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After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia’s safe existence.
Bastard Boys is the story of the fight that stopped the nation—the 1998 battle for Australia's waterfront. Political thriller, war film, buddy movie, love story and courtroom drama all rolled into one, this is the story of the people behind one of the most significant events in Australia's recent past.
Drawn together in a garden full of echoes, Gilles and children Hélène and Michel discover tender memories of a shared past unwilling to release them ...
Based on the testimony of dozens of old-girls from the Parramatta Girls Training School, this vibrant play is a joyous and harrowing dramatisation of the experiences of eight inmates and their reunion, 40 years later.
In the 1870s a girl is born under a tree—her birth tree—chosen to give her strength and wisdom. When the tree is cut down she follows it into the white man's world, working as a cook for the big house on the island. Her tree has become a kitchen table. Now, generations later, a young man and his mother fight for ownership of the table.
Power Plays investigates the why and how of eight contemporary Australian playwrights. Their plays interrogate current issues, and reflect the cultural, political and economic life in Australia.
Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970s Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work. Now she has writer's block. Molly, an unannounced visitor and committed fan of Margot and her work, offers a potential solution...
Meet Rose Maloney. Her dad Danny went to Vietnam. Her grandfather Brian is ex-IRA. Today is their collective birthday. From this intimate reunion, The Seed opens itself up over and over again until a silent family battle becomes a national story about finding new life amongst the rubble of old wars.
In blazing heat, a stolen Mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three unstable teenagers from the country—Snake, Aspro and Dean—plan a future that will begin when they collect Aspro's accident compo from the Department. Sparks fly. Tensions escalate. Twilight approaches…
Jimmie Blacksmith, a young Aboriginal man raised by missionaries, is caught between the ways of his black forefathers and the white society to which he aspires. Exploitation and betrayal lead him to declare war on his white employers.
An epic chronicle of the refugee experience, Beautiful Words weaves together three very different stories of survival, told through the eyes of three children in different times and place. From the horrors of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in the final days of World War II, to Taliban-ruled Kabul, to present day Australia.
After a decade under siege a city has finally fallen. But ten years of rage have taken their toll. For an officer returning from this epic overseas campaign, it is time to put the horrors of battle behind him, and to take back his place at the family table. For the officer's wife, it is time to take her revenge…
A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war-torn city. Into his life steps Anna—older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood.
In Citizens, set at the dividing wall of a war-torn country, conflict is an unseen force which disrupts the everyday tasks of people battling to survive.
Soldiers is set in an Air Force hangar far from the battlefield. But for five families who have gathered to receive the bodies of their sons, brothers and friends, war does not seem so far away.
Commedia Oz is designed to assist the interpretation and playing of Commedia in an Australian context and is a training manual for teachers, students, actors and directors.
Roland Henning has writer's block. When he tries to explain the situation to a therapist, his story begins to tumble back and forth between his childhood in the Shire and his work as a playwright. At the root of it all is that extraordinary day in primary school which shattered his boyhood and plunged him headlong into the dizzy circus of life and art.
The Great is Tony McNamara's distinctive comic take on the rise and reign of Catherine the Great of Russia. The action spans the course of Catherine's adult life as she learns the ways of the world and takes on the challenge of political power with all of its attendant responsibilities, excesses and sorrows.
Songket: What happens when one person's culture is another's crime?
This Territory was developed in the wake of the 2005 Cronulla riots through a six-month research and consultation process with young people across Sydney.
One of the seminal films of the 1970s, Alvin Purple depicts Alvin’s struggles with his irresistibility to women—from his school days and time as a waterbed salesman to his short-lived career as a sex therapist.
Sarah can’t remember what happened in the gardens. Her memory is fractured, her husband Michael seems barely present and her parents-in-law, Yvonne and Patrick, are losing patience. What is it that she has lost and can she get it back?
Jeremy Glass is an untroubled little boy until his seventh birthday, when he suddenly announces that he is really a grown man called Danny, who died some years before. How can his parents indulge his conviction that he must find his real family? And how can his eerie insistence on his true identity not resurrect painful memories for Danny's widow?
Alice Springs in the year 2039. A fish falls from the sky and lands at the feet of Gabriel York. And it still smells of the sea. It's been raining for days and Gabriel knows something is wrong. Fifty years earlier his grandfather, Henry Law predicts that fish will fall from the sky heralding a great flood that will end life on Earth as we know it.
In 1939 in a small Moscow theatre, a company of actors begins rehearsals of a play to commemorate Stalin’s 60th birthday. It’s a tough gig, because for artists working towards the Radiant Future, ‘the show must go on’ is an order you can’t refuse.
It is no use, but William gives Isobel ninety minutes anyway. They were once married, but something happened. Something broke deep down in the mechanism of their lives together and, seeing no way to repair it, they threw it away. But perhaps they were too hasty. Perhaps there was something they could have done. Isabel just wants ninety minutes.
Funny, disturbing and bittersweet, The Call is an enthralling drama about a young man looking to escape a suburban life.
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