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48 SHADES OF BROWN
ISBN: 9780868196527
Title: 48 SHADES OF BROWN
Author: DEAN PHILLIP
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE
Imprint: CURRENCY
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ACTS OF COURAGE : THREE HEADPHONE VERBATIM PLAYS
ISBN: 9781925005257
Title: ACTS OF COURAGE : THREE HEADPHONE VERBATIM PLAYS
Author: OADES ROSLYN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCKSTORIES OF LOVE AND HATE Made in response to the 2005 Cronulla Riots, Stories of Love and Hate traces the lives and loves of the passionate people who were there.
FAST CARS AND TRACTOR ENGINES Ordinary people tell extraordinary stories about the fight of their lives as cultures collide, punches are dodged and youthful confessions of love are shared ...
IM YOUR MAN Set in a boxing ring Im Your Man explores notions of masculinity, courage and respect.
Imprint: CURRENCY
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AFTER DINNER
ISBN: 9780868195186
Title: AFTER DINNER
Author: BOVELL ANDREW
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEIn a suburban pub bistro on a Friday night three office workers – Dympie, Paula and Monika – are desperately seeking a good night out. At an adjoining table are Gordon, recently abandoned by his wife, and Stephen, looking for something more than the usual one night stand. As the night proceeds, inhibitions and social restraint disappear, exposing the foibles, pain and humour of the characters' inner lives.
An acutely observed but tender-hearted account of relationships and behaviour.
Imprint: CURRENCY
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AFTER THE BALL
ISBN: 9780868195377
Title: AFTER THE BALL
Author: WILLIAMSON DAVID
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEStephen and Judy live on opposite sides of the world. Their lifestyles and outlooks could not be further apart. But they are brother and sister and when they are reunited at the bedside of their dying mother, family memories painfully and mercilessly return. David Williamson has created a family scenario that is frighteningly recognisable. At times hilarious, at times tortuous, this is a frank, critical look at Australian suburban life from the 1960s to the 1990s (2 acts, 3 men, 6 women).
Imprint: CURRENCY
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ALL SOULS
ISBN: 9780868194318
Title: ALL SOULS
Author: KEENE DANIEL
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEAll Souls, or the Day of the Dead, is when the dead return to the world of the living. All Souls evokes a vision of our dreams and nightmares. The writing is poetic, without compromise and a truly remarkable work (2 acts, 2 men, 5 women).
Imprint: CURRENCY
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ALL STOPS OUT
ISBN: 9780868193106
Title: ALL STOPS OUT
Author: GOW MICHAEL
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE
Imprint: CURRENCY
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ALMOST WITH YOU
ISBN: 9781925005233
Title: ALMOST WITH YOU
Author: COLEMAN ELIZABETH
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEIts 2007. At forty-five, Lisa is fighting growing feelings for Tom that threaten to rob her of Dan, the person shes always loved most in the world. She wants Tom badly, but she cant (or wont) tell him about Dan, and Tom finds himself in a competition that he cant possibly understand. Dan brings Lisa a joy she cant bear to explain, but with her chance for a life with Tom slipping away, she must finally find the courage to let Dan go. Its the most terrifyingand liberatingdecision shes made since a fateful night 25 years ago.
Imprint: CURRENCY
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AMIGOS
ISBN: 9780868197463
Title: AMIGOS
Author: WILLIAMSON DAVID
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEOf the Four Amigos who won a rowing bronze at the Mexico Olympics, three are still alive: Jim, an investment banker who thinks an AC after his name might legitimise a life of squalid dealing; Dick, a heart surgeon, who can, if he chooses, put in a good word with the Honours Committee; and Stephen, the least successful, grieving the death of his son. They and their wives come together for a two-week holiday in paradise. Sure, there's a bit of bad blood between them and a few old scores to settle, but when it all comes down to it, mates are mates, right?
Imprint: CURRENCY
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AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART
ISBN: 9780868199047
Title: AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART
Author: HOLLOWAY TOM
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEAfter a long and successful marriage, Pam and Don are still very much in love. But Pam is ill and has to make a heartbreaking decision that will transform both their lives. She does so in the only way she knows how – quickly, pragmatically, and resolutely. Don behaves in the only way he knows how – struggling to keep up but desperate not to lose touch.
And No More Shall We Part follows Pam and Don’s halting, humorous and devastating attempt at the impossible – to begin to say goodbye to each other after a lifetime together.
Imprint: CURRENCY
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ANGELAS KITCHEN
ISBN: 9780868199467
Title: ANGELAS KITCHEN
Author: CAPSIS PAUL / METRICK JULIAN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCKIn 1948, Angela left Malta. Having gathered up five children, she sailed out on the Strathnavar, leaving poverty and the war behind. Her destination: Australia. In Surry Hills, she could build a bright new life. Back in Malta, someone else has made a journey. Making his way along Kalkaras glistening harbourside, a young man with flowing black hair has returned to claim his past. Paul Capsis is walking home.
