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Category: Plays
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The Funeral Director
Iman Qureshi

Life as the director of a Muslim funeral parlour isn’t always easy, but Ayesha has things pretty sorted. She and Zeyd share everything: a marriage, a business, a future. Until Tom walks in to organise his boyfriend’s funeral. A snap moral decision, informed by the values of Ayesha’s community and faith, has profound consequences.

The Fishermen
Chigozie Obioma Adapted by Gbolahan Obisesan

Adapted by Gbolahan Obisesan from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen is a powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate. 

Where the Streets Had a Name
Eva Di Cesare, Randa Abdel-Fattah

Eva Di Cesare has adapted Abdel-Fattah's book Where the Streets Had a Name into a daring adventure of freedom and friendship, exile and courage, family and love.

Welcome to a world where your partner can arrive by special delivery, you can replace your ex with a replica, or supplement your waning love life with regular updates. It could be the answer to all our problems… but what might we lose along the way?

Misty
Arinzé Kene

Misty is an inventive blend of gig theatre, spoken word, live art and direct address, confronting the assumptions and expectations underpinning the act of telling a story.

Br'er Cotton
Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm

Lynchburg, Virginia, on the former site of a cotton mill. Fourteen-year-old Ruffrino is struggling to make sense of his place in an impoverished world filled with seemingly random killings of young black men.

Single Asian Female
Michelle Law

Pearl is the quintessential matriarch balancing family, business, and her love of karaoke. Enter her daughters: Zoe, in the throes of online dating, and making big life decisions; while Mei, a teenager, grapples with her identity in modern Australia. Tonight, Pearl reveals a secret that threatens to tear their family apart. 

The Peasant Prince: the play
Eva Di Cesare, Sandra Eldridge, Tim McGarry, Li Cunxin, Monkey Baa

Li, a 10-year-old boy, is plucked from his village in rural China and sent to a ballet academy in the big city. He leaves everything and everyone he loves, including his family. Over years of gruelling training, he transforms from an impoverished peasant to a giant of the international dance scene. What does he find along the way?

Jump for Jordan
Donna Abela

Looking deep into the heart of Sydney and beyond, Jump for Jordan unpacks the experience common to countless second-generation Australians of being caught between two cultures. 

Melbourne Talam
Rashma N Kalsie

Three young people see each other across a crowded Flagstaff station. They just missed the train. Now they wait. And think. They think about home: Punjab, Delhi, Hyderabad. And about how they just can't seem to get Melbourne's rhythm right. And of all the impossible things they must do to stay. And their time is running out.

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