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.

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Review

Mueller is surely one of the most intelligent, formally adventurous and emotionally brave playwrights now writing in this country. - Theatre Notes

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.

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Review

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

Julia is the enigmatic and elegant widow of an international financier. In her role as benefactor of a foundation established by her husband, she has the power to choose who shall benefit financially from his generosity. Acutely aware of human suffering and the frailty of morality, she selects her beneficiaries carefully. Among her chosen are a detective of art forgery, a medical scientist and a writer. But on what grounds were they selected and why exactly has she invited these three to her husband’s funeral? Written with Gurr’s characteristic sensuality and political passion, Julia 3 explores the individual’s responsibility to society and the ambiguities of co-dependency.

When a woman disappears, four marriages become entangled in a web of love, deceit, sex and death. Who will survive? 

Based on Bovell’s own award-winning play, Speaking in Tongues, Lantana is an intriguing drama about love, infidelity, mistrust and mistakes. 

Review

A literate, densely layered, seamlessly constructed script … a moody, intensely emotional thriller. - If Magazine

Awards

• 2001 AFI Awards - Best Adapted Script

A remote valley. An unspeakable crime. A prominent architect is commissioned to design a memorial to the victims.

On the eve of the presentation of the memorial to the public, a blind woman comes out of the rain and into the architect’s studio. She is the mother of one of the victims and she demands to be heard. Over the next hour the two women do battle over what it means to memorialise the dead, what it means to be a mother and what it means to believe.

Like A Fishbone is both a psychological thriller and a haunting puzzle about faith, compassion and the danger of telling the truth.

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Three family members, three monologues, one day, and a heartbreaking tragedy of miscommunication. 

Awards

• 2009 Green Room Award - Best New Australian Writing
• 2007 R. E. Ross Trust Development Award. 

Nicki Bloom’s astonishing first play is a haunting examination of love, loss and grief.

Sarah can’t remember what happened in the gardens. Her memory is fractured, her husband Michael seems barely present and her parents-in-law, Yvonne and Patrick, are losing patience. What is it that she has lost and can she get it back?

As we jump between events before and after that fateful night in the gardens it becomes clear that the scars that Sarah carries run deep.

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Review

Tender offers a moving exploration of the nature of intense love: in the living and in the memory, and in the everyday. - Mark Hopkins, SMH

Is a person still isolated if their friends are make-believe?

Fred is a 16-year-old living on a farm without stock or crops in an Australian country town. When Travis, the charismatic head boy at their school, begins to take an interest in him, Fred gets lured into the intricate world of The Web, where nothing, and nobody, is what they seem. 

A whodunit for the modern age, The Web, is a fascinating exploration of isolation, friendship, and what happens when social experiments go frighteningly wrong.