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All Souls by Daniel Keene
Category: Fiction | Series: Current Theatre
All Souls, or the Day of the Dead, is when the dead return to the world of the living. All Souls evokes a vision of our dreams and nightmares. The writing is poetic, without compromise and a truly remarkable work (2 acts, 2 men, 5 women).
Brilliant Lies by David Williamson
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Current Theatre
To survive the 90s you've got to be lucky, rich or able to tell Brilliant Lies (2 acts, 4 men, 3 women).
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 by Tim Winton
Category: Fiction | Series: Current Theatre
A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton's enormously successful novel of the same name. A huge success at the 1998 Sydney and Perth festival, the story follows the fluctuating fortune of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth. Both the novel and stage adaptation have proven to be majo ...Show more
Cosi (Play) by Louis Nowra
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Current Theatre
Lewis arrives fresh from university to direct a play at a mental institution. Roy demands Cosi Fan Tutte. An affectionate look at madness and mayhem (3 acts, 5 men, 3 women).
Falling from Grace by Hannie Rayson
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Current Theatre
A play about women in medicine, in the media and in the office -- power and authority in female hands. They are 40 and their friendship is about to be tested (2 acts, 2 men, 5 women).
Ivanov by Anton Chekhov
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
This early Chekhov is a glorious ensemble comedy about the fact that the future is looking bleak. 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 h ...Show more
Look at Everything Twice, for Me by Craig Sherborne
Category: Fiction | Series: Current Theatre
Mavis Goes to Timor by Katherine Thomson
Category: Fiction | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
Stung into action by the suffering of the East Timorese, an 86 year old retired haberdasher from regional Victoria decides that 'Yes, you can make a difference'. Along with her daughter, Mavis took her sewing machines to Timor and set about making a practical contribution. Amid the destruction and buoye ...Show more
Minefields and Miniskirts: Australian Women and the Vietnam War by Terence O'Connell
Category: Australian History | Series: Current Theatre
If history is told by the victors, the story of war is usually told by the blokes. Now it's the 'sheilas' turn. Nearly a thousand Australian women had a part in the Vietnam War, as entertainers, typists, consular staff and army nurses. Their experiences were extraordinary and they have now been brought ...Show more
Sappho ... in nine fragments by Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
2700 years ago, Sappho is the world's first love poet, the tenth muse of the ancient Greeks, and the inspiration for every lovelorn writer and songster since. But as the centuries have passed with the comings and goings of hundreds of libidinous handymen restoring her buttresses, history has caught up w ...Show more
Stray and The Parricide by R. Johns
Category: Classics | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
Stray is a Homeric Odyssey told from the perspective of a stray dog as he journeys through Melbourne's urban landscape. Raw performance, a designed soundscape and an epic and poetic text combine to create an extraordinary adventure. The Parricide: St Petersburg, Russia, 1866. Nihilist revolutionaries ha ...Show more
Truck Stop by Lachlan Philpott; Chris Mead (Introduction by); Katrina Douglas (Notes by)
Category: Reference | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
Tamara and Jasyn are in love. Tamara is fourteen. Jasyn lives with Aunty and his brother Dane is in prison for dealing. Jasyn wants to take Tamara to the formal, but he hasn't got the cash. In a world of absent mothers and missing fathers, Mrs Petchell battles to keep another year of students out of the ...Show more