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An illuminating tribute to Bruce Beresford's subversive and hilarious film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, and its equally riotous sequel, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, by cultural historian and documentary filmmaker, Tony Moore.
In Influence, Ziggi Blasco is a talk-back host whose power rests in his influence over his audience. He knows how to turn fear into hate.
In Operator, Jake is the ideal candidate for an executive position with a thriving local company. But his skills at exploiting, manipulating and manoeuvring would put Machiavelli in the shade.
Five plays from around the country that illustrate the rich tradition of Indigenous storytelling as it flourishes in contemporary theatre.
A savage comedy of manners, It Just Stopped explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery.
Written with searing passion and dazzling momentum, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America reverberates with the aftershocks of September 11.
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.
Homo parentithicus. Found in most urban parts of Australia. Prone to roam in pairs. Overprotective towards their offspring. Parents! Fossils turns the spotlight on the complex relationship between teenagers and their parents.
A boisterous, moving play that explores the relationships of youth, the migrant experience and assumptions about teaching and learning.
A rambunctious and unreliable musical odyssey through the life and times of American-born King O'Malley, founding member of the Australian House of Representatives, father of our national capital and advocate for the creation of a national bank.
A moving documentary play drawn from the traumatic recollections of members of the Newcastle Workers' Club, which was destroyed in the 1989 earthquake.
Evelyn Carool leaves the country town where she grew up and goes to Sydney to work for Blue, an author of children's books. Blue inhabits a mysterious stone cathedral, Blackrock, which rises up out of Sydney Harbour. Acting as Evelyn's mentor, Blue leads Evelyn on a journey of self-discovery that is at once magical, sensuous and frightening.
The friendship between an Aboriginal boy and a white girl raises issues of race in a touching story of two families who seem to have nothing in common ... until danger strikes and forces them to face their prejudices
Now a classic of Aboriginal drama, No Sugar is the spirited story of the Millimurra family's stand against government 'protection' in 1930s Australia.
Liz has retreated to the mountains from the furore created by her latest book. Her husband Gareth is driving to visit her but is shaken when a woman runs into the path of his car—the consequences for all three adults are far-reaching.
In 1923 the writer Katherine Mansfield went to the guru Gurdjieff in Fontainebleau in the hope that he might ‘cure her soul’. In the 1980s in Sydney, a young man awakes in hospital to find a world dominated by women
While Tom is away, an old boyfriend pays a surprise visit to his wife at home. Her plans for a candlelit reunion go awry when her highly stressed neighbour and her mother drop in.
Would you ruin someone's life, separate them from their soulmate and their only son, all the time telling yourself you're doing the right thing? Leaping back and forth between the 1920s and the 1980s, Good Works follows the lives of two women and their two sons as they struggle to cram their complex lives within the narrow confines of Catholic morality.
When a young girl is murdered at the hands of one of her male contemporaries, what is the aftermath? How will her friends cope? How can such violence be understood?
As protesters march against the Vietnam War, boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams. One student paints an anti-war mural in the cadet drill hall and is forced to confront the consequences of his action.
Studying comes naturally to Sam, but Danny finds it more difficult. Linda thinks Jenny is wasting her time while Cathy regrets not working harder. And all the parents are anxious...
It's Christmas in 1967 and time to re-enact the rituals of the summer holiday. Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm. At times funny and yet painfully truthful, Away explores the comedy and tragedy of their lives.
A family secret, a terrible betrayal and an obsession to rewrite the past combine in an explosive cocktail of fact and fiction.
A powerful picture of a family without moral, material, aesthetic or imaginative resources, each of them victims of a cycle of deprivation from which they can see relief only through money and physical power.
The Chapel Perilous follows the painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts—through her school days, lovers, marriage and politics—to extract meaning from her environment.
Muriel, an unhappy young woman in dismal surroundings, sets out to overcome obstacles such as her family, her joblessness, and her obsession with 70s glamour rockers ABBA.
Three vibrant and varied plays for children, including No Worries, The Small Poppies, and Beauty and the Beast.
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