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TITLE: THE ONE SURE THING

It’s often said that in the unpredictability of life we can only count on one sure thing. Makes you wonder why it keeps coming as such a surprise! 


The One Sure Thing brings together a compelling collection of monologues from the country’s brightest emerging playwrights, performed by a young adult cast, directed by one of Sydney’s most exciting young professionals. Tender, surprising, cheeky and uplifting, we invite you to come and take an unusual look at young lives’ first experience of death. In this production there’s only one thing you can count on ... it’s not what you expect.
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TITLE: COCKROACH

In a secondary school biology lab a restless group of teens is surviving detention. For some it’s a sentence, for others a temporary salvation. For their teacher Beth, it’s a chance to push a little further, to try for a little hope, a little ambition.


But adding to the mix of love, lust, jealousy, insecurity and the struggle of growing up, the wider world is encroaching. The country is at war and young men are leaving. Only those that can rapidly evolve will survive.
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TITLE: ANIMAL FARM

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?


George Orwell’s classic tale of a corrupted revolution is brought to life with startling imagination by director Netta Yaschin. The animals of Manor Farm have a vision for a better world. But there is a fragrance to power that can overwhelm the senses. It takes more than ideals to elevate ourselves from the muck heap.
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TITLE: GROUNDED

It’s not a weird obsession. It’s a passion alright. It’s not a strange, dangerous perversion. It’s an interest. I have an interest. Remember those?


Against the backdrop of one of the most intriguing events in Newcastle’s recent history we meet Farrah, a teenager obsessed with the industrial port. It’s a fascination none of the kids at school understand. It’s fine to be interested in something, but take it too far and you’re a total freak.
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TITLE: PUNK ROCK

The Sixth Form library – sanctuary, playroom, execution chamber. Seven sixth-formers are preparing for their mock-A Levels and the end of their school lives. All this will soon be a thing of the past… when the whole world opens up before you, there’s a danger it’ll swallow you up.
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TITLE: THE TENDER AGE

On 29 July 2009, a 14-year-old girl was given an on-air lie detector test on a live Sydney radio program. Clearly agitated, the girl announced that she had been raped when she was 12. This infamous incident has been used to examine changes in the way young people engage with sex and sexuality. The rapid advances in communications technology, the proliferation of pornography and the depiction of sexuality as power are changing young people’s attitudes to sex. How do young people negotiate these conflicting messages?
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TITLE: THE HIDING PLACE

Emily has been hidden away from the outside world for most of her life.


A fearful old woman keeps her locked up in an attic in an attempt to preserve her innocence forever.
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TITLE: MEDEA

Two young children on a stage play games to distract themselves. Off-stage and unheard their parents are having a very famous showdown. At some inevitable moment in the next hour the children will be drawn away from their games and into their parents’ bitter argument. From there they will enter mythology as the most tragic siblings of all time.
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TITLE: MAX REMY SUPER SPY

Max Remy is an 11–year old school girl whose workaholic mother leaves her with her eccentric aunt and uncle in the holiday break. Determined to have a bad time in the bush, Max’s holiday takes a twist when she discovers that far from being country hicks, her new guardians are brilliant scientists on the verge of creating a time and space machine! Max is then recruited to the elite intelligence agency Spyforce as a secret agent destined to fight bad guys across the globe.
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TITLE: GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The name says it all.


Charles Dickens’ unforgettable masterpiece casts a spell of unrequited love and longing; of revenge, betrayal and redemption; of the elusive nature of dreams and the corrosive power of ambition.
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TITLE: THE DWHARF REVUE

I’m sure you’ve got the memo. The Mayan calender has scheduled a hostile takeover of the world by Death and his 3 horse-obsessed brothers in December 2012. atyp ushers in the end-of-times with Dwarf Revue. Dwarf Revue? Yes, it’s like The Wharf Revue… only smaller, and slightly more underground.
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