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'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.

Notes

  • This series of plays published during 1988 was supported by the Australian Bicentennial Authority.

Includes

y separately published work icon Svetlana in Slingbacks [and] Post Felicity Valentina Levkowicz , Ben Ellis , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z1004166 2002 selected work drama
y separately published work icon God's Last Acre Vivienne Walshe , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003 Z1018041 2003 single work drama
y separately published work icon The Fat Boy Tony Ayres , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003 Z1027562 2003 single work drama
y separately published work icon Moon Babies and Dirty Laundry Patrick Van der Werf , Kate Herbert , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2003 Z1044086 2003 selected work drama
y separately published work icon The Ishmael Club Bill Garner , Susan Gore , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2004 Z1067625 2001 single work drama
y separately published work icon Babes in the Wood or Young Australians in Peril or Pure Bodies Corrupted by the World Tom Wright , Iain Grandage (composer), Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003 Z1093238 2003 single work musical theatre humour
y separately published work icon Zigzag Street Philip Dean , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2004 Z1095568 2004 single work drama humour
y separately published work icon Julia 3 Julia Three Michael Gurr , Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2004 Z1145685 2004 single work drama

Julia oversees a benevolent foundation established by her husband. Among its beneficiaries she funded art through Leon, a senior detective of art forgery, science through Joe, a medical researcher and literature through Charlie, the young writer. Julia is acutely aware of human frailty and is generous in her need to right wrongs – and now she has the power to change the world. She listens, she observes, but she wants to do something more.

y separately published work icon The Call Martin Flanagan , Bruce Myles , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2004 Z1151813 2004 single work drama

'Sport and identity politics mix in this energetic adaptation for the stage by Bruce Myles of Martin Flanagan's book. The Call tells the story of Tom Wills, who grew up among the Djabwurrung people in Western Victoria during the 1840s. Sent to an exclusive school in England, he returns to Australia with a rallying cry that revolutionised sport in his homeland: 'Let's have a game of our own'! Thus a door to indigenous football is opened, with its own rules, humour and history. Snubbed by the big end of town, this driven and passionate man died at age 44. What was it that killed Tom Wills? The Call offers answers revealing a hidden history of Australian football.'(Publication summary)

y separately published work icon In Search of Owen Roe Vanessa O'Neill , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2016 9736867 2015 single work drama
941
y separately published work icon The Cattleman's Bride Joan Kilby , New York (City) : Harlequin , 2000 Z1200780 2000 single work novel romance New York (City) : Harlequin , 2000
y separately published work icon Netherwood Patrick White , Sydney : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1983 Z438703 1983 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1983
y separately published work icon The Butterflies of Kalimantan Jennifer Claire , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1983 Z57417 1983 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1983
y separately published work icon Sunrise Louis Nowra , Sydney : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1983 Z69680 1983 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1983
y separately published work icon The Kid Michael Gow , Sydney : Currency Press Nimrod Theatre Company , 1983 Z269496 1983 single work drama

'In blazing heat, a stolen mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three teenagers from the country ­- Snake, Aspro and Dean -­ plan a future that will begin when they collect Aspro’s accident compo from the Department. Joined by Donald, an opera fanatic desperate for a change of scene, they travel to the city to take up residence in ‘the largest block of flats in the Southern Hemisphere’.        

'As bush fires rage on the edge of the city, they meet Desiree, a young girl from downstairs with apocalyptic predictions.

'Sparks fly. Tensions escalate. Twilight approaches…'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company (2008 production).

Sydney : Currency Press Nimrod Theatre Company , 1983
y separately published work icon The Father We Loved on a Beach by the Sea Stephen Sewell , 1980 Z563210 1980 single work drama Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1983
y separately published work icon The Blind Giant Is Dancing Stephen Sewell , Sydney : Currency Press , 1983 Z130955 1983 single work drama (taught in 2 units)

'Brutality in the workplace, rage in the streets, seething in the home. The vulnerability of political parties when they’ve forgotten why they’re there. The intellectual torpor of modern Australia. How power corrupts.

'Stephen Sewell’s play is an angry and tender depiction of an idealist who becomes so embroiled in a party power struggle that he loses sight of what’s at stake. When it premiered in 1983, The Blind Giant is Dancing felt like a sharp slap in the face. And in an age of ICAC, Union credit cards, speculative housing bubbles, a pulverised working class, vapid leadership… it’s definitely time for another look at this Australian classic.

'Artistic Director Eamon Flack begins his tenure with a company of twelve of the country’s great actors and one of the country’s great plays.'

Source: Belvoir 2016 production summary.

Sydney : Currency Press , 1983
y separately published work icon Don Juan Nick Enright , Nick Enright (translator), 1983 Z1131119 1983 single work drama humour

A translation and adaptation of Moliere's Don Juan, by Australian playwright Nick Enright.

Paddington : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1984
y separately published work icon Couples/Confessions from the Male Murray Oliver , Mandy Browne , Sydney : Currency Press , 1984 Z1305756 1984 selected work drama Sydney : Currency Press , 1984
y separately published work icon Us or Them Ned Manning , Sydney : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 1984 Z72158 1984 single work drama 'Teachers and students confront each other in an uncompromising environment. The younger idealistic teachers side with the students against their more experienced and occasionally embittered senior colleagues. The System remains intractable and dehumanising for both students and teachers.' (RGM Associates website, http://www.rgm.com.au/nm_lit.html) Sydney : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 1984
y separately published work icon The Season at Sarsaparilla : A Charade of Suburbia in Two Acts Patrick White , 1962 Z865952 1962 single work drama (taught in 11 units) Sydney : Currency Press , 1984
y separately published work icon Caravan Donald Macdonald , Sydney : Currency Press Ensemble Productions , 1984 Z74106 1984 single work drama humour Sydney : Currency Press Ensemble Productions , 1984
y separately published work icon The Boiling Frog Alison Lyssa , Paddington Sydney : Currency Press Nimrod Theatre Company , 1984 Z816417 1984 single work drama Paddington Sydney : Currency Press Nimrod Theatre Company , 1984
y separately published work icon A Spring Song : A Comedy Ray Mathew , 1952 9205988 1952 single work drama humour Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1985
y separately published work icon Henry and Peter and Henry and Me George Hutchinson , Sydney : Currency Press Tasmanian Theatre Trust , 1985 Z525429 1985 single work drama

Play with music.

Explores Louisa Lawson's relationships with her father, Henry Albury, her husband Peter Larsen, and Henry Lawson, her son.

Sydney : Currency Press Tasmanian Theatre Trust , 1985
y separately published work icon Beautland Barry Dickins , Xenia Hanusiak (composer), Sydney : Currency Press , 1985 Z57524 1985 single work musical theatre Sydney : Currency Press , 1985
form y separately published work icon Cheapside David Allen , Sydney Adelaide : Currency Press Nimrod Theatre Company Stage Company , 1985 Z555973 1985 single work drama radio play Sydney Adelaide : Currency Press Nimrod Theatre Company Stage Company , 1985
y separately published work icon The Golden Age Louis Nowra , s.l. : s.n. , 1980-1985 Z331846 1980 single work drama (taught in 9 units)
— Appears in: コシ. ゴールデン・エイジ 2006;

'In 1939, a lost tribe of Europeans was discovered in the Tasmanian wilderness. They were a band of outcasts who had escaped the torture of convict life, scratching out an existence at the forgotten edge of the island, alone for almost a century.

'Inspired by this true story, writer Louis Nowra (Cosi, Radiance) penned The Golden Age – an extraordinary play that blends historical fact, Australian folklore and poetic language to create a post-colonial myth for our times. Nowra’s outcasts have developed a culture and dialect all of their own, but their bodies are failing them and their very existence is in danger. Brought back into the fold of Australian society, what fate awaits this band of exiles?'

Source: Sydney Theatre Company (2016 revival).

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1985
y separately published work icon Dreams in an Empty City Stephen Sewell , Sydney : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1986 Z473125 1986 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1986
y separately published work icon Madame Mao Thérèse Radic , Richard Vella (composer), Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1986 Z71255 1986 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1986
y separately published work icon Luck of the Draw Rosemary Johns , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1986 Z75739 1986 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1986
y separately published work icon State of Shock Tony Strachan , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1986 Z144309 1986 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1986
y separately published work icon Summer Shadows : A Play in Two Acts Richard Beynon , Sydney : Currency Press Spoleto Melbourne Festival of Three Worlds , 1986 Z173217 1986 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Spoleto Melbourne Festival of Three Worlds , 1986
y separately published work icon Emerald City David Williamson , 1986 Z1507280 1986 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Hole in the Wall Theatre , 1987
y separately published work icon Royboys Barry Dickins , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1987 Z516976 1987 single work drama

A play about Australian Rules football, Royboys focuses on the fate of the Fitzroy Football Club.

The cast calls for a musician (dressed as a footy supporter) who plays songs and provides sound effects. The production notes also call for "a navel or military or municipal band" to play emotional propaganda tunes for about twenty minutes or so prior to the start of the play. Songs such as 'Moreton Bay', 'Click Go the Shears', 'Waltzing Matilda', 'Advance Australia Fair' etc are suggested, as is the winding up to a feverish rendition of the Fitzroy Football Club's anthem 'La Marseillaise!'

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1987
y separately published work icon The Inspector! John Cousins , Sydney Whyalla : Currency Press Harvest Theatre Company , 1987 Z572712 1987 single work drama humour Sydney Whyalla : Currency Press Harvest Theatre Company , 1987
y separately published work icon Cho Cho San Daniel Keene , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Company B Belvoir , 1987 Z75435 1984 single work musical theatre

'CHO CHO SAN was powerfully moving. The tragedy of a delicate, naive girl caught between two cultures, hopelessly trapped, hopefully yearning and with all hope destroyed, was told through resonant music and lyrics. Singer/actors and life-sized puppets manipulated by visible puppeteers played dual roles. Cho Cho San herself was represented by an actor, and by her alter ego puppet, Butterfly; Goro, the Japanese marriage broker, by an actor and a grotesque puppet of himself; Pinkerton, Kate and Sharpless, Westerners and the Chorus were actors, and the child of two cultures was a white-faced, innocently featureless baby puppet, smothered to death at the hands of its despairing mother in this new version of the story.'

