Children of the Black Skirt
Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and become trapped in a timeless world, haunted by spirits of the past and tormented by the ominous Black Skirt, a cruel governess harbouring a mysterious past. The children begin to listen to the stories of the restless spirits of other children who have passed through the orphanage, and by doing so release the spirits from the tragedies of their pasts. This new gothic fairytale for young people tells a history of Australia through the eyes of children from convict times, the Stolen Generations, World War Two and beyond. An evocative play exploring the themes of history, reconciliation and the power of storytelling; this is Roald Dahl meets Charles Dickens under the harsh Australian sun. Children of the Black Skirt has toured widely through Australian schools and is fast becoming a classroom favourite with teachers and students alike. Includes teachers' notes written by Adrianne Jones and Michael Boyle.
Hoods
From the writer of Children of the Black Skirt comes a contemporary tale of Hansel and Gretel. Each night two hoods ride a train to a wrecking yard on the outskirts of the city. Here, in this cemetery of stories, they are storytellers with the power to fast forward, pause and rewind. Tonight, they tell the story of three kids left in a car. Rewind. It's Friday, KFC night and the last day of school before Christmas. Kyle, Jessie and baby brother Troy are waiting in the car for their mum. As night approaches the car park takes on a dark and sinister aspect filled with strange and familiar characters. The shopping centre closes, Mum still hasn't returned and the baby won't stop crying. Exploring issues of poverty and family violence, Hoods is a suburban tale of survival and solidarity against the odds.
Garage Girls
Meet Alice Anderson: Mechanic. Trailblazer. Entrepreneur. Founder of Australia's first all-girl garage! It's 1920s Melbourne - society reels from the aftermath of World War I, women's fashion sets startling trends and the city hums with the music of the motorcar. Meanwhile, one small woman defies convention and makes her mark...Sparked by historical events, Garage Girls shines a light on Alice Anderson's short but eventful life, in a world on the precipice of change.
Ruby Moon
In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward. Until the day when little Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again. The neighbourhood fractures into grief and suspicion in the search for answers to a terrible deprivation. Then a parcel arrives on her parents' doorstep ...
Holy Day
On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller's rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. Aboriginal people have allegedly murdered her husband and stolen her infant child. But an Aboriginal woman has a different story to tell. What would cause a missionary's wife to lie? What chance does the word of an Aboriginal woman have against hers? A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape.
I'm With Her
In the era of #MeToo and #Time's Up, millions of women are sharing their stories of abuse and discrimination. But inside all our stories there's a part we don't always tell - a seed of heroic resistance.I'm With Her was written by Walkley Award winner Victoria Midwinter Pitt from frank and intimate conversations with eight extraordinary women: counter-terrorism expert Anne Aly MP, sex worker activist Julie Bates, botanist Marion Blackwell, world champion surfer Pam Burridge, bartender Nikki Keating, Catholic nun Patricia Madigan, anthropologist and indigenous leader Marcia Langton and Australia's first female prime minister, Julia Gillard.Together, they light up the golden thread that runs right through the patriarchy, and may yet be its undoing: the strengths women use to keep turning up to our own lives. It is a thrilling real-life demonstration, by the ultimate girl gang, of the power of women to outlast, outwit and out-muscle the great ugly beast of sexism.'This play burns with the generational energy of its characters, young and old. It reminds us all women of how much power we have in being ourselves.' - June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Social Justice Commissioner'A brave and beautiful show. As a piece of resistance, it's bloody brilliant.' - Sydney Morning Herald'Darkly funny' - On The Town'A firestorm. A cultural milestone for Australian feminism' - Audrey Journal'Connecting past to present, dreams to reality, and women to each other, Victoria Midwinter Pitt's stunning script paints life itself as a radical act of resistance.' - ArtsHub
Love Child
A reconciliation between a mother and the daughter she gave away at birth. Anna is a successful film editor in her 40s who has defined herself through her political conscience. Living alone in a cold, stylish apartment, she believes she has come to terms with her history, until a young woman called Billie arrives at her door. Billie acts in soap operas, doesn't believe in political action and wants a mother. Together these two fractured women confront the implications of distance; between then and now, between generations and between the one who gave away the one who was let go.
