learning through activities, rather than teaching ‘about’ the texts.
A joyful portrait of the summer of the first doll.
The middle play of Ray Lawler's Doll trilogy, set during World War II in late winter, when Barney and Roo are on leave from the army.
No play has been more important to the history of Australian theatre than Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Twenty years later, Ray Lawler returned to his lovable Carlton household and created two more plays: Kid Stakes, the story of the first doll, and Other Times, about the wartime winter which proved the turning point in the life of the characters.
Mother is a one-woman play that tells the story of Christie, a homeless woman in a world detached, unforgiving and destructive
Pinball is a prescient, detailed and funny work that explores queer and lesbian sexual politics, the structures of the legal system, homophobia and childhood trauma.
What first appears to be a standard cat-and-mouse game of wit and wiles, soon becomes a dance to the death. Who is the cat and who is the mouse? And … who will make it out of Switzerland alive?
A chilling and sometimes hilarious two-hander, with Murray-Smith's signature lucid-lettered prose.
This selection of seventeen monologues takes the reader through the themes that have been explored in the Voices Project over the years, varying from first love to food, telling the stories of Australia.
Dream Home follows Dana and Paul, whose dream turns into a nightmare when they discover their perfect beachside flat is festering...
Old Uncle Chuck rings the bell and in 22 boxing rounds, a family battles it out. With clatter and clutter, they are always divided and united. It's our family. It's our nation. It's not a good look ... but look we must!
Nikolai Ivanov is losing his mind. But one afternoon at a local birthday party, a glimmer of a new life reveals itself...
Antigone has always been a respected member of her community but in civil war all bets are off. Faced with the prospect of unresolved grief, she rebels against everything she knows. Her fate is mandated: either fall in line or be outcast forever.
Three philandering, bickering and workaholic couples board a cruise ship travelling from London to New York for seven days of marital healing.
Roland, a Professor of Wellbeing, and his cynical wife Hanna grapple with the elusiveness of the emotion.
A car crash in the Central Desert. A broken man, about to leave his wife. A woman miscarrying her first-born child. Broken entwines the stories of three complex lives as they unfold on a single fateful night in the heart of the Northern Territory’s desert country.
It’s Ladies Day at the Broome races and the divinely beautiful Mike is the toast of the track. But amongst the froth and festivity, a brutal act of violence reminds us that life is not just all swishy hemlines, debonair gents and fascinators galore.
Juliet and Clinton are in love. Guileless, sweet, all-encompassing love. However, love is not without its impediments. Standing in the way of their happiness are Juliet’s mother and sister, whose disapproval is of the most high-brow kind.
In the 1970s, pursuing a good life and future, Judith and Patrick built a house in the Adelaide Hills. As time wore on, the family drifted from the house. Now all three generations have gathered once more. Can the life they once pursued come good?
From the marvellous mind of Lally Katz comes a modern romance about wanderlust, love and karate. Inspired by the true events that brought her parents together, Back at the Dojo is a ravishing, nourishing story about the myths families live by.
A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's infancy into our complicated present.
From the wry, warm and wonderfully distinctive voice of Matthew Whittet comes a play about being lost in the jungle of teenagerdom and coming out the other side.
John saw his brother Michael die. He seems to have forgotten it, until now. His brother Peter saw it too, but remembers things differently. Together, they revisit the past in search of a common truth. But this search has terrifying, unexpected consequences for them both.
Inside her triple-glazed compound, Augusta shields herself from the catastrophic elements, bathing in the classics and campaigning for the reinstatement of global reliance on fossil fuels. Outside, the world lurches from one environmental cataclysm to the next.
Williamson has written his charm into a lovable loser who does his best to disprove the theory that nice guys always finish last.
What do a transvestite, an ageing shearer, a retired prostitute and a famous footballer have in common? All find themselves in a cabaret venue late one night after the show - and all are looking for love.
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