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Up-and-coming comics Alex and Ben have been booked in the warm-up spot for a beloved but fading double act's comeback tour. When it's revealed that a Hollywood director is in the audience, both acts glimpse a final chance for their big break.
Green Park, picturesque by day, a little eerie by night. It’s where Warren and Edden are meeting, as a prelude to their Grindr hook up. One of them doesn't look like his photo. There's an age gap between them (but what's a decade or three?). And one is harbouring a dangerous secret. In an hour's time, both will leave the park profoundly transformed.
Can you remember your first time. In this hilarious and heartbreaking true story, theatre-maker and activist Nathaniel Hall can't seem to forget his.
Olga, Masha and Irina dream of returning to Moscow… But time marches on… Soldiers come and go, babies are born, great calamities take place. Life happens while the three Prozorov sisters wait for theirs to begin. It's time to act.
A series of characters search for meaning in a complicated and unstable world, bouncing through physics, the cosmos, love and violence.
Written specifically for young people, a play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do.
The second part of Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker Trilogy, retelling the stories of three Tudor queens of England, in contemporary settings.
Georgia Christou's Bright. Young. Things. is a funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are. It is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.
A farmer's daughter howls into the night, run ragged by hunger and grief. Over the course of one long night, the Woman and a Dingo forge an alliance to claw closer to the things they ache for… but it's a dangerous deal to make.
Loneliness, fear, bad dreams, repressed attraction or repugnance, lockdown and sudden escapes, jigsaw puzzles, food deliveries, bad tempers and penguins. Like a modern-day journal of the plague year, this collection of monologues and scenes is a time capsule reflecting the lived experience of these five playwrights during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rural New South Wales, 1899. Sybylla Melvyn is a force of nature—a young woman of spirit, born in the wrong time and place, but filled with dreams. Will she be a writer? An actor? An artist, a musician, a politician? Will she explore the world? Any one of these would be better than the path of wife and mother seemingly predestined for her.
Abigail is a teenager who doesn't quite fit in. She's new in The Rocks, old in her dress sense, and stuck in the middle of her parents' messy separation. She can't wait to get away from all of it. When a street game played by the neighbourhood kids conjures up a mysterious girl, Abigail follows her down twisting alleyways to find herself stuck somewhere strangely familiar and yet entirely strange: The Rocks … in 1873.
Charlotte is a Berliner through and through. Tom is a foreigner, travelling around Europe. After meeting in a bar, sparks fly between them and she invites him to spend the night at her place. As they navigate the ritual of seduction, their desire gives way to secrets that cannot be ignored and questions neither of them can answer. Does young love stand a chance against the suffocating reach of the past?
A great-great grandmother sold as a 'wife' to a white sealer. Her granddaughter, who buried her identity to survive the settler-colony. A young fair-skinned Palawa man, their descendant, seeking truths about their shared past. Bound by blood and borne by the winds of the Bass Strait Islands, they meet at the Island of the Dead. White history has swallowed their stories but they're here to wrest them back.
Struggling actor David can't get enough of drugs, alcohol, women, gambling as he battles debilitating mental health issues. When David is thrown an unlikely lifeline, he must find the strength to confront his inner demons and buried trauma.
Half an hour alone with your worst fears and wildest dreams. No help, no witnesses, and not a minute to lose. When the crisis comes—what would you do? On a lonely desert road in the dead of night, highway police Angela and Romulo are a team—sort of. But then they stop a speeding car and discover a man stripped to his undershirt and covered in filth.
As the world ends in a fire tornado, two young lovers find that breaking up is never easy. In a holding cell, a young woman arrested for graffiti wonders about Cardi B and climate change. The formal on Saturday night is going to be a magical evening – or perhaps more like the revenge scene from a B–grade horror movie. And two new friends need to track down a pet velociraptor – right now – before things get really bad.
Hamilton and Me is an honest, intimate and thrilling look at everything involved in opening a once-in-a-generation production – the triumphs, breakthroughs and doubts, the camaraderie of the rehearsal room and the moments of quiet backstage contemplation.
Set in the French Alps in 1940, Steven Carl McCasland's Little Wars is an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women – and a thrilling fiction based on truth.
Claire Zachanassian returns to her hometown as the world's richest woman. The locals hope her arrival signals a change in their fortunes, but they soon realise that prosperity will only come at a terrible price…
Australia in 50 Plays is Julian Meyrick's lively and accessible account of the remarkable relationship between our national drama and our national life, examining fifty outstanding plays of diverse content and style that have appeared in the 120 years since Federation.
The Crump family is adrift and in trouble, plagued by a recent death and the enduring racial prejudice of living as African-Americans in 1950s Brooklyn. But things change quickly when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows up…
This accessible, systematic guide will teach you how to memorise your lines quickly and effectively, and let go of the fear of forgetting them.
The Motherhood Project draws together dramatic monologues and real-life reflections by some of the UK's leading writers, artists and thinkers, and explores all the guilt, joy and absurdity, the regrets, pressures and taboos surrounding motherhood.
This empowering, informative guide explains everything actors need to know about agents – how to find one, what they do, and how to work with them effectively to help you succeed in your career.
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