Source: Handspan Theatre (http://handspantheatre.com.au/info/Cho+Cho+San). 

Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Company B Belvoir , 1987
y separately published work icon God's Best Country Gordon Francis , Paddington : Currency Press The Western Australian Theatre Co. , 1987 Z144208 1987 single work drama Set on a remote cattle property in the Northern Territory (Red Lily) over a period of two weeks. The play deals with land rights issues, struggle and survival. Paddington : Currency Press The Western Australian Theatre Co. , 1987
y separately published work icon A. B. Facey's A Fortunate Life Clem Gorman , Paddington : Harvest Theatre Company Currency Press , 1987 Z858978 1987 single work drama biography Paddington : Harvest Theatre Company Currency Press , 1987
y separately published work icon The Hope Heather Nimmo , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1987 Z860102 1987 single work drama (taught in 6 units) Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1987
y separately published work icon Mummy Loves You Betty Ann Jewel Hitler had a Mummy Too Suzanne Hawley , Sydney Perth : Currency Press SWY Theatre Company , 1988 Z524629 1988 single work drama Sydney Perth : Currency Press SWY Theatre Company , 1988
y separately published work icon Double Act Barry Creyton , Sydney : Currency Press , 1988 Z556931 1988 single work drama humour Sydney : Currency Press , 1988
y separately published work icon Jigsaws Jennifer Rogers , Sydney Perth : Currency Press Hole in the Wall Theatre , 1988 Z557359 1988 single work drama Sydney Perth : Currency Press Hole in the Wall Theatre , 1988
y separately published work icon Black Rabbit Ray Mooney , Sydney : Currency Press , 1988 Z72567 1988 single work drama

'Black Rabbit is a story about white man's colonisation of Australia, told through the story of an Aboriginal tribal couple, and their fate at the bounty hunter's hands.' (Source: AusStage website)

Sydney : Currency Press , 1988
y separately published work icon 1841 Michael Gow , 1987 Z12559 1987 single work drama Sydney Adelaide : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1988
y separately published work icon Come Hell or High Water : The Territory Rock Opera Barney Foran , Bob Sharp , Bob Sharp (composer), Sydney Darwin : Northern Territory Arts Council Currency Press , 1988 Z198798 1988 single work musical theatre Rock opera. Sydney Darwin : Northern Territory Arts Council Currency Press , 1988
y separately published work icon Paterson's Curse Mark O'Flynn , Jane Hammond (composer), Jennifer Turner (composer), Sydney Wagga Wagga : Currency Press Riverina Theatre Company , 1988 Z260741 1988 single work musical theatre humour Sydney Wagga Wagga : Currency Press Riverina Theatre Company , 1988
y separately published work icon Hate Stephen Sewell , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre Playbox Theatre , 1988 Z260843 1988 single work drama

'A storm shakes the Gleason homestead, but it's the tempest inside that spells the family's end. 25 years after its premiere, Stephen Sewell's portrait of a monstrous patriarch who would be the country's king remains startlingly relevant. An uncanny sense of regression hangs over an all-too-familiar portrait of Australian politics in which power, fear and violence are inextricable.'

Source: Malthouse Theatre (2013 season).

Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre Playbox Theatre , 1988
y separately published work icon Steal Away Home; The Serpent's Fall Phil Motherwell , Sarah Cathcart , Andrea Lemon , Sydney : Playbox Theatre Currency Press , 1988 Z818028 1988 selected work drama Sydney : Playbox Theatre Currency Press , 1988
y separately published work icon A Working Man's Castle Olga Masters , 1980-1989 Z333556 1980 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Theatre South , 1988
y separately published work icon Capricornia : From the Novel by Xavier Herbert Louis Nowra , Sydney : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1988 Z858818 1988 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1988
y separately published work icon Windy Gully Wendy Richardson , Sydney Wollongong : Currency Press Theatre South , 1989 Z476798 1987 single work musical theatre Sydney Wollongong : Currency Press Theatre South , 1989
y separately published work icon Safe House Ron Elisha , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1989 Z543413 1989 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1989
y separately published work icon Hiccup Darrelyn Gunzburg , Paddington : Currency Press The Western Australian Theatre Co. , 1989 Z543517 1989 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press The Western Australian Theatre Co. , 1989
y separately published work icon Full House, No Vacancies Paul Davies , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press TheatreWorks , 1989 Z12997 1989 single work drama 'Gather at the Linga Longa Private Hotel, a run-down, but once historic, boarding house situated at 26 Acland Street, St Kilda. Meet the wealth of 'St Kilda eccentrics' who pop in and out of the rooms ... Meet MORREY, the blind caretaker who loathes his guests! Wait with faded star SHEILA for 'that' phone call from her agent. Listen to FREDDIE FINALLY's jokes and realise why he didn't get to Edinburgh! Try to understand the lilt of Welsh freedom fighter GARETH, who's lost his passport. Ponder the motives of real estate agent NICK ... did he buy the building Why? Work out LIZ'S guilty secret! Investigate the gorilla suit in ROSIE's cupboard! The audience moves from room to room as the play unfolds and they piece together the story. The audience is divided into three groups for this purpose, and they gather together for the final scene in the TV Lounge to witness the last Happy Hour at the Linga Longa!' Source: www.theatreworks.org.au/ (Sighted 08/10/2010). Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press TheatreWorks , 1989
y separately published work icon Nice Girls Linden Wilkinson , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1989 Z25247 1989 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1989
y separately published work icon Only Heaven Knows Alex Harding , Alex Harding (composer), Pyrmont : Festival Music Publishing , 1988 Z1124042 1988 single work musical theatre

Musical

Set in the exciting and bizarre world of post-war Kings Cross. Tim, a young writer, arrives in Sydney to explore the temptations offered to delight a war-weary population, but must choose between his love for the city and an offer to try his luck on the international theatre circuit.

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1989
y separately published work icon The Secret House Noel Hodda , Sydney : Playbox Theatre Currency Press , 1989 Z105513 1989 single work drama Sydney : Playbox Theatre Currency Press , 1989
y separately published work icon Hotel Sorrento Hannie Rayson , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990 Z481931 1990 single work drama (taught in 3 units)

Hotel Sorrento is a vivid, moving and funny play which explores the concept of loyalty both to family and to country. Three sisters come together after ten years: Hilary who lives in Sorrento with her father and her sixteen-year-old son; Pippa visiting from New York where she works in advertising; and Meg, who returns home from England with her English husband after her new novel Melancholy is shortlisted for the Booker prize. Unspoken aspects of their shared past, jolted by the autobiographical flavour of Meg's book, haunt their reunion.

Coincidentally, Marge, a teacher, with a holiday house in Sorrento, reads the novel and finds it captures an Australia she knows. Her friend, Dick, however, is worried by Meg's expatriate status. This interest draws them into the family where the issues of culture, patriotism, and using the past are battled out.

Source: Publisher's blurb (back cover).

Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990
y separately published work icon Esterhaz Ron Elisha , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990 Z482040 1990 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990
y separately published work icon The Forty Lounge Cafe Tes Lyssiotis , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990 Z490342 1990 single work drama (taught in 2 units)

Play with music

Set initially in Greece and then Australia (the family shop and home), Greek dialogue is used throughout the play. The production calls for an on-stage musician to provide both a live soundtrack to various parts of the production and to support the singing and dancing. Much of the music is Greek in origin, and includes a Byzantine Hymn. The script further suggests, if possible, the inclusion of a bouzouki musician.

Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990
y separately published work icon Peach Melba (Melba's Last Farewell) Thérèse Radic , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990 Z538380 1990 single work musical theatre Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990
y separately published work icon Cafe Fledermaus Robyn Archer , Robyn Archer (composer), Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre Playbox Theatre , 1990 Z169738 1990 single work musical theatre Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre Playbox Theatre , 1990
y separately published work icon Atlanta Joanna Murray-Smith , Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990 Z352161 1990 single work drama Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990
y separately published work icon The Adman Robert Hewett , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991 Z532722 1991 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991
y separately published work icon Storming St. Kilda by Tram Storming Mont Albert by Tram; Storming Swanston Walk by Tram Paul Davies , 1988 Z1731143 1982 single work drama Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press TheatreWorks , 1991
y separately published work icon Sisters Stephen Sewell , Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991 Z192632 1991 single work drama Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991
form y separately published work icon Alive and Kicking Judy Bierwirth , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991 Z202551 1991 single work drama radio play humour Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991
y separately published work icon Early Days under the Old Hat Pam Leversha , Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991 Z31298 1991 single work drama humour This play looks at the experience of the Second World War on one Australian family. Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991
y separately published work icon Earthly Paradise Darryl Emmerson , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991 Z860286 1991 single work drama

Play with music.

A blend of biography, song, poetry, story and dialogue Earthly Paradise tells the story of the life of writer Lesbia Harford, a passionate and idealist rebel and one of Melbourne University's first female law graduates. Inspired by socialism she denied her wealthy background to fight for a just and vital society, initially working in a clothing factory and later becoming a trade union organiser.

The play contains both solo and chorus singing, and some instrumental music (scored for grand piano, synthesiser, percussion and viola). The two musicians are seen on stage in silhouette or half light.

The lyrics for these songs are derived from The Poems of Lesbia Harford (1941 & 1985).

