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Bubo is a proud, strong and stoic gorilla. He is the pride of the Zoo. Its main attraction. But when a series of chilling events tarnish his unblemished reputation, drastic measures must be used to...

The Anxiety Trilogy Spanning eight years of performing and a lifetime of material, The Anxiety Trilogy consists of a body of work laid bare - a raw and honest tour de force. Using their own...

In the tidy town of Appleton, things are just so. Men are men, women are women, and vegetables are not cake ... and that's the way it's always been. That is, until prodigal daughter Penny returns...

'Girls, I think your father's dead. I knocked his knees out. I conked his head. I shot that house clown in the neck.' In a dirt-dry town in rural Australia, a shot shatters the still night. A mother...

Brutality in the workplace, rage in the streets, seething in the home. The vulnerability of political parties when they've forgotten why they're there. The intellectual torpor of modern Australia...

On newly-declared terra nullius, a Priest, a Civilian and a Soldier watch an Aboriginal family. On a New South Wales Aboriginal mission, decades later, another Aboriginal family live under the...

Loneliness, fear, bad dreams, repressed attraction or repugnance, lockdown and sudden escapes, jigsaw puzzles, food deliveries, bad tempers and penguins. These were the things that stole our sleep...

Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman...

Nick Coyle's acerbic dark comedy follows the life of Kimberly, a character like no other. She is a young, uncompromising, fearless nihilist ' powerful, wicked and in control. She moves through the...

'Zachary's height is exactly the height of an average boy for his average age. Zachary's hair lies exactly the way of an average boy's on an average day. And when he dreams at night, Zachary dreams...

'We're a circle. We're forever. For eternity.' Three teenage schoolgirls go missing in Melbourne's hinterland. The clock is ticking, the search is on. One of the girls turns up days later. Confused...

The Harp in the South Trilogy follows the trials and tribulations of the Darcy family over thirty years, from country New South Wales in the 1920s to the inner-city slums of Surry Hills in the 1950s...

From the revered playwright behind one of Melbourne Theatre Company's most beloved recent hits, The Architect, comes this funny and uplifting celebration of music, friendship and community. The...

The Incredible Here and Now is a play about cars and boys and having to grow up too soon. Charcoal chicken, a white Pontiac Trans Am, the Council pool, Michael is living in the shadow of his older...

There's a place in the bush balanced between stone, sky, water. Past stars sending ancient light. You'll find what you need for the initiation and you will come out changed. A double-dare draws six...

War makes things of people. The Jungle and the Sea is about a family who refuse to become things while they are still alive. When violence escalates between the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan...

Spanning five decades from 1962 to 2017, The Lewis Trilogy follows Louis Nowra's occasional hero, sometime narrator and perennial misfit, Lewis, as he struggles to find and understand his place in...

'A learned fool is more of a fool than an ignorant fool can be.' Juliet and Clinton are in love. Guileless, sweet, all-encompassing love. However, love is not without its impediments. Standing in the...

The Mermaid is a reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, created by a team of teenage and adult theatre-makers. Their retelling of the story traces the journey of a...

This extraordinary play for young people is an adaptation of Li Cunxin's picture book The Peasant Prince - the true story of Mao's Last Dancer. Adapted by Monkey Baa, Australia's leading theatre...

Rosie and Gen's parents are divorced, making their trips back to their hometown a complicated journey of passive aggression and massive regression. There's something about going back to your hometown...

Marion 'Crawfie' Crawford adored her job as governess to Princesses Lilibet and Margaret Rose until she was ostracised because of a tell-all memoir, despite dedicating the her life to raising,...

Patrick White's classic 1965 drama The Season at Sarsaparilla is 'a charade of suburbia', a play of shadows, rather than substance. The neighbours that populate the play are held by their...

Convict William Thornhill, exiled from the stinking slums of early 19th century London, discovers that the penal colony offers something that he never dared to hope for before: a place of his own. A...

'There are so many servants looking for a master and I have found two! Yay. What the hell do I do now? I can't serve both, can I?' Hungry servant Truffaldino bites off more than he can chew when he...

Narelle is Sydney born and bred but lately she's lost her sense of belonging. Something keeps bringing her back to Pyrmont. This peninsula was her family's bedrock, and the home of her extraordinary...

The gold rush is beginning to wane in Koolgalla and the editors of the Koolgalla Argus must decide between protecting old interests and investing in the future. But when the new editorial assistant,...

'Meet Augusta Macquarie: Her Excellency, patron of the arts, formidable matriarch, environmental vandal.' Inside her triple-glazed compound, Augusta shields herself from the catastrophic elements,...

On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stand looking out to sea. Moored off-shore is a huge nowee (boat) then there are two, then more. Who are...

The Voices Project 2014: Bite Me is a collection of seven-minute monologues tailored for young adult actors. Thirteen delicious tales by some of the country's best emerging playwrights, Bite Me is...