Contains Is That You Nancy? (Sandra Shotlander); The Gay Divorcee (Margaret Fischer); What Do They Call Me? (Eva Johnson); Pinball (Alison Lyssa); Mates (Peter Kenna); Furious (Michael Gow); A Manual of Trench Warfare (Clem Gorman); and Blood and Honour (Alex Harding).

A collection of plays that charts some of the shifts in feminist thinking over the past twenty-five years and features some of Australia’s most renowned female dramatists.

The plays are: The Chapel Perilous (Dorothy Hewett); Vocations (Alma De Groen); Running Up A Dress (Suzanne Spunner); Murras (Eva Johnson); The Forty Lounge Cafe (Tes Lyssiotis); Remember (Jenny Kemp); and Historia (Noëlle Janaczewska).

The classic fairytale placed in an Australian context—an outsider is brought back into the fold.

The material temptations of society are placed in the path of a trio of wealthy socialites.

Published in Patrick White Collected Plays Volume II

Adapted from her award-winning novel, Vivienne Cleven’s Bitin’ Back is a ‘zany and uproarious black farce’( National Indigenous Times) which explores stereotyping, identity and race relations in a Queensland country town.

Published in Contemporary Indigenous Plays

Extract

A collection of six plays from Victoria by Aboriginal writers which encompass a myriad of issues about the Aboriginal experience.

Racism and homophobia are explored in the relationship between a white Australian, Colin, and his Asian lover, Michael. The language of the stage elevates their dialogue with Colin’s mother to a hyper-real and hilarious performance of ideas.