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1991
y separately published work icon Mary Lives! Frank Hardy , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1992 Z458907 1992 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1992
y separately published work icon A Dickins' Christmas Barry Dickins , William Gluth , Faye Bendrups (composer), Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1992 Z513974 1992 single work musical theatre humour Dickins' Christmas is a re-interpretation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, set in Melbourne in the mid-1950s. Jack Gruel presides over the Maudlin Theatre Company counting his pennies as he brings British Theatre to the Antipodes. His company, though, is frustrated by his slavish devotion to another culture. One has the temerity to attempt writing an Australian play much to Jack's amused astonishment. But then three spirits come who show Jack a different way and convince him it is time to change. (From publisher's blurb) Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1992
y separately published work icon Barmaids Katherine Thomson , Paddington : Katherine Thomson , 1991 Z902224 1991 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1992
y separately published work icon Wolf : A Dedication to Priapus Tobsha Learner , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1992 Z73267 1992 single work drama fable Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1992
y separately published work icon Sex Diary of an Infidel Michael Gurr , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1992 Z88977 1992 single work drama

'A cunning web of truth, lies, self-delusion and depravity, set against the backgrounds of Manila and Melbourne. Jean, an award-winning journalist, travels to the Philippines to write an exposé of Australian sex tours. Blackmail and revolution were not in the original brief, but as the lives of the six infidels mesh together, there are no rules and many surprises.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1992
y separately published work icon King of Country Tim Gooding , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1992 Z234623 1992 single work musical theatre Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1992
y separately published work icon The Emperor Regrets Thérèse Radic , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1992 Z262531 1992 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1992
y separately published work icon The Popular Mechanicals : A Funny New Old Play Tony Taylor , Keith Robinson , Sydney : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1992 Z859287 1992 single work musical theatre humour

Play with music.

Adapted from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Popular Mechanicals is described by theatre critic Bob Evans as a low-brow, absurdist and occasionally poetical play without the play ('The Popular Mechanicals' q.v., p2). While most of the scenes from Shakespeares's comedy are presented, Robinson and Taylor have inserted into its framework a combination of songs, puppetry, their own material (including jokes), and excerpts from other works by Shakespeare's (notably speeches from Richard II and Henry V).

The most significant departure from the original text occurs during the scene in which Bottom is transformed into an ass while rehearsing in the woods. His replacement is Ralph Mowldie, a once great Shakespearian actor with a drinking problem.

Sydney : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1992
y separately published work icon Ginger : A Musical Diversion 'What's the Deal?' , Jack Hibberd , Lorraine Milne (composer), Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1992 Z861704 1992 single work musical theatre Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1992
y separately published work icon The Garden of Granddaughters Stephen Sewell , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1993 Z394969 1993 single work drama humour Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1993
Aftershocks : A Project of the Newcastle Workers' Cultural Action Committee Paul Brown , 1991 single work drama (taught in 2 units)
— Appears in: Oral History Association of Australia Journal , no. 13 1991; (p. 49-55)
Based on the 1989 Newcastle earthquake.
Paddington : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1993
y separately published work icon Abbie and Lou, Norman and Rose John O'Donoghue , Paddington : Currency Press Hunter Valley Theatre Company , 1993 Z112455 1993 single work musical theatre Paddington : Currency Press Hunter Valley Theatre Company , 1993
y separately published work icon Radiance Louis Nowra , Paddington : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1993 Z25564 1993 single work drama (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: アップザラダ; レイディアンス 2003;

'Louis Nowra’s Radiance is an exuberant black sabbath for three great Indigenous dames. It begins conventionally enough: Mae, Nona and Cressy gather at the old Queenslander in the tropics for Mum’s funeral. But these three sisters are forces of nature, and they haven’t been in the same room for years, and years. It isn’t long before that old house can’t contain the joy and pain of them all being together again…

'Radiance began its life at Belvoir in 1993. After 22 years, Nowra’s feat of playwriting – almost Shakespearean, a Tempest-like packet of lust, rage, grief and high-flying foolery – is ready to be unleashed again. Leah Purcell is the woman for the job.

'Purcell is a powerhouse. She burst onto the national stage nearly two decades ago and is as full of fight and life as she ever was. What better idea than for this all-round theatre elder to direct herself in this mighty little classic?' (2015 Production summary)

Paddington : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1993
y separately published work icon The Custodians Eric Greer Earley , Paddington : Currency Press , 1993 Z262302 1993 single work drama

'A rooky police constable is posted to a small outback town, but this time the constable is a woman of Italian ethnic background, Constable Maria Giotto. And, what is more, she is a volunteer transferee.

'Maria becomes friendly with an Aboriginal family, and finds herself caught between her loyalty to her Aboriginal friends and loyalty to her fellow police officers.

'Newcomer Maria is not the only police officer experiencing difficulty in meeting the demands of friendship and the requirements of the police bureaucracy. Sergeant Alec Ross, close to retirement, is also an old friend of Paddy, the Aboriginal man.

'The country town is torn by racial and cultural conflict, which culminates in the death in custody of Paddy's son, Paul.'

Source:

Nugent, Ann. 'Drama Set in Country Town Tackles Difficult Social Issues', Canberra Times, 30 August 1993, p.15.

Paddington : Currency Press , 1993
y separately published work icon The Temple Louis Nowra , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1993 Z263216 1993 single work drama satire humour

'Three-act play that satirises the excesses of the 1980s in Australia. It presents a cruelly funny portrait of an entrepreneurial operator, Laurie, the rags-to-riches takeover king of the decade. Includes a postscript and the program for the first production, held at Melbourne's Playbox Theatre in July 1993.'

Source: Currency Press ed.

Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1993
y separately published work icon Big Toys Patrick White , 1977 Z1516196 1977 single work drama
— Appears in: Nagyvilag Vilagirodalmi Folyoirat , no. 8 1980; (p. 1189-1223)
Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1993
y separately published work icon A Happy and Holy Occasion John O'Donoghue , 1974 Z394087 1974 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1993
y separately published work icon Choice Ron Elisha , Paddington : Currency Press , 1994 Z394450 1994 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press , 1994
y separately published work icon The Glass Mermaid Tobsha Learner , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1994 Z536648 1994 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1994
y separately published work icon Furious Michael Gow , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1994 Z543620 1991 single work drama
— Appears in: サイレント・パートナー : フューリアス 2003;
Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1994
y separately published work icon Falling from Grace Hannie Rayson , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1994 Z552532 1994 single work drama Falling from Grace is a play with a bright comic surface and mysterious depths. It is about women in medicine, in the media and in the office - power and authority in female hands. It is also about public morality and a struggle between women to see who should be its guardian. These women are best friends in a professional world. They are witty and erudite, passionate in pursuit of success and relentless in their pursuit of passion. They juggle careers, children and lovers. They are forty and their friendship is about to be tested'. Publisher's blurb, back cover. Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1994
The Drought Tom Petsinis , 1987 single work drama 'A play about family divisions following the return of one family member from Australia.' [Source: The Australian-Macedonian Drama Group, p. 30] Paddington : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 1994
y separately published work icon Blue Murder Beatrix Christian , Paddington : Currency Press , 1994 Z564040 1994 single work drama

Evelyn Carrol leaves the country town where she grew up and goes to Sydney to work for Blue, an author of children's books. Blue inhabits a mysterious stone cathedral, Blackrock, which rises up out of Sydney Harbour. Acting as Evelyn's mentor, Blue leads Evelyn on a journey of self-discovery that is at once magical, sensuous and frightening. Must she completely surrender her own sense of reality to access this infinitely more seductive world? A what price is she prepared to learn the truth that lies hidden within the walls of Blackrock?

(Source: Currency Press)

Paddington : Currency Press , 1994
y separately published work icon Disturbing the Dust Luke Devenish , David Chesworth (composer), Paddington : Currency Press , 1994 Z564146 1994 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press , 1994
Sanctuary David Williamson , Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1994 Z83176 1994 single work drama
— Appears in: The Great Man : Sanctuary : Two Plays 2000; (p. 81-128)

Sanctuary is the story of Australia's most successful expatriate journalist cum foreign affairs commentator, Mr Robert 'Bob' King, who has made a career for himself as a distinguished journalist with Time magazine and then moved to anchorman on CBS. He comes home to Australia to live in relative isolation at the age of 48 in Sanctuary Cove. Nobody can quite understand this move. A young Ph.D. student comes up to check facts about the biography he is writing about Mr Bob King's life. Mr King is canny enough to realise that the biography is probably not going to be totally favourable but he gets a shock when he realises just how unfavourable the biography is.

It is a look at the way our so-called free press is actually a fairly tightly controlled and un-free press; it's also a look at the way we lie about the nature of our achievements in our life. The conflict between the two protagonists on these issues gets quite acute. David Williamson.(ii).

Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1994
y separately published work icon Dead Heart Nicholas Parsons , Sydney Perth : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre Black Swan Theatre Company , 1994 Z181328 1994 single work drama Sydney Perth : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre Black Swan Theatre Company , 1994
y separately published work icon Crow Louis Nowra , Paddington : State Theatre Company of South Australia Currency Press , 1994 Z37735 1994 single work drama Paddington : State Theatre Company of South Australia Currency Press , 1994
y separately published work icon Underwear, Perfume and Crash Helmet Michael Gurr , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1994 Z858812 1994 single work drama satire

'Many diverse lives hurtle together in this play—a former hippy entering the political limelight, her musician brother, a right-wing philosopher and a young, disturbed woman.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1994
y separately published work icon Cosi Louis Nowra , Sydney : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1992 Z459111 1992 single work musical theatre (taught in 8 units)
— Appears in: コシ. ゴールデン・エイジ 2006;

Play with music.

Loosely based on Nowra's own experience at producing a play (Trial by Jury) at Melbourne's Plenty Mental Home, Cosi has become a favourite with theatre companies and audiences alike since it premiered in 1992. Full of theatrical jokes and roles rich with Jonsonian humour, the play's use of a play rehearsal device also provokes images of the not-too dissimilar 'families' that come together in the professional theatre. Indeed, Nowra notes in the premiere season's programme notes that 'like the actual events of those days [the play] is, I hope, full of comedy and affection. Real madness and angst only occurred when I worked with professional actors'.

