Featured plays - amateur

PLAY OF THE MONTH FOR APRIL 2008

RUBY'S LAST DOLLAR

A surreal black comedy from award-winning playwright, Reg CRIBB

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

This is the story of a survivor, a woman who would risk everything to ensure a better life for her granddaughter, but who has only one thing left to gamble with – her precious, lucky coin. If she puts this coin in the slot, will she win the jackpot, or will she lose all that is left of her?

'...wild, passionate and funny' John McCallum, The Australian, 24 June 2005

First produced by Pork Chop Productions/Black Swan Theatre Company at the Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, in 2005.

Short-listed for the 2006 Louis Esson Prize for Drama

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CONTROLLED CRYING

More than any other place on earth, the marital bed is where the true business of life is transacted - in furtive, whispered darkness, from conception through to death. Here, amidst the rumpled, chaotic counterpane of life, Libby and Oscar play out the odyssey that is the raising of their daughter Millie...

First produced at Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne, in 2006.

A SOLITARY CHOICE

A black comedy drama monologue from Sheila DUNCAN

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?

For a 35- to 40-year-old woman.

First produced at the Bakehouse Theatre for the Adelaide Festival of One in 2001.

PREVIOUSLY FEATURED

MARCH 2008

• EMBERS by Campion DECENT

• MELINDA by John UPTON
• A TREE, FALLING by Ron ELISHA

FEBRUARY 2008

• DO NOT GO GENTLE... by Patricia CORNELIUS

• DEBT by Gabrielle MACDONALD
• MACHIAVELLI, MACHIAVELLI by John UPTON

OCTOBER 2007

• NATURE AS EXPLAINED BY THEATRE by Damon LOCKWOOD

• AFTER YOU'VE GONE from Sue INGLETON
• COCKATOO HALL from Nick HUGHES

SEPTEMBER 2007

• SONGS FOR THE DEAF from Caleb LEWIS

• A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER from Damon LOCKWOOD
• CAN'T WAIT FOR LOVE from Bruce SHEARER

AUGUST 2007

• AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC by Mary Rachel BROWN

• CLASSIC CLAUSTROPHOBIA by Jenny RIXON
• THE EMOTIONAL ANATOMY OF A RELATIONSHIP BREAKDOWN from Suzie MILLER

JULY 2007

• SARDINES from Hellie TURNER

• HOG'S HAIRS AND LEECHES from Patricia CORNELIUS
• STARKERS from Julia JAREL

JUNE 2007

• FIDELITY from Tobsha LEARNER

• THE MARK OF CAIN by Leigh SWINBOURNE
• A MOMENT ON THE LIPS by Jonathan GAVIN

MAY 2007

• ROYAL AFFAIR by Michael COSTELLO

• COVERT by Robert JEFFREYS
• ERROL FLYNN'S GREAT BIG ADVENTURE BOOK FOR BOYS from Rob GEORGE

APRIL 2007

• COUNTING OFF THE DAYS from Graeme FORSYTH

• BIRTH DAZE by Wendy MILOTTI
• QUEEN by Ross Vosvotekas

MARCH 2007

• DINNER by Finegan KRUCKEMEYER

• BEHIND THE PLAY from Marita WILCOX
• SOLD by Suzie MILLER

FEBRUARY 2007

• THE RAINBOW DARK by Victoria Carless

• FRANK'LL KILL ME by Stephanie McCarthy
• MOSQUITO by John Pratt