Imprint: CURRENCY
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ATLANTIS
ISBN: 9781760621384
Title: ATLANTIS
Author: KATZ LALLY
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLELally Katz is on a journey. She’s left Australia behind and she’s in the country of her childhood, trying to find a way back to when things were innocent. Her relationships are chaotic, her professional life is a shambles and contemporary America seems riddled with charlatans and shysters. But along the way moments of wisdom bubble up, as if from some lost ancient city beneath the waves off Florida… Five women play the myriad characters of Lally’s life: ageing Jewish grandparents in Miami, wizened taxi drivers, cynical prophets, unhappy pharmacists, clowns, hip-hop artistes, narcissists, angels, animals – and, of course, Lally herself.
Atlantis is about Lally, travelling into a mess of love and America, refusing to accept the world is doomed. The whirligig of this latter-day Don Quixote is bursting with playfulness, with imagination. Atlantis seems to be saying imagination is what will save us all and make this bleak world beautiful.
Imprint: CURRENCY
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AWAY
ISBN: 9780868192116
Title: AWAY
Author: GOW MICHAEL
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEThree Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm (5 acts, 6 men, 4 women).
Commencing with a school performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Shakespearean themes of suffering and reconciliation persist as three families on separate holidays are united during a fierce storm.
Featuring introductions by May-Brit Akerholt and Richard Wherrett and a critical essay by Hilary Bell.
Imprint: CURRENCY
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BABYTEETH
ISBN: 9780868199269
Title: BABYTEETH
Author: KALNEJAIS RITA
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA group of more or less ordinary Sydneysiders go about their lives: Anna makes toast, Henry dresses for work, Milla catches the train to school, Moses deals drugs. But hovering above this unholy parade of life is the sobering fact that Milla will die before her 15th birthday. "Babyteeth" looks at the humdrum world around us and sees something radically alive. Dogs, Paganini, figs, an eight-year-old Vietnamese violin prodigy, morphine, clear skies and a Latvian immigrant are amongst the magnificent conflagration of ingredients which make up this wonderful, funny play, written specially for Belvoir.
(2 acts, 3 male, 3 female & 1 child).
Imprint: CURRENCY
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BENEDICT ANDREWS : COLLECTED PLAYS
ISBN: 9781783199457
Title: BENEDICT ANDREWS : COLLECTED PLAYS
Author: ANDREWS BENEDICT
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLEA multi-award-winning director of theatre and opera, over the past decade, Andrews has built up a remarkable and singular body of work in Australia and Europe. His work has been described as visionary and praised for its innovative staging, arresting visual style and visceral performances. Includes the plays Like a Sun, Every Breath, Dream Girl and Geronimo.
Imprint: OBERON
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BLABBERMOUTH
ISBN: 9780868194219
Title: BLABBERMOUTH
Author: MORRIS MARY / GLEITZMAN MORRIS
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLERowena Batts has no voice, but she is the world's biggest blabbermouth. She's just started at a new school so life's a bit of a challenge, her new friend Amanda is Pretty cool, but that Darryn Peck is a total pest. Rowena's dad is an apple farmer and aspiring country and western singer, but he just can't seem to pull his head in when he needs to. Her new teacher, Ms Dunning, seems to be taking a shine to him, maybe love is in the air. On the other hand, maybe love sucks, could it turn out to be the worst day of her life (2 acts, 2 men, 3 women).
Imprint: CURRENCY
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BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE
ISBN: 9781760527341
Title: BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE
Author: LUI NAKKIAH
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE'Nakkiah Lui's writing is, as always, on point: hold-your-belly funny; pumping with politics that prompts visible discomfort.' Maxine Beneba Clark, Saturday Paper
'Her writing, whether devastating or hilarious, has always shown a great deal of accessible humanity and relentless intelligence.' Guardian
'We needed a new David Williamson, someone who speaks to Australia and Australians now. We've found her in Nakkiah.' Alex Broun, playwright
'Mount Druitt's answer to Lena Dunham.' Belvoir Theatre
'If there is such a thing as a rockstar playwright, Nakkiah Lui is it.' Fran Kelly, RN
Love, politics and other things you shouldn't talk about at dinner
Charlotte Gibson is a lawyer with a brilliant career ahead of her. As her father Ray says, she could be the next female Indigenous Waleed Aly. But she has other ideas. First of all, it's Christmas. Second of all, she's in love.
The thing is, her fiance, Francis Smith, is not what her family expected - he's unemployed, he's an experimental composer... and he's white! Bringing him and his conservative parents to meet her family on their ancestral land is a bold move. Will he stand up to the scrutiny? Or will this romance descend into farce?
Love is never just black and white. It's complicated by class, politics, ambition, and too much wine over dinner. But for Charlotte and Francis, it's mostly complicated by family. Secrets are revealed, prejudices outed and old rivalries get sorted through. What can't be solved through diplomacy can surely be solved by a good old-fashioned dance-off. They're just that kind of family.
Award-winning writer Nakkiah Lui shows why she is one of this country's most in-demand young voices, delivering cutting satire that is both seductively subversive and thoroughly delightful.
Imprint: ALLEN AND UNWIN
RRP: $24.99Price: $24.99
