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In a world of absent mothers and missing fathers, Mrs Petchall battles to keep another year of students out of the ranks of the vanished. The Outsiders is on the syllabus again, but instead of Socs and Greasers, this is the world of Speds and Skanks—fuelled by Red Bull and powered by iPods. It can be hard to find your own rhythm when everyone is marching to the beat of a different drum.
Three family members, three monologues, one day, and a heartbreaking tragedy of miscommunication.
A collection of two plays by Patricia Cornelius. Do Not Go Gentle... and The Berry Man.
In this honest and frank account, Eualeyai and Kamillaroi woman, academic and award-winning author Larissa Behrendt looks at Rabbit-Proof Fence, the film adapted from Doris Pilkington Garimara's book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence.
It’s 21 August 2010, the night of yet another Federal election and, of course, yet another election night party at Don’s place. Over the decades, as he and his friends watched governments come and go, they have also closely followed the incoming results from each other’s lives: the tallies of luck and misfortune, the unexpected swings for and against. And through it all, the lesson that this crowd of superannuated baby boomers never seemed to learn is that politics and strong personalities should never be mixed with alcohol.
Charlie, Elsa and Fay take you on a musical journey, reflecting upon loves lost and found, old arguments and resurfacing alliances. Dark secrets and ghosts that have lingered for more than half a century are revealed, and we discover that reconciliation is more than saying sorry.
In 2005, the horror film Wolf Creek depicted the abduction and torture of three backpackers in the Australian outback, and created an immediate industry and media frenzy. Sonya Hartnett takes the hard landscape and the rogue men who inhabit these spaces and evokes the surrealistic terror which continues to fascinate outsiders and locals.
A whodunit for the morden age, The Web is a fascinating exploration of isolation, friendship, and what happens when soical experiments go frighteningly wrong.
There's something a little strange about Else, like the way she sometimes flies around the room. Thank God for the exorcist.
This one-man show has emerged from conversations between Tim Stitz and his grandfather. It traces Lloyd’s romance with bees through family history, inheritance and the ripening of age.
Wrapped in Joanna Murray-Smith’s glinting dialogue, The Gift is a witty examination of our modern moral confusions.
War Crimes is a gripping story of six teenage girls who are fighting to earn respect and leave their mark by whatever means possible.
Set in the Northern Territory, Jedda tells the story of an Indigenous baby adopted by a white woman. She grows up with an expectation that she’ll marry a mixed-race stockman, only to be abducted by the bad, mad and ‘primitive’ Marbuk who lures her to her death.
The Back of Beyond celebrates the life and times of Australia’s best known outback mail man Tom Kruse MBE.
Rita Kalnejais has corralled an unlikely collective of characters—a grieving mum, a junkie, a girl dying of cancer, an eight-year-old Vietnamese violin prodigy, and a Latvian immigrant among them—to realise an extraordinary play about life, death and gratitude.
Thyestes explores the constant that has underpinned human nature for centuries: that man is brutal, capable of anything.
A Zeal Theatre Collection, including three plays; The Stones, Burnt and Taboo.
Set in a squalid British boarding house, the play tells the story of a young poet, who lodges with Mr and Mrs Lusty, a bloated, gluttonous pair. When her husband dies abruptly, Mrs Lusty announces a grand funeral featuring a lavish feast, in his honour. Driven by her incontinent appetite, she attempts to seduce the young poet, with comically tragic consequences.
Capture the Flag is set in 1945 where three boys hide in a Berlin drain at the war’s end. The play explores youth, militarism, history and freewill.
The Voices Project 2011 & 2012 is a collection of seven-minute monologues tailored for young adult actors.
Mr. Melancholy is an absurd comedy of solitude and sorrow. Footprints on Water is a darkly comic parable of belief and judgement.
Two plays by Lally Katz. Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd is an evocation of a forgotten past. Return to Earth tenderly captures the moment when a young person moves from childhood to adulthood.
Andreas Litreas weaves the stories of his family through the legend of Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War. In this beautifully crafted autobiography we witness Greek tragedy, comedy and the everyday.
Set in World War I, The Girls in Grey tells the story of three Australian Army nurses. The play shows how history can be dynamically interpreted through drama. It challenges the audience to rethink female identity in WWI and provides a female perspective on the ANZAC legend.
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