PLAYLAB'S QLD SYLLABUS SUGGESTIONS 2021
UNIT 2: REFLECT (MAGICAL REALISM)
The following list of plays has been curated by Playlab staff in order to provide an extended list of plays suitable for study in Unit 2: Reflect. For convenience we have separated the following titles into categories based on the dramatic styles that are to be studied in this unit. Each play in this list presents a unique exploration into the understanding and empathising with the truth of others’ experiences, and through the manipulation and interpretation of the conventions associated with their particular style, chronical and celebrate what it is to be human.
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Blue Bones
by Merlynn Tong
LANGUAGE: English, Mandarin, Malay and Hokkien
THEMES: Domestic Violence, Relationships, Self Empowerment
CHARACTER AGES: Young Adult
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 1 – 2 Cast Members
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
Chasing The Whale
by Matthew Ryan
THEMES: Relationships, Career, Life-Choices, Insanity
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
CAST SIZE: 5 – 6 Cast Members
Cinderella
by Matthew Whittet
THEMES: Love, Identity, Comedy
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
In a Heart Beat
by Jo Turner
THEMES: Loss, Growing Up, Small towns
CHARACTER AGES: 15 – 30, 30+
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 9 + Cast Members
TARGET AUDIENCE: Middle Years & Senior Years
Lazarus Won`t Get Out of Bed
by David Burton
THEMES: Depression, Relationships, Truth
CHARACTER AGES: 3 Early Twenties, 1 Any Age
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
CAST SIZE: 3 – 4 Cast Members
Proppa Solid
by Steven Oliver
THEMES: Aboriginal Themes, Indentity, Family
CHARACTER AGES: Adult
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult
CAST SIZE: 3 – 4 Cast Members
Spontaneous Human Combustion
by Daniel Evans
THEMES: Trauma, Defiance, Grief
CHARACTER AGES: 16 – 18
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: Large Cast Without Doubling
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
The Chosen
by Lachlan Philpott
THEMES: Desires to be unique, Adolescents
CHARACTER AGES: Teenage to Adult
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: Large Cast Without Doubling
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
PLAYLAB'S QLD SYLLABUS SUGGESTIONS 2021
UNIT 2: REFLECT (AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC)
Bastard Territory
by Stephen Carleton
THEMES: Family, Identity
CHARACTER AGES: Adult
LENGTH: 2.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 5 – 6 Cast Members
TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult
Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset
by Stephen Carleton
THEMES: Colonisation, Racism, National Identity, Multiculturalism
CHARACTER AGES: 18+
LENGTH: 2 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
CAST SIZE: 5 – 6 Cast Members
No Incense Rising
by George Landen Dann
THEMES: Family Relationships and Obligations
CHARACTER AGES: 17 – 50
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 7 – 8 Cast Members
New Vintage
TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult
The Dark Room
by Angela Betzien
THEMES: Violence, Sex, Police, Isolation
CHARACTER AGES: 14 – 40
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 5 – 6 Cast Members
TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult
The Mayne Inheritance
by Errol O’Neill
THEMES: History, Murder, Colonial Society
CHARACTER AGES: 18+
LENGTH: 2.5 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
CAST SIZE: 5 – 6 Cast Members
The Salt Remains
by Tom Gardiner
THEMES: Responsibility, Forgiveness, Inadequacy
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult
CAST SIZE: 1 – 2 Cast Members

Where In The World Is Frank Sparrow
by Angela Betzien
THEMES: Gang Violence, Territory, Death, Human Condition, Coming of Age
CHARACTER AGES: 14+
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
CAST SIZE: Large Cast Without Doubling

PLAYLAB'S QLD SYLLABUS SUGGESTIONS 2021
UNIT 2: REFLECT (REALISM)
Composing Venus
by Elaine Acworth
NEW VINTAGE NEW RELEASE
THEMES: History, Family
LENGTH: 2 Hours
CAST SIZE: 8 Cast Members / 13-14 Cast Members without doubling
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
Head Full of Love
by Alana Valentine
THEMES: Indigenous Health, Love, Cultural Divisions
CHARACTER AGES: 50+
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 1 – 2 Cast Members
Kryptonite
by Sue Smith
THEMES: Multiculturalism, Politics, Love, National Identity
CHARACTER AGES: 23 – 48
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 1 – 2 Cast Members
TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult
Pale Blue Dot
by Kathryn Marquet
THEMES: Aliens, Relationships, Conspiracies
CHARACTER AGES: 15+
LENGTH: 2 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult
CAST SIZE: 3 – 4 Cast Members
Rice
by Michele Lee
THEMES: Globalisation, Power, Politics and Migration
CHARACTER AGES: Adult
LENGTH:1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 1 – 2 Cast Members
TARGET AUDIENCE: Adult
Samson
by Julia-Rose Lewis
THEMES: Coming of age, Grief
CHARACTER AGES: 16 – 18
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 3 – 4 Cast Members
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years
Sugarland
by Rachael Coopes and Wayne Blair
THEMES: Indigenous Themes, Regional Australia, Displacement, Growing up
CHARACTER AGES: 16 – 18, Adult
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Senior Years