Drizzle Boy
'Bugger. Maybe you aren't Rain Man. Maybe you're more of a Drizzle Boy.' Drizzle Boy loves space. So does his companion, Space Bear, and his hero, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. The stars are far away from a world that unforgivingly pokes and prods him. Until Drizzle Boy is brought back to earth by Juliet, who enters his orbit on the first day of university. How does one figure out romance, when social etiquette already seems arbitrary? Who makes the rules? Who enforces them? And why should any of that matter, when your world is conjoined with the vast infinitude of outer space? Ryan Enniss' award-winning Drizzle Boy is the first Australian play written by an autistic playwright about an autistic protagonist. Winner of the Queensland Premier's Drama Award 2022-23 Shortlisted for 2023 Matilda Awards Best Direction, Best Composition and/or Sound Design, Best Mainstage Production, The Lord Mayor's Award for Best New Australian Work 'A true celebration of humanity without limits or stereotypes' - Theatre Travels 'Such a refreshing, important and honest exploration of how a neurodivergent person can experience the world' - Theatre Haus
The Dreamers
With humane irony, Jack Davis gives a painful insight into the process of colonisation and the transformation of his people. The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit in him, which has survived 'civilisation'.
Daylight Saving
Felicity and Tom both have busy lives and demanding careers. Tom Is travelling with his petulant protege Jason, the international tennis star, when Felicity receives a surprise call from an American boyfriend from her past. As she plans a candle-lit reunion dinner, her highly stressed neighbour drops in and so does her mother. The confusion becomes complete as each of them becomes involved in Felicity's evening. A pitch perfect romantic comedy, Daylight Saving has been performed with huge success and won multiple AWGIE awards.
Falling Petals
Something strange is happening in the country town of Hollow - a mysterious syndrome that seems to strike only the young. The town is quarantined, schools are closed and fences go up. Guards patrol new enforced borders, but amongst the townsfolk denial runs deep. Part science-fiction, part satire, Falling Petals is a darkly humorous fable about the consequences of a culture of disposable youth that blasts the urban/rural fissure open.
Blue Murder
Evelyn Carool leaves the country town where she grew up and goes to Sydney to work for Blue, an author of children's books. Blue inhabits a mysterious stone cathedral, Blackrock, which rises up out of Sydney Harbour. Acting as Evelyn's mentor, Blue leads Evelyn on a journey of self-discovery that is at once magical, sensuous and frightening. Must she completely surrender her own sense of reality to access this infinitely more seductive world? And what price is she prepared to pay to learn the truth that lies hidden within the walls of Blackrock?
Sunshine Super Girl
A grimy old ball, a racquet made from a wooden fruit box, a pair of borrowed shoes... then the world at her feet. This is the heart-warming story of how Evonne Goolagong Cawley - Our Evonne - rose from humble beginnings in an outback farming town to become a world-champion tennis player by the age of just 19. With a tin wall for a court and a steely determination, little Evonne hits and hits and hits her way out of rural New South Wales and onto the world stage. On the way she must battle prejudice and homesickness and test herself to the very limits. Sunshine Super Girl, by Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai writer Andrea James, is a funny and poignant take on the life of a talented sportswoman with a big dream. Infused with a wry Australian sensibility and a proud sense of belonging, it's a story that will inspire and delight. 'Sunshine Super Girl explores connection to country and community, while taking an unflinching look at poverty, adversity, and racism in Australia. The story is told with plenty of heart, humour, charm and skill. [This is] captivating theatre that beats with a grounded, organic heart.' - Bryan Andy, Witness Performance
The Club
Williamson's famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. This is a play set behind the scenes; a head-on tackle of brawn versus bureaucracy. Also available in David Williamson's Collected Plays Volume II.
