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48 Shades of Brown
4 Male, 6 Female
In his final year at school, and with his parents overseas, Dan is forced to grow up fast when he moves in with his 22-year-old aunt Jacq and her eccentric friend Naomi Light-hearted and funny, with a…
A Beautiful Life
6 Male, 2 Female
An Iranian family living in Australia attempts to escape memories of torture endured back home Their role in the 1992 raid on the Iranian Embassy in Canberra leads to persecution by the Australian government…
A Local Man - A Play about Ben Chifley
Late in the afternoon of 9 June 1951, Ben Chifley returns to his modest home in Bathurst to write a key speech which he will deliver at the ALP Conference in Sydney the next day Having recently led his…
A Man With Five Children
6 Male, 3 Female
One-act drama about Gerry, a documentary film-maker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. He then shows the results annually on television Yet for the children who grow up…
A Property Of The Clan
3 Male, 1 Female
When a young girl is murdered at the hands of one of her male contemporaries, what is the aftermath? How is a group of her friends able to cope? Nick Enright deals with these concerns with sensitivity…
A White Sports Coat and Other Plays - includes The Forty Lounge Cafe & Blood Moon
Tes Lyssiotis holds an indisputable place among Australia’s leading playwrights Her plays are populated by immigrant women - Australian citizens grappling with life in Australian towns and cities,…
After Dinner
2 Male, 3 Female
After Dinner is an acutely observed but tender-hearted account of relationships and behaviour set in a suburban pub bistro on a Friday night. Since its premiere at La Mama, Melbourne, Bovell’s comedy…
After January
2 Male, 5 Female
Alex has eighteen days until he finds out if he got into Arts Law, a week in Caloundra to sleep, swim and watch the cricket, and a mother with a keen interest in his sex life. Fortuna keeps bees, has a…
After The Ball
Stephen and Judy live on opposite sides of the world. Their lifestyles and outlooks could not be further apart. But they are brother and sister and when they are reunited at the bedside of their dying…
Aftershocks
7 Male, 9 Female
A moving and truthful portrayal depicting the impact and after effects of the Newcastle earthquake on the lives of ordinary Australian people. 2 Acts - 7M, 9W
Almost A Dinosaur
6 Male, 1 Female
Set about 135 million years ago, Almost a Dinosaur is the story of Rosi, who is a…well…Rosi’s not quite sure. She lives in the forest with Arky Archaeopteryx, Allo Allosaurus, Dindy Deinonychus,…
Amigos
3 Male, 2 Female
Of the Four Amigos who won a rowing bronze at the Mexico Olympics, three are still alive - Jim, an investment banker who thinks an AC after his name might legitimise a life of squalid dealing; Dick, a…
Asylum
2 Male, 2 Female
Lally Black is a psychiatrist who struggles to keep the lid on her doubts about her own funds of compassion Yu Siying is a Chinese woman who has caught HIV in Australia Afraid of China’s judgement,…
Australian Gay and Lesbian Plays
Australian Gay and Lesbian Plays - Is that You Nancy? & The Gay Divorcee & What Do They Call Me? & Pinball & Furious & A Manual of Trench Warfare & Mates & Blood and Honour This collection of Australian…
Australian Marriage Act
1 Male, 2 Female
Inspired by real-life events, Australian Marriage Act tells the story of sixteen-year-old Victoria seeking permission to marry her 22-year-old fiancé Rod When she is refused permission from both her parents…
Australian Plays of the 50s
Shipwreck by Douglas Stewart & Sky Without Birds by Oriel Gray & Night of the Ding Dong by Ralph Peterson & The Day Before Tomorrow by Ric Throssell
Australian Women’s Drama - Texts And Feminisms
A survey of Australian women's writing for theatre from 1971 to 1996, this anthology charts feminist thinking over the past twenty-five years. 2 Acts - 3M, 2W (plus chorus) & 2 Acts - 2M, 2W & 4 Acts -…
Away
6 Male, 4 Female
A funny but painfully truthful play. It opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Shakespearean themes of suffering and reconciliation persist as three families on separate…
Bali - Adat
7 Male, 1 Female
Set in Bali at the time of Dutch rule, the play shows how the conflicting world views of Christianity and Hinduism affected the negotiations between the two cultures and led to defeat and victory on both…
Barungin (Smell the Wind)
6 Male, 4 Female
Set in 1988 Barungin completes a trilogy started with The Dreamers and No Sugar and deals with issues that include land rights, alcohol abuse and black deaths in custody. 2 Acts - 6M, 4W
Bastard Boys
This is the story of the fight that stopped the nation - the 1998 battle for Australia’s waterfront More than just a dispute over reform, it became a campaign for the hearts and minds of all Australians…
Beautiful Words
Large Mixed Cast
An epic chronicle of the refugee experience, Beautiful Words weaves together three very different stories of survival, told through the eyes of three children in different times and places The outcome…
Behind The Beat
7 Male, 6 Female
The Cold Courage band has two great gigs lined up, but their new drummer is drinking his way through rehearsals. Liz is determined to keep it all together while all around her, things fall apart. Commissioned…
Birthrights & Soulmates
4 Male, 3 Female
Birthrights A bittersweet play about motherhood At twenty-nine, Helen has a vital operation that stops her from having what she desperately wants - a child Her younger sister Claudia gives her a wonderful…
