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Joanna Murray-Smith
A spine-tingling romantic thrillerCharlotte is a Berliner through and through. Tom is a foreigner, travelling around Europe. After meeting in a bar, sparks fly between them and she invites…
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Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life.
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Bombshells is a series of outrageous portraits of six women barely coping with the stresses of modern life.
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'I'm ignited by three small words. I will not.'
It's 9 October, 2012. She's been PM for two years and four months and she's worn down. She's been hounded, slurred…
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A comedy that deftly walks the tightrope between satire and farce proving the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male.
A gripping psychological thriller. 1995, the Swiss Alps. Patricia Highsmith, the queen of the thriller, hides away in her study. A young man turns up, to persuade her to write…
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Tavella Astrid
Through her writings, the Melbourne-based author aims to draw a clear picture of what it means to be a woman nowadays and what kind of difficulties one has to go…
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Kieran Carroll
Joanna Murray-Smith and Daniel Keene: Class Oppositions examines two significant Australian playwrights who currently make up over 50% of Australian theatre in the international market. Murray-Smith has found her way…
Pools. Tennis courts. Luxury station wagons. Welcome to Sunnyside. Olivia wants to sleep with her teacher. Harry wants a B&O sound system. Alice want a cure for writer’s block. Molly…
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It is no use, but William gives Isabel ninety minutes anyway. They were once married, but something happened. Something broke deep down in the mechanism of their lives together and…
Sadie and Ed meet Martin and Chloe at a holiday resort and instantly hit it off, despite coming from completely different worlds. When Martin saves Ed’s life, everyone knows the…
When seemingly happily married couple Tess and Curtis announce that they’re calling time on their 20-year relationship, Bonnie and Annie are devastated. Who will they have cosy foursome dinners with…
A deliciously wicked comedy that proves that the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male.
A gripping psychological thriller, filled with razor-sharp dialogue.
An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter.
Gus and Honor have been happily married for 32 years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a…
Sidney can feel her career slipping down the plughole. No one loves a pop star when shes forty not if she isnt Madonna or Kylie. So unless she wants to…
When a great singer lets her voice float out over the anonymous crowd, or form the grooves of thousands of records, or flow through radios into millions of homes across…
The doorbell rings. They open the door. on the porch stands a young woman. Emily and Edward Kingsley have dreamed of this night for seven years, but nothing could have…
Joanna Murray-Smith,J
A play that shines a light on Australia’s unsettled soul. It is set among smart and educated people whose cynicism appears to answer various questions.
Set in the 1850s, the series follows Captain Charles Boone (Adrien Brody) who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of…
