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Category: Plays
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Lighten Up
Nicholas Brown, Sam McCool

John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams big, but his coloured contacts hide the fact that his skin is more brown than white. His mum wants John to marry a white Aussie woman, but he falls in love with Indigenous woman Sandy.

House + Amongst the Reeds: two plays
Somalia Seaton, Chinonyerem Odimba

Somalia Seaton's House is a play about family, culture clash, memory and truth. When Pat returns to her childhood home after a five-year absence, she's ready to forgive her mother for the neglect she suffered at her hands, but Mama isn't ready to let the demons back into her home.  In Chino Odimba's Amongst the Reeds, two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society. Oni and Gillian have made their home in a disused office block, finding ever…

Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi’s language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea.

nut
debbie tucker green

Elayne doesn't want company but company won't leave her alone. Everyone's got an opinion but no one's listening and things are starting to slip. debbie tucker green's play nut is a drama about a woman who wants to withdraw from the world.

God's Property
Arinzé Kene

It's 1982. London is restless, gripped by spiralling unemployment and inner city riots. Ska beats dominate the airwaves and in a flat in Deptford, two mixed-race brothers are unexpectedly reunited.

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.

truth and reconciliation
debbie tucker green

Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia, answers are demanded, reconciliation hard to hear and the truth reluctant to be told.

Fixer
Lydia Adetunji

An attack on a pipeline in Northern Nigeria. Journalists and PR consultants rush to the scene. Everyone wants control of the story - and they're prepared to pay. For the reporters, this could be the exclusive that makes their careers. For Chuks, their fixer, the stakes are even higher.

Scorched
Wajdi Mouawad Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A haunting, poetic play from one of Canada's leading playwrights, Scorched is a powerful investigation of trauma and family ties. It was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film, Incendies (2010), under its original French title.

Disconnect
Anupama Chandrasekhar

An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.

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