AustLit

Ex-State Premier, George Steeper, and his behind-the-scenes mover-and-shaker wife, Annie have a volatile personal relationship. This has led to their two sons fleeing the 'battle' zone to create their own lives. Joseph a young lawyer has an ambitious journalist girlfriend, Rosie, but she is also having an opportunistic affair with his father. The other son, Henry has been spoilt by his parents and as a result has given up his university studies to deal in hard drugs. His girlfriend wants more from him than he is prepared to give. Things come to a head when George and Annie attempt to win public and media approval so as to become leaders on an influential advisory committee. The play is mostly set in the comfortable home of George and Annie.

[Source: Kevin Jackson's Theatre Diary]

'Rachel and Chris have been friends for ages. They met at drama school, and basically haven't gone a day without seeing each other since. They're everything young creatives aspire to be: artistically satisfied, moderately well-known, and ready to be commissioned for a follow-up.

'And how do they do it? Well, has a lot to do with their perfectly platonic friendship — although Chris likes to joke that it's because there was never any chance of them falling in love. You see, Rachel is a lesbian and Chris is well—not.

'Just as all their dreams seem to be coming true, Rachel decides that she wants to have a child. When she asks Chris to donate his sperm for the pregnancy, he agrees. But this request changes the way they think of each other — and suddenly their new "creative" project cracks open a gulf between them.'

Source: Old 505 Theatre.

'A new play by a group of very different writers, from very different immigrant backgrounds.

'The House at Boundary Road Liverpool is a collaboratively devised play about Australia’s waves of post-war immigration. It’s a play about a house and its occupants through the years. Four acts and four playwrights telling the story of four families.'

Source: Old 505 Theatre.

'Frank Ralco is a contemporary artist in crisis. Creatively blocked for weeks now, she has a major commission to deliver to the Museum of Contemporary Art in two weeks and, so far, has yet to apply a single stroke of paint to the canvas...' (Jason Blake).