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  • av Richard Frankland
    257

    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).

  • av Felicity Castagna
    247

    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 adaptations for Sport for Jove
    av Sophocles
    274

  • av Henrik Ibsen
    248

  • av Ninna Tersman
    247

    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).

  • - Adapted from the novel by Frank Moorehouse
    av Frank Moorhouse
    247

    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.

  • av Angus Cerini
    233,99

  • av Lachlan Philpott
    247

    Kane and I were both rising stars. I was rising to the top of the hand-modelling world and Kane was doing his plays. Kane got his first action film and I became his double. We clicked. Everyone said so. Kane is one of the worlds biggest movie stars. His body double has been there from the start, sharing more than just looks with his famous counterpart. The body double and Kane are to work on Lake Disappointmentan independent arts film that might see them win prestigious awards and fame. This one-person play of mirrors and mannerisms explores the strange world of the body double. It makes unique contributions to timeless theatrical concepts of images and representation. Lake Disappointment is an unusual new work about ego, self-fashioning, and illusions. (1 act, 1 male).

  • av Sandra Thibodeaux
    247

    Darwin, 1942. A town collapses under the threat of invasion. Mothers and daughters, sisters, friends, and entire cultures are torn apart by the secrets that start to fall. Is Mr Takahashi to blame? Japan unleashes a wave of attacks on Northern Australia, and Darwin is hit with more bombs than Pearl Harbour. Mr Takahashi turns the lens upon ordinary people caught in the storm that was World War II. It tells the stories of Darwins multicultural and Indigenous women whose lives were forever changed by the bombings of February 19. Somethings wrong the air is shifting. Its waiting .. Waiting for the tardy storms. You could cut the humidity with the sword of a Samurai. Where is the Imperial Army? Closer

  • av Tommy Murphy
    248

    A premiere Australian play based on actual events, showing just how startling real-life can be. Mary-Ellen Field is a successful Australian business consultant in London -- until she is accused of betraying the secrets of her supermodel client to the press. Her life comes crashing down: her job, her health and her standing in society collapse. When it emerges that her client's phone had been hacked by reporters, Mary Ellen sets out to defiantly restore her reputation. But along the way, her ideas of redemption change she has been interviewed by a journalist on the other side of the world, and his story puts everything into a new perspective.

  • - King Hit; Lucky Country
    av Tom Lycos
    271

  • av Vanessa Bates
    247

  • av Suzie Miller
    247

    At Sunset Strip the only people left are those who couldnt leave. Arriving home after a bout of chemotherapy to this once-thriving summer hot spot, Caroline finds the lake completely dried up, the holiday-makers long gone. Yet her younger sister, the ever-optimistic Phoebe, remains doggedly hopeful. Between a stint in rehab, caring for her demented dad (who has a penchant for training goldfish) and losing her kids temporarily to DOCS, Phoebe has managed to find love in Teddy, a local fallen fella with a big heart. And now that Caroline is back, Phoebe is determined to make life fabulous. In Sunset Strip, Suzie Miller, author of Caress/Ache and Transparency, examines love, family dysfunction and making the best of shitty situations and prosthetic breasts. Sunset Strip finds the humour in tragedy and creates an unlikely path for humanity to triumph. (2 acts, 2 male, 2 female).

  • av Angela Betzien
    247

  • av Rashma N Kalsie
    247

    I have completely lost my talam. All I hear is the ring of mobile phones, the noise of escalators, platform announcements and the trains squealing on the tracks. Wheres the koyal, wheres the ring of temple bells, wheres Carnatic music, wheres my mothers voice? Three young people see each other across a crowded Flagstaff station. They just missed the train. Now they wait. And think. They think about home: Punjab, Delhi, Hyderabad. And about how they just cant seem to get Melbournes rhythm right. And of all the impossible things they must do to stay. And their time is running out. Developed through MTC CONNECT and the NEON and Cybec Electric play development programs, this vibrant play puts Melbournes contemporary social issues at centre stage. (2 acts, 2 male, 1 female).

  • - Learning to manage the elements of drama
    av Brad Haseman
    397

    ''In drama, we are the creators. Like in a skeleton, the bones of drama only work together. The human context-the situation, the people and their relationships-are the flesh. The body is given shape and animated by the way we focus those basic elements, and how we place them in space and time. We breathe life into the body through the story and the tension we create, and we give it language and movement to express itself, clothing the drama with its mood and symbols.'' In 1987 Brad Haseman and John O''Toole released Dramawise, a dynamic guide to drama education. This book stands as a definitive text for teachers, students and drama practitioners, shaping many classroom programs and curricula at a state, national and international level. Dramawise Reimagined is the successor. It reaches beyond the original concepts, offering newly challenging drama activities that reflect complex questions in today''s society. The result is a complete coursebook for students and teachers of secondary-school drama, featuring activities that thoroughly detail each element of drama. This is done using process dramas and plays from the wider world. Practical drama activities are supported with in-depth discussion of each of the elements of dramatic form, as well as traditional and contemporary dramatic meanings and approaches to play-making contextualised by the elements of theatre.

