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A spine-tingling romantic thriller. Charlotte is a Berliner through and through. Tom is a foreigner, travelling around Europe. After meeting in a bar, sparks fly between them and she invites him to spend the night at her place. As they navigate the ritual of seduction, their desire gives way to secrets that cannot be ignored and questions neither of them can answer. Does young love stand a chance against the suffocating reach of the past? Joanna Murray-Smith is one of Australias most celebrated playwrights, captivating audiences from Melbourne to Broadway and the West End. This riveting NEXT STAGE commission premiered for Melbourne Theatre Company as part of its 2021 season. A powerful mix of thriller, romance and ethical dilemma, Berlin will keep you guessing until the very end. (3 scenes, 1M, 1F).
"Little gems, as observant as anything in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads."--Guardian
A group of friends gather to celebrate the homecoming of two of their group, who went overseas after an unfortunate fire wiped out their home and possessions. When the pair arrive, however, their friends learn the truth: they never left to go overseas. Instead, they had relocated to the Hyatt, discovered themselves (and an inward light) and undergone a spiritual epiphany. This is a thoughtful and entertaining play about what happens when cynicism is confronted by faith. (3 male, 3 female).
A comedy that deftly walks the tightrope between satire and farce proving the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male.
Pools. Tennis courts. Luxury station wagons. Welcome to Sunnyside. Olivia wants to sleep with her teacher. Harry wants a B&O sound system. Alice want a cure for writer's block. Molly wants to move in with the pool man. Justin wants to kill his mother. Grace wants to be famous, even if she is only eleven. And Scarlett wants what she can't have and will do anything to get it. 'Eloquent, rich, vivid . . . Murray-Smith's novel presents a mirror to the realities of noughties living, where no one is what they seem and relationships are changeable as the house prices' Scotland on Sunday 'Joanna Murray-Smith demonstrates a Stoppardian git for pithily combining intelligence, wit and pathos' Independent (UK)
THE STORY: Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, grande dame of crime literature Patricia Highsmith lives with an impressive collection of books, and a somewhat sinister collection of guns and knives. She finds solace in her solitude, her cats, and cigarettes. But when a mysterious international visitor arrives at her perfectly secluded home, her love of fictional murders becomes a dangerous reality.
A play that tackles, with wit and verve, tough questions about celebrity, motherhood and the ethics of adoption.
When a great singer lets her voice float out over the anonymous crowd, or form the grooves of thousands of records, or flow through radios into millions of homes across the world, she makes countless unknown connections with people. The singer has her story and the listener hers, and should those stories touch each other, there can be magic. (1 act, 5 female).
When seemingly happily married couple Tess and Curtis announce that theyre calling time on their 20-year relationship, Bonnie and Annie are devastated. Who will they have cosy foursome dinners with? What will happen to their carefully planned couples trip to Bhutan? And what will become of all their shared history? Joanna Murray-Smiths Three Little Words will have anyone who feels settled in matters of the heart shaking in their boots. The power of social connection and the interdependence of friends are thrust under her highly polished microscope revealing that, when it comes to love, things can shatter at any moment.