AustLit

Publication or first perfomance details for the following plays are currently unknown:

• An Earlier Heaven: A brief light-hearted encounter about mother/child conflict.
• April Accusations: A study in schizophrenia, as an overnight guest is accused of murder at last night’s party. But when the corpse walks in, the complexities really start.
• Big Dream for a Little Man: When hen-pecked Bill’s most outrageous fantasy comes true, his family is in for unanticipated and hilarious shocks!
• Billy with Gravy: A comedy about survival (i.e., “who gets eaten and who gets to eat”) during Sydney Town’s disastrous 1789 famine.
• Country Farce: Three members of a rural family receive an urgent telephone call requiring them to immediately propose to their respective amours! Traditionally the first to propose must be the older son but he is stubbornly heading back to ‘the big smoke.’ His siblings have until the taxi turns up in 30 minutes (also the end of the play) to change his mind.
• Dilemma: Young newlyweds are suddenly confronted by a little old lady who tells them in confidence that a man is trying to cause her grievous harm―and that the authorities are not interested in her desperate pleas for help. In such a disturbing dilemma, what should they do? Become involved?
• Dishing the Dirt: The glamorous, much-married hostess of a top-rating TV gossip show invites two close friends to her dressing room to make a couple of startling revelations, the motivation being based on what she does best … dishing the dirt. But just who is the intended victim this time?
• Evidence: A moment-by-moment reconstruction of a suicide that was actually a murder. But who was the intended victim and who was the murderer?
• Faded Glories: Set in a back room at a retirement village, Faded Glories bittersweet story about the loss of identity in later years. Members of a singing trio, about to perform their usual spot at a retirement village concert, find themselves facing their own ghosts of the past, and future phantoms. The play included two a cappella songs by Austin (lyrics) and Gavin Hawley (music).
• Is Clarence Really Necessary?: When husband Clarence becomes a problem, Annie enlists the help of cousin Sorrel, plus a self-styled clairvoyant, to fix the problem… but the psychic warnings in the Tarot are misread, with gruesomely funny consequences!
• Keeping Mum: Has she or hasn’t she? Is there a dead body in the house, or is it merely imagination, or malicious town gossip? Plenty of unexpected twists and turns to keep your audiences guessing.
• Mexican Madness: Matters get completely out of hand when Joshua sets out to flavour the city’s water supply with a mind-blowing drug.
• Ringa-Ding-Ding: A scheming showgirl demonstrates to her best friend how to procure an expensive birthday present. But who pays the ultimate price? The wealthy husband, the lover, the best friend, or the showgirl herself?
• The Stubbing Of 'Cigar” Brown': When a bombastic eccentric becomes Prime Minister, the country suffers terribly, until...
• Well, Excuse Me!: A national supermarket chain decides to open its newest store in a remote country town. Parochial protests begin, their main drive being to save a community of rare rats. Polarisations are plenty, especially between two girlfriends who are both desperate for a boy-friend – unfortunately it’s the same guy.
• Why Must The Show Go On?: A play about the trials and tribulations of putting on a play: When many of those involved are there for the wrong reason - or shouldn’t be there at all! When almost everyone involved can’t stand almost everyone else involved! When the sets aren’t ready! When the costumes aren’t ready! When some (most?) of the cast don’t know their lines! When tempers explode! And when egos get completely out of hand!