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Category: Plays
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Hoods
Angela Betzien

Each night two hoods ride a train to a wrecking yard on the outskirts of the city. Here, in this cemetery of stories, they are storytellers with the power to fast forward, pause and rewind. Tonight, they tell the story of three kids left in a car.

Stolen
Jane Harrison

Stolen tells of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from society from their earliest years, not all of them successfully manage their lives when released into the outside world.

Girls and Dolls
Lisa McGee

A striking play from Northern Ireland about two women and the childhood tragedy they'll never be allowed to forget.

Whipping It Up
Steve Thompson

A quick-witted satirical farce set in the Whips' office at Westminster.

Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola Adapted by Nicholas Wright

Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly husband, Thérèse Raquin falls passionately for another man. Their feverish affair drives the lovers to an act of terrible desperation, which catapults them headlong into a world more claustrophobic than the one they sought to destroy.

Summerfolk
Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Summerfolk is a play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. It is set in a world of 'false hopes and unfulfilled promises', where dachas have been subdivided into summer colonies and the newly rich idle away their time in unhappy romantic alliances. Gorky's characters are still dreaming of a better life, but they are increasingly aware of impending revolution.

 

Touched
Stephen Lowe

Set in 1945 during the days between victory in Europe and victory in Japan, Touched follows the fortunes of a group of women in a working-class suburb of Nottingham.

O Go My Man
Stella Feehily

A satirical comedy of modern manners set in contemporary Dublin.

The Spook
Melissa Reeves

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.

Two Brothers
Hannie Rayson

Two Brothers is a story about what happens when two powerful, passionate and socially committed brothers encounter deadly conflict.

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