Two plays from this uncompromising Welsh dramatist about what he calls ‘the evicted’. His characters serve as a metaphor for Wales itself: lost, angry and in search of an identity.

Utah Blue is a powerful reworking of the story of Gary Gilmore, the man who killed two black men and then famously insisted the state carry out the death penalty it had imposed upon him.

In Over Milk Wood we follow Hugh Pugh, a character of Dylan Thomas, as he heads into the Bronx, trying to exorcise the curse of being portrayed as a murderer.

'a brooding, provocative play...a challenging piece...uncompromising in its violence, brutality and sexual obsession Independent (Utah Blue)

'mischievously splendid' New Welsh Review (Over Milk Wood)

‘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

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 honored 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.

Antigone is part of a new series,  CURRENCY CLASSICS, a series of Australian adaptations of classic plays.

To read an extract from Antigone go to this PDF

CAST: 4F 4M

This volume offers five of the best plays from the 1980s, introduced and edited by Katharine Brisbane. Published in conjunction with Nick Hern Books, UK, the plays are: David Williamson, Travelling North, Jack Davis, No Sugar, Michael Gow, Away, Alma De Groen, The Rivers of China and Louis Nowra, The Golden Age.

A collection of gay and lesbian themed drama.

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.

The plays are: The Chapel Perilous (Dorothy Hewett); Vocations (Alma De Groen); Running Up A Dress (Suzanne Spunner); Murras (Eva Johnson); The Forty Lounge Cafe (Tes Lyssiotis); Remember (Jenny Kemp); and Historia (Noëlle Janaczewska).

A collection of six plays from Victoria by Aboriginal writers which encompass a myriad of issues about the Aboriginal experience.

Includes: Enuff (John Harding); I Don’t Wanna Play House (Tammy Anderson); Belonging (Tracey Rigney); Casting Doubts (Maryanne Sam); Crowfire (Jadah Milroy); and Conversations With the Dead (Richard J. Frankland).

Five plays translated by Stephen Mulrine.

Boris Godunov recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri. Boris Godunov became regent for the feeble-minded Tsar Fyodor following the death of Ivan the Terrible. But the heir to the throne, the boy-prince Dimitri, died mysteriously in 1591, and Boris was widely rumoured to have murdered him. When a renegade monk appeared claiming to be Dimitri, there was reason for revolt.

This volume also includes four plays from Pushkin's 'Little Tragedies': A Feast in Time of Plague, The Miserly Knight, Mozart and Salieri and The Stone Guest.

After an extensive period of writing for film, Louis Nowra returns to the stage with The Boyce Trilogy, an epic saga about the Boyce family, a family made wealthy through property development. The trilogy starts with The Woman with Dog's Eyes which introduces us to the Boyce family as they gather to celebrate the parents’ 40^th wedding anniversary. Inspired by events that traumatised Sydney’s Moran family, the play explores the universal themes of family, love and disappointment.

The second part of the trilogy , The Marvellous Boy, unwraps the story of this notorious Sydney family. Malcolm Boyce is dying at a time when his biggest building project—and so his whole empire—is threatened by protesters. He hires an important criminal, the charismatic Ray Pollard, to threaten his enemies. Malcolm gets his son, Luke, to liaise with Ray. Luke not only falls under Ray's spell but also finds himself involved with his father's mistress. The results are tragic. This story follows Luke from detachment into an emotional involvement that will be liberating and then shattering as the consequences of his and his father's moral duplicity emerge.

In the final instalment of the trilogy, The Emperor of Sydney , the three sons fight for control of the company as their father lays dying in the master bedroom above the huge Beauchamp mansion living room. The company is near bankruptcy because of a huge stalled project (their father's personal vision) and they are facing a criminal investigation into the father's role in the suspicious death of the project's outspoken critic.

Cast : 4M, 1F

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Published in Chekhov: 4 Plays