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THE RIPPLE EFFECT by Gillian BERRY, published 21 Dec 2009
Summer and Skye are actresses and sisters, whose love for one another is tempered by intense competition. The play is theatrical in style and references both stand-up comedy and Restoration comedy....
Summer and Skye are actresses and sisters, whose love for one another is tempered by intense competition. The play is theatrical in style and references both stand-up comedy and Restoration comedy....
SILENT DISCO by Lachlan PHILPOTT, published 21 Dec 2009
Tamara and Jasyn have been going out for nearly six weeks, Tamara’s counting. Jason’s not. Tamara reckons Jasyn’s different from other guys, something in his eyes, she can’t figure...
Tamara and Jasyn have been going out for nearly six weeks, Tamara’s counting. Jason’s not. Tamara reckons Jasyn’s different from other guys, something in his eyes, she can’t figure...
THE MAKING OF ELIZABETH by Deborah MULHALL, published 14 Dec 2009
My Fair Lady meets Ladette to Lady! Lizzie may be from Sydney's western suburbs, but she has dreams of designing for the fashion industry. Her ticket there just might be that well-known voice...
My Fair Lady meets Ladette to Lady! Lizzie may be from Sydney's western suburbs, but she has dreams of designing for the fashion industry. Her ticket there just might be that well-known voice...
THE MAN IN THE ATTIC by Timothy DALY, published 7 Dec 2009
Based on a true story. It’s early May, 1945, near the end of World War II. A man (Daniel Blickman) is found in the woods outside a remote town in northern Germany. The woman (Anna Moller) who...
Based on a true story. It’s early May, 1945, near the end of World War II. A man (Daniel Blickman) is found in the woods outside a remote town in northern Germany. The woman (Anna Moller) who...
WILDCAT FALLING by Alan BECHER, published 30 Nov 2009
Nineteen-year old anti-hero Wildcat has been released from Fremantle Jail after serving an eighteen-month sentence for juvenile offences. The play shifts from real time to memory as Wildcat...
Nineteen-year old anti-hero Wildcat has been released from Fremantle Jail after serving an eighteen-month sentence for juvenile offences. The play shifts from real time to memory as Wildcat...
APART by Anna BENNETTS, published 16 Nov 2009
Two women meet for the first time in a city café. If this is their first meeting, how do they know so much about each other? Sharing deep bonds and a past etched in pain, will the burning...
Two women meet for the first time in a city café. If this is their first meeting, how do they know so much about each other? Sharing deep bonds and a past etched in pain, will the burning...
GOOD GRIEF by Frank WILKIE, published 16 Nov 2009
Ever felt your therapist was more messed up than you? What drives needy and unstable characters to become counsellors? In Good Grief, a man with a tragedy-scarred past falls into the clutches of...
Ever felt your therapist was more messed up than you? What drives needy and unstable characters to become counsellors? In Good Grief, a man with a tragedy-scarred past falls into the clutches of...
HARP ON THE WILLOW by John MISTO, published 16 Nov 2009
Mary O'Hara was a singing star at 18, and a widow at 20. At the height of her fame she disappeared abruptly causing her family and fans to believe that she had died. Instead she had entered an...
Mary O'Hara was a singing star at 18, and a widow at 20. At the height of her fame she disappeared abruptly causing her family and fans to believe that she had died. Instead she had entered an...
A NIGHT ON THE TILES by Suzanne HAWLEY, published 16 Nov 2009
Everything always happens at Jess's birthday parties. The good, the bad and the ugly. Now, on her 40th and 41st birthdays, seven characters bare their souls in the bathroom of her apartment....
Everything always happens at Jess's birthday parties. The good, the bad and the ugly. Now, on her 40th and 41st birthdays, seven characters bare their souls in the bathroom of her apartment....
VALENTINE'S DAY by Barry CREYTON, published 16 Nov 2009
Two men have been divorced and cleaned out by the same woman. They seek revenge by putting a hit on her. Note: play length is only an approximation.
Two men have been divorced and cleaned out by the same woman. They seek revenge by putting a hit on her. Note: play length is only an approximation.
OFF TO THE COLLINEY by Barbara FERN, published 26 Oct 2009
Our hero, ten-year-old Tom Bottle of Little Huddle in 1840's Dorset, runs away to sea rather than wear his sister’s old boots, which are all that his desperately poor mother can give him. Tom...
Our hero, ten-year-old Tom Bottle of Little Huddle in 1840's Dorset, runs away to sea rather than wear his sister’s old boots, which are all that his desperately poor mother can give him. Tom...
THE ICE SEASON by Verity LAUGHTON, published 13 Oct 2009
Thomas Allen, a famous novelist aged about 55, has just died. He and his third wife of three years, the beautiful Catherine, have been staying in a small town just outside (for example) Sydney....
Thomas Allen, a famous novelist aged about 55, has just died. He and his third wife of three years, the beautiful Catherine, have been staying in a small town just outside (for example) Sydney....
WE HAVE WHAT YOU WANT by Deborah SHELDON, published 12 Oct 2009
A young farmer on his way to Melbourne for a birthday party stops at an isolated roadhouse for petrol, breakfast and mayhem. The roadhouse owner and his flirty daughter have no idea what they’re in...
A young farmer on his way to Melbourne for a birthday party stops at an isolated roadhouse for petrol, breakfast and mayhem. The roadhouse owner and his flirty daughter have no idea what they’re in...
SLUT by Patricia CORNELIUS, published 29 Sep 2009
Only girls get called sluts. No, sometimes boys get called sluts but it’s like the biggest compliment. And sometimes girls try to own it. A girl might say, ‘Yeah, I’m a slut, and I love it.’...
Only girls get called sluts. No, sometimes boys get called sluts but it’s like the biggest compliment. And sometimes girls try to own it. A girl might say, ‘Yeah, I’m a slut, and I love it.’...
SHOTS by Carly NUGENT, published 28 Sep 2009
Michael Grant is a businessman from the suburbs. Wayne Stevens is a killer, living in an unpredictable world of crime, drugs and violence, constantly teetering on the edge of life and death. Grant...
Michael Grant is a businessman from the suburbs. Wayne Stevens is a killer, living in an unpredictable world of crime, drugs and violence, constantly teetering on the edge of life and death. Grant...
NEWSROOM by Frank WILKIE, published 15 Sep 2009
There’s conflict in the newsroom of traditional Australian newspaper The Heartland Herald as media giant Global Corp moves to 'sex up and dumb down’ its latest acquisition. Driven by the need to...
There’s conflict in the newsroom of traditional Australian newspaper The Heartland Herald as media giant Global Corp moves to 'sex up and dumb down’ its latest acquisition. Driven by the need to...