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FURIOUS MATTRESS by Melissa REEVES, published 26 Jul 2010
Loosely based on events that took place in country Victoria in the mid nineties, Furious Mattress is the story of a back-yard exorcism that goes tragically wrong. Convinced that his wife is...
Loosely based on events that took place in country Victoria in the mid nineties, Furious Mattress is the story of a back-yard exorcism that goes tragically wrong. Convinced that his wife is...
THE FEARLESS PIGEONS by Barry KAY, published 12 Jul 2010
Frank and Penny Pigeon live in a suburban fortress with security fences, locks and alarms to protect them from the frightening world out there. But all this security also locks them in as well as...
Frank and Penny Pigeon live in a suburban fortress with security fences, locks and alarms to protect them from the frightening world out there. But all this security also locks them in as well as...
THE GIRL WHO FORGOT TO SING BADLY by Finegan KRUCKEMEYER, published 12 Jul 2010
This is the story of Peggy, and the packing, and the blizzard, and the boat. Peggy O’Hegarty and her parents are packers. They pack one kind of thing, into another kind of thing. But one day the...
This is the story of Peggy, and the packing, and the blizzard, and the boat. Peggy O’Hegarty and her parents are packers. They pack one kind of thing, into another kind of thing. But one day the...
IF ONLY THE LONELY WERE HOME by Finegan KRUCKEMEYER, published 12 Jul 2010
The Lonely hasn't been seen for a long time. His house stands quiet, on the furthest edge of town. So everyone brings to his doorstep the things they love – a photo of the wind, a song you sing in...
The Lonely hasn't been seen for a long time. His house stands quiet, on the furthest edge of town. So everyone brings to his doorstep the things they love – a photo of the wind, a song you sing in...
MAN COVETS BIRD by Finegan KRUCKEMEYER, published 12 Jul 2010
A boy wakes one day and finds he is a man. He can recognize the stranger in the mirror, but his parents, his town, they cannot. He finds a bird that cannot fly, and together they take off. In a...
A boy wakes one day and finds he is a man. He can recognize the stranger in the mirror, but his parents, his town, they cannot. He finds a bird that cannot fly, and together they take off. In a...
SWEET STACCATO RISING by Robert REID, published 12 Jul 2010
In Sweet Staccato Rising we meet Gunner and Slit-Fish, two teenagers struggling to survive on the poverty line. In their world there’s nothing to do and nothing matters. Gunner’s father is dead...
In Sweet Staccato Rising we meet Gunner and Slit-Fish, two teenagers struggling to survive on the poverty line. In their world there’s nothing to do and nothing matters. Gunner’s father is dead...
THIS UNCHARTED HOUR by Finegan KRUCKEMEYER, published 12 Jul 2010
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...
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...
BOATS by Finegan KRUCKEMEYER, published 8 Jul 2010
Jof is born in a crow's nest and possesses the sailor's craft, of knot tying. When a huge storm destroys his boat and leaves his parents working in a circus, Jof returns to the sea, learning from the...
Jof is born in a crow's nest and possesses the sailor's craft, of knot tying. When a huge storm destroys his boat and leaves his parents working in a circus, Jof returns to the sea, learning from the...
HELENA AND THE JOURNEY OF THE HELLO by Finegan KRUCKEMEYER, published 8 Jul 2010
When Helena Bugosi was eight, her mother went to live inside a phone. And when she was nine, her father went into the forest and befriended the foxes. And when she was ten, he got into a small boat...
When Helena Bugosi was eight, her mother went to live inside a phone. And when she was nine, her father went into the forest and befriended the foxes. And when she was ten, he got into a small boat...
THE MODEST AUSSIE COZZIE by Alana VALENTINE, published 8 Jul 2010
The Modest Aussie Cozzie is based loosely on a biography of Aheda Zanetti who invented the Muslim swimsuit the ‘burkini swimsuit’. The play travels with Aheda through inspiration to fledgling...
The Modest Aussie Cozzie is based loosely on a biography of Aheda Zanetti who invented the Muslim swimsuit the ‘burkini swimsuit’. The play travels with Aheda through inspiration to fledgling...
THE SEX ACT by Alana VALENTINE, published 8 Jul 2010
The Sex Act Two university law students, Marlowe and Neil, decide to turn one of their degree assignments into a play about the passing of the 1984 Sex Discrimination Act. They recruit another...
