A hilarious tale of cheap drugs, cheap sex and teaching English - on the cheap!The first edition of "I Woke Up Feeling Thailand" was written between 2002 and 2004, after the author returned from an eye-opening stint observing the lifestyles of English teachers in the Kingdom of Siam.After making the short-list for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Novel, the manuscript was soon picked up by Sid Harta Publishers in Hartwell, Australia (but published i...

"Bollywood Extras" is a bold exercise in literary post-modernism and has been described as being like Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955) meets Nathanael West's "Day of the Locust" (1939). Unlike those two classics, however, this novel by Dr D. Bruno Starrs is set in 21st Century India's Hindi-language film industry epicenter otherwise known as 'Bollywood', Mumbai's answer to America's 'Hollywood'.And there is another major difference: the story-line of "Bollywood Extras" (i.e. the t...

"Conversion Rites and Wrongs" won the author the "Best Director" award when performed in Sydney's "Crash Test Drama" in 2012. It is a short play for a man and a woman, in which they discuss the pros and cons of converting to Islam. It is meanty to be comedic, not didactic. There are no fees for performance as long as the author is correctly attributed.

This two act stage-play is an English translation and stage adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 novella "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". It was submitted as the creative work component (30%) of the author's Master of Creative Arts thesis at the University of Melbourne entitled "Faithfully yours: Werther for the English-language stage" in September 2003 (receiving an overall grade of first class honours). This play was first published in the April 2004 issue of "Ygdrasil: A Jou...

This a short play for two actors that follows a school-age boyfriend and girlfriend through a break-up. Suitable for all ages. No performance fee required as long as authorial attribution is correctly used. The play was short-listed for inclusion in the 2012 Short+Sweet Sydney theater festival.

This is a short, dark, almost didactic stage play about the subject of pedophilia. It is not erotica, rather, a more accurate description would be black humor, religious horror!There are three characters, one male, two female, and this play is free of charge to perform as long as authorship is correctly attributed, no major changes are made without the author's permission, and the author is kept informed regarding any public performance/s. There is a film-script version of "Dead-Set...

In Sydney, Australia, the racist, sexist and utterly insane amateur scientist known only by the moniker "Turtleneck", is clumsily transforming the city's effete black and brown men into deadly Schwarzenegger-like cyborg soldiers. The white supremacist's amateur brain surgery, backed up by the remote-controlled depots of testosterone and methamphetamine he inserts under their skin, quickly turns the Beta Males he kidnaps into monsters: Half-naked, freakishly muscular Alpha Male monsters! An...

A short play about suicide, written in the absurdist tradition. First published in "Antithesis" by the University of Melbourne English Department, 14, 2004, pp. 151-155. There are no fees for production of this play, as long as the author is correctly attributed, no major changes are made without permission from the author and the author is informed of the play's public performance/s.

"All Fours" is a humorous short play about contemporary gender differences, written in the absurdist tradition. It was first published in the literary journal "Movimiento Paroxista Revista Literatura" (online) by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the University of North Carolina, 1.1, 2011, pp. 17-25. There are no fees for production of this play, as long as the author is correctly attributed, no major changes are made without permission fr...

Charlton is a young urban Aboriginal Australian out on a blind date with young urban Aboriginal Australian Betty. But before they get to "The Sound of Music" singalong concert (at which they both hope to hijack the mixing desk with German death metal as they make political statements condemning the white British colonization of Blackfella lands), chaos descends on the country. Three different species of white-skinned alien monster have mysteriously invaded Meanjin (AKA Brisbane) and immedi...

Second class citizens in their own land, four Aboriginal Australians take a booze and yarndi-fueled road trip from Sydney to Canberra in 1972. Their seemingly hopeless goal? To establish an Aboriginal Tent Embassy directly opposite Australia's Parliament House. Meanwhile, the two local Fairbairn brothers are mired in a battle over their indigenous identity - a battle that eventually turns deadly.

In this bold and cheeky meditation on religion, middle-aged muscleman, uncertain Catholic and wanna-be academic Sterling de Bortoli is a self-described 'Octaroon': a one-eighth Aboriginal Australian. Neither black nor white, our part-blood Indigenous Australian hero struggles with concepts of identity, moving between the two worlds of skin pigment but never really belonging to either.Thus de Bortoli pursues a frustrated, anarchic, homeless existence in Canberra and Melbourne, until,...