Rainbow's End
'We're second-class citizens in our own country. No, we're not even citizens. Heavens, and this is the fifties!' History is about the heroes. Rainbow's End chronicles the lives of three generations of Koori women - unsung heroes who fight the good fight every day from their humpy on Yorta Yorta country. Matriarch Nan Dear, the emerging activist Gladys, and the aspiring nurse Dolly reside along a river that continues to rise, threatening their displacement (time and time again).Faced with subtle, and not so subtle, racism in their daily lives, the Dear women stand their ground. Nan holds abundant space for her family (while keeping the family secrets). Gladys faces up to her demons and articulates herself bravely in public spaces while Dolly cherishes education as her greatest asset. And then there's Errol, the white Encyclopedia salesman who takes a wrong turn, bringing him into the sphere of this staunch family.Jane Harrison's Rainbow's End is, above all, a story of how radical change unfolds in the most quotidian of exchanges, in the love shared by Aboriginal women within their families and their communities.
No Sugar
Now a classic of Aboriginal drama, No Sugar is the spirited story of the Millimurra family's stand against government 'protection' in 1930s Australia. 'The native must be helped in spite of himself', wrote the Chief Protector A.O. Neville, with the wisdom of the day. 'The end in view will justify the means.' The play received international acclaim when it represented Australia at the World Theatre Festival in Canada in 1986.
Sunset Strip
"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself" - Henry David Thoreau At Sunset Strip the only people left are those who couldn't leave. Arriving home after a bout of chemotherapy to this once-thriving summer hot spot, Caroline finds the lake completely dried up, the holiday-makers long gone. Yet her younger sister, the ever-optimistic Phoebe, remains doggedly hopeful. Between a stint in rehab, caring for her demented dad (who has a penchant for training goldfish) and losing her kids temporarily to DOCS, Phoebe has managed to find love in Teddy, a local fallen fella with a big heart. And now that Caroline is back, Phoebe is determined to make life fabulous.In Sunset Strip, Suzie Miller, author of Caress / Ache and Transparency, examines love, family dysfunction and making the best of shitty situations and prosthetic breasts. Sunset Strip finds the humour in tragedy and creates an unlikely path for humanity to triumph.
The Removalists
A young policeman's first day on duty becomes a violent and highly charged initiation into law enforcement. Remarkable for its blend of boisterous humour and horrifying violence, the play has acquired a reputation as a classic statement on Australian authoritarianism.
Dead White Males
Postmodernism versus liberal humanism - can an older male academic convert a young female student to a post-structural, post-patriarchal view of literature and seduce her at the same time? Not only a very funny and revealing drama about personal relations at an Australian university, it is also a direct intervention in an intellectual debate.
The Visitors
On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stand looking out to sea. Moored off-shore is a huge nowee (boat) then there are two, then more. Who are these visitors? Where are they from? What do they want? Should they be turned away by force or welcomed to country? In the playscript The Visitors, Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison (Stolen, Rainbow's End) reimagines the arrival of the First Fleet from a First Nations' perspective. These senior men, carrying the weight of cultural responsibility in their very human hearts, must decide what action they'll take toward these unwanted arrivals. A decision, under pressure, that will have repercussions' unforeseeably and forever. Told with wit, charm, and a fierce intelligence, Harrison's playscript upends the dominant point of view of this pivotal event. Annotated and with an introduction by Wesley Enoch.'I do not doubt that The Visitors will take its place alongside Stolen as a touchstone of Australian theatre, and as an essential part of the continuing struggle to make sense of colonisation and multigenerational trauma.' - Harriet Cunningham, Sydney Morning Herald
A Man With Five Children
Gerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. The results are shown annually on television. Yet for the children who grow up under Gerry's (and the nation's) watchful eyes, the experience creates its own dynamic. Are the participants his subjects, his children or his creations? Spanning more than twenty years, A Man With Five Children invites you into a world of fractured celebrity and distorted vision.
The Chapel Perilous
The Chapel Perilous is an Australian classic, and Sally Banner is now a national heroine. A major statement on the female artist's quest for freedom and self-realisation in a community uncertain of its standards, the epic play is full of lyricism, music, satire and self-parody. It traces Sally's life from school days, through lovers, attempted suicide, marriage and politics to disillusion. At the end of her life, the artist's ever-present sense of failure is ironically coupled with worldly success.