Set in 1971, Cosi takes an affectionate look at madness and mayhem in a world where institutions can be less limiting than ideology. The narrative is played out two locations, a mental institution and a suburban backyard. , Fresh from university, Lewis (a play on Louis) arrives to direct a play with the inmates, but is persuaded by Roy to stage his favourite opera, Cosi Fan Tutte. Lewis' problems don't end, however, with the fact that the other inmates are neither opera singers nor Italian-speakers. There is Ruth, troubled by the concept of a real illusion ; Zac, who insists on playing Wagner ; Doug, who is committed to the closed ward ; not to mention the sexual advances by Cherry and Julie. Lewis's world is no less complicated at home, where he has to contend with escaping pigs, exploding beer bottles and the pretensions of his politically correct friends.

The music incorporated into the narrative includes: 'Wild Thing' (by The Troggs), various songs from Cosi Fan Tutte, 'Purple Haze' (Jimmy Hendrix) 'Candy Says' (a Velvet Underground song, pre-recorded), and Wagner's 'The Ride Of The Valkyries'.

Sydney : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 1994
y separately published work icon Passion : Six New Short Plays by Australian Women Ros Horin (editor), Sydney : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 1994 Z366702 1994 anthology drama Sydney : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 1994
y separately published work icon Honour Joanna Murray-Smith , Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1995 Z422400 1995 single work drama (taught in 3 units)

'An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter.

'George and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist - on an assignment to 'profile' George - quite deliberately seeks to undermine that understanding. The fallout is dreadful - but beautifully and convincingly portrayed in all its painful consequences.' (Publication summary)

Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1995
y separately published work icon Table for One Claire Haywood , Paddington : Currency Press Wonderland Film and Theatre Production , 1995 Z536225 1995 single work drama humour Paddington : Currency Press Wonderland Film and Theatre Production , 1995
y separately published work icon Sweet Phoebe Michael Gow , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995 Z536541 1994 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995
y separately published work icon Good Works Nick Enright , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1995 Z564583 1994 single work drama

'Good Works is an enthralling memory play set across several decades and three generations. Centred on two boyhood friends whose family histories shape them as men, this is a tale of past crimes and misdemeanours, and innocence lost.'

Source: Production summary (Darlinghurst Theatre Company, 2015)

Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1995
y separately published work icon The Incorruptible Louis Nowra , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995 Z77796 1995 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995
y separately published work icon Pacific Union : The Story of the San Francisco Forty-Fivers Alex Buzo , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995 Z241380 1995 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995
y separately published work icon Playing the Past : Three Plays by Australian Women Catherine Shepherd , Mary E. Wilkinson , Betty Roland , Kerry Kilner (editor), Sue Tweg (editor), Paddington : Currency Press National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University , 1995 Z257882 1995 selected work drama Paddington : Currency Press National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University , 1995
y separately published work icon All Souls Daniel Keene , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995 Z315156 1993 single work drama Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995
y separately published work icon The Passion ... and Its Deep Connection with Lemon Delicious Pudding Sue Ingleton , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995 Z860099 1995 single work drama humour

Play with music.

A funny, passionate, erotic and disturbing epic voyage of self-discovery leads a woman named Silver through a fantastic world of vibrant images and events drawn from past legends and fables. Along the way she is transported back and forth between the suburban and the mythic.

The musical element combines pre-recorded music and vocal performance. The songs suggested are those by The Beatles, Rogers and Hammerstein, Puccini, Gregorian chants, and several famous Broadway musicals.

Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1995
y separately published work icon The Black Sequin Dress Jenny Kemp , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996 Z382127 1996 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996
y separately published work icon Emma Graham Pitts , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996 Z480862 1991 single work musical theatre Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996
y separately published work icon The Torrents Oriel Gray , 1950-1955 Z1037495 1955 single work drama

The Torrents is set in a newspaper office on an Australian gold-mining town in the late 19th century. It centres on a woman struggling to be accepted into the world of men.

It also focuses on a young engineer who dreams of improving the land in order to grow trees and crops but his ideas are blocked by the town elders.

Paddington : Currency Press State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1996
y separately published work icon Jerusalem Michael Gurr , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996 Z572136 1996 single work drama

'Vivien runs a group who visit prisoners. When a young murderer is released into Vivien’s care, public and private moralities clash.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996
y separately published work icon Burning Time Nicholas Flanagan , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996 Z93865 1996 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996
y separately published work icon Strangers in the Night Abe Pogos , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996 Z152056 1996 single work drama A young writer researches in New York's red light district. Chance encounters and a growing fascination draw him ever deeper along the mean streets into the stark realities of a city that never sleeps. On his descent into hell, he discovers the darkness that lurks in the hearts of all men; and in his own. (Back cover) Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996
y separately published work icon Slam Dunk Jack Hibberd , Paddington : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 1996 Z152669 1996 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 1996
y separately published work icon Competitive Tenderness Hannie Rayson , Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996 Z298938 1996 single work drama humour Paddington Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996
y separately published work icon The John Wayne Principle Tony McNamara , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997 Z438635 1996 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997
y separately published work icon Jungfrau Jonathan Hardy , Irine Vela (composer), Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997 Z495565 1997 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997
y separately published work icon The Mourning After Verity Laughton , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1996 Z185832 1996 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1997
y separately published work icon Up the Road John Harding , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre , 1997 Z80865 1991 single work drama humour

A celebration of life, love and family set in the remote Aboriginal community of Flat Creek, where life is pretty uncomplicated—until a Canberra bureaucrat returns home. (Source: Australian Plays website)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre , 1997
y separately published work icon Thieving Boy, and, Like Stars in My Hands Timothy Conigrave , Tony Ayres (editor), Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997 Z146371 1997 selected work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997
y separately published work icon Love Suicides John Romeril , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997 Z28542 1997 single work drama
— Appears in: ミス・タナカ : 心中 : ラブ・スーサイズ 2012;
Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997
y separately published work icon Waking Eve Robert Hewett , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997 Z28643 1997 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997
y separately published work icon The Conjurers Alana Valentine , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997 Z338213 1997 single work drama Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1997
y separately published work icon Rising Fish Prayer Adam May , Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998 Z441915 1998 single work drama This play is 'a confronting and timely examination of the politics of business, the business of politics, and a man whose life is brought to the very brink. Australian, Ken Peterson, finds himself engulfed in political and social upheaval when he arrives to take up the position of manager of a small gold mine in Papua New Guinea on behalf of a multinational company. The departure of his predescessor is shrouded in mystery and the mine is not running as smoothly as reports have been indicating. As tensions mount a European environmmental journalist arrives, determined not to leave without a good story.' Back cover. Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998
y separately published work icon Miracles Tobsha Learner , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998 Z444171 1998 single work drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998
y separately published work icon Tear from a Glass Eye Matt Cameron , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998 Z510550 1998 single work drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998
y separately published work icon Love Child Joanna Murray-Smith , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1993 Z868123 1993 single work drama
— Appears in: ラブ・チャイルド : アウェイ 2006;

'A reconciliation between a mother and the daughter she gave away at birth. Anna defines herself through her political conscience and she believes she has come to terms with her history until a young woman arrives at her door.'

Source: Australian Plays (https://australianplays.org/script/CP-283/) (Sighted 22/02/2018)

Sydney : Currency Press , 1998
y separately published work icon Natural Life Humphrey Bower , Michael Kantor , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1998 Z103179 1998 single work drama Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1998
y separately published work icon Speaking in Tongues Andrew Bovell , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998 Z166331 1996 single work drama (taught in 10 units) 'Two couples set out to betray their partners...

'A lover returns from the past and a husband doesn’t answer the phone... A woman disappears and a neighbour is the prime suspect... Contracts are broken between intimates and powerful bonds are formed between strangers.

'In Andrew Bovell’s masterfully interconnected polyphony, an evocative mystery unravels at the same time as a devastating tale of disconnection between individuals, partners and communities.' (Production summary)
Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998
y separately published work icon Some Mother's Son Jill O'Callaghan , Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 1998 Z35250 1998 single work drama Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 1998
Stolen Jane Harrison , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998 Z297208 1998 single work drama (taught in 7 units)
— Appears in: アボリジニ戯曲選 : ストールン; 嘆きの七段階 2001;

Stolen is based upon the lives of five Indigenous people, who go by the names of Sandy, Ruby, Jimmy, Anne and Shirley, who dealt with the issues for forceful removal by the Australian government.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998
y separately published work icon Cloudstreet Nick Enright , Justin Monjo , Sydney Perth : Currency Press Company B Belvoir Black Swan Theatre Company , 1999 Z396116 1998 single work drama (taught in 2 units) Tim Winton's quintessential Australian yarn of the spirited child Fish, his family and unlikely neighbours - sharing determination, faith, pain, and laughter is a story of love and the bonds that tie us to our sense of place. Hailed as one of the most acclaimed theatrical events of the decade, it is a five hour epic. (Source: Libraries Australia) Sydney Perth : Currency Press Company B Belvoir Black Swan Theatre Company , 1999
y separately published work icon Secret Bridesmaids' Business Elizabeth Coleman , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1999 Z425761 1999 single work drama humour Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1999
y separately published work icon The Language of the Gods Louis Nowra , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1999 Z515301 1999 single work drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1999
y separately published work icon The Sick Room Stephen Sewell , Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1999 Z245536 1999 single work drama Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1999
y separately published work icon X-Stacy Margery Forde , Strawberry Hills Brisbane : Currency Press La Boite Theatre , 1999 Z245916 1999 single work drama young adult Strawberry Hills Brisbane : Currency Press La Boite Theatre , 1999
y separately published work icon The Big Picture Jennifer Compton , Sydney : Currency Press , 1999 Z299388 1999 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press , 1999
y separately published work icon Chilling & Killing My Annabel Lee Chilling and Killing My Annabel Lee Aidan Fennessy , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1999 Z299489 1999 single work drama detective humour Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 1999
y separately published work icon The Dogs Play and A Few Roos Loose in the Top Paddock Tee O'Neill , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1999 Z861282 1999 selected work drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1999
y separately published work icon Inside 2000 Jodi Gallagher , Samantha Bews , Gabrielle Macdonald , Campion Decent , Pam Leversha , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 2000 Z911204 2000 anthology drama Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 2000
y separately published work icon The Goldberg Variations Ron Elisha , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2000 Z556843 2000 single work drama

'Sol, a blind piano player, is asked by the Goldberg family to write a speech. Quick to observe the nuances of emotion that run through this family of combatants, what follows is a journey of laughter and love, spotted with the occasional furtive tears, as Sol marks the family's births, deaths and marriages through his speeches. His vision, however, is somewhat obscured when it comes to acknowledging his own heart.

