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Here comes Edith Campbell Berry, fresh from International acclaim at the League of Nations, handsome British diplomatic husband in tow. Look out 1950s Canberra, she's on her way to the top. Or is...

Tim is a young labourer with a disability. Mary is a successful mid-50s business executive. What begins as a chance meeting between them soon develops into a life-changing relationship for both...

A heavily pregnant ex-ballerina, a child detective, a bitter puppeteer and a feminist pop princess hurtle towards Mars. The world is watching. Isn't it? On the eve of a revolution, Nicki and Caroline...

'In Tamil we don't say goodbye. Only, I will go and come back.' S. Shakthidharan's extraordinary multilingual play (English, Tamil and Sinhalese) Counting and Cracking traverses countries and decades...

Steve, a typical Aussie bloke, has retired from his company and passed the family business over to his confident son Jimmy, leaving his more sensitive son Luke out in the cold. This is just the...

If happy families are all alike and unhappy families are unhappy in their own way, where does that leave the mad ones? In Kodie Bedford's loving and hilarious ode to growing up in a family affected...

Kiki, Bob and Jumper are best friends with extravagant and idiosyncratic dreams. Kiki wants to dance the tango on Mount Kilimanjaro with a bearded lady, Jumper is in love with a snake called Trix and...

Gillian is sixteen, suffers from the occasional 'ack-attack', and is worried about not having a boyfriend. She loves chocolate and is infatuated with the best-looking boy in school. A funny and...

Daisy, you don't wanna fit in. You wanna stand out. Way out. So far out they'll think you were from outta space. Daisy Moon - founder, president and so-far only member of the Batemans Bay Little...

'The air is thick and wet and the sun burns your skin like it hates your guts ... It's 1942 and I'm fourteen, which means I face two obstacles on a daily basis. One: Entire countries that want to...

In Darwin's Reptilia, a motley crew of five find themselves trapped by a once-in-a-lifetime crocodile infestation. With the reptiles closing in and the humans losing grip, who is the real threat...

Australia's most well-known playwright, David Williamson, returns with four new plays'three comedies that demonstrate his continued skill at tapping into the zeitgeist, alongside a sweeping...

As if their 20-year age gap wasn't trouble enough, Matilda's fighting for space with Gabe's long-time bedfellows: misery, booze and writerly angst. She's not even convinced he's over his...

In the isolated community of Wala Wala, Senior Constable Ray Lorkin struggles to keep an uneasy peace between Aboriginal tradition and the law he is sworn to uphold. But when a local man dies in...

A singing spy, a hawker's lie... How do you reconcile a family history littered with secrets? Deceptive Threads tells the extraordinary true stories of David Joseph's grandfathers - one a Tivoli...

Inspired and informed by deeply personal experiences, Ruth Pieloor turns her trademark magic realism into an oddly comic, yet breathtaking and touching realisation of dementia. Demented uniquely...

'So there's this family having dinner in a shitty house. And one of them is Xan.' A small town in the middle of nowhere. A family is talking about everything and anything except what's really going...

Katherine Thomson's story about aspiration and reinvention is one of the great Australian plays. Set in Wollongong during the economic rationalism of the late 80s, Diving for Pearls remains...

On the lands of alpine Victoria, on Gunaikurnai country, a story of familial bonds unfolds. Faced with the looming foreclosure of her family's property, a farmer's daughter is on the hunt in the...

'Bugger. Maybe you aren't Rain Man. Maybe you're more of a Drizzle Boy.' Ryan Enniss' award-winning Drizzle Boy is the first Australian play written by an autistic playwright about an autistic...

Eleanor Roosevelt's epic flight across Japanese patrolled sea to Australia in 1943 during WWII stands out as heroic. Evading Winston Churchill's visit to the USA for his meetings with her husband,...

'You can't stop me from choosing. You can keep me here by force. You have the power to do that. But my choice comes from deep inside me...'What does it mean to be free? To be truly independent?...

There's no crueler thing you can say to an actor than 'Don't quit your day job'. Fortunately, thanks to cover bands and theatre restaurants, Ash Flanders never needed one. But after years of...

Three plays that make a powerful statement on Australia's relationship with the environment in the shadow of global warming. With an introduction by Chris Mead.They Saw a Thylacine by Justine...

A country town. A festival. A local tragedy. This tale of good days, bad days and everything in between catapults us right into the heart of this little town where everyone knows everyone, and where...

For 50 years, David Williamson has shown us the best and worst of ourselves. In this blackly comic drama situated squarely on the fault lines that divide Australia, David is at his angry best:...

An original, poignant comedy that flips an ordinary day in a chain restaurant, and propels us into the fantasies of its protagonists. Fast Food looks at the gig economy through the lives of five...

In the First Nations Monologues anthology, the voices and lived experiences of First Nations individuals are honoured, contributing to a body of work that seeks to decolonise and prioritise vital...

A little flutter, a dizzy spell, an imperceptible narrowing of the arteries and then the rest of your life is a series of doctors advising you against things. On the outskirts of Hanoi, a late night...

In For We the Young, a collection of plays by one of Australia's most beloved writers of theatre for young people, Finegan Kruckemeyer offers a glimpse into worlds of quiet sorrow and deep joy,...