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Patricia Cornelius
Funny, disturbing and bittersweet,
The Call is an enthralling drama about a young man looking to escape a suburban life.
Gary stares into the eyes of a chook. After laying twenty thousand eggs and spending an entire life inside a tiny cage, she’s facing the chop.
Gary has had a confined life too—most of it spent looking for girls, stealing cars and wagging school. Now it’s become a succession of dull, dirty and dangerous jobs.
But Gary yearns for something that can make sense of life for him—give it meaning. He hears the call. One that roars inside him. A call of the wild, a call to arms, a call to prayer, a call of adventure...
‘A powerful piece of Australian theatre...The Call
brilliantly explores what life is like in small country towns across rural Australia.’ Australian Stage
To read an extract of the play click on this PDF
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-856-9 | PB
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William Yang
Photographer-storyteller William Yang returns to a motherland he never knew - the Australian-born Chinese a stranger in his homeland
Yang takes his audiences from the streets of Beijing, where electronics superstores jostle with echoes of the Cultural Revolution and the Ming Dynasty, to the sacred mountain Huang Shan, a must-climb for every Chinese pilgrim-tourist; from a wild night in a Mongolian herdsman’s hut, to the apartments of ordinary Chinese, a few months after the Tiananmen Square incident.
Part social documentary, part personal observation,
China creates a meditative space, a journey of reflection on the meaning of culture and belonging, for performer and audience alike.
‘Yang's China offers fascinating insights and paradoxes… China
is a polished, wryly observed and typically low-key monologue’ Bryce Hallet, SMH
'A wast, beautiful, humorous story' Daily Telegraph
Read an extract of
China (pdf)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-827-9 | PB
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Ross Mueller
‘Tragedy is an incident, comedy will be our landscape.’
Somewhere in a busy city, a Man wakes to discover he has forgotten his life. He has no memory of the past and no clear sense of the present.
He is concussed. Or so he is told by a doctor—who may also be his partner. Now there are flashes of something. Hunger, mourning, sexual appetite... Bob Dylan? But why isn’t he in hospital? And what of the voices, the Blackberry, the brothers? The hammer?
A comedy with attitude,
Concussion explodes a simple conceit and scatters its achingly funny and filthy tales of the city like shrapnel.
‘Mueller is surely one of the most intelligent, formally adventurous and emotionally brave playwrights now writing in this country.’ Theatre Notes
To read an extract go to extract (pdf)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-855-2 | PB
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Tom Holloway
The wheels in the gravel driveway. The door. Him coming home. I was waiting because I hadn't seen him in a long time. I hadn't been alone with him in so long…
After a decade under siege a city has finally fallen. But ten years of rage have taken their toll. For an officer returning from this epic overseas campaign, it is time to put the horrors of battle behind him, and to take back his place at the family table.
For the officer's wife, it is time to take her revenge…
Tom Holloway's ‘epic-in-miniature' is inspired by Aeschylus'
Agamemnon and a truly contemporary Australian landscape — with breathtaking results.
'The excellent cast rises to the script's intricate rhythms and rapid-fire assaults.' SMH
For our author interview with Tom Holloway, click here.
For an extract of
Don't Say the Words (pdf), click here.
Cast : 1F, 2M Performance Rights : Cassarotto & Ramsey (London, UK), local: Tom Holloway
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-834-7 | PB
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Raimondo Cortese
A holiday. A time for conversation and distraction, a time to wind down and to dream...
In a moment of relaxation and quiet reflection, two men unwittingly engage. Spontaneous, unaffected and thrillingly real, innocent discussion becomes an exploration of private fantasy, hidden anxiety, personal mythology and the most inexplicable behaviour.
What lies behind the most unconscious gesture? How do power struggles play out in the politest of exchanges? Is there hope in the blank spaces between strangers?
An extraordinary blend of performance, humour, sound, video installation and baroque song,
Holiday is theatre at its most inspirational.
‘Lucid, gentle, funny and unexpectedly moving, it remains one of the shows of the year.’ The Australian
'Holiday
is great theatre—funny and light as air on the surface, with philosophical depths that will niggle you long after you leave.' The Age
'... one of the most fascinating productions in recent memory. It's almost like one of those 3D magic eye pictures—a seemingly chaotic, random array of dialogue which suddenly, powerfully gains a depth that is almost shocking in its richness. This is contemporary performance of the highest calibre, wrought with deft skill and tempered with a discerning, unwavering hand.' RealTime Magazine
Read an extract of
Holiday (pdf).
For our author interview with Raimondo Cortese, click here.
