AustLit

A bus terminal in a country town in the middle of the night, where three unlikely companions are thrown together by circumstance. Macca, Dayne and Doug are as different as ... well, vanilla, strawberry and chocolate ice cream. But in one extraordinary night of drinking, talking and fighting, they find their common ground.

'It's 1942 and, in the small town of Kalbarri in Western Australia, there's a little boy with a lot on his mind. John's asthma is making him a target at school, his mum is having it off with the Japanese doctor and his only friend is an Aboriginal girl called Albert. But all these problems pale into insignificance when, on his tenth birthday, John receives a disturbing phone call from the President of the United States! With his ragtag army of misfits, he sets about saving Kalbarri from destruction.' Source:www.laboite.com.au/ (Sighted 18/02/2008).

'Welcome to Dickens Court. Old-fashioned battler Bob Jones has lost his job. His neighbour Eugene just bought a mail-order bride but is now in debt to the Russian mafia, and the snobs across the road are desperate to buy a trendy new beachfront apartment. When they discover the grand prize in the Christmas Lights Competition can solve their respective money problems, the neighbourhood goes to war.' Source: www.laboite.com.au/ (Sighted 15/10/2007).

'The play concerns a difficult situation between an injured Australian Aid doctor who is captured by a group of "freedom fighters". The doctor is rather naïve in her outlook and the freedom fighters rather myopic in theirs - with the result that there is much tension and discussion across a divided class, cultural and language barrier that ultimately ends in tragedy.' http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/stories/s1149523.htm (Sighted 27/08/04)

'Explores the many lives of P.L. Travers, the Queensland-born writer of Mary Poppins. Travers remade herself and her history countless times throughout her life. She was also an actress, a writer of erotic poetry, a journalist and a spiritualist. Before she was 'Disney-fied', Travers' Mary Poppins was a study in contradictions: comforting and threatening; conventional and peculiar; down to earth and literally out of this world. As contradictory as her heroine, Travers sought order via her spiritual practices, but lived her life in a way that propelled her from one extreme to another. Punctuated by the biographical details of Travers' life, this new work follows the transformation of memory and experience into story, inviting the audience into the surreal world of her imagination, at twilight, in the crack between day and night, where enchantment and magic and fairy tale characters come out to play. ' (Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre website http://www.diningout.com.au/show_event.asp?fmt=b&event_id=10564 sighted 17.8.05)