Collection #5

COLLECTION #5 - 25 Australian plays on read-only CD, plus an elegant 92 page book with production photos, information on the playwrights and short profiles of 36 more plays. NB: This title is no longer available. Many of the scripts it contained may still be purchased individually.

THE PLAYS

Les Winspear

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Alice is on a picnic with her family when she finds herself in the strangest of places meeting the strangest of people. She keeps her cool with the Che-Sha-Puss and blows bubbles with the Caterpillar, drinks tea with the Mad Hatter... more

Mary Rachel Brown

ALL MY SLEEP AND WAKING

'I am not saying I don't wish him peace but he should run through those pearly gates of heaven. If he walks, he'll get caught for something.' All My Sleep and Waking is an ode to the complexity of forgiveness. Who do you forgive?... more

Hilary Bell

THE ANATOMY LESSON OF DOCTOR RUYSCH

Amsterdam, 1698. Doctor Ruysch is an anatomist and artist of great renown. His materials are body-parts, which he arranges in moralizing tableaux. He is assisted by his little daughter Rachel, whose intricate needlework adorns the... more

Peta Tait

BREATH BY BREATH

A play within a play: writer Anton Chekhov and female actor Olga Knipper's intimate relationship is set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century innovation in theatre and political persecution of Jews in Russia, which became... more

Justin Fleming

CHILD OF THE DARK SUN

...A man marries a woman who turns out to be his mother. And he kills a stranger who turns out to be his father. Sound familiar? Yes, but the full story has never been told. What about the parents he THOUGHT were his? This is a... more

Noelle Janaczewska

CONNIE AND KEVIN AND THE SECRET LIFE OF GROCERIES

In the busy international food court of a city mall, Connie, a young sandwich stall worker, sings along to schmaltzy tunes and fantasises a romance with the young man who works at the Korean food counter. Knowing nothing about him,... more

Robert Jeffreys

COVERT

Jennifer Lewis travels to East Timor, during the time the Australian Army Peace-keeping Force is there, to act as a civilian consultant on post-trauma stress. Her long-term lover, Captain Smith, is also there as a serving officer.... more

Stephen Vagg

DIRTY CAFF

A romantic comedy set in Brisbane in the early 1990s. A struggling young secretary, Jennifer, breaks out of her rut by impersonating someone else and getting into university. In the process she risks her job and breaks the law, but... more

Mark O'Flynn

ELEANOR AND EVE

The night Oscar Wilde came to Katoomba, she was dressed as a man... Eve Langley, an eccentric bag lady with a machete at her hip, comes to the house of writer Eleanor Dark. What brings her there? What has she lost? What is the... more

Christos Tsiolkas

FEVER

Fever is made up of four plays The Chair, Blunt, Savant and Psalms, and a composition, The River. The Chair In a desolated house, a lonely woman is confronted by an intruder. She ties him to a chair, but gives him the chance to... more

Gillian Berry

FOR LOVE ALONE

A dramatisation of the novel by Christina Stead. It is mid-1930s. Teresa Hawkins is a talented girl who chaffs at the constraints of the Sydney society in which she lives. She is dazzled by Jonathan Crowe, a man she meets at the... more

Tony Nicholls

HUMPTY DUMPTY: THE EGG'S FILES

Not so long ago, and in a galaxy not so far away, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. The little robot, Hum2Dum2 has gone missing and with him have gone the secret files that could end the reign of the evil Queen Pangea. In... more

Heather Nimmo

I'LL WRITE TO RICHIE BENAUD

Steven is in his thirties. He was born with Downs Syndrome. He lives with his ageing mum, loves to watch the cricket on TV and is impressed that commentator Richie Benaud always knows all the answers. In times of stress or confusion,... more

David Pledger

'K' follows the story of a man who has been detained at a routine security check in an unspecified public space. The performance traces his increasingly violent detention interview under the gaze of a globalised media system. As The... more

Reg Cribb

LAST CAB TO DARWIN

Last Cab To Darwin is based on the true story of Broken Hill taxi driver Max Bell who, in the early 90's, was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. Max decides to end his life with dignity and take advantage of the Northern... more

Maryanne Lynch

THE LOSS

Eight-year-old Alice McDonald has gone missing. Who is she? Where is she? And why has she been taken? Alice's disappearance raises more questions than answers. For the general public, the case becomes a cause celebre as it drags in... more

Patricia Cornelius

LOVE (Currency Press)

Tanya, Annie and Lorenzo are on the bottom of the heap. They're young but already the youth has been wrung out of them. They've been abused, they're abusive, and they're difficult to like let alone to love. But it is love in all its... more

Stephen House

MISS BLOSSOM CALLAHANN

After a big night out on the booze, Blossom and Max wake up together in Blossom's cheap inner city boarding house room. Eviction is hanging heavily over Blossom, and when the landlady disturbs her fantasies, realities hit home and... more

Jonathan Gavin

A MOMENT ON THE LIPS

Seven women gather for a dinner party. Victoria is a painter facing creative stagnation; Jenny is Victoria's elder sister and patron, a barrister trying to make it as a woman in a man's world; Rowena, Jenny's lover, is completing her... more

Donna Abela

THE ROOD SCREEN

Theodora is a dyke with a yearning for the sacred. Her life with Celeste is abundant, bliss-ridden, made it heaven - but how can she find a home for her spiritual instincts when religions condemn the very love of her life? With her... more

Christine Evans

SLOW FALLING BIRD

Conceived on the boat of an asylum seeker, Fish Child hovers above the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre in the Australian desert, reluctant to be born. Her mother becomes enmeshed in an increasingly deadly struggle with a prison... more

Van Badham

STILL LIFE WITH A DEAD ARTIST

In 2002, a police sergeant on stress leave investigates the suicide of an old man and his middle-aged daughter in a strange, modernist house. In 1947, an ambitious young artist tumbles into the garden of the same house,... more

Chris Thompson

THIS ISLAND IS OUR SHIP

Songs and stories of the diverse cultures that live in and around the city of Brimbank - a small and fearful 'Ship of Fools' sails through these songs and stories and, over the course of the journey, each crew member is affected by... more

Alana Valentine

TITANIA'S BOY

Fifteen year old Pradepan Saraf is living in a regional Australian town when his parents' marriage breaks up. In distress, Pradepan retreats into a fantasy world peopled by Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the Fairies, who... more

Michael Watts

TRAIN DANCING

Ulysses is an Aboriginal man torn between his love for Violet and his desire to fight for what he sees as the greater good. Ed and Molly might be his parents - and Violet might be his sister. Through the confusion, Ulysses struggles... more

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