  • av Alana Valentine
    248

    The court case captivated a nation. A mother accused of murdering her child, her claim that the baby was taken by a dingo denied and discredited by zealous police and a flawed legal system. The media circus, the rumours, the nations prejudices laid bare. And in the eye of the storm: Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. Over three decades, from baby Azarias death to the final coroners report, the publics fascination with Lindy seldom waned. The National Library holds a collection of more than 20,000 letters to Lindy. From sympathy to abuse, from marriage proposals to death threats, the correspondence traverses the gamut of responses to Lindys story. Letters to Lindy draws on this correspondence and interviews with Lindy herself. It is an enthralling, revealing, and long overdue dialogue between Lindy and the nation; a portrait of the wisdom and resilience of a grieving mother. This new work by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine ( Ladies Day, Parramatta Girls) explores the publics relationship with one of Australias most iconic figures. (2 acts, 2 male, 2 female).

  • av Jane Miller
    247

  • av David Williams
    248

    Smurf in Wanderland is one man's insightful and hilarious examination of football, tribalism, belonging and identity.

  • av Ross Mueller
    247

    "Failure is not on the whiteboard". Feel like you are drowning in paper work? Beaten by the impenetrable weight of office bureaucracy? Adrift in a sea of jargon? You are not alone. Andrew, former rock muso and new CEO of youth music organisation, Staccato, was parachuted in to save the company from oblivion. Mission accomplished, hes setting his sights on implementing a bold, new strategic plan. But the Board has unanimously scrapped the plan and neglected to tell Andrew, leaving him adrift in a world of KPIs, performance reviews and a General Manager who refuses to return from his holiday in Thailand. This is Geelong-based playwright Ross Muellers contemporary satire about office life, arts funding and the perils of following your heart. Hilarious, pointed and painfully observant, its sure to cut close to the bone for anyone whos ever tried to make a difference at work. (1 act, 2 male, 2 female).

  • av Nicholas Brown
    247

  • av Lachlan Philpott
    247

    What would happen if someone you knew disappeared? How would you react? How would your school react? An assembly called, a footy game postponed, a class interrupted. But who is Michael Swordfish? And who knows where hes gone? For two years award-winning playwright Lachlan Philpott collaborated with students from Newington College, Sydney, to bring their voices and worlds to life. Michael Swordfish is the exciting product of this collaboration: a play that traverses the tumultuous landscape of the teenage experience with a sober truth and darkly comic voice. (1 act; 9 male).

  • av Van Badham
    311

    Three confronting and provocative plays about women. Muff by Van Badham -- Winner of the 2014 NSW Premiers Award, the Nick Enright Award for Playwriting, Muff explores women, sex and relationships; a horrific, random rape of a young woman and the threads from this event that continue to wrap and bind their way into lives years after the physical injuries have healed. MinusOneSister by Anna Barnes -- Sophocles & Electra is furiously wrenched into the present and told from the point of view of the teenagers. Eternal obsessions mingle with the obsessions of our times, bloodshed goes hand in hand with Bacardi Breezers and Facebook, and a chilling portrait emerges of a family irreversibly shattered by grief and guilt. Shit by Patricia Cornelius -- Shit takes us into the world of three women -- Billy, Bobby and Sam -- three women from a violent, impoverished underclass who have landed in prison together after a vicious incident. These are the underbelly of womenhood we as a society so rarely want to admit exist.

  • av Manuel Aston
    267

  • - The singular cinema of Rolf de Heer
    av Jane Freebury
    407

  • av Angela Betzien
    257

    Como sabes que esto no es el sueño? (How do you know this is not the dream?) How do you know this is not the nightmare? Mortido is a remarkable crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play all rolled into one. Jimmy is a small-time dealer and Monte is a biggish-time distributor. Grubbe is a detective. They all want the same thing: to live out their lives in leisure. And a water view would be nice. But for Jimmy and Monte to win, Grubbe has to lose. Same goes the other way. It begins with a Mexican fable about death and ends in the Western suburbs of Sydney. In between it takes in the public housing on Belvoir Street, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, quinoa, Nazi Germany, Qantas, Coca-Cola, a seventh birthday party, the Surry Hills police, the property market and a body in the harbour. The connective tissue? Cocaine. This is Betzien's most ambitious play so far, and a brilliant portrait of the Emerald City: familiar, bizarre, glorious and mean. A quintessential Sydney tale about crime, globalisation and the killer desire for a bigger house. (10 male, 2 female).

  • - Kid Stakes; Other Times; Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
    av Ray Lawler
    321

  • av Lally Katz
    257

    After nearly losing his mind in the abandon of 1960s America, young Danny finds his way again with the help of an enigmatic sensei. At a New Jersey karate dojo, he and other mislaid souls make their way back into the world, and Danny bumps into a woman called Lois. Meanwhile, in present-day Australia, Dannys long-lost grandchild has decided to become Patti Smith. From the marvellous mind of Lally Katz comes a modern romance about wanderlust, love and karate. Inspired by the true events that brought her parents together, Back at the Dojo is a ravishing, nourishing story about the myths families live by. (14 male, 6 female).

  • av Andrea James
    257

    We are in a mythical landscape on the banks of a mighty river. The Yorta Yorta know him as Dhungula''. The white fellas call it The Murray''. A clan of storytellers has gathered to invoke the beautiful place they once knew; to sing it into being. Some are stories of remembering, others are told so that they may never happen again. Children and elders, spirits and ghosts, dingoes and min-min lights are threaded together in these tales of colonial law, a people and their land. The land rights struggle of the Yorta Yorta people continues today. (4 male, 1 female).

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