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Robert Hewett
An adulterous husband, a meddlesome neighbour and a dropped ice-cream cone are among the circumstances that combine to shatter the life of suburban housewife Rhonda Russell.
Everyone has their own story to tell about the day that Rhonda went beserk in the shopping mall. And who’s to know where the truth lies? With the best friend who might have egged her on? With the husband who denies responsibility? Or with the victim’s family whose lives were changed forever? And then there’s the story of the vengeful redhead herself, but she’s probably the least likely to know what really happened.
In this gripping adventure, the world is turned upside down in a disastrous and comic sequence of events. As the intrigue unfolds, seven different characters give a fresh twist of perspective – all played by one multifaceted performer.
Cast : 1F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-806-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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William Yang
Photographer-storyteller William Yang returns to a motherland he never knew - the Australian-born Chinese a stranger in his homeland
Yang takes his audiences from the streets of Beijing, where electronics superstores jostle with echoes of the Cultural Revolution and the Ming Dynasty, to the sacred mountain Huang Shan, a must-climb for every Chinese pilgrim-tourist; from a wild night in a Mongolian herdsman’s hut, to the apartments of ordinary Chinese, a few months after the Tiananmen Square incident.
Part social documentary, part personal observation,
China creates a meditative space, a journey of reflection on the meaning of culture and belonging, for performer and audience alike.
Extract
Review
Yang's China
offers fascinating insights and paradoxes…
a polished, wryly observed and low-key monologue - Bryce Hallet, SMH
Cast : 1M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-827-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Australian Gay & Lesbian Plays
Margaret Fischer
Weaving together the language of fairytales with the psychodrama of modern lesbian relationships, Margaret Fischer explores today’s challenges with yesterday’s wisdom and a touch of Jewish humour.
Cast : 1F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-455-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Jack Hibberd
Three early plays from Jack Hibberd which continue to be performed, studied and read for pleaure.
The first play to examine the insecurity inherent in male cultural attitudes towards women and cars.
Cast: 3M, 4F (doubling required)
A Rabelaisian account of a country wedding.
Cast: 9M, 7F
Introduces the painfully lonely world of Monk O'Neill, one of the great comic creations of Australian dramatic literature.
Cast: 1M
Cast : see above
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-632-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Alana Valentine
Three couples negotiate their way into intimacy, aided by
tea, wine and chocolate.
Love Potions
has a pre-coital first half and a post-coital second, intercut with some
naughty and very sexy verbatim revelations. More than a celebration of the
nexus between sex and food, these clever, short plays are tender and passionate
glimpses of human nature at its most vulnerable. Why do some people develop a
sensuous relationship with their world and others remain indifferent to the
subtleties of flavour, texture and taste?
Published with
Savage Grace
Cast : 1M, 5F
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Snowy Owl Press | 978-0-97755-020-3 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Alex Buzo
A rather ocker, white Australian male encounters a well-mannered Pakistani student with revolutionary ambitions in a Sydney park at midnight. Buzo creates an image of race prejudice as a profoundly irrational force in the behaviour of ordinary Australians.
Cast : 2M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-550-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Will Eno
Five short plays by Will Eno, featuring:
Behold the Coach,
in Sorrow, Uninsured
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rain
Enter the Spokeswoman, Sideway
The Bully Composition
Oh, the Humanity
The five short plays that make up
Oh, the Humanity and Other Good Intentions move toward feeling by way of thought, and toward gratitude by way of loss. These largely sane plays feature people alone or in pairs, or both, attempting to present themselves in the best light—or ultimately, desperately—in any light.
Inadvertently vulnerable, or unconsciously callous, or both, the characters here realise they are stuck in a body, and try to put the best face on it. They are unsure of who they are, what they want, what exactly they're on the way to. Is it a funeral or a christening? Is it both or neither? Though this might all seem hazy and conditional, it might all in fact be painstaking and absolute. This is life, for the Problematical Animal.
‘Eno's writing glides artfully (and humorously) between external circumstances and inner thoughts in every segment. For this crafting alone, the monologues are destined to become audition and acting-class favourites.’ Tom Sellar, The Village Voice
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Oberon Books | 978-1-84002-832-4 | PB
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Volume 2: The Sex Life of Snails; Innocent Bystanders; The Coroner's Report: Late Arrivals; Is This Where We Came In?
Ron Blair (ed)
LIMITED STOCK available - only from Currency Press direct.
John Mulligan:
The Sex Life of Snails
Daisy and her husband have a perfect marriage. After five years of
bliss they are still completely unfaithful. It wasn't easy at first but
fidelity can be overcome by the practice of self-control. A comedy
about what is good for the goose.
Cast: 2F, 1M
Gordon Graham:
Innocent Bystanders
Two cargo packers at Sydney Airport are overcome by a trio of stowaway terrorists who think they have arrived in Argentina. A comedy thriller in which the terrorists prove as muddled as their victims.
Cast: 1F, 1M
John Summons:
The Coroner's Report
Irene works hard and lives alone after her mother's death. She is one of life's aunties. But why is she telling her story to this unknown man? His questions, some of them harsh and prurient, make for a gripping and grim interrogation.
Cast: 1F, 1M
Pamela van Amstel:
Late Arrivals
People have their own reasons for going to Brolga Point: a lost housewife, a destitute boy, a ranting old deadbeat. Then two pill-popping teenagers arrive, looking for action. With this cross-section of rejects the author develops her theme of isolation.
Cast: 3F, 2M
Mil Perrin:
Is This Where We Came In?
Alan is delivered to Carole's place. He is a demonstration model with only 150 hours in 'service'. The only trouble is, he has a major defect. Still, Carole has taken a liking to him and so have the other girls...
3F, 1M
Cast : various
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-121-8 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$29.95 ex GST
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Alan Hopgood
A rich portrait of Australia in the mid-1960s where, in the 1966 federal election, conscription and the Vietnam War were the major public issues.
Cast : 10M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-550-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Raimondo Cortese
Edgy, provocative and emotionally honest, each of these twelve short plays explores the nuances and subtleties of a meeting between two people.
Based on the ancient Chinese cosmology, The Twelve Branches of Life, the plays are a revealing mosaic of human interaction across a range of emotional landscapes.
From a chance meeting between a man and a woman in a café, to the prodigal son who returns home to enslave a helpless older man, this fiercely intelligent writing illuminates moments of cruelty and beauty so often hidden when two people interact.
Review
It is modernity without formal structure, or even a hint of didacticism, but has a power that can make everyday language resonant with emotion and meaning ... [it] may well be pointing to the future of Australian playwriting. - Helen Thomson, The Age
Cast : various
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-765-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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