Collection #6
Introducing COLLECTION #6 – 30 great Australian plays on read-only CD, PLUS a 96-page book with production photos, information about the playwrights and short profiles of 38 more plays.
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THE PLAYS
Christopher Johnson
BARNESY, THE HARBOUR AND YOU
When Vic unceremoniously breaks up with Judy, he sets off a chain reaction of bitter lies that ultimately ends up with both of them hiring professional escorts to pretend to be their new lovers on the office Christmas cruise. Set in... more
Van Badham
BLACK HANDS / DEAD SECTION
In 1967, as the Vietnam war escalated and the world's streets exploded in protest, a group of young, white, West German university students took up arms against a democratically-elected government in which their belief had died.... more
Patricia Cornelius
BOY OVERBOARD (Currency Press)
Adapted for the stage by Patricia Cornelius from Morris Gleitzman's best-selling novel, Boy Overboard depicts a deeply human side of the 'asylum seekers' issue by following the journey of Jamal and Bibi from Afghanistan to Australia.... more
Noelle Janaczewska
THE BUTCHER'S WIFE
When she married Luke Harris, Sopoline thought she'd escaped her past. Here she's Mrs. Harris, a country town butcher's wife, and Cambodia seems a long way away. Until Luke's mysterious disappearance prompts an investigation. ... more
Peter Fyfe
CENTRE CAUGHT
Two boys, Benjamin and David, meet clubbing, under the watchful eye of a tennis umpire, who scores their every move and mistake. Things go well until Benjamin says, "I love you", which is called "out" under the rules. David wins the... more
Kate Rice
THE DEAD ZONE
Wet season, Saturday night, a party, a car crash.
Abby's boyfriend Jasper and best friend Belinda are killed. Abby, the driver, wakes up in a hospital bed to her only visitor - the stranger Orpheus, who pulled her from the... more
Maryanne Lynch
GAMEGIRL
Lila is turning ten.On her birthday she receives 'gamegirl', a virtual reality game she has long craved. That's not all she gets: at the same time her parents announce that they are splitting up.
Lila moves between the real world and... more
Catherine Ryan
GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL
Sandra has landed in the middle of a street. Just her and her suitcase. And there she makes her home, an increasingly elaborate camp. The neighbours, although apparently ignoring her, are well aware of her presence. But only the... more
Shirley Van Sanden
HIDDEN DRAGONS
Brendan is an Australian born Chinese boy who is having difficulty accepting his Chinese heritage. On the morning of his 11th birthday, Brendan experiences a recurring nightmare where he witnesses a fight between a red and a blue... more
Chris Aronsten
HUMAN RESOURCES
Three one-act monologues - Dave's Lunchtime Dos and Don'ts, Brian Meets His Match and Fiona's Functions - linked together by the themes of office politics, desire, control, loneliness and isolation. more
Steven Snell
KEEPER
Kevin and Neil have just been involved in a brawl at a party. During the fight, someone was killed, and now Kevin fears they will be up on murder charges. They go to Kevin's older brother Russel for help - but something is not quite... more
Van Badham
LETTERS TO W
In this epic travelogue, Josie Kelly, international itinerant, hits the United States in search of adventure and enlightenment.
Falling in love, into bed and over her enormous backpack, Josie hauls through loves, lives and... more
Maxine Mellor
LITTLE HITLER'S ODE TO AN AUSTRIAN BENTWOOD
There's a Russian bride, a war veteran, a Reverend, and a cowboy - all little Hitlers - and one Austrian Bentwood chair. See them live and see them die. Only one will be left standing: simple, sturdy, lasting.
LITTLE HITLER'S ODE TO... more
Terence Crawford
LOVE'S TRIUMPH
Edwina Brumble is the queen of Kings Cross. Morrie Fairway is a big-hearted punter in debt to her. If Morrie doesn't pay the money by the end of the day, he'll be fed to the fish.
