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  • A Contemporary Hymn

    by Linda Hassall

    Take a fierce metaphorical journey into the disturbing underbelly of the nightclub scene.

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    $17.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Cabaret, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
    Linda Hassall
  • Combat Fatigue

    by Alison Rooke

    “'Combat Fatigue' can boast some pretty impressive dialogue. Rooke has a hypnotic way of mixing words that makes even the ...

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    $9.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Digital Publications, Drama, Playlab Indie, Thriller
    Alison Rooke
  • Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset

    by Stephen Carleton

    It is 1899 and only the resolve of Lady Constance Drinkwater has kept the Far North Queensland settlement of Somerset from...

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    $25.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Education, Reflect: Australian Gothic
    Stephen Carleton
  • Girl Who Cried Wolf

    by Angela Betzien

    "Freaky, funny and frightening, this slick high-tech morality tale is wickedly good entertainment." - The Advertiser, 2011.

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    $27.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Black Comedy, Education
    Angela Betzien
  • No Incense Rising

    by George Landen Dann

    A life of one’s own at the expense of one’s family? Or a life of familial obligation? This ...

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    $9.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Digital Publications, Education, New Vintage, Reflect: Australian Gothic
    George Landen Dann
  • Surviving Jonah Salt

    by Kathryn Ash, Stephen Carleton, Gail Evans, and Anne Harris

    Ruby’s aging lover has died in the kitted-out tray of his Hilux Ute, gassed on a beach in Darwin; ...

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    $23.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Education
    Stephen Carleton
  • The Dark Room

    by Angela Betzien

    A lonely motel somewhere in the Northern Territory. Deep into the night, six lost souls play out a small, distant ...

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    $14.00

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Digital Publications, Education, Reflect: Australian Gothic, Thriller
    Angela Betzien
  • The Mayne Inheritance

    by Errol O'Neill

    A grisly murder, inherited madness, and a family in ruins…

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    $25.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Education, Historical Drama, Reflect: Australian Gothic
    Errol O'Neill
  • The Way Out

    by Josephine Collins

    In a dystopian future Australia, Helen and her civil war veteran father sell moonshine to a broken town, struggling to ...

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    $27.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Drama
  • The White Earth

    by Andrew McGahan & Shaun Charles

    When eight-year-old William witnesses his father burn to death in a freak farming accident, William and his sickly mother are...

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    $14.00

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Digital Publications, Education
    Andrew McGahan
  • Tiptoe

    by Michael Beresford

    When Brisbane visual artist Emma Lee is commissioned to construct a public art piece in Charters Towers for the Centenary...

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    $24.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Education, Education Notes
    Michael Beresford
  • Underland

    by Alexandra Collier

    "Cleverly mixing surreal dangers with the painfully everyday world" - Charged FM

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    $9.95

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Digital Publications, Drama, Education, Fantasy, Playlab Indie, Reflect: Magical Realism
    Alexandra Collier
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Featured Items

  • Home

    by Margi Brown Ash

    Published as part of The Belonging Trilogy by Margi Brown Ash.

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    $39.95

    Drama, Education, Fantasy, Non-Linear
  • Ode to Man

    by Emma Mary Hall

    “I asked men to tell me what a real man is. I asked my father. I asked the man I ...

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    $9.95

    Black Comedy, Digital Publications, Drama, Playlab Indie
    Emma Mary Hall
  • The White Earth

    by Andrew McGahan & Shaun Charles

    When eight-year-old William witnesses his father burn to death in a freak farming accident, William and his sickly mother are...

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    $14.00

    Australian Gothic Theatre, Digital Publications, Education
    Andrew McGahan
  • Cinderella

    by Matthew Whittet

    The classic fairy tale, but not as you know it

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    $14.00

    Contemporary Adaptation, Digital Publications, Drama, Reflect: Magical Realism
    Matthew Whittet
  • Driving Into Walls

    by Suzie Miller

    Making out, fighting, laughing, dancing and confessing … Drawn from over 500 starkly honest and highly confidential interviews with West Australian teenagers, ...

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    $27.95

    Education, Non-Linear, Physical Theatre, Verbatim
    Suzie Miller
  • Magpie

    by Elise Greig

    Spanning from young love to aging cynicism, Magpie is a coming-of-age story that will thrill and delight like ...

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    $25.95

    Bilingual, Drama, Education Notes, Magical Realism, New Releases, Non-Linear
    Elise Greig
  • Hopelessly Devoted

    by Elise Greig

    'Hopelessly Devoted' is a terrific, original and inventive two-hander musical play. With its songbook of Olivia Newton-John hits...

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    $9.95

    Black Comedy, Cabaret, Digital Publications, Drama, Education Notes, Fantasy, Musical, Playlab Indie
    Elise Greig
  • The Knowing Of Mary Poppins

    by Marcel Dorney, Leah Mercer et al

    Takes a unique and magical journey into the life and imagination of P.L. Travers; the Queensland-born writer of Mary ...

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    $25.95

    Fantasy, Historical Drama
    Marcel Dorney
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