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Ross Mueller
Tragedy is an incident, comedy will be our landscape.
Somewhere in a busy city, a Man wakes to discover he has forgotten his life. He has no memory of the past and no clear sense of the present.
He is concussed. Or so he is told by a doctor—who may also be his partner. Now there are flashes of something. Hunger, mourning, sexual appetite... Bob Dylan? But why isn’t he in hospital? And what of the voices, the Blackberry, the brothers? The hammer?
A comedy with attitude,
Concussion explodes a simple conceit and scatters its achingly funny and filthy tales of the city like shrapnel.
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Review
Mueller is surely one of the most intelligent, formally adventurous and emotionally brave playwrights now writing in this country. - Theatre Notes
Cast : 5M, 2F (doubling required)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-855-2 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Henrik Ibsen adapted by Andrew Upton
Hedda Gabler is a woman of spirit and guile, fighting to be more than someone's daughter and someone else's wife. But the seasons change, and her battles give way to an ominous composure as she prepares to transcend her imprisonment and determine her own fate.
Andrew Upton unravels the mystery of Ibsen's masterpiece and constructs a psychological thriller of cinematic intensity and power. His superb adaptation gives Australian readers a fresh and exciting insight into one of the great dramatic works of modern literature.
Adapted by Andrew Upton for the Sydney Theatre Company.
In the Company of Actors documents taking the STC production of the play to New York.
Cast : 3M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-752-4 | PB
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An argument and an architectural model
Anthony Weigh
A remote valley. An unspeakable crime. A prominent architect is commissioned to design a memorial to the victims.
On the eve of the presentation of the memorial to the public, a blind woman comes out of the rain and into the architect’s studio. She is the mother of one of the victims and she demands to be heard. Over the next hour the two women do battle over what it means to memorialise the dead, what it means to be a mother and what it means to believe.
Like A Fishbone is both a psychological thriller and a haunting puzzle about faith, compassion and the danger of telling the truth.
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Awards
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NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2011 - Play Award (shortlist)
Cast : 3F, 1 girl
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-872-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Brendan Cowell
Looking at the intertwined lives of a young couple,
Morph explores the shifting dynamics of fear and desire.
Be is damaged goods. Bullish. Solitary. A one-time roughneck from the Manila oil-fields. Grace is a swan. Supple. Dedicated. A dancer at the very height of her powers.
A strange misalliance is in motion. And as the world outside continues to advance at breakneck speed, can Be and Grace rebuild their shattered defences in time to protect themselves from each other?
Cast : 1M, 1F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-743-2 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Andrew Upton
John was once the frontman in one of the world’s biggest bands,
Riflemind. Now John and his wife Lynn are safe from the world in their walled country house. Money and anonymity, however, won’t protect them from themselves or their past.
As a comeback tour nears, a weekend of music-making is planned. As soon as the band and associated spouses, lovers and hangers-on arrive, it’s a rock’n’roll circus.
With their apparent affluence, preposterous egos and rock-god lifestyles, each of them struggles to find redemption. Over this weekend they will open old wounds, lose their way, play great music and, perhaps, stumble into a more certain future.
Cast : 5M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-823-1 | Sales rights: worldwide (except UK & Ireland) | PB
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Tommy Murphy
Saturn has returned, and a moment of doubt changes everything. The universe conspires against Matt and Zara, and Zara is jettisoned into orbit.
Sex on drugs has become sordid, but the allure of the threesome is still tempting. The prospect of having children is no longer odious, but mortgages and responsibility remain objects of contempt. It's time for lock down. But who's playing?
Shifting perspectives on identity and Tommy Murphy's trademark comic flair combine to create a lively theatre of insight and ingenuity.
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Cast : 1F, 2M (doubling required)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-840-8 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Two one-act plays: Citizens / Soldiers
Daniel Keene
Citizens
Set at the dividing wall of a
war-torn country, conflict is an unseen force which disrupts the everyday tasks of people, battling to survive.
Soldiers
Set in an Air Force hangar far from the battlefield. But for five families, who gather to receive the bodies of their sons, brothers and friends, war does not seem so far away.
Keene's
astute and probing insight into the insidious effects of global tensions give
us cause to reflect on the true human cost of armed conflict whether it is
close to home or not.
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Awards
- 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Awards - Play Award
Review
The writing is razor-sharp, remarkably and memorably profound; at times, ravishingly beautiful ... it's extraordinary! Australian Stage
Cast : 8M, 5F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-838-5 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Ben Ellis
This kaleidoscopic play utilises transcripts of interviews, media reports, departmental fact-sheets and submissions to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. Ellis creates an inventive, challenging, disturbing and yet humorous play that contrasts a 'typical' Australian nuclear family with life in detention centres.
Review
Ellis takes a novel line. He doesn’t point the finger at politicians, policy makers or bureaucrats, but suggests instead that you and I – selfish, apathetic and disinterested citizens that we are – are implicated in the maltreatment of refugees. - Sun Herald
Cast : 2M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-744-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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