Description
GENRE: Australian Gothic Theatre
THEMES: Photojournalism, Justice, Ethics, Hope
LENGTH: 60 minutes
NO. OF CHARACTERS: Large Cast
SYNOPSIS: On board flight 404 a photojournalist settles in for another normal journey, but when their fellow passengers start seeming a little too familiar they’re forced to confront the subjects from all the photos they’ve shot across the years. Faced with a career’s worth of documented trauma, conflict, hardship, and grief the photojournalist, stuck in a tin can thirty thousand feet in the air, is forced to question the ethics of bringing about change one photo at a time.
The Chapel, The Fire and the Dead Cat by Madelaine Nunn
GENRE: Australian Gothic Theatre
THEMES: Supernatural, Friendship, Coming of Age
LENGTH: 120 minutes
NO. OF CHARACTERS: Large Cast
SYNOPSIS: Smoke and ash. Wood and earth. You smelt it before you saw it. When the cursed Chapel on the hill burns to the ground, the authorities have some questions. Their suspects: the high school students seen there that night. An act of terror? Work of the divine? Or merely an accident? The Chapel, the Fire and the Dead Cat flashes between torch-lit glimpses of teenage misdemeanors. Piece by piece we are drawn deeper into the mystery, getting closer and closer to… something… and that something might just be supernatural.
Past the Shallows by Julian LarnachÂ
GENRE: Realism
THEMES: Alcoholism, Family Violence, Vulnerability, Love
LENGTH: 75 minutes
NO. OF CHARACTERS: 10
SYNOPSIS: Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone diver, on the wild and beautiful south coast of Tasmania. With their father largely absent, they look after each other as best they can. Over a school holiday while Miles works on the boat, Harry begins an unlikely friendship that will upset the delicate balance holding this unpredictable world together.
don’t ask what the bird look like by Hannah Belanszky
THEMES: First Nations Perspectives, Reconnection, Family
LENGTH:Â 90Â minutes, no interval
CHARACTER AGES:Â 16-50+
NO. OF CHARACTERS:Â 3
SUITABLE FOR:Â Senior Year
SYNOPSIS: Joan needs her father. She hasn’t seen him since he left her and her Mum when she was just a little girl. She wants answers, she wants history, she wants to know more about who she is. Travelling into country as remote as it is strange to this city girl, Joan finds Mick. He doesn’t speak much, and bears little resemblance to the man who taught her to play Scrabble all those years ago. But amid the flies, the heat, the dust and the stillness of this small river town lurk many ghosts and mysteries.
We are the Mutable by Matthew WhittetÂ
GENRE: Magical Realism
THEMES: Nature of Change & the Unknown, Internal Battles, Empathy
LENGTH: 90 minutesÂ
NO. OF CHARACTERS: 4-8
SYNOPSIS: Four teenagers, Jesse, Quinn, Charlie, and Frankie are braving that grueling high school life – group projects, infuriating peers, families who won’t listen – not to mention the self-doubt consuming their days. That is until one night an unexplained phenomenon strikes the town, and the teenagers wake up changed and mutated. Their secrets are exposed, their insecurities highlighted, and their lives are completely altered, and the teens experience a transformation in the way they see themselves, each other and the world.
THEMES: Loss, Mental Health, Coming-of-Age
LENGTH:Â 80 minutes, no interval
CHARACTER AGES:Â 18+
NO. OF CHARACTERS:Â 1
SUITABLE FOR:Â Adults
SYNOPSIS:When Mark moved out of home for the first time, his mum started writing him letters – just checking in, staying in touch, keeping a gentle hold on her son. Until one letter brings news no-one wants to hear. Blue is a bold and deeply personal new work from a young and revelatory new voice in Australian writing. Journey deep into the beauty and sadness of a young life at its new beginning.