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Sophocles (adapted by Eamon Flack)

Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes’ civil war, have both been killed in battle. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honoured and Polyneices disgraced. The rebel brother’s body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied to become the food of carrion animals. Defying Creon’s edict Antigone buries her brother and in so doing unleashes a terrible tragedy.
Review
What a great piece of theatre! The adaptation by Eamon Flack retains the power of the original, while making it not so much up to date, as timeless. -
ArtsHub
Cast : 4M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-880-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$29.95 ex GST $32.95 inc GST
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Vocations / The Chapel Perilous / Historia / Murras / Remember / The Forty Lounge Cafe / Running Up a Dress
Peta Tait & Elizabeth Schafer (eds)
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.
Vocations,
by Alma De Groen
Two women, a writer and an actress, must try to separate their vocations from the nesting instincts of their mates.
The Chapel Perilous,
by Dorothy Hewett
The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts—through her school days, lovers, marriage and politics—to extract meaning from her environment. Music by Frank Arndt.
Remember,
by Jenny Kemp
Sustaining a tension between a mundane domesticity and the surreal, exotic projections of Moderna’s inner world,
Remember
investigates the long-term consequences of the experience of rape.
The Forty Lounge Cafe
, by Tes Lyssiotis
A lyrical family story spanning three generations and two worlds.
Running Up A Dress
, by Suzanne Spunner
A collage of performed selves, this play depicts the ‘wear and tear’ on mother-daughter relationships through linguistic exercises on the extended metaphor of dressmaking.
Cast : Vocations - 2M, 2F + extras / The Chapel Perilous - 3M, 2F / Historia - 2M, 2F / Remember - 2M, 3F / The Forty Lounge Cafe - 9F (doubling possible)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-497-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$20.86 ex GST $22.95 inc GST
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Michael Gow
Commencing with a school performance of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Shakespearean themes of suffering and reconciliation persist as three families on separate holidays are united during a fierce storm.
Awards
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1986 NSW Premier's Literary Award - Play Award
Resources
Cast : 6M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-211-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$22.68 ex GST $24.95 inc GST
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Katharine Susannah Prichard
'I consider
Brumby Innes to be in a class by itself' wrote theatre director Gregan McMahon in 1927, 'It is a very remarkable work, comparable to some of the best of Eugene O'Neill's, and it is, moreover, essentially Australian.'
Written in the 1920s,
Brumby Innes confronts the turbulent relations between the sexes and the races in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is published with another Prichard play from the 1920s,
Bid Me To Love which, by contrast, is set among the fashionable rich in the lush hills outside Perth.
The two plays are compelling for their dramatic styles and for their insight into the novels which followed:
Coonardoo and
Intimate Strangers. And both had to wait more than forty years for their first production.
Cast : 9M, 6F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-086-0 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Dorothy Hewett
The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts—through her school days, lovers, marriage and politics—to extract meaning from her environment. Music by Frank Arndt.
Cast : 3M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-814-9 | 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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$20.86 ex GST $22.95 inc GST
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David Williamson
Williamson’s famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. This is a play set behind the scenes, a head-on tackle of brawn versus bureaucracy.
Resources
Cast : 6M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-013-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Walter Cooper
Acclaimed by the
Sydney Morning Herald at its premiere in 1868 as 'the most successful colonial play produced on the Sydney boards', Walter Cooper's second play was notable for local colour and for integrating familiar colonial types into a comedy of Australian manners.
The miserly Matthew Grudge is attempting to swindle his nephew and marry his heiress niece to his jackeroo son. His plans are complicated by the wily Captain Versatile Fluent, an Irish fortune hunter, and eventually foiled by his clerk, the faithful Peter Shrivel. A sub-plot involves the merry baiting of a pair of new chums in search of 'colonial experience'. The play has been revived several times since it was published in 1979.
Edited by Eric Irvin.
Cast : 9M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-024-2 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$20.86 ex GST $22.95 inc GST
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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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David Holman, with Neil Armfield & Geoffrey Rush
St Petersburg in the time of the Czar. Poprishchin is a kind of human photocopier: he spends his days writing what’s on one page onto another page for endless thousands of pages. Towering above him is the most insane and terrifying hierarchy in human history. Down the bottom with him are millions of other clerks. But Poprishchin’s a little bit different. Poprishchin’s got love and he’s on his way to the very top. In an age of ridiculous ambition and ubiquitous work, Gogol’s comic tale is a loser’s Hamlet. It burrows into our wildest fantasies and finds wonderful play in the gap between who we are and who we think we are.
Cast : 1M, 1F (doubling required)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-871-2 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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