This wise and witty play observes how honesty, objectivity and affection can survive the most tangled of relationships.'

Source: Australian Plays.org
 

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2000
y separately published work icon After January Philip Dean , Nick Earls , Sydney Brisbane : Currency Press La Boite Theatre , 2000 Z861034 2000 single work drama young adult Alex has eighteen days until he finds out if he got into Arts Law, a week in Caloundra to sleep, swim and watch the cricket, and a mother with a keen interest in his sex life. Fortuna keeps bees, has a nose- ring, and a father who likes to do pottery in the nude. When this unlikely pair meet, the results are both hilarious and heart-warming. Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2000
y separately published work icon Crazy Brave Michael Gurr , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2000 Z668062 2000 single work drama 'This drama tells the story of a middle class woman (Alice) who one day just disappears from her marriage. She has left the comfort of her life to work for social change, and has become part of a group called Fuck It All Up. The group's function is to disrupt public displays of capitalism with small acts of domestic terrorism. When she gets involved with a mysterious figure higher up in the socialist movement, the group careers towards a much more dangerous mission. Against this plot is the story of her ex-husband, a journalist who is preserving the ideas of a dying elder socialist statesman, cast out by the mainstream.' Source: http://australianplays.org/ (Sighted 29/06/2010). Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2000
y separately published work icon Luck of the Draw Ned Manning , Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts Company , Strawberry Hills Brisbane : Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts Company Currency Press , 2000 Z668398 2000 single work drama 'A young Aboriginal woman, Annie, and her brother, Pat, escape from their respective "Homes" in the 1940's and find their way to a Mission on the South Coast of NSW. The first half of the play explores their attempts to survive in what is often an oppressive environment. In Act 2, twenty years later, the play follows Annie's daughter Pearl as she attempts to come to terms with her Aboriginality and then is encouraged to re-unite with her estranged mother. The play explores questions of identity and white Australia's relationship with its Aboriginal past.' (RGM Associates website, http://www.rgm.com.au/nm_lit.html) Strawberry Hills Brisbane : Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts Company Currency Press , 2000
y separately published work icon Sweet Road Debra Oswald , Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2000 Z668404 2000 single work drama 'Jo is on the road. So too are Carla, Andy, Blake, Nicole and Browndog. Along with Yasmin, Michael, Frank and Curtis, each has a plan on where they are going and a determination to get there. But as their lives interweave and disperse and plans go awry, each of them discovers that the road they are travelling may not always take them where they expected, and if they are lucky, the destination may be more wonderful than any of them could ever have dreamed.' - publisher's blurb in The Peach Season (2007) Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2000
y separately published work icon Goodbye Mrs Blore Robert Hewett , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press HIT Productions , 2000 Z795007 2000 single work drama Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press HIT Productions , 2000
y separately published work icon Gary's House Debra Oswald , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1996 Z516795 1996 single work drama 'Gary has failed in everything he as attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with Sue-Ann, his angry and pregnant girlfriend. Gary's House is a story about Aussie battlers...' - publisher's blurb in The Peach Season (2007) Sydney : Currency Press , 2000
y separately published work icon 48 Shades of Brown Philip Dean , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press La Boite Theatre , 2001 Z920516 2001 single work drama young adult humour Strawberry Hills : Currency Press La Boite Theatre , 2001
y separately published work icon St Kilda Tales Raimondo Cortese , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001 Z922507 1998 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001
y separately published work icon Nowhere Dorothy Hewett , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001 Z915514 2001 single work drama Dry Torrent was once a thriving country town until the Snowy turned to a trickle. Now, in an abandoned shed at the back of the showgrounds, Josh - once a rattler-jumper in the depression - sits singing Paul Robeson songs in the ashes of his dreams. Into the final pages of his life comes Blue - still reeling from his robbed youth as a Vietnam conscript - and Rosie, a young girl escaping the city streets - and the terrifying Bull, himself. Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001
y separately published work icon Insouciance / The Prodigal Son Barry Dickins , Jack Hibberd , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001 Z941653 2001 anthology drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001
y separately published work icon Inside 01 Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001 Z943610 2001 anthology drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001
form y separately published work icon Hit and Run : A Play Kate Herbert , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2001 Z952963 2001 single work drama radio play Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2001
y separately published work icon Miss Tanaka John Romeril , Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 2001 Z819617 2001 single work drama (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: ミス・タナカ : 心中 : ラブ・スーサイズ 2012;
Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University , 2001
y separately published work icon Holy Day The Red Sea Andrew Bovell , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001 Z900872 2001 single work drama (taught in 2 units)

'On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller's rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. Aborigines have allegedly murdered her husband and stolen her infant child. But an Aboriginal woman has a different story to tell. What would cause a missionary's wife to lie? What chance does the word of an Aboriginal woman have against hers? A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape. (1 act, 4 male, 4 female).' (Publication summary)

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001
y separately published work icon Holy Day The Red Sea Andrew Bovell , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001 Z900872 2001 single work drama (taught in 2 units)

'On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller's rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. Aborigines have allegedly murdered her husband and stolen her infant child. But an Aboriginal woman has a different story to tell. What would cause a missionary's wife to lie? What chance does the word of an Aboriginal woman have against hers? A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape. (1 act, 4 male, 4 female).' (Publication summary)

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2001
y separately published work icon Blak Inside : 6 Indigenous Plays from Victoria John Harding , Tammy Anderson , Tracey Rigney , Maryanne Sam , Jadah Milroy , Richard Frankland , Playbox Theatre , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z950463 2002 anthology drama (taught in 1 units)

Contains six plays.

Enuff by John Harding is a frightening and funny play about an Australian future where black patience has run out. A violent uprising is planned for Reconciliation Day – will retribution or forgiveness prevail?

I Don't wanna Play House by Tammy Anderson is the moving story of her childhood. A truly remarkable account of the triumph of the human spirit.

Belonging by Tracey Rigney recounts the taunts and temptations of a school girl, and her personal struggle to remain true to her culture, and herself.

Casting Doubts by Maryanne Sam is a funny, and at times heart-wrenching, play about an actors' casting agency with more colour charts than a paint shop, and the problems that Indigenous actors face.

Crowfire by Jadah Milroy is the story of a young, urban Indigenous Australian woman, and a man from a desert community lured into the city. The moving story of a search for identity and the need for reconciliation.

Conservations with the Dead by Richard J Frankland is a poetic and savage play that takes you into the aching sorrow of deaths in custody.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002
y separately published work icon Still Angela Jenny Kemp , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z957751 2002 single work drama (taught in 8 units) Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002
Stolen Jane Harrison , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998 Z297208 1998 single work drama (taught in 7 units)
— Appears in: アボリジニ戯曲選 : ストールン; 嘆きの七段階 2001;

Stolen is based upon the lives of five Indigenous people, who go by the names of Sandy, Ruby, Jimmy, Anne and Shirley, who dealt with the issues for forceful removal by the Australian government.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2002
y separately published work icon The Simple Truth Michael Gurr , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z980443 2002 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002
y separately published work icon The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Michael Gow , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z980470 2002 single work drama (taught in 1 units)

'As Richard Mahony struggles with survival, identity and sanity, with one foot in the old country and a toe-hold in the new, his life gallops alongside the great events of the nineteenth century. Written with enormous emotional power, this is the spiralling story of a nation’s turbulent adolescence.' (Publisher's abstract.)

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002
y separately published work icon Rapture Joanna Murray-Smith , Sydney : Currency Press , 2002 Z994071 2002 single work drama Sydney : Currency Press , 2002
y separately published work icon Half and Half Daniel Keene , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z970007 2002 single work drama (taught in 1 units) Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002
y separately published work icon Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America : A Drama in 30 Scenes Stephen Sewell , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003 Z1037273 2003 single work drama (taught in 3 units) Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003
y separately published work icon Mavis Goes to Timor Angela Chaplin , Paola Kavisha Mazzella , Katherine Thomson , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003 Z1011419 2002 single work drama (taught in 1 units)

'The true story of Mavis, an 86 year old retired haberdasher from regional Victoria. Stung into action by the suffering of the East Timorese, Mavis took her sewing machines to Timor and set about making a practical contribution. Amid the destruction and buoyed by the people's overwhelming faith Mavis tackles the bureaucracy. This work is based on stories told by Mavis Taylor, Elwyn Taylor and the women of East Timor.' Libraries Australia record.

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003
y separately published work icon Speaking in Tongues Andrew Bovell , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1998 Z166331 1996 single work drama (taught in 10 units) 'Two couples set out to betray their partners...

'A lover returns from the past and a husband doesn’t answer the phone... A woman disappears and a neighbour is the prime suspect... Contracts are broken between intimates and powerful bonds are formed between strangers.

