A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

Maureen is a pensioner in search of passion. After 33 blind dates, 12 cruises and one broken heart, she is still determined to find Mr Right.

But when best friend Margaret beats her to the altar, Maureen has her doubts - is Margaret just on the rebound and, more importantly, will she lose her pension?

If history is told by the victors, the story of war is usually told by the blokes. Now it's the ‘sheilas' turn. Nearly a thousand Australian women had a part in the Vietnam War as entertainers, typists, consular staff and army nurses. The one thing they have in common is that their lives were changed forever by Vietnam. For many of them it was the most vital and alive they have ever felt.

Minefields and Miniskirts records the voices of those who were actually there; ordinary woman revealing how they survived a war and discovered what they believed in. Adapted from Siobhan McHugh's book, this play reveals through a collage of true stories, the extraordinary experiences of ordinary women in surviving a war.

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The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist ­— adapted from her own letters, diaries and emails.

Rachel Corrie was born in 1979 in Washington State, USA. In 2003 she went to the Gaza strip to protest about Israeli settlements. She was crushed to death while standing in the path of a bulldozer destroying Palestinian homes.

Why did a 23-year old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between and Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home in the Gaza strip?

‘A deeply moving personal testimony... Theatre can’t change the world. But what it can do, when it’s as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people’s passionate concern’ Guardian