Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Australian & Oceanian

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...

'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...

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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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.

'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...