'In Andrew Bovell’s masterfully interconnected polyphony, an evocative mystery unravels at the same time as a devastating tale of disconnection between individuals, partners and communities.' (Production summary)
Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2003
y separately published work icon Ruby Moon Matt Cameron , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003 Z1050199 2003 single work drama

'In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward. Until the day when little Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again. The neighbourhood fractures into grief and suspicion in the search for answers to a terrible deprivation and potential crime. Then a parcel arrives on her parents' doorstep...but where is Ruby and who knows what happened to her?'

Source: Australian Plays (https://australianplays.org/script/CP-399). (Sighted: 25/6/2018)

Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2003
y separately published work icon Wicked Sisters Alma De Groen , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2003 Z1027137 2002 single work drama

'Alec Hobbes, famed genius, social Darwinist and artificial intelligence researcher is dead. But his computer algorithm lives on, still working away in his study, and his widow Meridee tiptoes around the machine much like she did around her husband for most of their marriage. Her friends Judith and Lydia turn up to shake their friend out of her isolation and self-neglect. What promises to be a weekend of laughter and wine turns comically savage when Hester arrives and truths about the past start to tear at the fabric of friendship.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company (2020 revival).

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2003
y separately published work icon Toby Abe Pogos , Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2004 Z1124154 2004 single work drama fable humour Sydney Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2004
y separately published work icon Flatfoot : Incorporating the Comedy 'The Swaggering Soldier' by Titus Maccius Plautus David Williamson , Sydney : Currency Press , 2004 Z1048801 2004 single work drama humour A Roman playwright returns to the twenty-first century to see what's happening with comedy and discovers that modern writers have stolen all his plots, characters and techniques. Sydney : Currency Press , 2004
y separately published work icon Only the End; Shakespeare and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets : Two Plays Strawberry Hills : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2005 Z1191067 2005 anthology drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2005
y separately published work icon Perfect Skin Janis Balodis , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2006 Z1232450 2006 single work drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2006
y separately published work icon China William Yang , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2008 Z1432729 2007 single work drama

'Through video and photos, Yang takes audiences from the streets of Beijing, where electronics superstores jostle with echoes of the Cultural Revolution and the Ming Dynasty, to the sacred mountain Huang Shan, a must-climb for every Chinese pilgrim-tourist; from a wild night in a Mongolian herdsman's hut, to the apartments of ordinary Chinese, a few months after the Tiananmen incident. His wryly sensitive perspective, eye for detail and arresting images come together with Nicholas Ng's haunting live score for the erhu (Chinese violin) and pipa (Chinese lute), in an unforgettable theatrical experience.

'China' is Yang's ninth monologue performance, in a career that has seen him become Australia's most toured performing artist. As always, Yang's work is part social documentary and part personal observation, creating a meditative space and a journey of reflection for performer and audience alike. With 'China', Yang explores the personal story of an Australian-born Chinese who is a stranger in his homeland, while at the same time asking big questions about the meaning of culture, of heritage and of belonging.' Source: www.melbournefestival.com.au/2007_program/ (Sighted 02/10/2007).

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2008
y separately published work icon Asylum Catherine Lazaroo , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2008 Z1347712 2005 single work drama 'Lally Black is a psychiatrist who struggles to keep the lid on her doubts about her own funds of compassion. Yu Siying is a Chinese woman who has caught HIV in Australia. Afraid of China's judgement, Siying has one last chance to claim asylum, and believes Lally is the key to her appeal. Lally finds herself enticed into an imagined China, unfolding in the gulf between herself and Siying, causing her to acknowledge the threads that run between complacency and brutality'. (Publisher's blurb) Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2008
y separately published work icon Three Oaks / Chrysalis Monica Raszewski , Dina Ross , Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2008 Z1516939 2008 selected work drama Strawberry Hills Melbourne : Currency Press La Mama Theatre , 2008
y separately published work icon Tender Nicki Bloom , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 2008 Z1382054 2007 single work drama

'Sarah can't remember what happened in the gardens. Her memory is fractured, her husband Michael seems barely present and her parents-in-law, Yvonne and Patrick, are losing patience. What is it that she has lost and can she get it back? As we jump between events before and after that fateful night in the gardens it becomes clear that the scars that Sarah carries run deep.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 2008
y separately published work icon Holiday Raimondo Cortese , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2009 Z1419947 2007 single work drama humour

'A holiday. A time for conversation and distraction, a time to wind down and to dream...

'In a moment of relaxation and quiet reflection, two men unwittingly engage. Spontaneous, unaffected and thrillingly real, innocent discussion becomes an exploration of private fantasy, hidden anxiety, personal mythology and the most inexplicable behaviour.

'What lies behind the most unconscious gesture? How do power struggles play out in the politest of exchanges? Is there hope in the blank spaces between strangers?' (Publisher's blurb)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Concussion Ross Mueller , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2009 Z1562818 2009 single work drama humour

'Somewhere in a busy city, a Man wakes to discover he has forgotten his life. He has no memory of the past and no clear sense of the present.

'He is concussed. Or so he is told by a doctor - who may also be his partner. Now there are flashes of something. Hunger, mourning, sexual appetite... Bob Dylan? But why isn't he in hospital? And what of the voices, the Blackberry, the brothers? The hammer?

'A comedy with attitude, Concussion explodes a simple conceit and scatters its achingly funny and filthy tales of the city like shrapnel.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Ruben Guthrie Brendan Cowell , Sydney : Currency Press , 2009 Z1608267 2005 single work drama humour (taught in 2 units)

'Ruben Guthrie is on fire. At only 29, he is Creative Director of a cutting edge advertising agency, lives with his Czech supermodel fiancé and drinks like he invented it. Ruben seems invincible, until one fated evening when he drinks so much vodka he thinks he can fly. Before Ruben knows it his fiancé has left him, his Mum is escorting him to AA meetings and his bottomless schooner of confidence has all but drained away. For the first time in his life, Ruben Guthrie is alone.'

Source: www.belvoir.com.au
Sighted: 22/04/2008

Sydney : Currency Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Rockabye Joanna Murray-Smith , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Melbourne Theatre Company , 2009 Z1561090 2009 single work drama satire

'Sidney can feel her career slipping down the plughole. No one loves a pop star when she's forty - not if she isn't Madonna or Kylie. So unless she wants to join the ranks of the has-beens on the casino circuit, she better get herself a hit. But what if she regains the whole world and still feels that something's missing? Baby hunger.'

Source: MTC website, http://www.mtc.com.au/
Sighted: 21/07/2009

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Melbourne Theatre Company , 2009
y separately published work icon Strange Attractor Sue Smith , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 2009 Z1683585 2009 single work drama

'Deep in Western Australia’s mining country, against the blood-red landscape of the Pilbara, a cyclone has wreaked havoc in a remote railway construction camp. Now, a small team of employees anxiously await the arrival of ‘the company man’, sent up from Perth to do his own investigation before a coronial inquiry.

'Dog-tired and in search of drink, they do their best to distract themselves, coming together in a makeshift mess hall. But a stormy evening of shared memories soon takes a strange and unexpected turn… From the writer of Bastard Boys and Brides of Christ comes a gripping, contemporary tale of free-will and responsibility in the face of great temptation. With explosive characters and a wily sense of humour, Strange Attractor is a stunning portrait of small-team camaraderie in a globalised market.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 2009
y separately published work icon Silence Hoa Pham , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2010 Z1690628 2010 single work drama 'Silence is about the secrets and spirits that haunt us from within. A family reunited by a death anniversary have to face the possessiveness of history and put the past to rest. A play for three Vietnamese women, Silence deals with the universal themes of war, betrayal, loss and love, and will feature bunraku puppetry.' (From the publisher's website.) Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2010
y separately published work icon Quack Ian Wilding , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2010 Z1716328 2010 single work drama

'Fanny wants out. Her outback town is all mining and money, no one will read her short story about a stallion, and now the people of the town are getting sick. Old Doctor Littlewood's reverse orchiectomies aren't helping. But when the dashing and visionary Doctor Waterman turns up, Fanny might just have a reason to stay. Until the sick start devouring the living.

'Fanny will have to take a radical approach to healthcare if she wants to get out of town alive.'

Source: Griffin Theatre website, www.griffintheatre.com.au/ (Sighted 16/08/2010).

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2010
y separately published work icon Neighbourhood Watch Lally Katz , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 2011 Z1730424 2011 single work drama humour (taught in 3 units)

'And God said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour. He obviously hadn't reckoned on Ana.

'Neighbourhood Watch is a glorious new comedy about hope, death and pets. It's a classic odd-couple story: opposites attract, and from each other they gain a new understanding. But as the domestic crises accumulate, Neighbourhood Watch takes on a sense of enormity in the midst of the ordinary that would make Patrick White proud.' (From the publisher's website.)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Belvoir Street Theatre , 2011
y separately published work icon And No More Shall We Part Tom Holloway , 2008 Z1827273 2008 single work drama

'After a long and successful marriage, Pam and Don are still very much in love. But Pam is ill and has to make a heartbreaking decision that will transform both their lives. She does so in the only way she knows how - quickly, pragmatically, and resolutely. Don behaves in the only way he knows how - struggling to keep up but desperate not to lose touch.

'And No More Shall We Part follows Pam and Don's halting, humorous and devastating attempt at the impossible - to begin to say goodbye to each other after a lifetime together.' (From the publisher's website.)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 2011
y separately published work icon This Year's Ashes Jane Bodie , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2011 Z1810862 2011 single work drama romance humour

'There are rules in this city

'Never bring them back to your place

'Never more than three shags

'Never tell them your real name

'Never mention the cricket

'Never (ever) cry

Ellen lives a shiny life in the heart of a shiny city. She hates her office job, the 'alcohol isn't making her as drunk as it used to, and she seems to be allergic to the water. But there is always the company of strangers in this city - the stranger, the better. She thinks she's doing fine, except that lingering grief has taken hold and the anonymous guy she's going home with may not be so anonymous.