Cast : 2M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-854-5 | PB
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Michael Gow
The play that launched Michael Gow’s playwriting career returns to the stage
In blazing heat, a stolen Mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three unstable teenagers from the country – Snake, Aspro and Dean – plan a future that will begin when they collect Aspro's accident compo from the Department.
Joined by Donald, an opera fanatic desperate for a change of scene, they travel to the city to take up residence in ‘the largest block of flats in the Southern Hemisphere'.
As bush fires rage on the edge of the city, they meet Desiree, a young girl from downstairs with apocalyptic predictions.
Sparks fly. Tensions escalate. Twilight approaches…
'The Kid
resounds strongly in 2008, thanks to the mythic quality of Gow's writing and director Tom Healey's edgy, fiercely-acted production.' Sun Herald
Read an extract of
The Kid (pdf)
Cast : 3M, 3F Performance Rights : Shanahan Management
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-833-0 | PB
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Katherine Thomson
It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.
Ashanti proverb
Three years ago, Sal was an award-winning investigative journalist. Uncovering government corruption and public scandals she was forever on the front line. But her son's death robbed Sal of her willingness to engage. Increasingly reclusive, she opted out, choosing to live in a borrowed beach house as she struggles to come to terms with her loss.
When her teenage daughter brings home a Japanese surfer to stay, Sal finds herself confronted with a sense of danger that was once so vital to her life.
King Tide is a surprising story of hope, emerging out of the love and vulnerability of two very different people.
REVIEWS:
‘Katherine Thomson ... affirms her position as a potent bellwether of what ails us.’ 'Stage Noise
‘No playwright in this country does human dramas about political issues
better than Thomson.’
Australian
‘Katherine Thomson's wonderful play is about the collision
of world views both generational and political’
SMH
Cast : 2M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-804-0 | PB
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Damien Millar
'funny, irreverent, passionate and provocative'
Mark Hopkins, SMH
'Millar's tapestry of reportage is engrossing, suspenseful and irreverently humorous' Sun Herald
Every year, a tiny group of unique individuals give up a regular lifestyle to begin an extraordinary undertaking. Banding together, they are recruited to bring relief to the world’s trouble spots. Delivering humanitarian or medical aid, they offer hope to those living on the edge of human tolerance … well, at least, that’s what they signed up for.
Damien Millar explores the intentions, adversities and fears of Australians on the front line. Revealing personal stories with a compassionate eye and a gallows humour, he offers a compelling, practical perspective on international aid.
The Modern International Dead is ‘witness theatre’ at its most potent – the insiders’ view on global change today, and the world we hope for tomorrow.
Winner of the 2008 Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian Work
Cast : 2M, 1F Performance Rights : no agent
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-835-4 | PB
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Daniel Keene
Bill has lived a life amongst the rambling beauty of the old family home. Now he's gone blind, and children Helen and Michael have returned for a few days to move him to a secure apartment. On the outside Bill is stoic, resigned to his fate, but inside he silently rages against the darkness.
Helen feels the weight of responsibility—for both her father and her own family. The fragility of her marriage has her longing for the untroubled days of childhood.
Photographer Michael is on the verge of a quiet breakdown, having for years avoided meaningful connection with any human being. Drawn together in a garden full of echoes, the three discover tender memories of the shared past unwilling to release them...
The Nightwatchman is an incredibly moving, poetic and ultimately life-affirming ode to the human spirit and the memories that define us.
'The world of this deceptively simple play is rich with memory, pervaded by loss and informed by a deep feeling for the ways in which individuals endure in the world: alone even when they are together, loving even as they turn away from each other. It's like Samuel Beckett at his best. ... The writing is so achingly beautiful'. – John McCallum,
Australian
Cast : 2M, 1F Performance Rights : self represented
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-801-9 | PB
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Ian Wilding
Tim, an airline pilot and Angela, his young, beautiful wife, live the successful urban dream in a streamlined apartment in the inner city. One night a friend of Angela's, Dez, pays them a visit. There's just one problem: Angela flatly denies she's ever met him, and despite Dez's growing protestations, she wants him out. Rejected and humiliated, Dez leaves. But not before making some seemingly ominous threats. Now Angela and Tim are having trouble readjusting. Dez has thrown their comfortable lives out of kilter and fear of future incursions escalates.
Enter Dick, private eye – smarmy and menacing by turns, a Man who Makes Things Happen. Though he charges by the hour and his approach is definitely unconventional, Dick may be exactly what the situation requires...
Cast : 3M, 1F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-802-6 | PB
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