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Category: Plays
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Clarkston
Samuel D. Hunter

On a journey West to rediscover himself, Jake unexpectedly meets Chris – a kindred soul working the same night shift at a Costco in a rural American town.

As their bond deepens, so does their sense of adventure. Maybe they could finally give life new meaning by chasing something more – like the intrepid American explorers who came before them. Together, they grapple with questions about sexuality, family and life's dead ends.

The Party Girls
Amy Rosenthal

The glamorous Mitford sisters once cut a swathe through pre-war high society. But as fascism rises and political storm clouds gather, the bonds of sisterhood are threatened by new and treacherous desires.

Nancy aspires to be a celebrated novelist, Diana and Unity fall for the dangerous, charismatic leaders of the far right in Britain and Germany, and Debo sets her cap at a Duke. Meanwhile, Decca crosses continents in her own passionate pursuit of love – but can she ever escape…

The Gathered Leaves
Andrew Keatley

The Pennington family haven't been in the same room together for seventeen years. But on the eve of William's seventy-fifth birthday, all three generations gather, hoping that the mistakes of the past can be consigned to history.

An errant daughter, an autistic son, and a second son that could never just grasp the nettle – William's children have always been a disappointment to him. With long-held resentments rising to the surface, and new problems unexpectedly presenting…

Green Park
Elias Jamieson Brown

Green Park, picturesque by day, a little eerie by night. It’s where Warren and Edden are meeting, as a prelude to their Grindr hook up. One of them doesn't look like his photo. There's an age gap between them (but what's a decade or three?). And one is harbouring a dangerous secret. In an hour's time, both will leave the park profoundly transformed.

This Bitter Earth
Harrison David Rivers

Jesse, an introspective Black playwright, finds his choices challenged when his boyfriend, Neil, a white Black Lives Matter activist, calls him out for his political apathy.

As passions and priorities collide, the two of them are forced to reckon with divisions of race and class, and the bravery it takes to love unconditionally.

Harrison David Rivers's play This Bitter Earth is an intimate, romantic and gripping drama that explores what it means to love outside the…

Koreaboo
Michelle Lim Davidson

Hannah had her trip all planned out. Travel to Korea. Visit her birth mother. Spend a golden summer creating precious memories. But when she arrives in Seoul reality hits hard. Her Umma seems more interested in stacking shelves and re-arranging the garden gnome display than connecting with her long-lost Australian daughter.

My Master Builder
Lila Raicek

On the eve of July 4th, in the Hamptons, Elena is preparing to throw a party to celebrate her husband, Henry, as he unveils his latest architectural masterpiece. But their already vulnerable union is shattered by the unexpected arrival of a former student of Henry's, Mathilde, with whom he shared an intimate connection…

The Seagull
Anton Chekhov Adapted by Duncan Macmillan, Thomas Ostermeier

When celebrated actress Irina Arkádina arrives at her family's country estate for the summer, she finds herself caught in a perfect storm of conflicting desires. Her playwright son, Konstantin, is struggling to step out of her shadow to pursue his own artistic ambitions. Her lover Trigorin, a famous novelist, has entranced the aspiring young actress Nina, with whom Konstantin is in love. As their lives entwine and they each grapple with their desires, ambitions and disappointments,…

Churchill in Moscow
Howard Brenton

The Kremlin, Moscow, 1942. A top-secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: one, a wealthy aristocrat from a blue-blooded line of English nobility; the other, a Georgian peasant, hell-bent on destroying capitalism and the class system. Can these two leaders find common ground? As diplomats struggle to control the escalating chaos, two interpreters find themselves caught in the eye of the storm.

Straight White Male: Two Plays
Alex Buzo, Nick Parsons

Late at night. An empty street. A white man stops an Asian student. Fifty-six years later, another white man stops another student. Different men from different worlds. The same gnawing fear. Two plays. One story.

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