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RSWWF Send For Nellie
16 September 2023 Experience ‘SEND FOR NELLIE’ a captivating cabaret work by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine. Focussing on Nellie Small, a West Indian-Australian performer from 1930’s Sydney, this is an opportunity to witness the creative development of this...
Notre Dame for Brandenburg Orchestra
Spirited, soulful and unapologetically French, Notre-Dame commemorates eight centuries of exquisite music performed within Notre-Dame de Paris. It is a story told in a moving theatrical experience of spoken word penned by award-winning playwright and director Alana...
The Doomsday Twins
Marilyn and Garnet Boles are two self-reliant twins who survive by making online web-content for a fee. When local young adults write in to talk about their lives, Marilyn and Garnet make videos with poems and songs to ease their apocalyptic angst. Just lately though,...
My Beautiful Man
On December 15, 2014 eighteen people were taken hostage in the Lindt Café in Sydney’s Martin Place. After a sixteen-hour standoff, a single gunshot was heard and police stormed the café. Tragically Tori Johnson, the heroic Lindt Café manager, lost his life that day,...
ARC by Erth
ARC brings to the stage stories of fragility and beauty. It is a brand new work that presents a rare opportunity to meditate amidst the hustle and bustle of a careless world. ARC is an extraordinary story of self-discovery and wonder told with theatrical magic and...
WAYSIDE BRIDE – Belvoir Theatre
After years of research, and a lot of help from the community, Alana Valentine’s much-anticipated story of a little chapel in a back street of the Cross premieres at Belvoir. The Wayside Chapel under the Reverend Ted Noffs set itself up for those who might not find a...
Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan
As his body hit the water, few heard the impact, but the ripple effect of the murderous act defied natural law and swelled to seismic scale. It’s 50 years since the infamous drowning of Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan a moment in time that triggered an alleged police...
Wudjang: Not the Past
In the deep darkness just before dawn, workmen find bones while excavating for a dam. Among them is a Yugambeh man, Bilin, who convinces his colleagues to let him keep the ancestral bones. This ancestor is Wudjang, who longs to be reburied the proper way. With her...
SHORT PLAYS: Syllabus Stories
This collection of short plays reflect Alana Valentines expertise in writing compelling theatre for Cultural institutions, Museums and Schools. They are dynamic and dramatic interpretations of significant historical and contemporary subjects which sparkle with humor,...
The Sugar House
"You know the worst thing about pretending to be all polished and posh, people start to believe that's all you've ever been. They tear everything down in this city, tear it down, gussy it up. We paid for this city like everyone else, so why are we never listened to?...
Savage Grace
We are celebrating 21 years of Steamworks Arts, bringing back our inaugural award-winning smash-hit production, SAVAGE GRACE, by one of Australia’s leading playwrights, Alana Valentine. With the original cast, we revisit this powerful classic Australian play by Alana...
SYDFEST 2021 – Walkleys Live
Great journalism holds the powerful to account, changes lives and strengthens Australia’s democracy. The annual Walkley Awards recognise the year’s most impactful and courageous journalism – the stories that define Australia and our history. Walkleys Live brings a...
Wayside Bride
COMING IN 2021 . . . We wouldn’t normally announce a work-in-progress but this one’s special. Alana Valentine has been making work with communities for decades but for this show she needs your help. Alana’s mother and stepfather were married at Wayside Chapel when she...
Notre-Dame
Featuring music by French composers Campra, Lully, Rameau, Rebel and more. When Notre-Dame de Paris was partially consumed by fire in April 2019, the French people grieved and the world ached over the loss. Notre-Dame is a narrative concert inspired by Our Lady of...
Ratticus and Reidar
Meet the residents who lived alongside the soldiers and convicts in the Hyde Park Barracks - the rats! Ratticus is the most cunning rat in the pack and when Reidar, a Norwegian brown rat arrives fresh off the prison hulk, it’s Ratticus who shows him how to survive by...
Doing Dawn
Doing Dawn is the story of five young pilgrims who travel to the Gallipoli Peninsula for the ANZAC Day commemorations. Based on interviews with actual travellers and Turkish soldiers, Doing Dawn is a searing confrontation of the babyboomer, anti-war rhetoric that has...