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This final season explores the theme of departures. Always surprising, tender, shocking and funny, the Voices Project has given a generation of young Australians monologues that speak their language. It’s always sad to say goodbye.
A family property is suddenly zoned as part of a regional housing. Hunter returns from a seven-year absence to find his boyhood house boarded up and his mum in a retirement home. He goes in search of answers...
Dramawise Reimagined is a complete coursebook for students and teachers of secondary-school drama, featuring activities that thoroughly detail each element of drama. This is done using process dramas and plays from the wider world.
In Search of Owen Roe is a powerful and engaging piece of storytelling about ancestry featuring myriad characters, an evocative sound design and richly nuanced text.
Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi’s language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea.
The Honey Bees is a tale of family and empire; action and consequences; and what happens when the bee finally stings.
Hungry servant Truffaldino bites off more than he can chew when he agrees to serve two masters at the same time! Now he must hold everything together without exposing his scam and woo his love interest, spicy Smeraldina, all at the same time. A calamitous comedy unfolds as Truffaldino skids and schemes his way through multiple beatings, mistaken identity and love gone awry on the streets of decadent 18th-century Venice.
Three plays that make a powerful statement on Australia’s relationship with the environment in the shadow of global warming. Including, They Saw a Thylacine by Justine Campbell and Sarah Hamilton, Extinction by Hannie Rayson, and The Honey Bees by Caleb Lewis.
A theatrical collection of stories and songs from Richard Frankland’s extraordinary life as a child abattoir-worker, a young soldier, a fisherman and a field officer for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
A battle across generations, Out of the Ordinary captures the dilemma of navigating the modern world, where an obsession with what we leave behind threatens to swallow our present.
The Green family escape inner-city Sydney for a better life out west. All hell breaks loose when the local MP drops dead playing squash. Dad decides to seek pre-selection for the Labor Party but his family start actively campaigning against him…
A passionate and unflinching collection of three award-winning plays by and about women. This collection includes Muff by Van Badham, MinusOneSister by Anna Barnes, and SHIT by Patricia Cornelius.
Mary-Ellen Field is a successful Australian business consultant in London—until she's accused of betraying the secrets of her supermodel client to the press. Her life comes crashing down: her job, her health and her standing in society collapse. When it emerges that her client's phone had been hacked by reporters, Mary Ellen sets out to defiantly restore her reputation.
Li, a 10-year-old boy, is plucked from his village in rural China and sent to a ballet academy in the big city. He leaves everything and everyone he loves, including his family. Over years of gruelling training, he transforms from an impoverished peasant to a giant of the international dance scene. What does he find along the way?
A Strategic Plan is a contemporary satire about office life, arts funding and the perils of following your heart.
Darwin, 1942: Darwin is hit with more bombs than Pearl Harbour. Mr Takahashi turns the lens upon Darwin’s multicultural and Indigenous women whose lives were forever changed by the bombings of February 19.
This one-person play of mirrors and mannerisms explores the strange world of the body double. It makes unique contributions to timeless theatrical concepts of images and representation. Lake Disappointment is an unusual new work about ego, self-fashioning, and illusions.
Letters to Lindy draws on correspondence and interviews with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. It is an enthralling, revealing, and long overdue dialogue between Lindy and the nation; a portrait of the wisdom and resilience of a grieving mother.
John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams big, but his coloured contacts hide the fact that his skin is more brown than white. His mum wants John to marry a white Aussie woman, but he falls in love with Indigenous woman Sandy.
Through music that ranges from punk-inspired explosions of rage, to tender rock and soul ballads full of yearning, Barbara and the Camp Dogs is a gob-spit of fun, frenzy and family that finds beauty in honesty and hope in confronting the past.
Bob and Fran Price have loved each other for 30 years. They have built a home and raised four strong children. At the end of it all, they are left asking: Was it worth it? Who are we, now that the children have gone?
An epic story of national significance, Cold Light surveys the transformation of Australia from the post-WWII Menzies era to the mid-1970s Whitlam government and asks timely questions about Australia’s relationship to women of vision and people of difference.
Three teenage schoolgirls go missing in Melbourne's hinterland. The clock is ticking, the search is on. One of the girls turns up days later. Confused and unkempt, she has no apparent memory of what happened and where her friends are. Sound familiar?
Developed during Williams’ 2015 residency, Smurf in Wanderland is one man’s insightful and hilarious examination of football, tribalism, belonging and identity. It’s also a passionate defence of the fan—what it means to be a fan, the demonisation of fans and the artificial wedge that has been created between Sydney and its western suburbs.
Sandy was the only Australian War Horse to return home from World War I. Through Sandy’s story we experience the lives of three men who fought in the war. This piece captures the brutality of war and the heroism of those who served.
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