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In Wala Wala, Senior Constable Ray Lorkin struggles to keep a peace between Aboriginal tradition and the law he is sworn to uphold. When a local man dies in mysterious circumstances, Ray decides he can no longer do things 'blackfella way'.

One eye closed, the other locked on my target.' Monologues are a crucial element of theatre, for actors and students alike. From high school study to professional auditions and performances, the monologue exposes the heart of a play and the capacities of the performer. The monologue should be relevant to the performer, and a revelation to the audience. This new collection brings together 30 monologues from contemporary Australian plays. These voices -- from ages 14 to 84, from the 1880s to the near future -- showcase the best of our national writing for the stage. Featuring monologues written by: Donna Abela; Jada Alberts; Angela Betzien; Andrew Bovell; Melissa Bubnic; Mary Anne Butler; Justine Campbell & Sarah Hamilton; Stephen Carleton; Katherine Thomson, Angela Chaplin & Kavisha Mazzella; Elizabeth Coleman; Patricia Cornelius; Wesley Enoch; Jane Montgomery Griffiths; Rashma N. Kalsie; Daniel Keene; Finegan Kruckemeyer; Suzie Miller; Kate Mulvany & Craig Silvey; Terence Oconnell; Debra Oswald; Lachlan Philpott; Leah Purcell; Caroline Reid; Damien Ryan; Samah Sabawi; Stephen Sewell; Ninna Tersman; Alana Valentine.

This extraordinary play for young people is an adaptation of Li Cunxins picture book The Peasant Prince - the true story of Maos Last Dancer. Adapted by Monkey Baa, Australias leading theatre company for young audiences, The Peasant Prince has toured nationally, performing to tens of thousands of young people and their families throughout rural and regional Australia. The production was awarded Most Outstanding Production for Children (the Glugs), Best Production for Children (Sydney Theatre Awards) and a Drovers Award for Best Touring Production (Australian Performing Arts and Producers Awards). Li, a 10-year-old boy, is plucked from his village in rural China and sent to a ballet academy in the big city. He leaves everything and everyone he loves, including his family. Over years of gruelling training, he transforms from an impoverished peasant to a giant of the international dance scene. What does he find along the way? The Peasant Prince is a remarkable true story of courage, resilience and unwavering hope.

Wild, unpredictable, and deeply vulnerable, Barbara and her sister René are singing for their lives. Barbaras been trying to make it in Sydney, but when their mothers health deteriorates, the sisters embark on a pilgrimage back home to country. Full of painful, unfinished business for Barbara, their return sends her into a downward spiral. Can Barbara find a way to resolve the past in time to preserve love in the only family she has known? Through music that ranges from punk-inspired explosions of rage, to tender rock and soul ballads full of yearning, Barbara and the Camp Dogs is a gob-spit of fun, frenzy and family that finds beauty in honesty and hope in confronting the past.

A theatrical collection of stories and songs from Richard Franklands extraordinary life as a child abattoir-worker, a young soldier, a fisherman and a field officer for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. These are Richards tales, given universal voice on the stage. Richard Frankland is a Gunditjmara man and a singer/songwriter, author, and creator of Conversations with the Dead. Working on the front line of Indigenous issues for the past 25 years, his aim has been to facilitate the voice of Indigenous Australians and bridge the gap between black and white. Walking into the Bigness offers an evocative glimpse into the indigenous Australian experience seen through the prism of a single life. (4 acts, 38 male, 4 female).

The Incredible Here and Now is a play about cars and boys and having to grow up too soon. Charcoal chicken, a white Pontiac Trans Am, the Council pool, Michael is living in the shadow of his older brother Dom. The biggest guy in the school. Best car in the West. The guy who just cant help but grab everyones attention. The guy with the girlfriend with the huge-arse hair. When he is gone Michael roams the streets, navigating life, friendship, love and family. The Incredible Here and Now is a poignant rollercoaster ride celebrating life, first love, family and new beginnings, traversing the streets of Western Sydney. Adapted for the stage by international award-winning local author and playwright Felicity Castagna. (5 acts, 4 male, 3 female).

Two teenagers fleeing unthinkable dangers find solace in each other amidst the unrelentingly damaging confines of an asylum seeker processing centre. Their new home offers a kind of safety, but very little in the way of humanity, and less kindness. Ninna Tersmans writing is poetic, spare, and deeply human. She plays with theatrical form in many ways. The two actors in Parasites play the teenagers and a number of adults who impact their lives. This is the tender story of young people in a desperate situation, yearning for hope and home. (1 act, 2 females).

Here comes Edith Campbell Berry, fresh from International acclaim at the League of Nations, handsome British diplomatic husband in tow. Look out 1950s Canberra, shes on her way to the top. Or is she? The League was after all a failure, and hubby dear is a secret cross dresser and her long lost brother is a Communist agitator watched by a fledgling ASIO. Maybe those dreams of renewed diplomatic honour might take longer than she thinks to materialize. A lot longer. And so to be acceptable she consults the Book of Crossroads, bungles her inner life, remarries badly, and compromises her career options. An epic story of national significance, Cold Light surveys the transformation of Australia from the post-World War II Menzies era to the mid-1970s Whitlam government and asks timely questions about Australias relationship to women of vision and people of difference.