AustLit

'A clever twist on Charles Dickens’s classic Christmas morality tale, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol is a funny and delightful journey of discovering who we are and remembering the things that unite us.

'Caulfield baker Elysheva Scroogeavitz is determined not to let anything get in the way of fulfilling customer demand for her Bubby’s famous Polish gingerbread. Not her family’s impending Chrismukkah celebrations; not her contractions and imminent labour; and certainly not the ghosts who’ve suddenly shown up in her kitchen. But the Rein-Dybbuck of Chrismukkah Past, Gingerbread Golem and Lilith Claus have other ideas, and Ely’s about to get an unexpected lesson in the importance of making time for the ones we love.'

Source: Production blurb.

'Orgon leads a blissful, happy life. His extravagant and wealthy lifestyle is perfectly complemented by a marriage to a much younger woman. His daughter is engaged and his son is in love. But when he welcomes the deceptively slick Tartuffe into his family, he unwittingly injects his home with a lethal dose of chaos. Nothing is off limits as Tartuffe exploits Orgon to pilfer his fortune and attempt the seduction of his wife and his daughter. Can the family fight back before it’s too late?

'First performed in 1664, Molière’s side-splitting classic combines adultery, betrayal, seduction, lies and deceit with the precisely organised chaos that is known as farce.' (Production summary)

'Want to be famous? Who needs an agent when there’s YouTube?

'A sharp new world premiere Australian comedy by award-winning playwright Phillip Kavanagh about a schoolgirl who develops an unhealthy obsession with YouTube fame, Jesikah is a witty, exciting and scathing look at our fame obsessed culture.

'Jesikah follows the rise and fall of its eponymous character. As her online notoriety burgeons, Jesikah’s real life starts to become alarmingly unstitched. Supported by her sometimes less than helpful ‘BFF’ Denise, Jesikah goes to increasingly extreme lengths to convert internet celebrity into real life adoration. But in the world wide web things are not always as they seem…' (Production summary)

'The past is what you make it. John saw his brother Michael die. He seems to have forgotten it, until now. His brother Peter saw it too, but remembers things differently. Together, they revisit the past in search of a common truth. But this search has terrifying, unexpected consequences for them both. This play reminds us that moments of chance, lost or taken, can determine our destiny' (production blurb).