Study Guides

Below right are links to online study guides and some essays that are available on this website. We hope to build on these and ask you to contact us with suggestions of what you would like to see. You are welcome to read these online and to print out a single copy for your own use. However if you want to reproduce multiple copies please read our Study Guide Notice.

In addition to these guides, here are some other resources that may be useful to you:

Brisbane's La Boite Theatre has a range of study guides for plays it has produced, including Zig-Zag Street, Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls, The Drowning Bride, Perfect Skin, Amigos and Operator.

Jenny Kemp's Black Sequin Productions website gives information on her plays including Still Angela.

Visit the Malthouse Theatre website to see their range of study guides including Chilling & Killing My Annabelle Lee, Falling from Grace, God's Last Acre, Jerusalem, Mavis Goes to Timor, Milo's Wake, Minefields & Miniskirts, Miss Tanaka, Ruby Moon, Salt, Speaking in Tongues, Stolen, Svetlana in Slingbacks, The Call, The Ham Funeral, The Ishmael Club, The Sick Room, Up the Road and Yanagai! Yanagai!.

Similarly, the Education tab of the website of Melbourne Theatre Company offers Background Files on, among others, Away, Cosi, Death and the Maiden, Diving for Pearls and  Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. There’s also a file on David Williamson. The information contained in each file varies, but there is a general description on their site.