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This is the 2015 installment of The Voices Project - the overwhelmingly successful annual program of monologues developed by ATYP, written by young people, performed by young actors around the...

ATYP's annual production of seven-minute monologues for seventeen-year-old actors has changed the landscape for young writers and performers in Australia. Since the program was established in 2011...

Since its inception in 2011, ATYP's Voices Project has been cultivating the talents of the best young Australian actors and writers. Every year, twenty young Australian writers are chosen to each...

'I've envied you all so much because you could live all the parts of your lives. I think I've... I think I've lived a kind of half life.'Lifelong friends Jude, Wendy and Adele convene at their late...

Are you alive? Yes. Are you dead? No. Are you real? Yes... Are we considered a protein or a fatty acid? I don't know, it wasn't on the wiki page. The World According to Dinosaurs by Belle Hansen and...

across the sea that separates us from them life waits for us on the other side and I can't go there without you... In an unnamed city at war, five young people count down the days before a boat...

This Was Urgent Yesterday is a collection of single-actor scripts written by and for young people from regional Australia. It's Not A Bad Word by Emma Richardson This Is Yours by Lily Hensby Abyss by...

An Aboriginal man from the stolen generation works in his community, watching young people who confront the criminal justice system slip through the cracks time and time again.Author: Glenn...

'Life is a raspberry-one bite and it's gone!' Olga, Masha and Irina dream of returning to Moscow ... But time marches on ... Soldiers come and go, babies are born, great calamities take place -a...

All Jeda's friends have moved to the city, but he still lives with his two mothers in a small town between the beach and the bush, on a train line with a city at either end. Waiting. He's not sure...

Travelling North is David Williamson's moving homage to age and the old radicals who changed the course of Australian history. Soon after Frank and Frances desert their former lives for a northerly...

Sam and Kelly live out west. They spend their lives waiting for texts, for boyfriends and those bitches in Year Ten to leave school so they can have somewhere decent to hang. But the longest wait is...

'You think he's some cowboy from the wild west? You think he's from the past? Wake up man. He's from the future ... the future of the whole stinking world.' Half an hour alone with your worst fears...

A girl on a footy field cops a blow to the head and her bag is stolen. A teenage boy grapples with his role in a disturbing event. A woman relives a nightmare while her doctor looks on. None of them...

A theatrical collection of stories and songs from Richard Frankland's extraordinary life as a child abattoir-worker, a young soldier, a fisherman and a field officer for the Royal Commission into...

Basil Pepper is not 'the man', he's not a doer, or a fighter ... or even much of a thinker. World events pass him by, ideology makes him sleepy, and the Prime Minister's name eludes him. Delia Dengel...

Street people and celebrities, cross-cultural lovers and interfaith mavericks all have been warmly welcomed at Sydney's Wayside Chapel. Founded by the Reverend Ted and Margaret Noffs, whose passion...

Based on the personal experience of the actor Sancia Robinson, What is the Matter with Mary Jane? bravely examines the nightmare of anorexia nervosa and bulimia, from the perspective of one who has...

Hayaat and her family spend their days dodging curfews, trying to buy a week's groceries before the sirens blare, remembering their home among the olive groves before it was taken from them. But when...

A love story unfolds. Under a lemon tree, two teenage boys meet in the light of a full moon. Neddy, a wannabe warrior from the Mountain Mob, and Ty, a storyteller from the River Mob, are tasked with...

Five plays are intertwined in one in this story of fringe dwellers living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly without work, and politically disengaged, they work at survival...

When George Hobbes "scientific genius" dies, his widow, Meridee, hosts a lunch for three friends. The four women have known each other since their youth but their lives have gone in divergent...

David Williamson is the most popular, prolific and produced playwright in Australian history. These four comedies consolidate his place as a great dramatic entertainer. Williamson turns his...

Six Indigenous women gather on country for what seems like a fun camping trip by the river, a chance to get away from the daily grind, a time to natter and laugh. A photographer, a museum curator, a...

Dot and Pearl live in Wittenoom, the blue asbestos mining town in WA's Pilbara. So begin glorious days, when the Pilbara's stunning landscapes, magnificent wildlife and close-knit community shaped an...

WONDROUS STRANGE by dramaturg, director, and long-lime literary manager Chris Mead is a high-wire musing on what makes great plays. For anyone who is into theatre of any kind, read on ... From...

Munarra is a black woman, thrown from the skies into the Dreaming so that she may heal her land, the mighty river Dhungula and her people. In the present day, the Yorta Yorta people are in court,...

It's the end of school and Gwen is throwing a party. After an emotional year, her friends are keen to spend the night drinking, playing games, and arguing about literally everything. But when a party...

Zeal Theatre is an internationally renowned touring theatre company dedicated to creating plays for schools, theatres and festivals. The company has created over 45 original plays, which have been...