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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
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
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
Waltzing the Wilarra by David Milroy
Category: Fiction | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
It's 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, White and Black manage to form their own club. Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, Charlie, Elsa and Fay meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomp ...Show more
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