Centennial Casting
Vincent DiDonato is an overweight unattached and unevolved goombah in his late forties who spends most of his time doing as little as possible at Centennial Casting the metal casting shop he owns with his mother on Manhattan's Lower East Side. When Vincent's mom dies suddenly he inherits the shop and is thrown into the front office where he discovers a pile of headshots sent in by actors over the years that had mistaken the metal shop's casting service for a theatrical casting agency. Vincent is struck by the photo of one Edie Keaton. Ms. Keaton a down-on-her-luck actress in her late thirties is trying to return to the business after a difficult divorce. Vincent who has never been in a successful relationship saves the picture and r矇sum矇. When his assistant and boyhood chum Doo-Doo realizes his boss is interested in Edie he sets up an "interview" for the actress hoping it might lead to a date for Vincent his first in many years. Vincent reluctantly agrees to pose as a casting director in order to meet the actress and when Edie walks in for her "audition " he falls head over heels in love with her. Edie in turn is interested in Vincent but is even more interested in getting an acting job. As the ruse continues Vincent and Doo-Doo realize they must heighten the stakes in order to keep the relationship going. What will happen when Edie discovers that Vincent is only posing as a casting director? Will true love triumph or will the characters drown their sorrows in cannolis? The answer is a heartwarming hilarious tale of two ordinary people in an extraordinary situation who find dreams can come true at Centennial Casting.
Silent Crossing
Hamlet said, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more." Ezekiel, the main character in the following novel-play, is strutting his final hour upon the stage. Like the Biblical Ezekiel, he's been a mover and a shaker. Even in the face of death, he wants to control, not on a grand scale as he once did, but in a utopian village that he's created. He gathers together the people of his village, believing he's going to help them. All of those he's assembled also have Old Testament Biblical names: There's Jonah who's been swallowed by the whale of injustice and prejudice; Naomi who's suffered the terrible loss of a child; Leah who's physical appearance ignited abuse from a family member; Daniel who struggles with the lions of religion and alcohol; Rebecca, whose pregnancy forces her to runs away her from a well-to-do family; Saul or Rolling Thunder who presents a commanding presence but is frightened byhis weakness; Ruth or Singing Cloud who's loyal to her grandmother and husband to the end; Elizabeth who has waited for deliverance from her suffering; Nathanial, the baby who's eager to experience all he can. Now onto the novel, which is divided into three acts like a play, thus a novel-play.
Kaleidoscope
Combining nail-biting suspense, enthralling mysteries, and unexpected romances - Kaleidoscope takes readers on an epic journey of emotions. When Isabella Washington discovers her estranged husband murdered and her ex-lover shot, she finds herself entangled in a mystery that leaves her with more questions than answers. Caught in a world full of government informants, witness protection and jealous lovers - Isabella becomes a desperate woman in search of the truth. Only, the last person she wants in her business is the elusive Sasha. Recently widowed Sasha Borianni is now the sole owner of The Lodge at Sugar Hill, the only African American five-star ski resort in Park City, Utah. Trying to navigate her way through this new chapter of her life, she decides to take a much-needed vacation to Costa Rica, to clear her mind and heart. Only, clues her husband left behind have now emerged, giving Sasha reason to believe he didn't die of a heart attack after all... Now, thrown into an endless cycle of betrayal, Sasha is desperate to uncover the truth of her husband's murder, but she finds herself at the hands of the last person she ever expected to ask for help.
Taking the Short Bus
A school for special needs kids in Cheltenham Pennsylvania, a suburb outside Philadelphia. He had suffered from dyslexia and emotional break down after his brother was killed in Vietnam. Eric takes on several after school jobs to prove to the school psychologist, Dr. Goldman, and the school authorities that he is now academically and emotionally stable enough to graduate and to be assimilated back into society. Or he will be placed back at Webster for another year in twelfth grade in public school to academically catch up to take the SAT and qualify for college.Meanwhile, Eric finds himself falling in love with his history teacher. Carol Schor. At Webster, Carole sees Eric in only two ways, as one of her students and a trusted friend outside of school.In reality, those kids who were tormented by their peers for taking the short yellow bus should not be ashamed or embarrassed or labeled retarded. Private schools don't usually agree with the teaching philosophies of the public schools or the excuses of ADD or ADHD, but believe some people just think outside the box no matter what size or color bus they travel on.
