Andrew Bovell

Things I Know to be True

Cuando deje de llover

The hit Australian play published alongside Almeida Theatre, directed by Mike Attenborough.

When the Rain Stops Falling

Three plays examining life on the fringe of society at the end of the millennium: "Who's afraid of the working class?" comprising "Trash" by Andrew Bovell, "Money" by Patricia Cornelius, "Dreamtown" by Melissa Reeves. Also "Features of blown youth" by Raimondo Cortese and "Polly Blue" by Belinda Bradley.

Three Plays

Melbourne Stories

Kate Grenville

An Adaptation for the Stage

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Christos Tsiolkas

Melissa Reeves

Patricia Cornelius

Irine Vela

Five plays are intertwined in one in this story of fringe dwellers, living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly without work, and politically disengaged, they work at survival. 'With intelligence, well-judged humour and the searching qualities of truly memorable theatre, the play peels away political propaganda and notions of correctness to present a candid, difficult, searing portrait of the poor and marginalised.' SMH Who' Afraid of the Working Class? was adapted into the film, Blessed. (9 male, 10 female).

Who's Afraid of the Working Class

"When a child disappears tensions and vulnerabilities are exposed within a tenuous community on the frontier of white settlement. Elizabeth, the devout wife of a missionary is suspected of being involved in her own child's demise. But the men who sit in judgment can't fathom the reason why a woman would take the life of her own child. Only the women understand the dark place a mother can go. Linda, a local aboriginal woman knows what happened at the mission on the night the child disappeared. But she maintains her silence. She refuses to recognise the authority of European justice. By doing so she casts herself as a political prisoner and European settlement as a hostile act of occupation by a foreign power. Holy Day is about two defiant women who refuse to account for the unaccountable. It depicts a white community locked in a moral crisis, unable to liberate itself because it cannot face its dark truths." -- From Doollee.com.

The Red Sea

Holy Day

THE STORY: It's raining. Gabriel York is awaiting the arrival of his grown son whom he hasn't seen since he was seven. I know what he wants. He wants what all young men want from their fathers. He wants to know who he is. Where he comes from. Wher

When the rain stops falling

Convict William Thornhill, exiled from the stinking slums of early 19th century London, discovers that the penal colony offers something that he never dared to hope for before: a place of his own. A stretch of land on the Hawkesbury River is Thornhill's for the taking. As he and his family seek to establish themselves in this unfamiliar territory, they find that they are not the only ones to lay a claim to the land. The Hawkesbury is already home to a family of Dharug people, who are reluctant to leave on account of these intruders. As Thornhill's attachment to the place and the dream deepens, he is driven to make a terrible decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life.

The Secret River

THE STORY: In the first act of this psychological thriller two couples in unstable marriages inadvertently exchange partners in a night of adulterous encounters. The situations in the separate hotel rooms are so similar that at times both couples s

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