The Sex Act Two university law students, Marlowe and Neil, decide to turn one of their degree assignments into a play about the passing of the 1984 Sex Discrimination Act. They recruit another...
TALES OF GALILEO: OBSERVATION, REVOLUTION & A LEAP OF FAITH by Alana VALENTINE, published 8 Jul 2010
The three short plays are called, collectively, Tales of Galileo. Commissioned by the Sydney Observatory, these three plays are conversations between Galileo Galilei and Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton...
The three short plays are called, collectively, Tales of Galileo. Commissioned by the Sydney Observatory, these three plays are conversations between Galileo Galilei and Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton...
WATERMARK by Alana VALENTINE, published 8 Jul 2010
Watermark is a chronicle of both the physical and psychological devastation of flood in the Northern Territory town of Katherine on January 26, 1998. Based on written and oral testimony from flood...
Watermark is a chronicle of both the physical and psychological devastation of flood in the Northern Territory town of Katherine on January 26, 1998. Based on written and oral testimony from flood...
Tilt by Catherine MCKINNON, published 7 Jul 2010
In the wake of a flood and civil unrest a woman gathers up her meagre belongings and, with her two young sons, leaves home and walks to the border. The woman hopes to make a new life in a different...
In the wake of a flood and civil unrest a woman gathers up her meagre belongings and, with her two young sons, leaves home and walks to the border. The woman hopes to make a new life in a different...
A Beautiful Gesture by Ross MUELLER, published 6 Jul 2010
St Paul’s Church sits beside “Ground Zero”. A tiny building on Broadway, it is one of the oldest constructions on Manhattan. George Washington worshipped here. Despite being “just across the...
St Paul’s Church sits beside “Ground Zero”. A tiny building on Broadway, it is one of the oldest constructions on Manhattan. George Washington worshipped here. Despite being “just across the...
THE CHOIR by Errol BRAY, published 4 Jul 2010
The orphanage boys’ choir has won the interstate competition 3 years in a row. MISS LAWSON (never seen) wants to win it again. She has the boy sopranos castrated so that their voices will remain...
The orphanage boys’ choir has won the interstate competition 3 years in a row. MISS LAWSON (never seen) wants to win it again. She has the boy sopranos castrated so that their voices will remain...
DOING DAWN by Alana VALENTINE, published 4 Jul 2010
Doing Dawn is the story of five young pilgrims who travel to the Gallipoli Peninsula for the ANZAC day commemorations. Based on interviews with actual travellers and and Turkish soldiers, Doing Dawn...
Doing Dawn is the story of five young pilgrims who travel to the Gallipoli Peninsula for the ANZAC day commemorations. Based on interviews with actual travellers and and Turkish soldiers, Doing Dawn...
RATTICUS & REIDAR by Alana VALENTINE, published 4 Jul 2010
Come and meet the residents who lived alongside the soldiers and convicts in the Hyde Park Barracks - the rats! Ratticus is the most cunning rat in the pack and when Reidar, a Norwegian brown rat...
Come and meet the residents who lived alongside the soldiers and convicts in the Hyde Park Barracks - the rats! Ratticus is the most cunning rat in the pack and when Reidar, a Norwegian brown rat...
WATER FALLING DOWN by Mark SWIVEL, published 30 Jun 2010
Water Falling Down is an intimate two-hander, a closely observed portrait of a father and son, a wry and tender meditation on parenting, love and grief. ‘Son’, divorced and disillusioned,...
Water Falling Down is an intimate two-hander, a closely observed portrait of a father and son, a wry and tender meditation on parenting, love and grief. ‘Son’, divorced and disillusioned,...
19 TRAINS by Angus CERINI, published 29 Jun 2010
Writer's notes: A young man performed in a play I had written. His extraordinary skill was indisputable. His illness closed the season early. The season was remounted. He escaped from hospital to...
Writer's notes: A young man performed in a play I had written. His extraordinary skill was indisputable. His illness closed the season early. The season was remounted. He escaped from hospital to...
THE NEW BLACK by Robert REID, published 24 Jun 2010
The New Black was prompted by two media events during 2008. The first being the controversy over the Roslyn Oxley 9 exhibition of artist Bill Henson’s work and, the second, the much publicized...
