Author : Daniel Evans
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Australian drama
ISBN : 9781760622541
A delightfully funny absurdist play that explores the nature of humanity and our fear of the unknown.
Author : Daniel Evans
Publisher : Currency Press Pty Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780868196862
A delightfully funny absurdist play that explores the nature of humanity and our fear of the unknown.
Author : Susan Rogers
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Centre stage is the twentieth century Australian writer Robert whose life changing diagnosis triggers an odyssey of body and mind ? a yearning for answers to unanswerable questions. He lands in Venice, where every night he writes a letter to the lover he has left behind. We cross three time zones and meet an exotic mosaic of characters. Barriers of time and space dissolve in a truly magical tale. Robert shares the stage with his friends and fellow travellers: a 16th century Venetian courtesan and her patrons and a 19th century Russian Baroness and her entourage. When, like Peer Gynt before him, Robert finally turns for home leaving the decaying splendour of Europe for a bush block in Australia, we are uplifted, embraced and transformed. (3 acts, 5 male, 5 female).
Author : Matt Cameron
Publisher :
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Australian drama
ISBN : 9780868199399
A darkly comic, modern parable of exile, belief, belonging and judgment, Footprints on water is about Noel, a religious zealot who is building an ark, so that when God destroys his morally corrupt village, Noel as self-appointed chosen one, will start the world again. When the flood comes, Noel finds himself trapped by his faith.
Author : Matthew Ryan
Publisher :
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Australian drama
ISBN : 9780868199559
Side by side in a leafy suburb, Thom lives in one flat, Alethea in another. It's pretty clear that their respective, unsatisfying lives would improve enormously if they just met each other. But with a wall literally between them, this seems highly improbable. Then there's the building's Power Box, having an existential crisis about the eventual collapse of the universe, and the super nova from five thousand years ago. Then there's time travelling on an equation for the speed of light and too much sugar. There's demon magpie attacks, laptops in love, cats dancing to Prince and sock puppet nightmares. And a tiny prayer by the Wall, hoping that all of these pieces can come together for one magical moment of love. (1 act, 1 male, 1 musician).
Author : Cindy Lou Johnson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 1989
Category : One-act plays
ISBN : 9780822201564
THE STORY: The place is a remote cabin in the wilds of Alaska. As a blizzard rages outside, a lonely figure, Henry Harry, lies sleeping under a heap of blankets. Suddenly, he is awakened by the insistent knocking of an unexpected visitor--who turns out to
Author : Dominique Morisseau
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573705143
A striking new ensemble drama based on the Jena Six; six Black students who were initially charged with attempted murder for a school fight after being provoked with nooses hanging from a tree on campus. This bold new play by Dominique Morisseau (Sunset Baby, Detroit '67, Skeleton Crew) examines the miscarriage of justice, racial double standards, and the crises in relations between men and women of all classes and, as a result, the shattering state of Black family life.
Author : Molière,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408145871
First produced in 1673 and Molière's final play, The Hypochondriac is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the 'quack' medical profession. Argan is a perfectly healthy, wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. However, his most efficacious cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan, but in his sharp-tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master's eyes. Adapted by Roger McGough The Hypochondriac was produced by the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and English Touring Theatre and premiered on 19 June 2009.
Author : Joanna Murray-Smith
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN :
A reconciliation between a mother and the daughter she gave away at birth. Anna is a successful film editor in her 40s who has defined herself through her political conscience. Living alone in a cold, stylish apartment she believes she has come to terms with her history, until a young woman called Billie arrives at her door. Billie acts in soap operas, doesn't believe in political action and wants a mother. Together these two fractured women confront the implications of distance; between then and now, between generations and between the one who gave away and the one who was let go.
Author : Vivienne Cleven
Publisher : Currency Press Pty Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Australian drama
ISBN : 9780868197951
Five plays from around Australia which illustrate that the rich tradition of indigenous storytelling is flourishing in contemporary Australian theatre. Adapted from her award-winning novel, Vivienne Cleven's "Bitin' Back" is a 'zany and uproarious black farce'; "Black Medea", Wesley Enoch's richly poetic adaptation of Euripides Medea, blends the cultures of Ancient Greek and indigenous storytelling to weave a bold and breathtaking commentary on contemporary experience; The acclaimed "King Hit" by David Milroy and Geoffrey Narkle, strikes at the very heart of the Stolen Generations, exploring the impact on an individual and a culture when relationships are brutally broken; Set in the 1950s on the fringe of a country town, "Rainbow's End" by Jane Harrison creates a 'thought-provoking and emotionally powerful' (Age) snapshot of a Koori family to dramatise the struggle for decent housing, meaningful education, jobs and community acceptance; And David Milroy's "Windmill Baby" is set on an abandoned cattle station in the Kimberley landscape, combines the poetry of a campfire story with the comedy of a great yarn.
