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Across three periods, the rise and decay of the Garden and Corker family's Crystal Palace cinema frames a dreamlike expressionist portrait of lost youthful hopes. Dolly inherits the ruined theatre and, as its fantasies flare back to life, turns a family reunion into a violent reckoning.
Twelve-year-old orphan Marigold is adopted by bush creatures and taken to Golden Valley. Together they resist a developer who threatens their home, with help from a shape-changing boy, a witch-cat and a mysterious gold claim.
A two-act modern fairytale satirizes academic suburban life through caricatures of a university English department.
On an abandoned showground in the declining town of Dry Torrent, an elderly former communist and a homeless Vietnam veteran live among memories of their past. A young Aboriginal woman fleeing an abusive life in the city disrupts their isolation and changes their makeshift community.
An Expressionist, picaresque portrait of Sally Banner, moving from schoolgirl to poet as she searches for love and freedom while confronting authority figures and unsatisfactory lovers. A chorus, songs, poems, rapid shifts of scene and recurring figures dramatize her successive roles across the 1940s to 1970s.
From 1929 through the 1950s, a farming family watches its beautiful Western Australian property degrade through overgrazing and salinity. Owner Tom Barrow’s effort to restore the land conflicts with the ambition of Italian immigrant farmer Rome Bodera, while their children Louie and Gabe carry the family story forward.
Across three periods, the rise and decay of the Garden and Corker family's Crystal Palace cinema frames a dreamlike expressionist portrait of lost youthful hopes. Dolly inherits the ruined theatre and, as its fantasies flare back to life, turns a family reunion into a violent reckoning.
Twelve-year-old orphan Marigold is adopted by bush creatures and taken to Golden Valley. Together they resist a developer who threatens their home, with help from a shape-changing boy, a witch-cat and a mysterious gold claim.
A two-act modern fairytale satirizes academic suburban life through caricatures of a university English department.
On an abandoned showground in the declining town of Dry Torrent, an elderly former communist and a homeless Vietnam veteran live among memories of their past. A young Aboriginal woman fleeing an abusive life in the city disrupts their isolation and changes their makeshift community.
An Expressionist, picaresque portrait of Sally Banner, moving from schoolgirl to poet as she searches for love and freedom while confronting authority figures and unsatisfactory lovers. A chorus, songs, poems, rapid shifts of scene and recurring figures dramatize her successive roles across the 1940s to 1970s.
From 1929 through the 1950s, a farming family watches its beautiful Western Australian property degrade through overgrazing and salinity. Owner Tom Barrow’s effort to restore the land conflicts with the ambition of Italian immigrant farmer Rome Bodera, while their children Louie and Gabe carry the family story forward.
Two actors and two dummies portray the memories, dreams and imagined lives of three generations of Australian women, with dummies taking the male roles.
A preserved body known as Lindow Man or Pete Marsh is found in 1984; one act recounts his life in Roman Britain, and the next has him discovered and briefly revived in 2000. The play contrasts Celtic nature religion, Christian belief and genetic engineering in the human search for immortality.
Five men and a psychiatrist gather after seeing graffiti about Tatty Hollow, a former lover each had believed dead. Their clashing memories unfold in overlapping scenes as the glamorous, elusive Tatty appears in their stories and finally as a homeless woman beyond their fantasies.
Over about six months in early-1950s Redfern, the Dockertys, a working-class extended family, cope with poverty, changing relationships and Laurie’s alcoholism. Their children and partners face pregnancy, marriage, unemployment, theft and loss; a chorus of local older women and a mythic Old Man frame the family’s life.