The New Black was prompted by two media events during 2008. The first being the controversy over the Roslyn Oxley 9 exhibition of artist Bill Henson’s work and, the second, the much publicized...
STUDENT BODY by Alana VALENTINE, published 24 Jun 2010
Kai Chai is a student who has come to Australia for a university education. So have Fon and Aditya and Song Yi. All of them are seeking an encounter with the freedoms and opportunities provided by a...
Kai Chai is a student who has come to Australia for a university education. So have Fon and Aditya and Song Yi. All of them are seeking an encounter with the freedoms and opportunities provided by a...
YOUTH by Leigh SWINBOURNE, published 17 May 2010
Youth explores the role of belief and delusion in romantic love, and also in the creative act. In what appears to be an interview, but might be a confession, an old man, Henry, recalls a pivotal...
Youth explores the role of belief and delusion in romantic love, and also in the creative act. In what appears to be an interview, but might be a confession, an old man, Henry, recalls a pivotal...
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BABES IN THE WOOD by Tony NICHOLLS, published 2 May 2010
The Green Stone which keeps Sherwood Forest safe has been stolen. Robin Hood, falsely accused of the theft is doing everything he can to force the Sheriff of Nottingham – the true thief – to...
The Green Stone which keeps Sherwood Forest safe has been stolen. Robin Hood, falsely accused of the theft is doing everything he can to force the Sheriff of Nottingham – the true thief – to...
ROLAND THRING AND THE YEAR ALL HIS CHRISTMASES CAME AT ONCE by Rod AINSWORTH, published 27 Apr 2010
Roland Thring is an only child. Feeling isolated from his family and his world, he climbs up his Dad’s HAM radio tower to get away from it all and is struck by a bolt of lightning. After meeting an...
Roland Thring is an only child. Feeling isolated from his family and his world, he climbs up his Dad’s HAM radio tower to get away from it all and is struck by a bolt of lightning. After meeting an...
ELEGY by Jodi GALLAGHER, published 22 Apr 2010
Two sisters, unalike, yet sharing a lust for life. When one dies, the other finds herself in the void that can only be created by the loss of a loved one. Alice is trying to raise the dead – so she...
Two sisters, unalike, yet sharing a lust for life. When one dies, the other finds herself in the void that can only be created by the loss of a loved one. Alice is trying to raise the dead – so she...
GATHERING by Jodi GALLAGHER, published 22 Apr 2010
Set in 1917, Gathering follows the journey of Ellen Eagleton, a classical scholar who is frustrated by her attempts to advance her theories in Europe, and heads for Australia to find a connection to...
Set in 1917, Gathering follows the journey of Ellen Eagleton, a classical scholar who is frustrated by her attempts to advance her theories in Europe, and heads for Australia to find a connection to...
THE METHOD by Jodi GALLAGHER, published 22 Apr 2010
Marnie and Katerina attend an acting class that is more than it seems. When they decide to work on Genet’s The Maids, all hell breaks loose. As well as productions at La Mama and Playbox, The...
Marnie and Katerina attend an acting class that is more than it seems. When they decide to work on Genet’s The Maids, all hell breaks loose. As well as productions at La Mama and Playbox, The...
PALACE REVOLUTION by Jodi GALLAGHER, published 22 Apr 2010
Jake was the perfect sixties revolutionary married to the perfect feminist partner. Between them Jake and Camilla embody all that was apparently good about the boomer generation – and all of its...
Jake was the perfect sixties revolutionary married to the perfect feminist partner. Between them Jake and Camilla embody all that was apparently good about the boomer generation – and all of its...
VICTORY GIRLS by Jodi GALLAGHER, published 22 Apr 2010
Naomi is an installation artist who has reached a crossroads in her life – her relationship with Peter seems to be going nowhere, and her work has stalled. She is intensely caught up in the drama...
Naomi is an installation artist who has reached a crossroads in her life – her relationship with Peter seems to be going nowhere, and her work has stalled. She is intensely caught up in the drama...
TABULA RASA! by Alison MANN, published 21 Apr 2010
Tabula Rasa! is made up of three scenarios that take a disturbing and beautiful look at modern reproduction, gender and sexuality. In Scenario One (Children) a couple wrestle with unexpected...
Tabula Rasa! is made up of three scenarios that take a disturbing and beautiful look at modern reproduction, gender and sexuality. In Scenario One (Children) a couple wrestle with unexpected...