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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
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-827-9 | 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.
To read our author interview with Tom Holloway, click here.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-834-7 | 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…
Cast : 3M, 3F
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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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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
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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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Wesley Enoch
Let this table be a home for me. Let it be a home for all the lost and the hungry. May all my children and my children's children eat at this table.
In the 1870's a girl is born under a tree – her birth tree – chosen to give her strength and wisdom. When the tree is cut down she follows it into the white man's world, working as a cook for the big house on the island. Her tree has become a kitchen table, one she will pass down through successive generations as a legacy— a way of carving out her family stories. Now, generations later, a young man and his mother fight for ownership of the table.
Directed by Marion Potts (
Wonderlands),
Cookie's Table is full of humour and is deeply affecting. Gently peeling away the layers of storytelling, it reveals the communal binds that lie beneath them.
Cookie's Table is a moving testament to culture lived, lost and found, the strength of family, adapting and gathering together.
Cast : 2M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-803-3 | PB
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