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A woman artist's affair with a younger man jeopardises her marriage, her career and her child's future. He personifies the nihilistic philosophy of Albert Marcuse and tries to manipulate her. Her dependence on him forces her to reassess all the values of her art and life. We observe these events at three levels; a woman writer uses them as the basis of a play and in the process reveals parallels in her own experience.
Drama based on a bizarre murder trial which scandalized the people of Sydney in 1865. Louis Bertrand a society dentist, mesmerist, frustrated actor and womaniser, was determined to have Mrs Kinder, a woman of dubious morals, to himself. He openly plotted to murder her hapless multi-cuckolded husband, Mr Kinder. But did he actually commit the crime? In court a strange tale unfolded, recalled by his young dental assistant/part-time magician.
Patrick White's BIG TOYS is a brittle comedy of sexual politics in which the biggest toy of all is uranium. Behind the domestic triangle of a Queen's Counsel, Ritchie Bousanquet, his promiscuous wife, Mag, and an idealist trade union leader, Terry Legge, is a sharp indictment, by a veteran critic of the vacant heart, of what he sees as the frivolous misuse in Australian corridors of power and responsibilities that comes with privilege.
Coralie, a self-styled 'high-flying bird', refuses to be tied down to convention, or to the affections of any one of the men in her life. However, her stay in an ex-lover's beach house, plus a series of visitors, make for radical changes and a possible solution to Coralie's place in the world.
In 1885, George Dean, a Sydney ferry boat Captain, was accused of attempting to poison his wife. Dean, having saved six passengers from drowning, was a local hero. The verdict of guilty outraged the public and the popular press took up cudgels. Citizens formed Dean Defence Committees. Dean's lawyer Richard Meagher, realised his hoped-for political career could benefit from the publicity. His partner, William 'Paddy' Crick, championed Dean's cause in parliament, and a Royal Commission was set up to examine fresh evidence and decide whether Dean should be released.
Robby is the head of the Engineering Department at an institute of higher learning. An allegedly unsafe water tank becomes the focus of a power struggle among the staff. A gleeful battle of wits colours the staff meeting called by Robby, and the clash of personalities on personal and professional levels ends with victory in an unexpected quarter.
Four police officers, in the confines of a country police station, confront each other (and themselves) with the motives, guilt and retribution that flow from a charge of professional misconduct in the course of duty.
ESSINGTON is an interpretation of what happened in the isolated settlement of Port Essington on the northern Australian coast in the 1840s. Morale is low in the small Victorian community, which is becoming increasingly concerned by Macarthur's unreasonable demands.
Jim is an expatriate Australian artist, teaching in Canada. His wife, Zoe, is suffering under the combined burden of the climate, isolation, and Jim's stubborn selfishness. His failure as a painter is emphasised by the arrival of his confrere, Mike, glossy and successful in the New York Art scene. With Mike is his current girlfriend, Molly, who turns out to be the wife of Jim's college boss. Confrontations follow, on personal, professional and national levels-with comic and tragic overtones.
Mother Paul, after having climbed over the walls of the Athuan monastery, very quickly takes over the administration of the monastery's foundering cherry liquor business - she has her sights set on being the next Abbott...after that Rome!
Set in Lewisham 1946, this play shows two parallel family strands that are not necessarily linked by time - one strand concerns the interaction of the three brothers - Dan, Martin, Paddy and their wives; the other concerns Dan's son, Joe, and his intimate friendship with Jack.
A young dancer on the Sydney club circuit finds her life falling apart after she witnesses the drowning of a young man at Bondi. His presence continues to haunt her.
Life in the country was never easy for Shannon Jones. Her inquiring mind delved beneath the patina of seasonal acceptance which was the life of the little town in which she was born. But at 16 she starts a new life as general help in a guesthouse in the mountains where she meets an array of new people, including John Terry who introduces her to the world of books.
A well meaning but boring grade three public servant, Bentley, whose wife is having an affair with 'Simmo' the local stud, slowly loses everything that he holds dear - his wife, his apartment, and finally his friends. A satire about the middle class of the '60s.
An ordinance camp in the Northern Territory, 1944. The men are neither in nor out of the war. A cross section of Australian soldiers go through boredom, the news of infidelities at home, endless hope for leave - all coloured by unquenchable humour and optimism.
In 1902 Bertha Schippan, 13, was savagely murdered in Towitta, South Australia; her elder sister was condemned as the murderer. Public sympathy saved her from the hangman's noose. Did she do it to escape a harsh and spartan family life?
A vaudeville biography of Nellie Melba, from her childhood in Richmond to her death, at 70, in Sydney. Her unsuccessful marriage, her notorious affair with the Duke of Orleans, her triumphs across the world in opera and her final decline are depicted against a checkerboard of the eccentrics who surround her. A 'repertory' cast of eight plays 20 characters, to Robyn Nevin's Melba.
One of Australia's most controversial murder trials. Hannah Jane was found with her throat severely cut - too severely for suicide. Her husband was the chief suspect and the case became an example of a jury being overwhelmed by questionable expert scientific evidence.
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