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Andrew Bovell
An acutely observed but tender-hearted account of relationships and behaviour in a suburban pub bistro on a Friday night.
Cast : 2M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-518-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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David Williamson
Stephen has, with ill grace, returned home to his mother’s deathbed. As he and his sister rake through the family photographs and childhood memories, they find conflicting versions of their parents’ unhappy marriage.
Cast : 3M, 6F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-537-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Paul Brown and the Workers Cultural Action Committ
A moving documentary play drawn from the traumatic recollections of members of the Newcastle Workers' Club, which was destroyed in the 1989 earthquake.
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Cast : 7M, 9F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-650-3 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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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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Tom Holloway
After a long and successful marriage, Pam and Don are still very much in love. But Pam is ill and has to make a heartbreaking decision that will transform both their lives. She does so in the only way she knows how – quickly, pragmatically, and resolutely. Don behaves in the only way he knows how – struggling to keep up but desperate not to lose touch.
And No More Shall We Part follows Pam and Don’s halting, humorous and devastating attempt at the impossible – to begin to say goodbye to each other after a lifetime together.
Awards
- 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards -Louis Esson Prize for Drama
- 2010 AWGIE Awards - Stage Award (shortlist)
Cast : 1M, 1F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-904-7 | Sales rights: worldwide (except UK & Europe) | PB
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Paul Capsis, with Hilary Bell and Julian Meyrick
In 1948, Angela left Malta. Having gathered up five children, she sailed out on the Strathnavar, leaving poverty and the war behind.
Her destination: Australia. In Surry Hills, she could build a bright new life.
If only she could first learn the language, finish shoring up their dilapidated house, find new friends, get the racist neighbour off her back and keep her son away from sly grog queen Kate Leigh’s kids.
Back in Malta, someone else has made a journey. Making his way along Kalkara’s glistening harbourside, a young man with flowing black hair has returned to claim his past. Paul Capsis is walking home.
A journey that begins at a kitchen table becomes a sprawling family history and a fitting tribute to a much-loved matriarch.
Awards
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2012 Helpmann Awards - Best New Australian Work
Cast : 1M or 1F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-946-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Finegan Kruckemeyer
Emma the Greek will sail the seas alone to save her father; Noah will search for his wife who flew off a bridge; Elise will fight the dragons snapping at her heels as she drives each night to lull her baby to sleep; Caleb, a curious misfit, will swim vast oceans to prove his love for Sylvia Wist.; Sylvia Wist can climb up waterfalls and jump time and space. She may not be ordinary but then neither is love.
At Sea, Staring Up is a richly poetic magical relationship drama that follows the journeys of five characters all motivated by love. Set over three continents and one vast ocean this richly poetic, thought provoking play weaves together a world of people who have lost, or are looking for love.
Cast : 2M, 3F (doubling)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-964-1 | 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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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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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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