'A hilarious, touching urban fable of connection and redemption, of moving and moving on, This Year's Ashes welcomes one of our most brutal, insightful and bitingly funny writers Jane Bodie to Griffin. And joining her for this deliciously dark and dirty theatrical bender is one of our hottest new directing talents, Shannon Murphy.

'This Year's Ashes is a reluctant romantic comedy about Sydney, grief and cricket.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2011
y separately published work icon Buried City Raimondo Cortese , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012 Z1857702 2012 single work drama 'Late one night in the gutted façade of a building primed for redevelopment, a group of security workers, labourers, and a local teenager find themselves haunting the same territory. One by one they rule a line in the sand, and by dawn they're set for a showdown over who builds the future and who gets to own it. Buried City is an ambitious new work about ever-changing cities like, well, Sydney - where waves of immigrants make new lives on old land.' (Source: Belvoir Theatre website) Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012
y separately published work icon The Lunch Hour Chris Aronsten , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012 Z1860938 2012 single work drama humour 'The Lunch Hour is set in a box-office call centre. A bunch of would-be artists are secretly writing a play about Martin, their boss - and nemesis - in the hope of winning a playwriting competition. But Martin has penned his own play about his dysfunctional staff and their thwarted lives, which he leaves it on their desks as a parting gift and wake up call. The Lunch Hour is all about what we all do to get through the day - the games we play, the distractions we create and the pain of failure. We see ourselves in these characters and recognise sometimes the hardest part about starting or finishing anything in life is being ready.' Source: http://www.darlinghursttheatre.com/ (Sighted 17/05/2012). Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012
y separately published work icon Barassi : The Stage Show Tee O'Neill , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012 Z1883514 2012 single work drama 'Ron Barassi - iconic Australian Rules footballer...champion coach, motivational speaker and elder statesman. Do they make men like him any more?

'"Barassi" is an epic story that crosses generations and suburban Melbourne clans, although uniquely Australian, it is both universal and timeless.

'The story starts in World War II with Ron's father, Ron Snr, himself a champion footballer, and one of the Rats of Tobruk, a powerful and heroic figure to his son, who is tragically killed in Libya. We follow the development of young Ron, who, under the care and mentorship of legendary coach Norm Smith, relentlessly turns himself into "Mr Football".

'Ever driven to challenge himself, and live up to the impossible memory of his father, Barassi goes on past his glory playing days to successfully coach football clubs, taking them from "wooden spooners" to premiers. While that success is tempered with the failure of his marriage, small business, and his old club Melbourne, Number 31 is often daunted, but never beaten.

'What drives this 72 year old man to rush to the defence of a woman being beaten in the street?'

Source: 'Barassi: The Stage Show website, http://barassi.net.au/
Sighted: 29/08/2012
Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012
y separately published work icon Truck Stop Lachlan Philpott , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012 Z1824371 2011 single work drama 'Taryn, Bella and Charlee hate school. To them it's a noisy hole on the highway with moron teachers and loser kids, and they are determined to get away as fast as they can. But it's a long time till they finish school and waiting is deadly. At least when the bell finally rings at the end of each day, they can escape through the hole in the fence and hang out at the truck stop.

What begins as a dare quickly turns into a nightmare.' (Source: Q Theatre website)
Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012
y separately published work icon A Hoax Rick Viede , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012 Z1784860 2012 single work drama humour satire

'Currah, the sensitive, defiant, and once molested indigenous [sic] girl, is now a literary sensation. But Currah isn’t what she appears as race, politics and identity collide in this vicious contemporary satire on the peddling of abuse culture. Hilarious, provocative and troubling, this is incisive theatre at its finest.' Source: www.nationalplayfestival.org.au/ (Sighted 10/06/2011).

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2012
y separately published work icon Beached Melissa Bubnic , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013 Z1781943 2011 single work drama humour

'Arty is huge. Ginormous. Morbidly and grossly obese, he’s in need of a gastric bypass to save his life. At over 400 kilos, he’s the world’s fattest teenager.

'Arty is also being followed by a reality TV crew. Will he lose the kilos needed to have the op? Will he survive to eat another cream puff? Will Louise, his Pathways-to-Work officer, transform his life in ways he never imagined?

'Unapologetically satiric, Beached is also the moving story of a man imprisoned in his own body. It lays bare the mercenary nature of reality TV, and turns the microscope on society’s insatiable appetite for human misery.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013
y separately published work icon Robot Vs Art Travis Cotton , Sydney : Currency Press , 2013 Z1865552 2012 single work drama 'Robots have taken control of the planet and executed most of the human race. Those who survived have been forced to work in mines. When Executive Bot writes a play, he drags Giles, a theatre director, out of the mines and orders him to direct a production for a robot audience.' Source: www.lamama.com.au/ (Sighted 07/06/2012). Sydney : Currency Press , 2013
y separately published work icon The Bull, The Moon and the Coronet of Stars Vanessa Badham , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013 5989749 2013 single work drama

'Alone in the museum, in the dark, Marion unravels a ball of string so Michael can venture into a mystery. In recent weeks, strange stirrings have haunted the ancient relics and rumours of a monster abound. Michael finds his way back to her and to an impossible situation.

'Marion flees and finds herself the prim centre of an over-sexed septuagenarian art group at a seaside resort. Here, Marion is infuriated by Mark, a wayward sommelier with an eye for the ladies, determined to disrupt her lessons and her life.

'Whimsical, sensual and charmingly humorous, 'The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars' is a love story of mythic proportions. It will lure you into an orgy of antiquity, cupcakes and beachside frivolity.

'Award-winning playwright Van Badham is joined by Griffin Associate Director Lee Lewis ('Silent Disco', 'A Hoax') for this delightfully debaucherous fairytale for adults.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013
Button Carole Patullo , Melanie Beddie , Jane Bayly , 2013 single work drama drama

'It’s just a little disc. A useful, beautiful thing… it holds us together.

Two women live alone but side by side. One day they meet over a jar of buttons and an awkward friendship begins…

An intimate show with a wonderful balance of light and dark, humour and contemplation, plus fantastic live music and songs.

‘Thoughtful, funny, astute, resonant’' (Source: La Mama website)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013
y separately published work icon At Sea, Staring Up Finegan Kruckemeyer , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013 5990100 2012 single work drama

'Emma the Greek will sail the seas alone to save her father; Noah will search for his wife who flew off a bridge. Elise will fight the dragons snapping at her heels as she drives each night to lull her baby to sleep; Caleb, a curious misfit, will swim vast oceans to prove his love for Sylvia Wist. Oh, and Sylvia Wist can climb up waterfalls and jump time and space. She may not be ordinary but then neither is love.' (Source: jute.com.au/whats-on/2012/At-Sea-Staring-Up.php )

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013
y separately published work icon The Floating World John Romeril , Z498503 1974 single work drama (taught in 11 units)

Les Harding, onetime Japanese prisoner-of-war, takes a package cruise to Japan with his wife. As he draws near, long-repressed memories of suffering well up. A rich, ironic study of Australian xenophobia..

Source: Currency Press

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Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013
y separately published work icon Triptych : A Trilogy of New Works Lachlan Philpott , Liv Hewson , Jessica Bellamy , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013 6705041 2013 selected work drama Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013
y separately published work icon Once in Royal David’s City Michael Gow , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2014 7009012 2014 single work drama

'Eloquent, playful, big-thinking, tender and fierce – Michael Gow’s new play is an astonishing act of theatrical invention.

'Will Drummond is bewildered. All the old certainties are coming apart. When he finds himself sitting by his mother’s bedside in a hospital room on the north coast of New South Wales, suddenly he’s faced with the mortality of loved ones, faced with the state of the world as it was and as it is right now. Set adrift, Will considers loss and what’s left, class and contradiction, and navigating a corporatised and globalised world alone.

'Once in Royal David’s City is big and small at once, tumbling from the fifties to the present, from East Berlin to Byron Bay, from brief encounters to the cycles of history. It’s about death and Christmas and class warfare and what to teach school children about politics and art. It’s about the old working class and the new middle class and what one has to learn from each other.

'It is beautiful.'' (Source: Belvoir website)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2014
y separately published work icon Remember Ronald Ryan Barry Dickins , Paddington : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1994 Z571400 1994 single work drama

'The human and political story of the last man to be executed in Australia, Remember Ronald Ryan won the 1995 Victorian Premiers Literary Award. Dickins portrays the man behind the legend as lovable, cheeky, courageous, and wretched. This edition includes Ryan, a new monodrama spoken from Ryans perspective that speaks to a new audience from his poor and unmarked grave. (Barry Dickins)' (Publication summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2014
Everyman & The Pole Dancers Lech Mackiewicz , 2014 single work drama

'Three generations settle their earthly matters before the end. Everyman guides them, and us, through the final stages of existence, helps say goodbye with dignity before the curtains are drawn on the old world they knew. Grandparents rebel entering retirement home, their family want to con the pension, and all give “solo pieces” - memories of the best and the worst… and they dance, only dancing spares the deadly stress of the end of the world, which they are so keen to witness.' (Production summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2014
y separately published work icon Caress/Ache Suzie Miller , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015 Z1931064 2013 single work drama

'A former star surgeon can no longer bear to touch the living. Two voices connect over the phone. A desperate mother begs to embrace her son one last time. An Arabic victim seeks atonement. A young idealistic couple fight to reconnect after infidelity. Disparate lives interweave, intersect, impact and connect. A play for movement and words; where lives turn on the smallest moments of random intimacy.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015
y separately published work icon Kill the Messenger Nakkiah Lui , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015 7832688 2015 single work drama

'Kill the Messenger is a funny and shocking tell-all from a true maverick.

'In 2011 Gamilaroi/Torres Strait Islander playwright/law student/performer Nakkiah Lui started writing a play for Belvoir. It was based on a true story about a man in her home suburb of Mount Druitt. One day, in unbearable pain due to undiagnosed stomach cancer, he went to the local hospital, where he was refused care. Then he went to a nearby park and hung himself. The theme of the play: institutionalised racism.

