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A startling, unsettling and hugely theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley's timeless classic, produced by award-winning playwright Christine Davey, Skin of our Teeth Productions and La Mama Theatre. A...

A family secret, a terrible betrayal and an obsession to rewrite the past combine in an explosive cocktail of fact and fiction. This is Michael Gow's most uncompromising play. 'Such was its intensity...

Meet Alice Anderson: Mechanic. Trailblazer. Entrepreneur. Founder of Australia's first all-girl garage! It's 1920s Melbourne - society reels from the aftermath of World War I, women's fashion sets...

Coming home from her sister's funeral, Grace decides that at 87 years old ... her time has come. She's done with it all. She's ready to leave the party.Her daughter, Dorothy, decides her mum is just...

Since the death of her charismatic but abusive husband, Helene Alving has been treading water in a sea of empty days. What keeps her going is a deeply held belief that salvation can only lie in...

Caught in the headlights of her fifteenth birthday, Greta wishes she could be anywhere else. And strangely enough 'anywhere else' is exactly where she finds herself-a peculiar...

Left to fend for themselves after the death of their mother, 14-year-old Girl is taken under the wing of 21-year-old Boy. Trouble is, his gangster swagger is the real deal and thug life doesn't come...

GOOD WITH MAPS: When the world map was full of gaps, the Amazon topped the list of places unknown to western explorers. In the twenty-first century are there any 'unknowns' left? On a trip to the...

Would you ruin someone's life, separate them from their soulmate and their only son, all the time telling yourself you're doing the right thing? Leaping back and forth between the 1920s and the...

Three women. Three generations. One long weekend in Copenhagen. Emma has finally 'made it'. She is about to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 'Little Nobel Prize' of children's fiction...

Grace Under Pressure is a verbatim theatre project about the workplace and training cultures that are making young health professionals sick'and which put patient lives at risk. Acclaimed verbatim...

You've walked past it. Maybe through it. Down the end of Victoria Street, opposite St Vincent's Hospital-Green Park. It's picturesque by day, a little eerie by night. And it's where Warren and Edden...

Caitlin and Oscar used to be mates, but not anymore. These days Caitlin texts boys to meet her in public parks while Oscar eats his lunch in the teachers' staffroom. Today is different though. The...

You are in severe heart failure. I'm sending you to the city.From farm to little town to big town and back again, HER comes face to face with her own mortality. Unable to access the specialist care...

The icebergs are melting. The animals are dying. The planet is buckling under the weight of our neglect, our greed. We dream of a sustainable future but could we dream ourselves into one?In...

A woman. A dog. A campervan. And 4,500 kms of wide open road. Mot wakes up one morning to find that her heart is missing from her chest. She can breathe; she has a pulse'but she feels... nothing. So,...

Francis Greenslade has been an actor for thirty years. Here he tells the story of how as an enthusiastic but formally untrained actor he learnt to manage the demands of text and character and...

I'm addicted. I'm sick. I've been diagnosed, I've got all the symptoms and no amount of medicine or bed-rest is going to stop me from getting what I want, getting more of what I want, getting all of...

A plane falls out of the sky. A large sum of money falls into someone's pocket. A young woman falls in and out of place and home. Hungry Ghosts interlaces the disappearance of flight MH370 with...

In the era of #MeToo and #Time's Up, millions of women are sharing their stories of abuse and discrimination. But inside all our stories there's a part we don't always tell - a seed of heroic...

'I loved the idea of being grown up, you know? And I'm not. To anybody. Not to parents, not to kids. All the burden and none of the respect. That middle ground is really hurting me... I think I...

It's formal night and Jerry stands on a hill, high heels in hand. A young woman heads to a party dressed as a blueberry. Stuart plays at the arcade to win a slime-green lava lamp instead of...

Each year, ATYP brings together 20 emerging playwrights from across Australia to create short plays for teenage performers. Intersection: Dawn is a selection of these funny, moving and surprising...

It's midnight and twin siblings argue over what to do with the dog they just ran over. In a school common room a student is struggling to clean a sharpie drawing of a you-know-what off a window. In...

Offbeat. Upbeat. Move to your own beat. These are stories that explore the pulsating experience of young lives. Intersection: Beat is a taste-test of Australia's brightest new playwrights...

'You sure the abyss is our only option? Isn't there like ... an option to go forward into a nice warm hug? World peace? You know ... nice stuff.' - Drag'na Dhuul by Michele Gould Surrounded by...

There's this feeling, in my gut. Like a crackle. Makes me feel a bit sick. Feels like it's telling me something's gonna happen soon. Something's coming ' that's what I think. From Revolution is...

It's summer 1965 in a small, hot town in Western Australia. Overseas, war is raging in Vietnam, civil rights marchers are on the streets, and women's liberation is stirring, but at home in Corrigan...

'I'm ignited by three small words. I will not.' It's 9 October, 2012. She's been PM for two years and four months and she's worn down. She's been hounded, slurred, dissected, libelled. She's been...

Aspiring archaeologist Sophie left home when she was only 20, much to the shame of her traditional Jordanian mother. Six years later, losing sleep and petrified by the judgement of her visiting 'mad...