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Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He's 29, he's the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency, he's engaged to a Czech supermodel and Sydney is his oyster. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work, a drink to sleep and one spectacular night he drinks so much he thinks he can fly.
Sidney can feel her career slipping down the plughole. No one loves a pop star when she’s 40 – not if she isn’t Madonna or Kylie. So unless she wants to join the ranks of the has-beens on the casino circuit, she better get herself a hit. But what if she regains the whole world and still feels that something’s missing?
Four plays that look at our need to have a special place. This compilation includes Home by PP Cranney, The Yum Yum Room by Stephen House, Crowded House by John Romeril and The Bridge by Chris Thompson.
Featuring Jesus, the angels, the Bottombiter, the startling Mrs Van Amersfoort and a beautiful girl with a leather leg, this is a totally magical story about a child learning to act when faced with fear and injustice.
Love Me Tender is a play of beauty and emotional power. Inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, Tom Holloway has orchestrated a thrilling vision of contemporary Australia.
On 23 October 2002, Chechen rebels stormed a theatre in Moscow, holding hundreds of theatregoers hostage. Three days later, in Newcastle, Australia, a young man staged an armed robbery in a bookshop.
In this thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, Andrew Frost contextualises the major thematic concerns of Rowan Woods' film The Boys into the broader context of social anxieties about violence, crime and morality.
Based on Kenneth Cook’s classic novel, this film about bored schoolteacher John Grant getting caught in an outback nightmare of booze, racism, misogyny and bloodlust was made in 1971 and lost until 2004.
Thebes, the morning after a war. The new king takes the first step of his government, while a young woman slips out of the city to bury her brother’s body. Her act of devotion destroys the ruling family and brings the state to its knees.
Silvio wants to marry Clarice who has to marry Signor Federigo who’s really Beatrice in disguise who’s come to Turin to find her love Florindo and the whole sorry mess is about to get a whole lot sorrier when Florindo and Beatrice both unknowingly hire the same servant...
Gwen is 90. She woke up this morning to discover that purgatory is sitting alone in a new house in a new subdivision on the edge of town. But the kids are coming round and Father Ezekiel is on his way to bless the house, so the beginning of the end is looking up...
Jonah is a musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel. Top End is set in Darwin during the 1975 invasion of East Timor. Lost Weekend takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'. The Floating World is about a serviceman's descent into madness.
Stephen Curtis is one of Australia's most respected and admired designers and in this practical and informative book he outlines everything you need to know about set, costume and lighting design; taking you from initial concept, script analysis and research ideas to putting it all together.
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.
Verbatim includes workshops for exploring themes and issues and the key challenges of verbatim theatre. It is intended for both teachers and students of a senior high school level, but is also valuable theatre practitioners.
At the heart of Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is the relationship between an aunt and her niece. Both devout Muslims, the younger woman wants to put on a headscarf, the older woman tries to dissuade her.
The Cheeky Monkey, a practitioner’s guide to the art of comedy writing, explains the principles of sitcom writing and guides the reader in how to apply them.
Four plays written between 1966 and 1968, years at the cusp of reform in Australia as a truly local form of contemporary theatre began to make itself felt with a sudden and spontaneous elevation of language.
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.
Sappho was the world’s first love poet, the inspiration for every lovelorn writer and songster since. As centuries have passed, her tale has become a gap in time for generations to pour their desires into. What is the truth behind her own story?
Thursday’s Child is Tin, born on a Thursday and like the old nursery rhyme, has far to go. A strange and lonely child who digs, his wanderings take him underneath the earth into the subterranean tunnels that he’s pre-destined to roam.
A hilarious new offering from Australia’s master of teen theatre, House on Fire is guaranteed to put a smile on your lips and light a small flame in your heart.
When a great singer lets her voice float out over the anonymous crowd, or form the grooves of thousands of records, or flow through radios into millions of homes across the world, she makes countless unknown connections with people.
In Songs for Nobodies, we meet five unknown women who are touched by the great singers seen to be living the dream: Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas.
A hotel with reservations. Award-winning playwright Daniel Keene’s play is an eccentric fable about taking up residence and trying to move on.
A battle hardened, Hungarian-Australian World War survivor, Ana's bark is as ferocious as her German shepherd's. Catherine is her neighbour: twenty-something, curious and hopeful that a better world is on its way. From each other they gain a new understanding of friendship, and forge an alliance.
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