Books: Play Scripts

by Melanie Tait In the tidy town of Appleton, things are just so. Men are men, women are women, and vegetables are not cake … and that& ...

by Stephen Sewell Sewell’s passionate examination of the way political power can corrupt the individual and society at large is now publish ...

by Richard Tulloch   Thomas is nine and he's started writing a book. His father says all important books are about God. Even s ...

by Bob Merrit The Cake Man tells with great simplicity of the crushing poverty, courage and despair of life on a NSW Aboriginal mission. An exam ...

by Dorothy Hewett The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts to extract meaning from her env ...

Williamson's famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football ...

by Various Writers Loneliness, fear, bad dreams, repressed attraction or repugnance, lockdown and sudden escapes, jigsaw puzzles, food deliverie ...

Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell.  

Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970s Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work and numer ...

Sadie and Ed meet Martin and Chloë at a holiday resort and instantly hit it off, despite coming from completely different worlds. When Martin ...

An epic play about two young hikers who accidentally discover a lost community deep in the forests of Tasmania. Lost in time, the group clashes wi ...

by David Williamson The Great Man A volatile group gathers to plan the funeral of a Labor Party icon. They all claim to know the truth about hi ...