Soldier Boy The Play
A full-length dramatisation of Hill's novel Soldier Boy about the youngest Australian Anzac. Jim Martin is just 14 when he lies about his age, enlists and dies of typhoid after just seven weeks on Gallipoli. Act One is Jim joining up. Compulsory school cadets - the outbreak of war - the emotional blackmail of his parents by threatening to run away if they don't sign a consent letter. A real threat, and like others they give way.Act Two sees Jim under fire. A torpedo attack in the troopship - andthe horrors of Gallipoli. Nowhere is safe from enemy snipers, shellfire and bombs. While a lasting camaraderie grows between the Anzac and Turkish soldiers, all are exposed to the ravages of disease borne by flies from the filth on the battlefield.Jim keeps his promise to write home often. But tragically, he dies without receiving any letters from his family - the youngest Australian soldier to die in war. With a range of characters, the play is ideal for schools and theatre companies.
Satan Nicks
A mud-ugly child is born in rural Mississippi and grows up with moonshine and pot as the family business. He marries a pregnant prostitute whom he deeply loves and begins an unlikely life journey. Uncharted and ungodly events forge a man who loves deeply and metes out vengeance when those he loves are hurt. Satan Nicks is the name his father gave him, but it's not who he is.
A Safe Passage
You're safe here. But you have to trust me now. For your own good. I need you to stay. Because if you go, I go and I'd rather not. New Year's Eve 1979. Two souls weather the storm together in Inish D繳bh Lighthouse: Christy the Keeper, shining a ceaseless vigil for all at sea; and a young woman. Christy doesn't know why she is here or what she wants from him. Always the joker, always the clown, he puts on a good show. But as the storm rages and truths start to unfold, Christy must decide - to weather the storm or take a leap of faith? Irene Kelleher's A Safe Passage is a story of love and isolation, guilt, grief and the ultimate need for human connection. This edition was published to coincide with the Irish and US tours in summer 2024 and early 2025.
After Sex
I'm just worried because I think what I'm being turned on by is the fact that you're imagining a stable future with me, whereas what you're being turned on by is the potential potency of your own sperm. They're on the same page. It's just sex. It doesn't have to be complicated. Anyway, it wouldn't work. He hates kissing in the morning. She killed her guinea pigs. He doesn't speak to his dad. They're totally different people. It's just sex. A lyrical, charged, sharply observed and genuinely erotic two-hander, Siofra Dromgoole's After Sex follows the trajectory of a couple, told almost entirely through post-coital scenes. It's about how the sex we have can change us: a love-song to connection, and to people's capacity for changing each other's lives. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Arcola Theatre in July 2024.
Performance and Modernity
How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage demonstrates how the unforeseen impact of economic, industrial, political, social, and psychological change was registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film, video and networked media-this book finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived, both by stage actors, who, in modelling new habits, gave emerging experiences an epistemological shape, and by their audiences, who, in borrowing the strategies performers enacted, learned to adapt to a modernizing world.
Hermeneutic Shakespeare
This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare.
Theater Masters' Take Ten Volume IX
The ninth collection of published plays by the Theater Masters' National MFA ten-minute play festival, Take Ten. This collection, Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 9, is comprised of the following plays: Below by Malena Pennycook After losing her home to a California wildfire, Anara joins her cousin for a shocking marine expedition. A surrealist short that interrogates the sense we'll make, if any, of the end. big and small by DJ Hills In three conversations, told simultaneously across twelve years, a mother and daughter come to terms with the sacrifice of giving oneself over to someone you love. de tal palo, tal astilla by jose sebastian alberdi Come out, come out, come one, come all. Sof穩a is finalizing her divorce. Marisol does NOT want to talk about sad things today. And Jos矇 doesn't understand why sad things have to be sad. It's Luis's high school graduation and you're invited. One Hundred Bees by Katie Kirk The people on this stage love to BUY GOODS and WEAR MAKEUP and EAT CHEESEBURGER, just like you! Come experience the feeling of ONE HUNDRED BEES. That Was Fun by Chad Kaydo Justin and Sam are friends, but Sam is really loud and annoying, it's like why are they even friends? But what if they break up and it kinda changes...everything?