Meanwhile country boys Darcy and Brad arrive in... more
Simon Froehling
ME COWBOY YOU INDIAN
After yet another relationship break-up, Mark returns to his boyfriend Tim who has been infected with a deadly disease. By infecting himself as well, Mark wants to become one with his lover - a concept Tim refuses to understand. At... more
Les Winspear
MONKEY
Monkey is a classic tale based on the Chinese mythological novel Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en, which was written during the Ming dynasty and based on traditional Chinese folk tales. It's a gripping tale rife with the magic of... more
Michael Hill
MOTION SICKNESS
Sean has a terrible confession to make. He wants to tell his sister the unforgivable thing he has done, but just as he gathers the courage to walk through the door of the building where she works, the ground begins to shake and the... more
Christos Tsiolkas
NON PARLO DI SALO
In 1975 the controversial Communist Italian poet, filmmaker and novelist, Pier Paolo Pasolini, finished his last film, Salo, a nightmare vision based on de Sade's 120 Days in Sodom and set in Mussolini's fascist republic. The film was... more
Michael Watts
NOT LIKE BECKETT - Playlab Press
Walter Walloon Beckett is the amazing tap-dancing, singing, performing rabbit. He is a descendant from one of the original pioneering families who first opened up the country and he is in love. From the top of his mountain he can... more
Maude Davey
PARALLAX ISLAND
A woman is on a desert island. A man arrives. They are both there to be alone, and now they're stuck with each other. The parallax effect, in which an object appears to change according to the viewer's position, perfectly describes... more
Damon Lockwood
PRI-MATES
Meet Doog and Doug, two prehistoric men at different stages of Evolution - a primitive odd couple. Trapped by a sabre-tooth tiger in the same cave, Doug and Doog join forces in a hilarious bid for survival that sees them move from... more
Chris Thompson
SPINNING THE LINE
Alec and Alexa have been friends since they were little kids - but now they're teenagers everything seems to be really complicated. Why doesn't anyone say what they really mean? Why do parents, teachers, even friends all seem to be... more
Tee O'Neill
STALKING MATILDA
A death, a mystery, an investigation and a degree of subterfuge. STALKING MATILDA is a murder mystery of the 'film noir' variety. True to the genre, the action centres on a beautiful woman of intrigue, Matilda, who is closely allied... more
Alexandra Collier
STILL WAITING
'If I haven't written my first novel, released a platinum album, had a hit film, Oscar nomination, donated my life to starting a charity organisation, met the man/woman of my dreams, travelled the world, studied the great texts, been... more
Tommy Murphy
STRANGERS IN BETWEEN (Currency Press)
There's a climate of fear in friendly Goulbourn and Shane is forced from his family. And so he flees, naturally, to Kings Cross. He is unsure of his sexuality, more unsure of how to find intimacy, and completely thrown by having to... more
Donna Abela
TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
The King has beheaded his Queen. The desperate outsiders she hid in his kingdom have been locked up, and he has vowed to execute them, one by one, each dawn.
But, disguised as the next outsider due to die, Shahrazad tells stories... more
Gareth Ellis
A VIEW OF CONCRETE
In a sprawling metropolis, where all the trees have been replaced by telephone boxes, the parks have become multiplexes, the clouds have turned a toxic orange and the animals are committing suicide, Billy is becoming a fairy. Jacquie... more
Stephen House
VIN
Two teenage boys, friends since childhood, are trapped in the tangled web of their disadvantaged circumstances, and long for release. Enter Vin, a little older, street smart and oozing charisma. Forcing a wedge between the two... more
Catherine Fargher
THE WOMAN WHO KNITTED HERSELF A CHILD
The Woman Who Knitted Herself a Child follows a woman scientist as she does an extraordinary thing: she is knitting herself a child. The piece explores the reveries of this woman as she tries to make sense of a changing and highly... more
Jolly Read
YANDY
'Yandy' tells the story of the first Aboriginal workers' strike in this nation's history. In 1946, 800 pastoral workers in the vast Pilbara went on strike. A quarter of a century later they eventually gained their own land and station... more
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