'Then in 2012 Nalddah's grandmother fell through the unmended floor of her public housing home and died. Nakkiah found herself at the centre of a story about ... institutionalised racism. The resulting play lays it all out - her dodgy sex life, a dead man's second chance, and a granddaughter's sense of duty.

'Cunningly composed rage is one of theatre's great modes. Kill the Messenger is an exemplary case in point. Anthea Williams (Forget Me Not) directs the incomparable Nakkiah Lui as herself in this game-changing rethink of what black theatre could be.'

Source: Belvoir.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015
y separately published work icon A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il Kit Brookman , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015 7770153 2015 single work drama

'Johann’s super-sized rabbits are his pride and joy. Much to his surprise, the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has taken a special interest, and will stop at nothing to get his hands on them. When a bungled undercover rescue mission transports Johann to North Korea, he finds himself, and the bunnies he betrayed, in a bit of a stew.

'Preposterously based on a true story, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il is a cunning comic thriller spanning two continents. Crammed with secret agents, espionage, double-crossings and a giant rabbit named Felix, the play is also a pointed parable about betrayal and forgiveness, greed and regret.

'A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il was lovingly raised by playwright Kit Brookman and will be set free on stage by Lee Lewis.' (Publication summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015
y separately published work icon Ivanov Eamon Flack , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015 8917788 2015 single work drama

'It could be subtitled: ‘How to Find Faith in Humanity – or Not’. This early Chekhov is a glorious ensemble comedy about the fact that the future is looking bleak. Here it gets its first Australian mainstage production. What a fantastic mix of rage and silliness; its characters all torn between making money and getting in on something bigger and more meaningful than themselves. How apt.

'Nikolai Ivanov is going mad. His life used to be full of possibility, but now he’s moneyless on an old farm with his mendicant uncle and his inexplicably happy if slightly criminal cousin. He’s in debt to his neighbours, he has the hots for their daughter, and nothing much makes any sense to him anymore. Oh, and his wife is dying. Life’s all healthcare and making payments. What’s the alternative? There must be an alternative. There must be an alternative!' (Publication summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015
y separately published work icon Mortido Angela Betzien , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015 7804097 2015 single work drama crime

'Mortido is a crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play rolled into one. In other words, a quintessential Sydney tale.

'It begins with a Mexican fable about death and ends in the Western suburbs. In between it takes in the public housing on Belvoir Street, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, quinoa, Nazi Germany, Qantas, Coca-Cola, a seventh birthday party, the Surry Hills police, the property market and a body in the harbour. The connective tissue? Cocaine.

'Jimmy is a small-time dealer and Monte is a biggish-time distributor. Grubbe is a detective. They all want the same thing: to live out their lives in leisure. And a water view would be nice. But for Jimmy and Monte to win, Grubbe has to lose. Same goes the other way.

'Angela Betzien is a virtuoso playwright who writes a funny line as well as she writes a thrilling plot and a furious social critique. Mortido is her most ambitious play so far, and a brilliant portrait of the emerald city: familiar, bizarre, glorious and mean.

'Colin Friels and director Leticia Cáceres (Miss Julie, The Dark Room) team up for this remarkable new play about crime, globalisation and the killer desire for a bigger house.' (Publication summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015
y separately published work icon The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You Finegan Kruckemeyer , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015 6390461 2014 single work drama

'It started around the time he turned 16. Everyone and everything started grating on Connor’s nerves. His mum, his dad, his teachers, even his best mate. Lately he just can’t help picking fights, slamming doors and flipping desks. Then his parents decide to dump him alone in a forest for a week.

'As unpredictable as Connor himself, 'The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You' tackles the ticking time bomb of teenagerdom. Behind its sly and smart-arsed exterior is a searching exploration of adolescent anger, bound to strike a dissonant chord with anyone who’s ever caught a whiff of teen spirit.' (Source: Griffin Theatre Company website.)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2015
y separately published work icon Gloria Benedict Andrews , Sydney : Currency Press , 2016 9884986 2016 single work drama

'Gloria is on the brink of making her triumphant return to the stage. A celebrated actor – a star, a celebrity – she’s played every iconic role in the canon of theatrical greats: Nina, Hedda, Hamlet, Clytemnestra. She’s burnt into our eyes, our heart, our imaginations.

'Playing the real-life survivor of a sadistic crime, Gloria must immerse herself in the horror of her character’s reality. As Gloria falls further into the abyss, the unravelling of her mind is reflected by the breakdown of order around her.

'Through Gloria, we see a portrait of Australia afraid to acknowledge the widening gaps in our society. A beautifully complex and original work, Gloria is at once deeply Australian yet global in its perspective.

'Benedict Andrews always dares to take us to the edge of humanity, enthralling audiences with some of the most astonishing and thought-provoking theatre of our time. A role like Gloria demands an exceptional actor – that actor is Marta Dusseldorp. Griffin’s own Lee Lewis directs this exhilarating journey.' (Production summary)

Sydney : Currency Press , 2016
y separately published work icon Jasper Jones Kate Mulvany , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2016 7441879 2014 single work drama

'Corrigan is a town populated by barnacles: hard shells that clench themselves shut and choose not to know.'

'Charlie Bucktin is a geeky thirteen-year-old living in a country WA town in 1965. He's probably the only teenager who reads books in a town that's sport mad. His best mate Jeffrey Lu is Vietnamese, and isn't having such a good time of things either.

'Jasper Jones is an Indigenous 14 year-old that lives on the outside of town and the wrong side of the tracks. One summer night, Jasper takes Charlie to his secret glade in the bush. Charlie witnesses a terrible discovery and is suddenly embroiled in a plot with more twists and turns than any of the novels he so dearly loves.

'Barking Gecko is thrilled that talented playwright and actor Kate Mulvany will adapt Craig Silvey's multiple award-winning, best-selling novel, Jasper Jones for WA audiences.' (Production summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2016
y separately published work icon The Blind Giant Is Dancing Stephen Sewell , Sydney : Currency Press , 1983 Z130955 1983 single work drama (taught in 2 units)

'Brutality in the workplace, rage in the streets, seething in the home. The vulnerability of political parties when they’ve forgotten why they’re there. The intellectual torpor of modern Australia. How power corrupts.

'Stephen Sewell’s play is an angry and tender depiction of an idealist who becomes so embroiled in a party power struggle that he loses sight of what’s at stake. When it premiered in 1983, The Blind Giant is Dancing felt like a sharp slap in the face. And in an age of ICAC, Union credit cards, speculative housing bubbles, a pulverised working class, vapid leadership… it’s definitely time for another look at this Australian classic.

'Artistic Director Eamon Flack begins his tenure with a company of twelve of the country’s great actors and one of the country’s great plays.'

Source: Belvoir 2016 production summary.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2016
y separately published work icon Deceptive Threads David Joseph , Karen Berger , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2018 14246330 2018 single work drama

'Deceptive Threads tells the extraordinary true stories of David Joseph’s grandfathers—one a Tivoli singer turned ASIO spymaster who vetted ‘unwanted’ arrivals, the other an early Lebanese immigrant who had to lie about his birthplace to gain Australian naturalisation.

'In this award-winning solo show, Joseph explores race, belonging, history, and national identity to theatrically illuminate the personal in the political. Deftly untangling the threads linking his family’s connection to Australia’s racist past and its present dilemma over asylum seekers, he explores the nexus between the government control of immigration and the ‘unwelcome’ immigrant.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2018
Carmilla - A Ghost Story for Theatre Adam Yee , 2016 single work musical theatre

'You are afraid to die? Yes, everyone is! But to die as lovers may – to die together, so that they may live together? Kle Zeyn Theatre’s fourth production at La Mama, Carmilla, is a ghost story for theatre, and takes place against the backdrop of a through-composed musical score. It is an adaptation of Sheridan le Fanu’s 1872 gothic novella which is widely acknowledged as the first literary vampire tale. Carmilla was a major influence on the entire history of the post-folkloric vampire genre.' (Production summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2018
y separately published work icon Black Sun / Blood Moon Chris Bendall , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2022 24738023 2022 single work drama

'In Black Sun/Blood Moon we follow Maddy a ten-year-old climate champion, and Katie, the underachieving assistant of a climate-denying politician. When Maddy’s Dad, Paul, unwittingly inspires Maddy to take part in a school climate strike, their lives are turned upside down irrevocably. Maddy’s journey will put her at increasing risk as she takes her message to the powers that be, while Katie will find herself on the back of eagles, dolphins, and polar bears, as she attempts to fulfill a fantastical quest from the future.' (Publication summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2022
y separately published work icon Twenty Minutes with the Devil Luis Gómez Romero , Desmond Manderson , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2022 24738135 2022 single work drama 'On a lonely desert road in the dead of night, highway police Angela and Romulo are a team - sort of. Romulo is a shambles. Angela’s all business. But then they stop a speeding car and discover a man stripped to his undershirt and covered in filth.' 

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Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2022
y separately published work icon The Initiation Cathy Petocz , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2022 24738367 2022 single work drama

'There’s a place in the bush balanced between stone, sky, water.
Past starts sending ancient light.
You’ll find what you need for the initiation and you will come out changed.

'A double-dare draws six seemingly normal teenagers into the twilight bush of Black Mountain. As night falls and time keeps shifting around, they realise they are lost. When a knife keeps turning up, despite their efforts to get rid of it, they fear they’ll never come out alive.

'The Initiation is about the horrors of the early teen experience; that uncanny period between childhood and fully becoming an adult, and the scary things you feel you have to do to get through. Exploring teen horror movie tropes, real teen experiences, and the deeply spiritual site of Black Mountain, The Initiation asks us to find our way to the core of our fears in order to discover where the real threat lies.

'The Initiation is a new play written and developed with young artists from Canberra Youth Theatre.' (Production summary)

Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2022

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