A reconciliation between a mother and the daughter she gave away at birth. Anna is a successful film editor in her 40s who has defined herself through her political conscience. Living alone in a cold, stylish apartment she believes she has come to terms with her history, until a young woman called Billie arrives at her door. Billie acts in soap operas, doesn't believe in political action and wants a mother. Together these two fractured women confront the implications of distance; between then and now, between generations and between the one who gave away and the one who was let go.
The inmates of The Girls Training School, Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the great untold stories of making good in tough times. PARRAMATTA GIRLS: Based on the testimony of dozens of GTS old-girls and this vibrant play is a joyous and harrowing dramatisation of the experiences of eight inmates and their reunion forty years later. Interspersed with song and storytelling, this is a tribute to mischief and humour in the face of hardship and inequality (8 female). EYES TO THE FLOOR: Chronicles the experience of girls sent from Parramatta Girls Home to the Hay Girls Home for even more brutal, punitive treatment. Written to be played by young adults, this moving work emphasises the childlike vulnerability of the inmates in a world where they must find connection with each other in order to survive. Artfully woven with movement, chorus work and poetry, it is a compelling companion work to Parramatta Girls (4 male, 7 female).
Evelyn Carool leaves the country town where she grew up and goes to Sydney to work for Blue. Acting as Evelyn's mentor, Blue leads Evelyn on a journey of self-discovery that is at once magical, sensuous and frightening.
In the era of #MeToo and #Time''s Up, millions of women are sharing their stories of abuse and discrimination. But inside all our stories there''s a part we don''t always tell-a seed of heroic resistance. I''m With Her was written by Walkley Award winner Victoria Midwinter Pitt from frank and intimate conversations with eight extraordinary women: counter-terrorism expert Anne Aly MP, sex worker activist Julie Bates, botanist Marion Blackwell, world champion surfer Pam Burridge, bartender Nikki Keating, Catholic nun Patricia Madigan, anthropologist and indigenous leader Marcia Langton and Australia''s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard. Together, they light up the golden thread that runs right through the patriarchy, and may yet be its undoing: the strengths women use to keep turning up to our own lives. It is a thrilling real-life demonstration, by the ultimate girl gang, of the power of women to outlast, outwit and out-muscle the great ugly beast of sexism. ''This play burns with the generational energy of its characters, young and old. It reminds us-all women-of how much power we have in being ourselves.''-June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Social Justice Commissioner ''A brave and beautiful show. As a piece of resistance, it''s bloody brilliant.''-Sydney Morning Herald ''Darkly funny''-On The Town ''A firestorm. A cultural milestone for Australian feminism''-Audrey Journal ''Connecting past to present, dreams to reality, and women to each other, Victoria Midwinter Pitt''s stunning script paints life itself as a radical act of resistance.'' ArtsHub
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