Barbara and the Camp Dogs by Ursula Yovich

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Category: Plays

Meet Barbara and her band the Camp Dogs. Barbara's been trying to make it in Sydney but maybe this just isn't her town. In all the relentless demands of city life, where's the sense of belonging she craves? It's time to take a break with her cousin Rene. With Ursula Yovich as Barbara and Casey Donovan a s her redoubtable cousin, Barbara and the Camp Dogs is a rock-gig musical about love and home. As Belvoir's Artistic Director Eamon Flack has said, `Urs doesn't just have an incredible voice, she's taken the idea of black rage and sung it out - and it's so bold, so theatrical, so joyful. It's Rock `n' Roll, it's politics and it's very moving.' ...Show more

Chekhov - Shorts by Stephen Mulrine (Translator); Anton Chekhov

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Category: Plays | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser.

This collection features Chekhov's best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them referred to by Chekhov as "vaudevilles" and all written in the late 1880s before any of his great full-length plays. "I don't much care for theatre," he wro te at the time, "but I do enjoy vaudevilles." The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding are all farces on the preposterous busness of courtship and marriage. A Tragic Figure and Swansong are comic duologues: one about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha, the other about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories. On the Evils of Tobacco is a bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery. These accurate and actable translations by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine reveal a dramatist revelling in the broad comedy of human behaviour, a comedy which was refined in his later masterpieces. Highly entertaining, these comic shorts offer a fascinating insight into Chekhov's development as a dramatist, and will provide actors at any level--student, amateur, or professional--with an ideal showcase. This edition also includes an introduction, a chronology of key dates, and a pronunciation guide. ...Show more

Daisy Moon Was Born This Way by Emily Sheehan

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Category: Plays

"You don't wanna fit in. You wanna stand out. Way out. So far out they'd think you were from outer space." Bright eyed and eccentric 14-year-old Daisy Moon is President and Founder of the Bateman's Bay Little Monsters Fan Club. She holds her club meetings inside the dusty beachside bus stop on her front lawn. She's the club's only member. Her 18-year-old brother Noah couldn't be more different. An elite athlete on the cusp of cracking national competitions, his world falls apart when he's caught cheating on a time trial. The both dream big, but are stuck in a world too small. Set in a coastal town, this play draws on Australian iconography of the faded beachside surf club, but turns it on its head by drenching it with pop-culture and contemporary teen attitude. ...Show more

Hell's Canyon by Emily Sheehan

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Category: Plays

Sometimes there are things you cant forget about, even when you try. They just pop into your brain outta nowhere. Walking home, or in line at the canteen, or when we were making out before. It smacks you right in the face. Right outta nowhere. I dont know whats so wrong about remembering. Caitlin and Os car are hiding out in a motel in the middle of the Australian outback. No one knows theyre there, and seventeen-year-old Caitlin wont tell fifteen-year-old Oscar why shes running. Theyre out of money and the only thing they have on them is a rare and valuable graphic novel, Hells Canyon. But Oscar doesnt want to sell it. Not for this. Not for anything. Hells Canyon is a play that celebrates everything magical about being a young person, the tenacity of teenage friendship, and our ability to transcend tragedy by reaching for the sublime. ...Show more

Normal by Katie Pollock

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Category: Plays

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 friends and before long, the whole town. Nobody can explain it, but as the disease spreads, the community begi ns to fracture along lines that turn into deep fissures. Who or what is to blame? And how are they going to fix it? Inspired by the true story of the town that caught Tourettes, this new work by award-winning playwright Katie Pollock is dark, provocative and theatrically inventive. Normal is the winner of the Inscription/Edward Albee Playwriting Scholarship and the Ingenious Grant from Town Hall Theatre, MA (USA). ...Show more

Pinocchio / the Yellow Wallpaper - Two Plays by Rosa Campagnaro; Christian Bagin; Jasper Foley; Laurence Strangio; Annie Thorold

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Category: Plays

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 like a bad dream. It creeps all over the house. A recuperating woman, a misguided husband, a hideously papered bedroom. The Yellow Wallpaper is a shrewd blend of physical performance and subtly subversive text a gothically patterned tale which challenges the boundaries between care and control, madness and liberation. Part of the 2019 VCE Drama Playlist. Text by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Adapted & devised by Laurence Strangio and Annie Thorold. Pinocchio: It all began with an ordinary block of wood Welcome to the fantastical and dark world of Pinocchio An epic adventure of danger, villainy and excitement, told through multiple characters, mask, puppetry, song and plenty of hilarious audience interaction! An engaging, innovative reimagining of Carlo Collodis cautionary tale about the little wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy. Dont miss this magical and unique adaptation that draws on the traditions of the travelling storytellers of a bygone era and of course Commedia dellArte. Part of the 2019 VCE Drama Playlist. Created by Christian Bagin, Rosa Campagnaro and Jasper Foley ...Show more

Prima Facie

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Category: Plays

The Almighty Sometimes by Kendall Feaver

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Category: Plays

Im older now, Im stronger. How do you know I havent sorted out some natural equilibrium on my own? Anna has been medicated for a range of mood and behavioural disorders for as long as she can remember. Now she wants to know what life would be like without pills and prescriptions. More fulfilling? More e xciting? More real? As Anna tries to find out who she really is, her mother, Renee, remains determined to protect her. She cant bear to watch her daughter go through the anguish all over again, to throw it all away for a personal experiment but Annas treatment is no longer her decision. Winner of the Judges Award in the prestigious Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting (UK), Kendall Feavers captivating play is a profound and compelling study of a young woman trying to discover where her illness ends and her identity begins. Directed by the Helpmann Award-winning Lee Lewis, its a quick-witted and bracingly honest take on the difficult choices you make in your childs best interests, and what happens when you no longer have a say. ...Show more

Things I Know to be True by Andrew Bovell

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Category: Plays

A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family-and a marriage- through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations. Bob and Fran have worked hard to give their four children the opportunities they never had. Now, with the kids ready to make lives of their own, it's time to sit back and smell the roses. But the change of the seasons reveals some shattering truths, leaving us asking whether it's possible to love too much. ...Show more

Single Asian Female by Michelle Law

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Category: Plays

The Golden Phoenix, a restaurant on the Sunshine Coast. The last customers have left for the night, and Pearl can unwind. She¿s the quintessential matriarch ¿ balancing family, business, and her love of karaoke. Enter her daughters: Zoe, in the throes of online dating, making big life decisions. And Mei , a teenager, grappling with her identity in modern Australia. Of course they see the world differently to their mother. Pearl is the classic (hilarious) onslaught of embarrassing observations, constantly questioning her Westernised children. Tonight she reveals a secret that threatens to tear their family apart. ...Show more

The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell

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Category: Plays

Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. Henry Lawsons story of the Drovers Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent -- its our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leahs new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drovers Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard in Australias high country, but now its a man. Hes bleeding, hes got secrets, and hes black. She knows theres a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but somethings holding the Drovers Wife back from turning this fella in... A taut thriller of our pioneering past, "The Drovers Wife" is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nations infancy into our complicated present. (7 male, 1 female) ...Show more