It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club—and that means grog, drugs and fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead—raped and bashed with a rock. Who is responsible?

Awards

•  1996 AWGIE Award - Stage Award

A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton’s award-winning novel. Cloudstreet follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth.

Awards

• 1999 AWGIE Award - Gold AWGIE

Awards

• 1990 AWGIE Awards - Gold AWGIE

Spanning several decades and three generations, this compelling play exposes some of the darker moments in the histories of two Irish Catholic families.

Awards

• 1995 Green Room Award - Best New Play.

Gerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. The results are shown annually on television. For the children who grow up under Gerry’s (and the nation’s) watchful eyes, the experience creates its own dynamic. Are the participants his subjects, his children or his creations? Spanning more than twenty years, A Man With Five Children invites you into a world of fractured celebrity and distorted vision.

Review

Characteristic of Enright and further testifies why he’s one of our theatre’s valued enchanters. - SMH

Inspired by two Australian playwrights prominent in the 1970s, Jim McNeil and Peter Kenna, Mongrels looks at the difficulties and complexities faced by the creative artist in life and art.

Awards

• 1992 AWGIE Award - Stage Award

Review

When a young girl is murdered at the hands of one of her male contemporaries, what is the aftermath? How will her friends cope? How can such violence be understood? A Property of the Clan deals with these issues with honesty, sensitivity and intelligence.

A rough and tumble, lightning paced world of street theatre and strolling players — the crowning glory of the Commedia del’Arte tradition that so influenced Shakespeare’s comedies and western theatrics.

Truffaldino couldn’t be happier with his change of circumstance balancing two jobs and earning double the wage. But his ‘masters’ turn out to be separated lovers on the run staying at the same inn. With one disguised as a man, the wily Truffaldino tries to handle the chaos. Hoop-la and hilarity take hold in this comedy of love gone wrong and mistaken identity in romantic Venice. This version of the play was produced by Bell Shakespeare—to critical acclaim—in 2003 with a return season in 2004.

 

Review

Genuinely funny... it’s theatre at its purest - The Australian

Greg spends his spare time gazing at the stars while his brother Mitchell prefers the mud of the rodeo arena. Karen and Amy are friends with wildly different ambitions. Juggling the demands of parents, friends and their own dreams, these four teenagers learn that adulthood begins with a voyage of self-discovery.

As protesters march against the Vietnam War, boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams. One student paints an anti-war mural in the cadet drill hall and is forced to confront the consequences of his action.

 

An outback town, Boxing Day, 1945. The dust settles as the populace nurses a Christmas hangover. When Harold Slocum of Slocum’s Travelling Tent Show becomes stranded, emotions run high and the sedentary life of the town is disturbed by the remembrance of an illicit affair. In this bittersweet musical, which is at once humorous and sensitive, new life is breathed into the rural community.

This comedy of love and errors set somewhere between Verona and Jindyworobak has entranced audiences for over twenty years. An entertaining romp which puts an Australian spin on Goldoni’s classic Italian farce.

Awards

• 1983 NSW Premier's Literary Award - Play Award