The Green Line خطّ التماس
A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family's journey to discover their past.In the present day, Rami, a twentysomething queer Lebanese Canadian, has returned to the Lebanese mountains to bury his father. To cope with the weight of his grief, Rami, carrying a necklace in the shape of a phoenix left to him by his father, finds himself in a queer Beirut nightclub, where he catches the attention of a powerful drag queen named Fifi, who just so happens to be dressed as a phoenix.In 1978, in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, Naseeb is attempting to get himself and his sister Mona out of Beirut and into the safety of the mountains. Mona, however, is secretly in love with her classmate, a woman named Yara, and refuses to leave the city. When Naseeb becomes swept up with the descending political culture of the war around him, he creates a rift between himself and Mona greater than the line that divides the country itself.
I Forgive You
In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott Jones's story garnered international attention, not only for its brutality, but also for his uncommonly early decision to forgive his attacker. Furiously researching restorative justice practices and success stories, Jones sits down to ask himself the hardest question he's ever had to answer: Does he have it in him to not just forgive his attacker, but to accept his new life as a disabled man?Based on the incredible true story, I Forgive You explores the complexities of forgiveness, privilege, recovery, and self-love in Scott's own words backed by a live children's choir performing the music of legendary Icelandic band Sigur R籀s.
Krishna Kumari
Krishna Kumari: The Tragedy of India introduces readers to the first English language play in modern India. Written in 1826 by English Subba Rao, one of the first Indians to be schooled in English, Krishna Kumari depicts the true story of a princess of Udaipur who is forced to commit suicide in order to end a war started by her suitors, the rulers of the neighboring kingdoms of Jaipur and Jodhpur. Tragically, her death proves to be in vain because the mercenaries recruited by the contending rulers nevertheless proceed to plunder the region. All three kingdoms are then compelled to seek the protection of the East India Company, bringing their independence to an end. Sharp and witty, Krishna Kumari was intended to warn Indian principalities against the follies that led to the downfall of the Rajputs. Unfortunately, the play scarcely saw the light of day. Angered by Subba Rao's opposition to their power, the British forced him to withdraw from public life. This is why audiences have never heard of Krishna Kumari-until now. Building on extensive archival research, this volume brings Subba Rao's pioneering drama back to life. The introductory essay by Rahul Sagar, a leading scholar of nineteenth century India, familiarizes readers with the remarkable characters in the play and the violent era in which they lived. By shedding light on Subba Rao's extraordinary life and career, it also reveals how important principalities like Tanjore and Travancore were in battling colonialism and shaping modern India.
Behind The Red Line
In Behind the Red Line, VV Liles delivers a shocking fictionalized account of one woman's journey through the shadows of medical corruption at one of the most prestigious Heart Institutes in the nation. A thrilling tale that explores the operating room with themes of soul driven advocacy, integrity, perseverance, divine timing, and above all things - Final Justice. Victoria Villa is the Director of Operations for an impressive state-of-the-art Cardiology Institute. Her excitement for the long-awaited grand opening rapidly turns into a nightmare as a touted 'world renowned' new Cardiac surgeon arrives on the scene. Victoria is plunged into a web of unethical behavior, sexual exploits and harassment, hierarchy manipulation, power-hungry greed and Death; and that is only the beginning.Victoria's allegiance to her team and the patients' that unknowingly risk their lives under the knife of Dr Shetan Pathan ultimately jeopardizes her career as well as her health. Her leadership peers are each slowly terminated, and as the sole patient/staff advocate she is suddenly diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Surprisingly she tirelessly pursues conviction of Pathan, encountering him face to face in multiple grueling legal battles before the unexpected death of her husband leaves her with a hole in her own heart. A must read, Behind the Red Line will captivate you with a good vs evil story. A testament to the resilience of human willpower and the pursuit of truth and morality. Liles' story, is truly a bitter sweet tale of a patient ombudsman in the healthcare world.
