AustLit

'It follows Vivian Cunningham, who winds up helping people who come too close to the edge as she endures her own comedic catastrophes like accidentally burning down her brother's vegan food truck with a vape.' (IMDB)

'When a pair of bumbling crooks hijack the Harrington and Sons toy store, a pair of kids stumble into the heist and are forced to team up with a female security officer to save Christmas.' (Production summary)

'The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia's history. Season One is a fictionalized, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl who arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter. Hoping for love and sunshine, she finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, defeat the church, baffle the military and get the court on her side. Incorporating historical facts occasionally, the series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge, Sacha Dhawan, Sebastian de Souza, Bayo Gbadamosi, Belinda Bromilow and Richard Pyros.' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_(miniseries)

'Year 10 Art teacher Mrs Bathory is most definitely a reincarnation of the sadistic, serial-killer Countess, Erzebet Báthory. It’s pretty obvious to her class of seven —yes, seven — girls. The last remaining survivors. When the students in 10F decide to pull the prank of the century and destroy the beast for good, there’s just one thing that stands in their way. The private schoolboys from Judas Gents have arrived, and they don’t feel so comfortable with murder.

'Girls vs. boys. Public vs. private… And an undead woman of the night. Things were never going to end well.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'I know you’re both enjoying the views this evening. “Enjoying”, might be the wrong word.'

'The rooftop of the local hospital – smack bang in the middle of a town called Misery. It's the kind of rugged, unassuming rooftop heroes stand on at the beginning of action films, or criminals frequent to inject heroin into their eyeballs. Tonight, it's also the place people come to die. Eric, Dot and Shaun have accidentally chosen the same spot on the same night, and it's time to decide who gets to go through with their plan.

'Enter Jessica, who bypasses said debate and desperately jumps over the ledge. She doesn't get far, when our unlikely heroes catch her by the ankle and haul her back onto the rooftop. Now she's been saved — and experiences a perspective shift, the likes of which this group have never seen. Destiny has brought them together to help each other. To save each other.'

Source: NIDA.

'The Alpha, The Nice-Guy, The Soft-Boy: you’ve all met one, know one, avoid one like you would an over-affectionate uncle. Now watch as they go head-to-head in the ultimate display of masculinity, a joust for the supreme prize, the object of greatest desire - a lady! That is, until a little hysteria permeates the proceedings …Things are about to get a little crazy.'

Source: Production blurb (Kings Cross Theatre).

'When he is knocked off his pedestal and on to the Impaired Registrants Program, prodigal Sydney surgeon and party boy Hugh Knight must return to his family home in rural Whyhope where he might learn to swallow his pride and mend his ways – or not.'

Source: Production blurb.