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Category: Plays
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Close To The Bone
Ned Manning

Close to the Bone is a story about a family’s survival in the face of adversity. Moving from the mission to Redfern and back again, it celebrates Redfern’s role in providing a focal point for dislocated Indigenous Australians.

The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill

Harry Hope's Saloon is a waterfront bar full of life's failures. They exist barely, living on the knowledge that love is a chimera and despair is perpetual; that the desires they cultivate of an impossible future are only ever pipe dreams, because the only thing to look forward to is death. And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth.

The Skriker
Caryl Churchill

In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own.

Così
Louis Nowra

Lewis has recently left university and takes up a job in a mental institution directing Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte. Lewis, the non-participant, becomes emotionally involved with his actors' lives as his operatic production lurches forward and anti-Vietnam protests take place in the streets outside.

Summer of the Aliens
Louis Nowra

It’s 1962 and the world is worrying about the Cuban missile crisis. Not Lewis, a youth living in a Melbourne housing commission, he’s preoccupied with flying saucers. Much to the disgust of friend Brian, who can only think of losing his virginity.

Dinkum Assorted
Linda Aronson

In the winter of 1942, when 2000 American airmen are stationed near the small town of Warrabadanga, fifteen female workers battle to keep the biscuits baking. This rousing musical comedy showcases an entertaining slice of Australian social history.

The Heartbreak Kid
Richard Barrett

A boisterous, moving play that explores the relationships of youth, the migrant experience and assumptions about teaching and learning.

Visions
Louis Nowra

The megalomaniac President Lopez has married Madame Lynch, a Parisian courtesan. His ignorance and her egotism together bring ruin on the country and themselves.

The Touch Of Silk
Betty Roland

A poignant drama of Jeanne, a French war-bride and her shell-shocked husband battling the hardship and prejudices of an isolated farming community.

Don’s Party
David Williamson

It's election night 1969. Don and Kath hope that there will be a change of government, and give a party to watch the results. As the tide turns against Labor, the good cheer palls and the faded ideals and disappointed hopes of the characters begin to show.

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