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Kenny's Coming Home is a play with music that celebrates life in Sydney's Western suburbs. The Green family escape inner-city Sydney in the early 1990s for a better life out west. Dad grows zucchinis...

It's Ladies Day at the Broome races and the divinely beautiful Mike is the toast of the track. But amongst the froth and festivity, a brutal act of violence reminds us that life is not just all...

Kane and I were both rising stars. I was rising to the top of the hand-modelling world and Kane was doing his plays. Kane got his first action film and I became his double. We clicked. Everyone said...

Sometimes people leave, they go away and you don't see them anymore. And then sometimes they come back. From multi-award-winning playwright Jane Bodie, and featuring original songs by Mark Seymour...

Adapting Alice Pung's award-winning book, writer and comedian Diana Nguyen and director Petra Kalive bring Laurinda's schoolyard setting to the stage for a fresh and feisty new work. Like Heathers or...

"The most powerful thing that has been done on my story, and the most true to what I lived through." - Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton The court case captivated a nation. A mother accused of murdering...

'Bollywood comes to Griffin-sort of.' In Australia, we like 'em blonde and bronzed. In India, it's 'fair and lovely'. So what happens if you're stuck in between? John Green is an Anglo-Indian...

In an ordinary street, in an ordinary suburb, in an ordinary town, something is amiss. It's not the maths exam the teens are about to fail, or the overdue essay. It's not global warming or...

In Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly, a collection of four plays by one of Australia's most fearless playwrights, Patricia Cornelius displays all her skill, wit, beauty and anger, and serves them up like...

'Back in Kenya-in the camps-they say we can stay there for free. But everybody wants something. The journalists want our stories; the NGOs want us to sing in their choirs; the SPLA wants our sons as...

A premiere Australian play based on actual events, showing just how startling real-life can be.Mary-Ellen Field is a successful Australian business consultant in London - until she's accused of...

Two powerful women, beloved by their people'one sits on the throne; the other is locked in a cell. Kate Mulvany's smart and witty adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart is a tale of two...

In a wondrous world of riddles and hidden treasure, bumbling Jack Hare is on a race against time to deliver a message of love from the Moon to the Sun. Far, far away in a world just like ours, a...

What do a transvestite, an ageing shearer, a retired prostitute and a famous footballer have in common? All find themselves in a cabaret venue late one night after the show - and all are looking for...

In the small Australian town of McGuffin, the local council is thrown into disarray when the mayor suddenly resigns a week before the mid-term election, despite being a shoo-in to keep his seat. When...

Three young people see each other across a crowded station, they missed the train. Now they wait. They think about home: Punjab, Delhi, Hyderabad, how they can't get Melbourne's rhythm right and the...

'You read about those kids who know they don't belong. They are in some kind of prison until they turn 18, stuck in the backseat of the car between two kids who do belong.' What would happen if...

'You've got one hand that's gushing blood and in the other hand you're holding the knife. You actually are the full story. Both sides.' A great-great grandmother sold as a 'wife' to a white sealer...

Lily's grandmother was a beauty queen back in Hong Kong. She doesn't care that times have changed, that Lily lives in a new country and a new century. She sees a granddaughter caught between worlds...

'The fuchsia is bright.' Edith Aldridge is the youngest woman to be elected leader of her country. In a lush presidential suite in a heritage listed hotel, she has just 90 minutes to get ready for...

Como sabes que esto no es el sue?o? (How do you know this is not the dream?) How do you know this is not the nightmare?' Mortido is a remarkable crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play all...

Shut up and listen. In exactly one minute and fifty-three seconds a solar flare will strike the earth setting off a chain reaction incinerating every living creature on the face of the earth. But...

Darwin, 1942. A town collapses under the threat of invasion. Mothers and daughters, sisters, friends, and entire cultures are torn apart by the secrets that start to fall. Is Mr Takahashi to blame?...

A passionate and unflinching collection of three award-winning plays by and about women, featuring an introduction by Alison Croggon. In Muff by Van Badham, the wounds of a horrific event are...

Sybylla Melvyn is finding her voice.Growing up in the 90s - the 1890s, that is - life doesn't throw a lot of options at a girl. But life didn't reckon on Sybylla. Forced to choose between romance and...

Northern Ireland, 1987. Deirdre is stuck. But when her old schoolfriends gather for Christmas Eve, their growing differences push to the surface a powder-keg. One of them turns up with her surprise...

'Buzo has something real and immediate to say about Australian attitudes. He makes the audience uneasy about the unperceptiveness of an 'average' Aussie confronted by a well-mannered, educated...

An urban detective story in which the investigator is a teenage girl and the body is her own. Poppy has developed a tic. A twitch. A spasm. It spreads through her body, then her group of school...

Welcome to Bluewater, Tasmania'a mining town with no mine, where the population is ageing or leaving, and the future is a tenuous daydream. If something doesn't change soon, there'll be no town left...

The night is still. The air is hot and thick. From up on the roof, matching houses stretch as far as the eye can see. Welcome to the sunny suburb or Paradise. While her folks are back in...