Collection #7

Collection #7 features 27 contemporary Australian plays for you to read. Many of these fantastic plays are award winners. The CD represents exceptional value for money and is a great way to preview the full plays and find your next production piece. Remember that you can contact us for performance rights information should you wish to perform one of these great plays. Or contact us to purchase copies of these scripts. Limited copies are available.

Collection #7 is available, and costs $25.00

THE PLAYS

Mary Rachel Brown

AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC

Clair, an activist and nurse, is being held without charge as she is interrogated by ASIO officer August. Clair's parents, Sonya and Erich, are aging East German immigrants still haunted by life behind the wall. Set in contemporary... more

Chris Edmund

BEFORE I GET OLD

Set in England in the 1950s and 60s, we follow the often comic fortunes of a group of kids - from the chaos of primary school to the uniformity of secondary school, sexual awakening and the trials and tribulations of adolescence. The... more

Patricia Cornelius

THE CALL

Gary looks into the eyes of a chook. After laying twenty thousand eggs and spending her entire life inside a tiny cage she's about to be slaughtered. Gary wonders at her terrible life. Gary's life has been a confined one. Most of... more

Lachlan Philpott

COLDER

A young boy is separated from his mother and goes missing in Disneyland. Adrift in the artificial world of giant mice and noisy parades, nobody can account for what happened in the seven frantic hours before he’s found. Years later... more

Simon Luckhurst

CONCERTO FOR HUMANS AND SEMTEX

We now live in an age where every whispered discussion is a potential invitation to terrorism. In 'Concerto for Humans and Semtex' we hear four simultaneous conversations. One will lead to something dire. Which do you listen to? This... more

Caleb Lewis

CRYSTAL

Something weird is happening in the Riverland… Crystal follows six young kids as an other-worldly storm descends on their neighbourhood, threatening to break their homes and tear apart their families. Crystal adopts... more

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DEEPLY OFFENSIVE AND UTTERLY UNTRUE

$290 million in bribes was paid to the regime of an evil dictator on the eve of war. Why? Australian government ministers and Australian Wheat Board executives all struggled to remember exactly what went on, but no one is too sure...... more

Elizabeth Bennett

DIRTY WOMEN

Louise Bayle sees herself as a sculptor with a hideous piece of public art to live down. The art establishment, however, insists on remembering her only as a painter from the 1970s and a member of the group called the Dirty Women. But... more

Patricia Cornelius

DO NOT GO GENTLE...

'Do Not Go Gentle' is set in a metaphorical landscape of icy plateaux, crevasses and labyrinths. This God-forsaken place provides a brilliant background to the stories of six people living out the end of their lives in a nursing home.... more

Simon Froehling

ENEMY MATERIAL

A mock marriage is supposed to allow Imad to escape the discrimination in his country. His lover, his alibi-wife and his advocate discuss the details in Imad's absence. To lie accurately, they have to align their stories about him -... more

Julie Janson

THE EYES OF MAREGE

When an Australian Indigenous man, Birramen, fights with an Indonesian fisherman and kills him, he is taken back to Makassar to face trial. Five years later he returns to his island in the Northern Territory. more

Sasha Janowicz

THE KURSK published Playlab

On August 12, 2000, a Russian Nuclear Submarine the 'Kursk' suddenly sank in the Barents Sea. All 118 men on board were lost. 'The Kursk' is a play that relives the last moments of the crew, the desperate rescue attempt, and the... more

Verity Laughton

THE LIGHTKEEPER

Jack Power, an ex-seaman, is a lightkeeper at an unnamed lighthouse on the south-east coast (the ‘shipwreck coast’) of South Australia. The play covers his midnight-to-dawn watch on a stormy night with a struggling ship in the... more

Melissa Cantwell

MARMALADE AND EGG

A twisted tale of a mother’s bittersweet love for her only daughter. Married to a chicken farmer and now a faded beauty queen, Marmalade takes command of Egg’s wedding, finding herself compelled to sabotage her own plans in a... more

Hilary Bell

MEMMIE LE BLANC

France, 1731. A savage girl is captured in the woods. Memmie Le Blanc, as they baptise her, is bounced from charity to convent, eventually becoming the ward of a widow who believes she can give Memmie the life she deserves. But in... more

Noelle Janaczewska

MRS PETROV'S SHOE

Anna Lubansky shoots to prominence with her first novel 'Mrs Petrov’s Shoe', the emotional narrative of a nine-year-old girl’s struggle to reconcile her Australian reality with her parents’ Central European heritage. Set in the... more

Caleb Lewis

NAILED

Australia. 1959. Teenagers, Joe and May, are on the run from the Aboriginal mission where May has been living. With May close to giving birth they take refuge in a stable owned by a childless couple on the run from each other. As... more

Simon Dodd

PLAYTHING

'Plaything' is a comedy that focuses on five characters who inadvertently are trapped on a stage with an audience observing them. The main characters, HE and SHE, have no recollection of who they are or why they are here, yet feel the... more

Tommy Murphy

PRECIPICE

Four thirteen-year-old boys dare each other to jump from a cliff into the harbour. One can't do it. He remains on stage summoning the courage to leap as scenes from the future reveal the characters at various stages of adolescence.... more

Reg Cribb

RUBY'S LAST DOLLAR

Ruby Constance has a past as rich as her dreams of the future. As she sits at her favourite poker machine, ‘The Dancing Lady’, with only one coin to her name, her life swirls around her in a cavalcade of memories. Memories that... more

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THE SEVEN NEEDS - Currency Press

Seven writers have written seven short plays about Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs - Food, Shelter, Sex, Safety, Belonging, Respect, Spirit. The plays take place in a variety of places - rural suburbia, a one-bedroom flat, a... more

Sheila Duncan

A SOLITARY CHOICE

Ruth is married with a six-year-old son, but has had an affair with a musician from the Andes. She discovers she is pregnant and must make a choice. Will she have her beloved 'black-eyed girl', or will she be too afraid? A... more

Finegan Kruckemeyer

THIS UNCHARTED HOUR

Luka is going to get coffee, when he hits and kills a dog. Trying to find its owner, he catches the eye of an unknown woman. And suddenly he is remembering his mother, and the looks she gave, and the brother that came before him,... more

Rebecca Lister

THROUGH THE MIST

What happens when a family returns to the old home town after an absence of many years? A fictitious story based on interviews with residents of the Trentham Community in the Central Highlands of Victoria. Kathryn Rosevale is in... more

Christine Evans

TROJAN BARBIE

Lotte, a modern-day English tourist who repairs dolls, is on a Cultural Tour for Singles in Troy when she encounters Andromache, fleeing the rape of her city. An American soldier captures Andromache; Lotte tries to intervene, only to... more

Kit Lazaroo

TRUE ADVENTURES OF A SOUL LOST AT SEA

In a remote coastal town in 1850, young motherless Olley Fletcher is discovered washed up on the shore. She and her fisherman father York went missing in a storm some weeks before and she claims to have no memory of this event. She is... more

Kathleen Cantarella

VICTOR AND SASS

When Victor abandoned Sass, he destroyed her belief in the power of their bond to protect them from their brutal beginnings. When he returns many years later to reclaim his sister’s love, he finds her childless and alone, no longer... more

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