Away
'Away was a revelation. For here was an Australian play set in the summer of 1967-68 that was truthful, fantastical, satirical and deeply touching. The characters were immediately recognisable and grounded in reality yet Gow's quest opened up its claustrophobic, flawed, bittersweet domestic terrain to wider horizons enabling change and self-awareness.' Bryce Hallett, Sydney Morning Herald.One of the great Australian classics, Away opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the timeless Shakespearean themes of suffering, regeneration and reconciliation persist. It's Christmas in 1967 and time to re-enact the rituals of the summer holiday. Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm. At times funny and yet painfully truthful, Away explores the comedy and tragedy of their lives.Featuring introductions by May-Brit Akerholt and Richard Wherrett.1987 AWGIE Awards - Major Award Winner1986 NSW Premier's Literary Award - Play Award
This Can't Be Love
Karen White survives a childhood of molestation and abuse, only to grow up and marry Clyde King, a controlling and abusive police officer. Karen receives a sneak preview of what marriage will be like when Clyde beats and rapes her on their honeymoon night. Karen feels like all hope is lost and that she is forever doomed to a life of unhappiness and abuse until the day she discovers that she's pregnant. With faith in God, and the loving support of her cousin Linda, Karen becomes determined to provide a better life for her unborn child. She escapes Clyde's torture, relocates to Atlanta, Georgia and enters 'The Love House', a domestic violence shelter for battered women.While in Atlanta, Karen starts a new life, and forms bonding friendships with Jessica, Rita, and Monica, three women she meets while living at the Love House. Karen even finds true love with David Smith, the handsome doctor she works with at Grady Hospital.All is well until the day Clyde tracks her, and Karen is forced to make a decision that could change her life forever. This Can't Be Love is the story of one woman's journey to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and learn how to use her spiritual weapons of prayer, faith, strength, love, courage, and forgiveness in order to discover the Superwoman hidden within.
Pops Goes the Weasel
A 'Coming of Age' story between a Father and Son. This One-Act Play takes place in 1989: A young man named Greg, 18 years old, has just returned home to San Francisco from his first Semester in College in Southern California. His father, "Pops", 45 years old, is picking him up from the Airport to take him to his Mother's house, where Greg will be staying for the first time during his Winter Break Vacation, instead of with his Father. Pops and his ex-wife, Roxanne have been divorced for 10 years, and Greg has been raised by "Pops" as a single parent since their tumultuous marriage and bitter divorce. Struggling economically as a Cab Driver, Pops has bitter resentment towards his ex-wife, Roxanne, Greg's Mother, who's doing well very in her life. Greg's new interest to reconnect and rebuild a relationship with his mother after all these years does not sit well with Pops as he's driving his son, "Baby G" to his mother's house. Jason Jerone Powell tells this heart-wrenching story through the guise of a One-Act Drama in which he bravely explores his own past experience as a teen adult, struggling to earn his father's respect, while trying to reconnect with his mother. Powell cleverly tackles sensitive issues in this play, such as divorce, abuse, systemic disparity, and a Father and son's relationship. He currently resides in Hollywood, California, where he teaches English and Theatre Arts at the world famous Hollywood High School. He holds a BA Degree in Theatre Arts from CSU, Fullerton and a Master's Degree (MFA) in Dramatic Arts from the New School in New York under the Actors Studio. He's a life-long member of the Actors Studio. His two teens, Lehar and August, and their mother, Rahel, have been a source of inspiration for this piece of work.
The Venetian Twins
This adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century comedy The Venetian Twins quickly earned a reputation as one of the most boisterous, vibrant and irreverent works of Australian musical theatre following its initial season at the Sydney Opera House for the Nimrod Theatre Company in 1979.Rooted firmly in Commedia dell'arte yet unashamedly influenced by Kurt Weill, Donizetti and countless others in between, The Venetian Twins is an inspired piece of mayhem and musical pastiche.
