Acts: 2, Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (1)
...In Do Not Go Gentle, Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition is a metaphor for the elusive journey of five elderly people facing the final leg of their travels. Scott's passage across the Antarctic, as he confronts a landscape of ice...
~playauthor~Written by~
Van Badham
,
Anna Barnes
,
Patricia Cornelius
,
Sophocles
~playauthor~From an original work by~
Sophocles
Currency Press, 2017
playtext
Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)
...Anna Barnes’ MinusOneSister is a contemporary retelling of Sophocles’ classic tragedy, Electra.
The teenage siblings take the stage, and loyalties are challenged as each confronts their own grief and guilt. Barnes challenges...
~playauthor~Written by~
Van Badham
,
Anna Barnes
,
Patricia Cornelius
,
Sophocles
~playauthor~From an original work by~
Sophocles
Currency Press, 2017
playtext
Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)
...The wounds of a horrific event are re-opened as Eve tries to navigate a friendship with her ex and his new partner.
Muff uses both grim sadness and dark humour to challenge perceptions of feminism and self-image...
~playauthor~Written by~
Van Badham
,
Anna Barnes
,
Patricia Cornelius
,
Sophocles
~playauthor~From an original work by~
Sophocles
Currency Press, 2017
playtext
Roles: Total (3), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (0)
...Patricia Cornelius’ SHIT is rife with ugliness.
Billy, Bobby and Sam speak with the voices of those who’ve survived foster care, institutionalisation, and neglect. They love no-one and no-one loves them. They believe the world...
Scenes: 26, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)
...The Berry Man is a searing indictment of the consequences of war, with the humour and fragile, flawed characters that are a trademark of Cornelius' writing.
Eric, a Vietnam vet, has inherited a farm but struggles to grow...
Roles: Total (13), Female (2), Male (11), Unassigned (0)
...Funny, disturbing and bittersweet, The Call is an enthralling drama about a young man looking to escape a suburban life.
Gary stares into the eyes of a chook. After laying 20,000 eggs and spending an entire life inside a tiny...
~playauthor~Written by~
Andrew Bovell
,
Patricia Cornelius
,
Melissa Reeves
,
Christos Tsiolkas
Currency Press, 2014
playtext
Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (21), Female (10), Male (11), Unassigned (0)
...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.
Who's Afraid...