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Philip Dean
In his final year at school, and with his parents overseas, Dan is forced to grow up fast when he moves in with his 22-year-old aunt Jacq and her eccentric friend Naomi. Light-hearted and funny, with a definite twist of insanity. Adapted from Nick Earls’ novel.
Includes Teachers' Notes by Sandra Gattenhof.
Cast : 4M, 6F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-652-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Philip Dean
Alex is marking time while awaiting his school results—body surfing, watching TV and playing pool are meanwhile his primary concerns. So he’s not prepared for the girl with the nose-ring who cuts past him on a wave and draws him into a new way of looking at the world. Adapted from a novel by Nick Earls.
Includes Teachers' Notes by Nataly Redhead Beh & Collette Brennan
Cast : 4M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-636-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$14.50 ex GST
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Michael Gow
Studying comes
naturally to Sam, but Danny finds it more difficult. Linda thinks
Jenny is wasting her time whilst Cathy regrets not working harder.
And all the
parents are anxious...
In
All
Stops Out, Michael Gow reveals
different attitudes towards the dreaded end of year exams.
Cast : 4M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-310-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$17.23 ex GST
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Mary Morris
Adapted from the popular Morris Gleitzman novel.
A young girl, Rowena, moves to a new country town and school. Although Rowena can hear she is mute. Her widowed father has a penchant for satin cowboy shirts and embarrassing his daughter in public.
A story about disability, friendship, fitting in, and how children and adults try to co-exist.
Cast : 2M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-421-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$20.86 ex GST
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Nick Enright
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
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1996 AWGIE Award - Stage Award
Cast : 6M, 5F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-477-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Richard Tulloch
Thomas is nine and he’s started writing a book. His father says all important books are about God. Even so, Thomas writes down all the interesting things he sees that other people seem to ignore: tropical fish in the canal, a deluge of frogs, the Son of God popping in for a chat …
He also writes down his greatest determination: When I grow up, I’m going to be happy.
Featuring Jesus, the angels, the Bottombiter, the startling Mrs Van Amersfoort and a beautiful girl with a leather leg, this is a totally magical story about a child learning to act when faced with fear and injustice.
Awards
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2010 Helpmann Award - Best Play (shortlist)
Cast : 4M, 5F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-933-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$16.32 ex GST
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Mary Morris
Shelley is embarrassed when her mother starts working at the ‘retard farm’. Why can’t she get a decent job? At the pool, Ben is afraid of the water, but persists in hanging around the edge, and Tania in the wheelchair is organising a disco.
Adapted from Robin Klein’s novel.
Cast : 1M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-355-7 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Matthew Ryan and Lucas Stibbard
Side by side in a leafy suburb, Thom lives in one flat, Alethea in another. It's pretty clear that their respective, unsatisfying lives would improve enormously if they just met each other. But with a wall literally between them, this seems highly improbable.
Then there's the building's Power Box, having an existential crisis about the eventual collapse of the universe, and the super nova from five thousand years ago. Then there's time travelling on an equation for the speed of light and too much sugar. There's demon magpie attacks, laptops in love, cats dancing to Prince and sock puppet nightmares. And a tiny prayer by the Wall, hoping that all of these pieces can come together for one magical moment of love.
Resources
Cast : 1M & 1 musician
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-955-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Patricia Cornelius / Morris Gleitzman
A story of adventure, ball control and hope.
Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to soccer glory in the next World Cup. But first they must face landmines, pirates, storms and assassins. Can Jamal and his family survive their incredible journey and get to Australia?
Adapted for the stage by Patricia Cornelius from Morris Gleitzman's best-selling novel,
Boy Overboard depicts a deeply human side of the 'asylum seekers' issue by following the journey of Jamal and Bibi from Afghanistan to Australia. Based on real life events, this is a moving play about young people overcoming the confusion of war, politics and the search for a safe haven.
Review
Morris Gleitzman’s excellent unsparing novel for young adults in an accurate, theatrically imaginative and robust staging adaptation by Patricia Cornelius, deals with both the money grubbing and perilous mechanics of a refugee journey and the eternal hunger of hope. - Stephen Dunne,
Sydney Morning Herald
Cast : 9M, 6F (doubling possible)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-807-1 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Carole Patullo and Jane Bayly
It’s just a little disc. A useful, beautiful thing… it holds us together.
Two women live alone but side by side. One day they meet over a jar of buttons and an awkward friendship begins…
Poignant and funny,
Button is about an awkward friendship, longing, life, death and the living in between.
Cast : 2F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-998-5 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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