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Grace's job is to prepare young men in juvenile detention to become fathers. But can Cain, Riyad and Jonjo grow up quickly enough to escape the system?
Between the years of 1975 and 1980, the women of Leeds lived in fear. With no clue as to who was responsible for the sustained attacks and murders across the city, the authorities urged women to stay at home. From the fear and fury, a steadfast solidarity arose, birthing the Reclaim the Night movement and echoing down the generations to this day.
Munro's inventive feminist adaptation places the writer Mary Shelley herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.
Natalie Mitchell's play Germ Free Adolescent is a fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway?
Two sisters struggle to survive in the wake of a toxic childhood. Each must find a way to build a life out of chaos. But what happens when the ties that bind become the thing that holds you back?
An innovative festive drama with original songs, The Last Noël captures the unique bonds of family and how coming together to share stories and a meal can be a modern Christmas miracle.
Since her ordeal five years ago, nineteen-year-old Nene rarely leaves home. But weekly visits from her best friend start to fill the void and on one unexpected day, when Nene is finally beyond the walls of her sanctuary, the direction of her life is changed forever …
Little Baby Jesus and Estate Walls, plays both set in contemporary inner-city London, showcase the remarkable poetic and theatrical imagination of writer/performer Arinzé Kene.
Rural Suffolk, 1759. When a woman on trial for murder claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she's telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose.
Ebenezer has died and his sister Fan has inherited his money-lending business, notoriously becoming the most monstrous miser ever known. This year, on Christmas Eve, Fan Scrooge will be haunted by three spirits. They want her to change. But will she?
Swive [Elizabeth] shines a light on the ways and means by which women in power negotiate patriarchal pressure in order to get their way.
Three women, forty years, one ever-evolving bond.
Fake sick days, Stonehenge, roller skates, champagne and glow-in-the-dark stars.
The Tyler Sisters is a funny, heartening exploration of time, and the unassuming moments that make up our lives. Alexandra Wood's innovative play explores the deep and unruly waters of sisterhood. It premiered at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London, in December 2019.
'Lovely... what this play has, more than anything, is life' — The Arts Desk
'Engaging and well-crafted exploration of sisterhood' — The Stage
'Wood's spirited story of modern womanhood reminds us that the blood-bond of sisterhood has hard edges... refreshing... emphatically contemporary'
Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson's stunning adaptation of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, Uncle Vanya, is a portrayal of life at the turn of the twentieth century, full of tumultuous frustration, dark humour and hidden passions
In Nearer the Gods, David Williamson brilliantly recreates Sir Isaac Newton’s battle with the Royal Society to prove his astonishing universal theory of gravity.
In Odd Man Out, a couple navigate the emotional terrain of a new relationship, which turns out to be less typical than either of them expect.
In Sorting Out Rachel, David Williamson steps onto fertile ground with a social comedy about legacy, greed, entitlement and making good on past relationships.
In The Big Time, best friends are put to the test in a satirical comedy set in the celebrity world of TV, film and theatre.
Seventy-six year old Patricia has dropped out of life. She is living on her verandah, waiting for her time to come, when her granddaughter arrives to stir up the town. This is a play about what it is to be Australian in a multicultural world.
CUSP juxtaposes the Northern Territory's vast landscape with the turbulent lives of three emerging adults swimming against the tide of irrevocable change.
This Was Urgent Yesterday is a collection of single-actor scripts written by and for young people from regional Australia.
A little mermaid trades her voice for legs. She dreams of a human world bathed in sun. A group of teenagers trade stories about life in 2020. They dream of all the worlds that could have been. Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairytale is radically re-imagined by a collective of teenage and adult theatre makers in The Mermaid by Cassandra Fumi.
Intersection: Beat is a taste-test of Australia's brightest new playwrights illuminating fragments of lives dancing on the edge of adulthood. This collection of short plays will surprise, intrigue, provoke and move.
In the tidy town of Appleton, things are just so. That is, until prodigal daughter Penny returns from the big smoke to set up shop as the local GP. Penny never much cared about the potato race, but when she discovers that the men's prize is five times more than the women's, she suddenly does care.
S. Shakthidharan's extraordinary multilingual play (English, Tamil and Sinhalese) Counting and Cracking traverses countries and decades to bring us an epic tale of family, love and politics.
In an ordinary street, in an ordinary suburb, in an ordinary town, something is amiss. It's not the maths exam the teens are about to fail, or the overdue essay. It's not global warming or fast-fashion sweatshops. It's a low buzz of anxiety, a quiet terror in the middle of the night. Because girls have been going missing.
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