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James Packer believes you want to be him. 'I recognise that the vast majority of people would swap places with me and I wouldn't swap places with with anyone.' Is he right?This is the origin story of...

The inmates of the Girls Training School (GTS) Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the great untold stories of making good in tough times...

Pinball is a prescient, detailed and funny work that explores queer and lesbian sexual politics, the structures of the legal system, homophobia and childhood trauma. This remarkable play is about a...

The Yellow Wallpaper It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things - It is...

Abigail is a teenager who doesn't quite fit in. She's new in The Rocks, old in her dress sense, and stuck in the middle of her parents' messy separation. She can't wait to get away from all of it...

'No-one looks at strangers. No-one pays attention. 'Cos attention is a weapon, now. Short and sharp. People keep it locked up in rifle cases for special occasions.' A pair of high-school lovers...

In Prima Facie, Suzie Miller delivers a one-woman tour de force that exposes the failings of a system seemingly designed to further brutalise women who have experienced sexual assault, rape or...

'We're second-class citizens in our own country. No, we're not even citizens. Heavens, and this is the fifties!' History is about the heroes. Rainbow's End chronicles the lives of three generations...

The human and political story of the last man to be executed in Australia, Remember Ronald Ryan won the 1995 Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Dickins portrays the man behind the legend as...

In 2010, the Guardian named Melbourne critic Alison Croggon as a 'must read' critic. She was the first online critic to be awarded the Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year, in 2009. Her blog Theatre...

Every night, at the same time, a pigeon crash lands in my room. At first, I think it's dead. Then it starts talking. A homing pigeon with no sense of direction becomes the unlikely saviour of a young...

Part stand-up, part takedown of capitalism, part wannabe dancing dildo musical, this one-woman play is a celebration of resilience, humour - and sex toys! Through an intricate web of objects and a...

Running with Emus is a new, non-naturalistic Australian play written by the AWGIE award-winning regional Victorian playwright, Merrilee Moss (Night Breakfast 2010). The story, set in two different...

Two women, two plays, two powerful voices. This double volume pairs powerhouse playwright Patricia Cornelius, in collaboration with Susie Dee and Nicci Wilks, with rising star Benjamin Nichol in two...

After a workplace indiscretion shatters his elite footy physiotherapy career, Ard Panicker finds himself begging for work at a metaphysical health spa, selling Ayurvedic rubdowns to yummy mummies in...

Seven playwrights. Fifteen plays. Short plays, but whole worlds contained in them. Huge windows into the minds and times of seven extraordinary writers for the theatre. These award-winning...

'Ya used to get mugged around here. In the 70s, and the 80s. Even into the 90s. All types. The Aboriginals. The Serbians. Punks. Skips. You'd just punch on. People were tough around here. People were...

SLAP. A video of 16-year-old Immi hitting a security officer goes viral. BANG. Sofia's impassioned speech for the victims of a school shooting makes international news. KISS. In the car park of a...

David Williams - acclaimed documentary theatre maker, writer and football fanatic - is the 'Smurf'. For the uninitiated, 'Smurf' is the nickname given to a Sydney Football Club fan. During the...

Tales of missing children have always held a terrible fascination. Celtic folklore chilled the bones of many a superstitious new mother with stories of babies stolen from their beds by envious...

Introducing Staging Asylum, Again, an anthology that exposes Australia's mistreatment of people seeking refuge. It includes plays such as Tribunal, We All Know What's Happening and The Audition...

Late at night. An empty street. A white man stops an Asian student. Fifty-six years later, another white man stops another student. Different men from different worlds. The same gnawing fear. 'Men...

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...

In award-winning playwright Hilary Bell's Summer of Harold, the transformative power of everyday objects threads through three cracking comedic plays about adventure, obsession and hope. Summer of...

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself" - Henry David Thoreau At Sunset Strip the only people left are...

A grimy old ball, a racquet made from a wooden fruit box, a pair of borrowed shoes... then the world at her feet. This is the heart-warming story of how Evonne Goolagong Cawley - Our Evonne - rose...

In Thirroul, Emily sits on the beach with her sort-of-ex-sort-of-not boyfriend, trying to figure out how to deal with her unwanted pregnancy. In Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jana goes out to get...

In this delightful adaptation of the classic tales, Donna Abela brings centuries-old tradition into the modern era with a play that is timeless yet utterly contemporary. Young courtier Shahrazad...

'If only our bodies were bulletproof If only our boats were made of steel If only our dreams were real.' Gaza, 2008. A Palestinian journalist writes poetry on the beach. A doctor must decide to stay...

'To Moscow! To Moscow!What are you waiting for?'The Reds - once the powerless, now the powerful.The Whites - once the absolute rulers, now the powerless. The former Tsar and his family are imprisoned...