1 Law 4 All - Gator
Our '1 Law 4 All' gang is dragged into a complex multinational, election fraud scheme. The gang's client champions fair and free elections. The battle lines are drawn. The political windmills established. The 1 Law 4 All Foundation teams with a voter justice group to ensure no tampering with the coming national election, especially in Florida, gator country.We begin with a small group of wealthy progressives. Their influence finds two corrupt congressional representatives swindling the American public for personal gain. The story's deception rides a trail through the Russian mafia in Moscow, Brooklyn and Atlanta. They involve the daughter of made, East Coast mobster and his brother. Follow the friction and jaw-dropping revelations between two international gangster groups.If this innovative technologically superior voter fraud scheme succeeds it will upset the world's order forever. The 'Club' concocts the most intricate, ingenious voter fraud scheme in U.S. history. Imagine waking one morning realizing that an unsettling fraudulent election turned the country's future over to a small group of international progressive Marxists.Within Angel's creativity - solving, investigating and exposing 'political windmills' produces enjoyable reading. From the serious to the comical situations, the reader's in for a rollercoaster of reading enjoyment. Even Gator's insights into the dark side of human nature will tickle your funny bone while giving you some political hope for the nation's future.
Town Hall
TOWN HALL. a play by Caridad Svich. In this play, we are in a meeting room, a gathering place, a space for communion after many disasters. This space will hold us, some say, if we let it. A story about being together when everything falls apart. This is a Santa Catalina Editions book, an imprint of NoPassport Press.
The Scofield Gang
While most of the pranks being done by the three young men known as "THE SCOFIELD GANG" are the imagination of the author, some did actually happen. The characters in the book are real people that lived in the communities of Tophill and Scofield. Many of the events mentioned in the book really did happen. These two communities still exist to this day. However, the original school building was torn down many years ago, and it is difficult to determine exactly where the school, the large covered play shed, the wood shed, and the two outhouses were located on the property.About the AuthorMel came from a family of nine children, he being the oldest son. Mel attended this little one room school through grade seven. Over half of the students in Scofield School were either brothers and sisters or first cousins. His teacher for all those years was Erie E. Ditto. Many of the events in this book actually happened. Other events are the imagination of the author. This is the second book Mel has authored. His first book was titled "The Mistry Of Goat Mountain and still available on Amazon.
Behind The Red Line
In Behind the Red Line, VV Liles delivers a shocking fictionalized account of one woman's journey through the shadows of medical corruption at one of the most prestigious Heart Institutes in the nation. A thrilling tale that explores the operating room with themes of soul driven advocacy, integrity, perseverance, divine timing, and above all things - Final Justice. Victoria Villa is the Director of Operations for an impressive state-of-the-art Cardiology Institute. Her excitement for the long-awaited grand opening rapidly turns into a nightmare as a touted 'world renowned' new Cardiac surgeon arrives on the scene. Victoria is plunged into a web of unethical behavior, sexual exploits and harassment, hierarchy manipulation, power-hungry greed and Death; and that is only the beginning.Victoria's allegiance to her team and the patients' that unknowingly risk their lives under the knife of Dr Shetan Pathan ultimately jeopardizes her career as well as her health. Her leadership peers are each slowly terminated, and as the sole patient / staff advocate she is suddenly diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Surprisingly she tirelessly pursues conviction of Pathan, encountering him face to face in multiple grueling legal battles before the unexpected death of her husband leaves her with a hole in her own heart. A must read, Behind the Red Line will captivate you with a good vs evil story. A testament to the resilience of human willpower and the pursuit of truth and morality. Liles' story, is truly a bitter sweet tale of a patient ombudsman in the healthcare world.
At What Cost?
Tasmania, now. Boyd has been walking a tightrope for years-balancing responsibilities to Land and People with the simple business of making a living. But there's something happening, he can sniff it in the wind. Every year more and more folk are showing up claiming to be palawa too. No-one's heard of them until now... Where has this missing mob been all these years? Are they legit? Or are they 'tick-a-box'? Who decides? And how? If Boyd's going to take everyone forward together, they're going to have to go back, old mob or new, into the island's knotty past. And they might not like what they find there. Nathan Maynard's At What Cost? asks us all to think about a very contemporary Australian issue.
