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Dallas Winmar
Traces the true story of three Aboriginal sisters whose mother was determined to keep her children when officials wanted to remove them following the death of their father.
The story is that of the three sisters of the playwright Jack Davis.
Review
Humanity and humour are at the fore … a gentle and vibrant evocation of an Aboriginal family’s relationship with each other and the land on which they struggle to live. - Bryce Hallett,
Sydney Morning Herald
Awards
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2003 VIC Premier's Literary Awards - Louis Esson Prize for Drama (Shortlist)
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2002 Kate Challis RAKA Award
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2002 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - Play Award (shortlist)
Cast : 2M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-688-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Sue Smith
Bastard Boys
is the story of the fight that stopped the nation—the 1998 battle for Australia's waterfront. More than just a dispute over reform, it became a campaign for the hearts and minds of all Australians. Controversial, all-consuming and combative, it forced people to pick a side and fight for their beliefs. Political thriller, war film, buddy movie, love story and courtroom drama all rolled into one, this is the story of the people behind one of the most significant events in Australia's recent past.
Iconic Australian actors Jack Thompson and Colin Friels lead an outstanding cast that includes: Geoff Morrell, Dan Wyllie, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon and Lucy Bell.
Bastard Boys has been written with the cooperation and participation of all parties to the dispute. It is the first time participants such as former Patrick CEO, Chris Corrigan and ACTU Secretary, Greg Combet have agreed to tell their stories.
Awards
- 2007 QLD Premier's Literary Awards - Television Script
Review
The world of the wharves, the boardrooms and war rooms are places most of us will never visit or understand.
Bastard Boys
takes us there, makes sense and great drama all at once. It’s amazing.
- Ruth Richie,
Sydney Morning Herald
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-809-5 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Nick Enright
It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club—and that means grog, drugs and fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead—raped and bashed with a rock. Who is responsible?
Awards
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1996 AWGIE Award - Stage Award
Cast : 6M, 5F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-477-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Stephen Sewell
Sewell’s passionate examination of the way political power can corrupt the individual and society at large is now published in a radically revised edition following its revival at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney in 1995.
Awards
- 1985 NSW Premier's Literary Award - Play Award
Cast : 10M, 6F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-492-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Ian David
Set in Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s, this multi-award winning television drama centres on the notorious friendship between drug dealer and robber Arthur Stanley ‘Neddy’ Smith and Detective Sergeant Roger ‘The Dodger’ Rogerson. There’s a pot of gold involved but it doesn’t come easily or cheaply. This is a powerful and frightening story about police corruption and Sydney’s underworld.
Review
Australia’s best ever drama ... riveting viewing
- Jenny Tabakoff,
Sydney Morning Herald
Awards
- NSW Premier’s Literary Award - Best Screenplay
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-630-5 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Paul Dwyer
Writer, academic and performer Paul Dwyer retraces three journeys made by his father, Dr Allan Dwyer, a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, who visited Bougainville during the 1960s, healing dozens of crippled children. Family stories become entwined with the larger narrative of Australia’s colonial enterprise in the years following: the opening of the giant Panguna copper mine, environmental devastation and Bougainvillean resistance, a war that cost the lives of up to 20,000 people. Since 2004, Paul Dwyer has been making his own journeys to Bougainville, conducting research on the post-war reconciliation process and following the impact of those encounters between his father and the Bougainvillean children. This is politics and performance at its most personal.
Awards
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2011 Green Room Awards - Best Mis-en-scene
Review
The way Dwyer has shaped this experience into a work for the stage is hugely impressive. A combo of boy’s own adventure, academic research, political act and theatre-making experiment.
- Jameswaites.com
Cast : 1M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-891-0 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Vanessa Bates
In 2002 , a young man rehearses for his first armed robbery on a bookstore in Newcastle. On the other side of the world, Chechen rebels hold seige of the Moscow Theatre, demanding liberation. One is a local, small time theft and the other an international political crisis, but both are born of a similar futility and powerlessness to be heard.
Moving back and forth between Moscow and Newcastle, these real events are the basis for this exploration on what drives such acts of terror and the impact they hold on the victims - the perspective from both ends of the gun.
Awards
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2006 VIC Premier’s Literary Awards - Louis Esson Prize (shortlist)
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2006 Griffin Award (shortlist)
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2006 ANPC/New Dramatists Award (shortlist)
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2005 AWGIEs - Best Radio Adaptation
Cast : 2M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-863-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Nick Enright & Justin Monjo
A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton’s award-winning novel.
Cloudstreet follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth.
Awards
- 1999 AWGIE Award - Gold AWGIE
Cast : 8M, 6F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-589-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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The play
Louis Nowra
Nowra’s vibrant play is set inside a psychiatric institution where Lewis, a university student, has been employed to direct a show. He becomes emotionally involved with his patients-cum-actors as his operatic production lurches forward and anti-Vietnam protests rage outside.
Awards
- 1992 NSW Premier’s Literary Award - Play Award
Resources
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 Watch Barry Otto
talk about
Cosi at
the 2011 Texts in the City - part of Melbourne's UNESCO City of Literature Initiative.
Cast : 5M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-403-5 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Nick Enright
While Tom is away, an old boyfriend pays a surprise visit to his wife at home. Her plans for a candle-lit reunion go awry when her highly-stressed neighbour and her mother drop in.
Awards
- 1990 AWGIE Awards - Gold AWGIE
Cast : 3M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-265-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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