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Philip Dean
In his final year at school, and with his parents overseas, Dan is forced to grow up fast when he moves in with his 22-year-old aunt Jacq and her eccentric friend Naomi. Light-hearted and funny, with a definite twist of insanity. Adapted from Nick Earls’ novel.
Includes Teachers' Notes by Sandra Gattenhof.
Cast : 4M, 6F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-652-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Philip Dean
Alex is marking time while awaiting his school results—body surfing, watching TV and playing pool are meanwhile his primary concerns. So he’s not prepared for the girl with the nose-ring who cuts past him on a wave and draws him into a new way of looking at the world. Adapted from a novel by Nick Earls.
Includes Teachers' Notes by Nataly Redhead Beh & Collette Brennan
Cast : 4M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-636-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Michael Gow
Studying comes
naturally to Sam, but Danny finds it more difficult. Linda thinks
Jenny is wasting her time whilst Cathy regrets not working harder.
And all the
parents are anxious...
In
All
Stops Out, Michael Gow reveals
different attitudes towards the dreaded end of year exams.
Cast : 4M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-310-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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David Williamson
In a moment of glory at the 1968 Olympics, an Australian rowing team known as 'The Four Amigos' won bronze. It was lifetime bonding material.
Or so it seemed. Thirty-five years later only two of the Amigos keep in touch. Jim is a wealthy banker with a young, beautiful wife and seems to have it all. His friend Dick, a heart surgeon, has something that Jim covets: a sterling reputation. When the two mates meet up in Port Douglas with their wives, they have competing personal agendas. Then Steven, a third Amigo, turns up, ready to expose the past.
A savagely funny play that hinges on the subtle aggression and unacknowledged dependencies of male friendship — and the angst and irritation created for those on the sidelines.
Cast : 3M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-746-3 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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The Gay Divorcee / A Manual of Trench Warfare / Furious / Blood and Honour / What Do They Call Me? / Mates / Pinball / Is That You Nancy?
Bruce Parr (ed)
A collection of gay and lesbian themed drama.
The Gay Divorcee
, by Margaret Fischer
Weaving together the language of fairytales with the psychodrama of modern lesbian relationships, Margaret Fischer explores today’s challenges with yesterday’s wisdom and a touch of Jewish humour.
A Manual of Trench Warfare
, by Clem Gorman
It is primarily survival that is on the minds of these soldiers fighting the Turks at Gallipoli, but a strong undercurrent of sexual tension is mingling with mateship and anti-authoritarianism.
Furious
, by Michael Gow
A family secret, a terrible betrayal and an obsession to rewrite the past combine in an explosive cocktail of fact and fiction. Michael Gow’s most uncompromising play.
Blood and Honour
, by Alex Harding
Racism and homophobia are explored in the relationship between a white Australian, Colin, and his Asian lover, Michael. The language of the stage elevates their dialogue with Colin’s mother to a hyper-real and hilarious performance of ideas.
Is That You Nancy?
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by
Sandra Shotlander
This lively and literary play links lesbians of the past with those of the present in a delightful tapestry of telephone calls between Gertrude Stein, her friends and her fans.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-455-4 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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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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Rita Kalnejais
A group of more or less
ordinary Sydneysiders go about their lives: Anna makes toast, Henry dresses for
work, Milla catches the train to school, Moses deals drugs. But hovering above
this unholy parade of life is the sobering fact that Milla will die before her
15th birthday.
Babyteethlooks at the
humdrum world around us and sees something radically alive. Dogs, Paganini,
figs, an eight-year-old Vietnamese violin prodigy, morphine, clear skies and a
Latvian immigrant are amongst the magnificent conflagration of ingredients
which make up this wonderful, funny play, written specially for Belvoir.
Cast : 4M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-926-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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David Williamson
A bittersweet play about motherhood.
At twenty-nine, Helen has a vital operation that stops her from having what she desperately wants: a child. Her younger sister Claudia gives her a wonderful gift when she agrees to be a surrogate mother. But what happens when, years later, Claudia discovers that she and her husband Martin cannot conceive and that Kelly, the child she gave to her sister, is the only baby she will ever bear?
Soulmates
\Williamson applies his merciless humour to the literary world in a play about the slippery business of books, authors, and the readers who love them both. Commerce competes with art; serious writing with popular writing.
Set in Melbourne and New York, this is a tale of revenge as the best-selling expatriate author Katie Best engineers a scheme to bring her most craven critic Danny O'Loughlin undone.
Cast : Birthrights - 2M, 4F / Soulmates - 4M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-698-5 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Mary Morris
Adapted from the popular Morris Gleitzman novel.
A young girl, Rowena, moves to a new country town and school. Although Rowena can hear she is mute. Her widowed father has a penchant for satin cowboy shirts and embarrassing his daughter in public.
A story about disability, friendship, fitting in, and how children and adults try to co-exist.
Cast : 2M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-421-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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I Don't Wanna Play House / Conversations With the Dead / Enuff / Crow Fire / Belonging / Casting Doubts
Tammy Anderson et. al.
A collection of six plays from Victoria by Aboriginal writers which encompass a myriad of issues about the Aboriginal experience.
Contains:
I Don’t Wanna Play House, by Tammy Anderson
Tammy Anderson's moving story of her childhood. A truly remarkable account of the triumph of the human spirit.
Conversations With the Dead, by Richard J. Frankland
Imagine that you're a Koorie, that you're in your mid-twenties, that your job is to look into the lives of the dead and the process, policy and attitude that killed them.
Jack is employed by Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. In his role he listens to the stories of grieving families and re-creates the lives of those who have died. A powerful, savage play which takes you into the aching sorrow of deaths in custody.
Enuff, by
John Harding
A violent uprising is planned for Reconciliation Day in a future Australia. Will retribution or forgiveness prevail?
Crow Fire, by Jadah Milroy
The story of a young, urban Indigenous Australian woman and a man from a desert community lured into the city.
Belonging, by Tracey Rigney
Follows the taunts and temptations of a school girl, and her personal struggle to remain true to her culture and herself.
Casting Doubts, by Maryanne Sam
A funny and at times heart-wrenching play about an actors' casting agency with more colour charts than a paint shop, and the problems faced by Indigenous actors.
Cast : I Don't Wanna Play House - 1F + 1 musician / Conversations With the Dead - 5M, 1F + 1 musician / Enuff - 5M, 2F / Crow Fire - 3M, 2F / Belonging - 1M, 3F (doubling required) / Casting Doubts - 3M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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