by admin | Jun 25, 2005 | 2005, Archive, Play
It is 1905, and in Australia women have just achieved the right to vote. Mirabella Martin is a highly successful, but rapidly ageing, soubrette. She wants to catch the eye of Harry Rickards, boss of the Tivoli Circuit, but she thinks she needs to find a new act to...
by admin | May 25, 2005 | 2005, Archive, Play
Covenant is the story of three friends – Rebecca, Truc and Savas – who decide, as a kind of friendship pact, to steal icons or objects from each of their religious houses of worship. Rebecca is an Assyrian Christian, Truc is a Vietnamese Buddhist and Savas...
by admin | Apr 25, 2005 | 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, Archive
Winner of the Rodney Seaborne Playwrights Award. When an American HIV specialist doctor, Dr Tex Clark, visits an Australian hospital, part of his residency is spent with a bioethics Professor, Robert Bavaro. Although the two clash over ethical issues especially...
by admin | Jan 23, 2005 | 2005, Archive, Audio, Play
A short play, in verse and prose, set in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern. A poetic impression of the suburb as it travels through one day, the narrative tells the tale of four residents, a non-indigenous woman whose bag is snatched, the drug-addled thief, an...