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When the Rain Stops Falling
THE STORY: It's raining. Gabriel York is awaiting the arrival of his grown son whom he hasn't seen since he was seven. I know what he wants. He wants what all young men want from their fathers. He wants to know who he is. Where he comes from. Wher
Speaking in Tongues
THE STORY: In the first act of this psychological thriller two couples in unstable marriages inadvertently exchange partners in a night of adulterous encounters. The situations in the separate hotel rooms are so similar that at times both couples s
After Dinner
A black comedy set in a suburban pub-bistro on a Friday night. 5 single people set out in pursuit of a good time, determined to forget their 9--5 routine (2 acts, 2 men, 3 women).
Things I Know to be True
A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family-and a marriage- through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations. Bob and Fran have worked hard to give their four children the opportunities they never had. Now, with the kids ready to make lives of their own, it's time to sit back and smell the roses. But the change of the seasons reveals some shattering truths, leaving us asking whether it's possible to love too much.
Who's Afraid of the Working Class?
Five plays are intertwined in one in this story of fringe dwellers, living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly without work, and politically disengaged, they work at survival. 'With intelligence, well-judged humour and the searching qualities of truly memorable theatre, the play peels away political propaganda and notions of correctness to present a candid, difficult, searing portrait of the poor and marginalised.' SMH Who' Afraid of the Working Class? was adapted into the film, Blessed. (9 male, 10 female).
The Secret River
'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...
Holy Day (Red Sea)
From the award winning playwright Andrew Bovell comes this chilling story of suspense in which truth has the power to both illuminate and destoy innocence. Winner of the victorian Premier's Literary Award.
Staging Loss
This book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned, either thematically, methodologically, or formally, with acts of commemoration and the commemorative. With notions of memorial, celebration, temporality and remembrance at its heart, and as a timely topic for debate, this book asks how theatre and performance intersects with commemorative acts or rituals in contemporary theatre and performance practice. It considers the (re)performance of history, commemoration as a form of, or performance of, ritual, performance as memorial, performance as eulogy and eulogy as performance. It asks where personal acts of remembrance merge with public or political acts of remembrance, where the boundary between the commemorative and the performative might lie, and how it might be blurred, broken or questioned. It explores how we might remake the past in the present, to consider not just how performance commemorates but how commemoration performs.
Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings
The theater of the 21st century, in many ways, is expanding to require new muscles of its actors, and so should their monologue choices. Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings is a compilation of monologues for actors ages 15 to 30, incorporating characters from a variety of backgrounds with different stories to tell, giving you the chance to explore those who are close to you and those who may come from someplace else. These monologues are compiled in order of length, with the shortest coming in a little under a minute and the longer pieces running closer to four minutes. All from plays written between 2000 and 2016, the monologues in this book are useful both for exploration in a cla...
Lantana
The lantana is an impenetrable vine covered in exquisite flowers. Try and pick one and your hand is cut by hundreds of tiny thorns. In 'Lantana' the lives of four married couples criss-cross to reveal a tangled skein of interdependent lives. Everyone in this beguiling drama has something to hide, and an emotional life marked by yearning. ' Lantana' is about our overwhelming need for trust in modern life, and the consequences of living without it. (6 male, 5 female).
