Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Australian & Oceanian

Gifted coder Sam Turing has stepped out of line. For that, the Algorithm decides he must be relocated to a new school. High school is hard enough as it is, let alone being named a threat to the System.

In the not-too-distant future of Donna Hughes' Trackers, society is divided into Zones that live under the watchful eye of the Algorithm. Your friends are decided for you. Your tastes are decided for you. Your life is decided for you. Thus, Sam Turing is enrolled at C-Zone High School, the last stop in the Algorithm's plans for society: Alignment.

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Gabriel is a nuclear engineer. Cassie is an anti-nuclear campaigner. For nearly thirty years their lives have collided and entwined, with Cassie's cause dominating public opinion across the decades. But with political change rumbling underfoot, Cassie's life's work could yet be undoneâand it's all led to this explosive night.

Against the enflamed background of one of Australia's most divisive environmental issues, Alana Valentine's tender, surprising new play interrogates the intersection of personal ambition and global responsibility.

Nucleus...

In a valley in India, paintings on a cave wall bear testimony to the presence of people â and their gods â for fifty thousand years. Close by, Nirmala farms the soil as her ancestors did, but her daughter Isha wants something more â a city education, and the opportunity it promises. And there are outsiders in the valley now, bringing new crops, new technologies, new visions of the future. There are new gods loose in the valley. But they are asking Nirmala and her people to pay a heavy price. A gripping new play from S. Shakthidharan (Counting and Cracking, The Jungle and the Sea)...

A woman is tossed ashore from the sea, bedraggled and lost. A century and a half later, another finds herself diving deep into the truth behind a lingering legend. From writer Andrea James (Sunshine Super Girl) comes The Black Woman of Gippsland â a poetic and thrilling tale about the myths and half-truths that surround the figure of a 'white woman' said to have lived among the Gunaikurnai people of Gippsland in the 1840s. Set on her grandmother's country and based on real events, is the truth out of reach, or will it finally be unearthed?

'Here it comes. Closer, closer. The ocean has come to kiss my feet. Let the waves come, let them eat away at this rock, my home, my cave, my cage. Let the ocean move in and bring with it all the world, the ancient whirlpool of our histories.'

A little mermaid trades her voice for legs. She dreams of a human world bathed in sun.

A group of teenagers trade stories about life in 2020. They dream of all the worlds that could have been.

Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairytale is radically re-imagined by a collective of teenage and adult theatre makers in...

Redfern 1966. Cheryl, Lulu and Queenie are young and life is glorious, full of hilarity and joy, even if jobs are precarious, the police harass them, and racism seeps into everything. But as they gear up for the biggest night of the year â the Deb Ball â their lives, Redfern, the country are all about to change. A sharp and celebratory new play from Gumbaynggirr/Wiradjuri woman Dalara Williams, that pays respect to a generation that led the way, and to Black women who won't take a backward step.

It's 2042 and Australia is more automated than ever before. Janelle, a woman of Cantonese heritage, and her partner Harry, a First Nations man, move back into Janelle's family home after the death of her mother.

As they attempt to navigate their work, relationship and job seeking requirements, they find themselves assisted by the quirky AI controlling their home and a robotic therapy dog. Janelle and Harry are quickly swept into a world of augmentations, restrictions and chaos. Does their new hi-tech life help them connect to culture and each other, or does it hinder it?

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'I am the protector. Watching over the boys as they sleep. Guiding them in their dreams. This is my story. This is our yarn from this country.' âMy River Country, Brodie Murray

Was and Will Be braids together an array of Aboriginal narratives spanning monologues, dialogues, choruses and dynamic movement sequences â designed to be accessible and enriching for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors, creatives, educators, students and theatre enthusiasts. Generously shared by First Nations playwrights Tracey Rigney, Tom Molyneux...

The local footy team of the small coastal town of Cutting Cove have spent so long at the bottom of the ladder they might as well be welded to it. This year, a new hope arrives for the Currawongs: the Marngrook cousins, Sonny and Jayma. Nicknamed after the Aboriginal game that inspired AFL, their natural talent promises the team's best chance at bringing the flag home for the first time ever. What will come with that flag, however, is the cruel reminder of a far greater loss in this country's colonial history.

Nathan Maynard's 37 serves up a searing...

'This play is not simply a work of fiction. It is a cultural document, a mirror held up to a nation still learning how to see itself fully.' - Joanne Kee To succeed in life is to be good with one's hands. For Joe, that means turning scrap into treasure. For Karim, that means learning the strings of his neighbour Abdul's oud. In the rural town of Tahmoor, Joe and Karim-father and son-farm Lebanese cucumbers on borrowed land. Both born in Australia and unmoored from their family's ancestral roots in Lebanon, Joe is satisfied with his lot, while Karim yearns for something more. When father and...