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A small town in the middle of nowhere. A family is talking about everything and anything except what's really going on. Through fantasy and hyper-realism, desert, 6:29pm ponders if it's possible to ever truly know someone you love.
Pearl is the quintessential matriarch balancing family, business, and her love of karaoke. Enter her daughters: Zoe, in the throes of online dating, and making big life decisions; while Mei, a teenager, grapples with her identity in modern Australia. Tonight, Pearl reveals a secret that threatens to tear their family apart.
All Jed’s friends have moved to the city, but he still lives with his two mothers in a small town. Since finishing high school, the frustrations of coastal life are looming large. And something is being hidden from him about the illness facing one of his mothers.
Following on the success of Zeal’s 2011 collection featuring The Stones, Burnt and Taboo, this collection features two new plays: King Hit and Lucky Country.
A story of Sydney – work and corruption, family and massive social change. A story of how Australia went from working class to middle class.
Eva Di Cesare has adapted Abdel-Fattah's book Where the Streets Had a Name into a daring adventure of freedom and friendship, exile and courage, family and love.
Winner of the Judges' Award in the prestigious Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting (UK), Kendall Feaver's captivating play is a profound and compelling study of a young woman trying to discover where her illness ends and her identity begins. The Almighty Sometimes is a quick-witted and bracingly honest take on the difficult choices you make in your child's best interests, and what happens when you no longer have a say.
The Lewis Trilogy follows Louis Nowra’s occasional hero, sometime narrator and perennial misfit, Lewis, as he struggles to find and understand his place in the changing world around him. The collection includes Summer of the Aliens, Così, and This Much is True.
In The Feather in the Web, Nick Coyle has created a reverse Alice in Wonderland: where a fantastical person is forced on a quest through the real world, not the other way around. Full of astonishing twists and an escalating sense of unease, you will laugh out loud … right before you consider putting a plastic bag over your head.
Lewis Carroll’s whirling, fantastical masterpiece is faithfully and beautifully recreated as a non-stop, madcap theatrical adventure for the whole family. This classic kids’ tale is now an all-new Australian adaptation by multi award-winning playwright Mary Anne Butler.
It’s Tula’s birthday party and the theme is a Blues Brothers Pizza Night. Heaps of people arrive, the music is pumping and everyone is having a great time. When Tula’s parents leave the party, things change.
When a young refugee boy arrives at Cook Vale High School, he is given the name ‘Lucky’ by the enthusiastic and open-hearted principal of the school. Two boys in his class are not so open-hearted...
Coming home one night, Sandra learns she has two weeks to move out. It’s nothing personal, her housemates just have a friend who needs somewhere to stay. No choice but to pack up and find another sharehouse. But Sandra is in her 50s and affordable places are hard to find in the ruthless Sydney rental market.
Now older, and possibly wiser, Lewis is a writer ‘between divorces’ and temporarily adrift. He is once more drawn into a colourful world of outsiders and dropouts.
This adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s controversial 1872 gothic novella explores violence, transgressive sexuality and the fragile boundary between the living and the dead.
Ellida—a lighthouse keeper’s daughter—is living a life of quiet desperation with her husband Dr Wangel in a coastal fjord town when a stranger from her past arrives, upsetting the fragile equilibrium she and Wangel had created.
Welcome to the party to end all parties—where Blasko Tupper, teenage master of the dark arts has just kidnapped her entire school—including Motor-mouth and Suck-face, two geeks in lust and love who have until midnight to lose their virginity, escape through a cosmic wormhole and save the planet—in the other dimension. Everything goes according to plan, that is, until Blasko’s parents escape their cage and start transforming hysterical teenagers into mindless zombies.
Hungry Ghosts interlaces the disappearance of flight MH370 with political corruption scandals in Malaysia and the search for identity in the ambiguous space of the new migrant.
Deceptive Threads tells the extraordinary true stories of David Joseph’s grandfathers—one a Tivoli singer turned ASIO spymaster who vetted ‘unwanted’ arrivals, the other an early Lebanese immigrant who had to lie about his birthplace to gain Australian naturalisation.
In a small town, a young woman applies make-up like layers of defence, preparing to go into battle. On top of the town tip, two friends stand guard as some home truths emerge. At the local arcade, a grotesque ritual sacrifice is taking place. And a young woman obsessed with Stevie Nicks thinks she’s solved the mystery about the blood on the silo just out of town…
Two plays by Noëlle Janaczewska. Good with Maps is sad and confronting, but it’s also funny and thoughtful, celebrating the power of literature to transport us to places both real and imagined. Teacup in a Storm is a window into the largely unseen world of carers and the power of love and determination.
Verity Laughton's semi-verbatim play about the battle for Long Tan is composed from interviews with the surviving Australian soldiers, Vietnamese contributors, and the family and friends of those who died.
The Harp in the South Trilogy follows the trials and tribulations of the Darcy family over thirty years, from country New South Wales in the 1920s to the inner-city slums of Surry Hills in the 1950s.
A contemporary, lyrical love story, Charley Miles's play Blackthorn explores the changes and choices that pull us from the places and people we love.
An explosive triple confrontation that is funny, heartbreaking and beautifully observed, Iseult Golden and David Horan's CLASS is an award-winning play about learning difficulties: in school, in life, wherever.
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