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Category: Plays
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Stray
R Johns

A Homeric Odyssey told from the perspective of a stray dog as he journeys through Melbourne's urban landscape. Raw performance, a designed soundscape and an epic and poetic text combine to create an extraordinary adventure.

Odyssey
Andreas Litras, John Bolton

Andreas Litreas weaves the stories of his family through the legend of Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War. In this beautifully crafted autobiography we witness Greek tragedy, comedy and the everyday.

The Middlemarch Trilogy
George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

George Eliot's Middlemarch is peopled with some of literature's most memorable characters. In Geoffrey Beevers' dramatisation, all three interconnected plays can be performed as a trilogy, but each play can also stand on its own, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

The Low Road
Bruce Norris

A young entrepreneur sets out on a quest for wealth with priceless ambition and a purse of gold.

Angela’s Kitchen
Paul Capsis, Hilary Bell, Julian Meyrick

In 1948, Angela left Malta. Having gathered up five children, she sailed away leaving poverty and the war behind. Her destination: Australia, to build a bright new life Back in Malta, Paul Capsis has made a journey, returning to claim his past.

Thyestes
Simon Stone, Thomas Henning, Chris Ryan, Mark Winter, Seneca

Thyestes explores the constant that has underpinned human nature for centuries: that man is brutal, capable of anything.

Alice Springs in the year 2039. A fish falls from the sky and lands at the feet of Gabriel York. And it still smells of the sea. It's been raining for days and Gabriel knows something is wrong. Fifty years earlier his grandfather, Henry Law predicts that fish will fall from the sky heralding a great flood that will end life on Earth as we know it.

Cardenio
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher Edited by Gregory Doran, Antonio Alamo

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.

Ivanov
Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell Adapted by Howard Brenton

Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

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