There's something a little strange about Else, like the way she sometimes flies around the room. Thank God for the exorcist.

Arki hasn't been sleeping well. At night, he is haunted by visions of fallen bodies. Arki isn't a soldier, nor a general, nor a civilian caught in the crossfire. He loves to game. And it's all just a game, isn't it?

Anthem registers the pulse of the nation in a country unable to reconcile its past and uncertain of its future. With no easy answers, it asks the urgent question of who we are now — does Australia really sing with one voice?

Five plays are intertwined in one in this story of fringe dwellers living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly without work, and politically disengaged, they work at survival.

1965 and nothing much is going on in the ranks of the South Bendigo Communist Party. Even the presence of young recruit Martin Porter hasn’t changed anything. But Martin is an ASIO spy and he’s about to get his new friends into serious trouble.