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Tony McNamara
This definitely won’t be a history lesson…
The Great is Tony McNamara's distinctive comic take on the rise and reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.
The action spans the course of Catherine's adult life as she learns the ways of the world and takes on the challenge of political power with all of its attendant responsibilities, excesses and sorrows. It is at once a coming of age story, a family drama and a wild satire on power.
With an attention to veracity that would make Monty Python squeal, history is well and truly damned. Leave the facts with your car keys and your towel on the Sands of Time, come, frolic in the Sea of Great Unlikelihood...
Shortlisted for the 2008 Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian Work
Second Place, Best of Sydney Theatre 2008 (Time Out Sydney)
Read an extract of
The Great (pdf)
Cast : 8M, 5F, some doubling
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-839-2 | PB
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Henrik Ibsen adapted by Andrew Upton
Hedda Gabler is a woman of spirit and guile, fighting to be more than someone's daughter and someone else's wife. But the seasons change, and her battles give way to an ominous composure as she prepares to transcend her imprisonment and determine her own fate.
Andrew Upton unravels the mystery of Ibsen's masterpiece and constructs a psychological thriller of cinematic intensity and power. His superb adaptation gives Australian readers a fresh and exciting insight into one of the great dramatic works of modern literature.
Adapted by Andrew Upton for the Sydney Theatre Company.
In the Company of Actors documents taking the STC production of the play to New York.
Cast : 3M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-752-4 | PB
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Brendan Cowell
Looking at the intertwined lives of a young couple,
Morph explores the shifting dynamics of fear and desire.
Be is damaged goods. Bullish. Solitary. A one-time roughneck from the Manila oil-fields. Grace is a swan. Supple. Dedicated. A dancer at the very height of her powers.
A strange misalliance is in motion. And as the world outside continues to advance at breakneck speed, can Be and Grace rebuild their shattered defences in time to protect themselves from each other?
Cast : 1M, 1F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-743-2 | PB
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Andrew Upton
John was once the frontman in one of the world’s biggest bands,
Riflemind. Now John and his wife Lynn are safe from the world in their walled country house. Money and anonymity, however, won’t protect them from themselves or their past.
As a comeback tour nears, a weekend of music-making is planned. As soon as the band and associated spouses, lovers and hangers-on arrive, it’s a rock’n’roll circus.
With their apparent affluence, preposterous egos and rock-god lifestyles, each of them struggles to find redemption. Over this weekend they will open old wounds, lose their way, play great music and, perhaps, stumble into a more certain future.
Cast : 5M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-823-1 | NOT UK/EIRE | PB
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Tommy Murphy
Saturn has returned, and a moment of doubt changes everything. The universe conspires against Matt and Zara, and Zara is jettisoned into orbit.
Sex on drugs has become sordid, but the allure of the threesome is still tempting. The prospect of having children is no longer odious, but mortgages and responsibility remain objects of contempt. It's time for lock down. But who's playing?
Shifting perspectives on identity and Tommy Murphy's trademark comic flair combine to create a lively theatre of insight and ingenuity.
Read an extract of
Saturn's Return (pdf)
Cast : 1F, 2M; some doubling
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-840-8 | PB
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Two one-act plays: Citizens / Soldiers
Daniel Keene
Two compelling one-act
plays by acclaimed playwright Daniel Keene.
In
Citizens
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war-torn country, conflict is an unseen force which disrupts the everyday tasks of people, battling to survive.
Soldiers is set in an Air Force hangar far from the battlefield. But for five families, who gather to receive the bodies of their sons, brothers and friends, war does not seem so far away.
Keene's
astute and probing insight into the insidious effects of global tensions give
us cause to reflect on the true human cost of armed conflict whether it is
close to home or not.
'The writing is razor-sharp, remarkably and memorably profound; at times, ravishingly beautiful ... It's extraordinary!' Australian Stage
Read an extract of
The Serpent's Teeth (pdf)
Winner of the 2009 NSW Play Award.
Cast : 8M, 5F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-838-5 | PB
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Ben Ellis
This kaleidoscopic play utilises transcripts of interviews, media reports, departmental fact-sheets and submissions to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. Ellis creates an inventive, challenging, disturbing and yet humorous play that contrasts a 'typical' Australian nuclear family with life in detention centres.
‘… it’s
wonderful to see new Australian writing that is culturally relevant, theatrically
imaginative, and daring’,
Sydney Morning
Herald
‘Ellis
takes a novel line. He doesn’t point the finger at politicians, policy makers
or bureaucrats, but suggests instead that you and I – selfish, apathetic and
disinterested citizens that we are – are implicated in the maltreatment of
refugees.’
Sun Herald
Cast : 2M, 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-744-9 | PB
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