The Nick Enright Songbook brings together 50 of the best songs from ten musicals for which Enright wrote the lyrics; and the music of five gifted composers-Terence Clarke, Glenn Henrich, Alan John, David King and Max Lambert. The book includes songs from The Venetian Twins, Variations, Summer Rain, Buckley's!, Orlando Rourke, The Betrothed, Mary Bryant, The Good Fight, Miracle City and On the Wallaby. Across this work, Enright's characteristic use of Australian imagery and language shine b...

It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club—and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead—raped by three boys and bashed with a rock.Who is responsible?Blackrock is an intimate and strongly shaped human drama which examines the social forces behind the impulse to violence in individual lives.

Greg and Mitchell are brothers with apparently little in common - Greg spends his spare time gazing at the stars while his brother Mitchell prefers the mud of the rodeo arena. Karen and Amy are friends with ambitions as wildly different as those of the Kellaway brothers.As the pressures of impending adulthood mount and they contend with the demands of parents, friends and their own dreams, each of the characters learn that spills, thrills and heartache are not confined by geography...

Gerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. The results are shown annually on television. Yet for the children who grow up under Gerry’s (and the nation’s) watchful eyes, the experience creates its own dynamic. Are the participants his subjects, his children or his creations?Spanning more than twenty years, A Man With Five Children invites you into a world of fractured celebrity and distorted vision.

Silvio wants to marry Clarice who has to marry Signor Federigo who’s really Beatrice in disguise who’s come to Turin to find her love Florindo and the whole sorry mess is about to get a whole lot sorrier when Florindo and Beatrice both unknowingly hire the same servant—the brilliantly useless Truffaldino of Bergamo… who’s in love with Clarice’s servant Smeraldina.Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters is one of the masterpieces of commedia dell’arte, and Nick Enright a...

Inspired by the lives of two of Australia's most influential playwrights of the 1970s, Jim McNeil and Peter Kenna, Mongrels addresses the difficulties and complexities of the creative artist in life and art.It was universally praised following its first Sydney production.'Mongrels, like Michael Gow's Furious*, attempts to dissect and expose the tissues that connect art and life; the points of contact between self and creation, actuality and fiction.*'— Bob...

Would you ruin someone's life, separate them from their soulmate and their only son, all the time telling yourself you're doing the right thing? Leaping back and forth between the 1920s and the 1980s, Good Works follows the lives of two women and their two sons as they struggle to cram their complex lives within the narrow confines of Catholic morality. By turns angry, incisive, tender and tragic, Good Works is Nick Enright's most complex and most personal play.

This adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century comedy The Venetian Twins quickly earned a reputation as one of the most boisterous, vibrant and irreverent works of Australian musical theatre following its initial season at the Sydney Opera House for the Nimrod Theatre Company in 1979. Rooted firmly in Commedia dell'arte yet unashamedly influenced by Kurt Weill, Donizetti and countless others in between, The Venetian Twins is an inspired piece of mayhem and musical pastic...

Felicity and Tom both have busy lives and demanding careers. Tom is travelling with his petulant protégé Jason, the international tennis star, when Felicity receives a surprise call from an American boyfriend from her past. As she plans a candle-lit reunion dinner her highly-stressed neighbour drops in and so does her mother. The confusion becomes complete as each of them becomes involved in Felicity’s evening.Daylight Saving has been performed with huge success around Aus...

As protestors against the war in Vietnam march in Australian streets, it is the end of the school year and boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams. The cadets plan thier regimental dinner and the Colonel will attend. Dominic Connolly, a talented, passionate and committed opponent of the war chooses this time to stage a personal demonstration. His action leads him to the school’s infirmary and in this place of healing he must ‘confront and reconcile his impulse for freedom w...

I never even new her! More than to say hello to. What do you want me to do? Bawl my eyes out like all the first? What do you want me to say? I'm sorry? Course I'm sorry. What happened to her shouldn't happen to a dog. What else? What else do you want to hear?When a young girl is murdered at the hands of one of her male contemporaries, what is the aftermath? How will her friends cope? How can such violence be understood?Written for Freewheels TIE Theatre Co, A P...

Cloudstreet is an epic stage adaptation of Tim Winton’s enormously successful and muchloved novel of the same name.Set in post-war Perth, Cloudstreet follows the fluctuating fortunes and changing relationships of two families—the Lambs and the Pickles—who inhabit the same rambling old house. Collectively their stories, told over a twenty-year period, interweave to tell a much bigger story: the recent history of Australia as experienced by its communities and citiz...