Auditions

Synopsis

When a young man cycles across America to arrive in New York he decides to visit his feisty aging grand-mother, with whom he shares idealistic notions about the world. She becomes a sounding board for his recent tragedy and fraught personal relationships, bringing her worldly wisdom, while she struggles with the inevitable toll of her aging body. They ultimately support one another in their mutual losses. This is a beautiful and poignant insight into life’s struggles seen from early and late in the journey, and the power of cross-generational support and healing. 4000 MILES was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

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“Anna By Lamplight”
Berlin, November 1938,two days after Kristallnacht. A dangerous time to be a Jew. But who presents the greater danger to Anna:the Nazis or her abusive husband Max? And who is the stranger lurking under the Lamplight.

“Cycle”
The laundromat is a sanctuary, an escape from the outside world, a welcomed mundane. A place to disconnect from your daily life as you focus in on the hum of the wash and the tumble of the dry. Until a stranger enters that safe haven ¦and begins to ask questions and takes it upon themselves to break the cycle.

“Catfish Jumping”
A whodunnit with a twist! Our two detectives have their work cut out in this murder mystery. Is it the fact they missed a clue? Is it a fact they don’t have a clue? Everyone is a suspect including the catfish!

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There are two sides to every separation. Two truths. A story which will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost.

Matthew and Nina have been married for twelve years. He is forty; a successful publisher. Always in control, his pace is enormous and his path is littered with the discarded souls of those who tried to keep up. Nina’s thirty-eight; a journalist. She hasn’t worked since the birth of the children. She’s restless; looking for something. So when Mathew suggests she takes on the biography of Lawrence Clifford, tycoon, philanthropist and now Australian of the Year, she throws herself into the project with an all-consuming enthusiasm. This is a play about love and betrayal, about sex, sacrifice and survival, of break-ups and break-downs.

The play is a dissection of the breakdown of a marriage: with Andrew Bovell’s Act One taking the male point of view, and Hannie Rayson’s Act Two seeing the other side of the story (and scenery).

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A young sculptor who has been critically injured in an automobile accident has been left with an irreversible quadriplegia. Though his condition is stable, his paralysis is permanent and requires him to stay under a long-term care facility in order to stay alive. He is trapped inside a useless body with little enthusiasm to continue life. He is determined to decide his own fate. The play deals with the theme of patient’s autonomy vs. medical authority and sheds light on some legal, medical and ethical issues related to health-care. This play puts forward critical arguments both in favour of and against euthanasia.

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Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel is brought to the stage by Christopher Sergel. The story of Jean Louise Finch, who shares her memories of growing up in Maycomb, Alabama during the summer of 1935. Known as “Scout” as a young girl, the nine-year old’s world is turned upside down when her widowed father, lawyer Atticus Finch, defends a young black man accused of raping a white woman. As tensions erupt and neighbours take sides in the life-and-death case, it is Scout’s clear-eyed courage in the face of ignorance and bigotry that ultimately brings hope to a damaged community.