Watermark

Watermark

Commissioned and Presented by Katherine Regional Arts. Watermark is a chronicle of both the physical, psychological and financial devastation of the flood in the northern territory town of Katherine, Australia on 26 January 1998. Based on written and oral testimony...
Student Body

Student Body

Fon is a student who has come to Australia for a university education. So have Kai Chai and Aditya and Song Yi. All of them are seeking an encounter with the freedoms and opportunities provided by a Western democracy – sexual freedom, political freedom and...
Lost Illusions

Lost Illusions

Adapted from Balzac’s novel, Lost Illusions is a cautionary tale – a dark parable about the snakes and ladders of life, a set of choices which all of us, especially young artists, confront. Balzac writes against the fashionable romanticism of his age, insisting...
Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah: Soft Revolution

Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah: Soft Revolution

Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is a contemporary companion for Norm and Ahmed, and is partly a plea for understanding, partly a bellow of rage from Muslim Australian women about the ignorance and misunderstanding that surrounds the wearing of the traditional Muslim...
Eyes to the Floor

Eyes to the Floor

Commissioned by Outback Theatre for Young People. When girls at the Parramatta Training School rioted in 1961, a special, more punitive institution was set up in a disused psychiatric hospital in Hay, in remote Western NSW. Redesigned to house the ten worst girls in...