Capricornia
Louis Nowra adapts Xavier Herbert's novel about early-twentieth-century life in the Northern Territory, including its interracial relationships and abuses, for the stage.
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Louis Nowra adapts Xavier Herbert's novel about early-twentieth-century life in the Northern Territory, including its interracial relationships and abuses, for the stage.
In 1971, young director Lewis stages Mozart's Così fan tutte with patients at a Melbourne mental institution. As he works with the cast, he develops empathy and comes to reassess love and his own relationships amid the Vietnam War protests outside.
A one-act contemporary opera inspired by the true story of the murder of Melbourne woman Maria Korp.
Three Aboriginal half-sisters who have followed separate paths reunite for their mother's funeral, where memories of their family history and their relationships with her surface.
In a Melbourne housing estate in 1962, fourteen-year-old Lewis uses fantasies of alien invasion to make sense of adolescence and the changes around him. His father’s return and his friend Dulcie’s secret unsettle the family, while Lewis’s memories frame a three-act coming-of-age story about identity, sexuality, prejudice and change.
A single continuous scene unfolds at night in the living room of the Boyce family mansion while patriarch Beauchamp lies dying upstairs. His three sons and their wives gather below.
Engineer Francis Morris and geologist Peter become lost in Tasmania and find a community isolated since the mid-19th century, with its own language and Regency-era social conventions. Authorities force the group into society and then confine them in an asylum; after wartime service, Francis returns and chooses to live with the surviving member, Betsheb, in the wilderness.
As property magnate Malcolm Boyce faces terminal illness, his youngest son Luke tries to prove he can run the family company. Drawn into its underworld connections, Luke falls for a campaigner seeking to expose his father's wrongdoing.
In a single continuous scene in a large Edwardian hotel room in the Blue Mountains, Malcolm Boyce, his wife, their three sons, and neighbour Alice struggle for love, power, and happiness.
Louis Nowra adapts Xavier Herbert's novel about early-twentieth-century life in the Northern Territory, including its interracial relationships and abuses, for the stage.
In 1971, young director Lewis stages Mozart's Così fan tutte with patients at a Melbourne mental institution. As he works with the cast, he develops empathy and comes to reassess love and his own relationships amid the Vietnam War protests outside.
A one-act contemporary opera inspired by the true story of the murder of Melbourne woman Maria Korp.
Three Aboriginal half-sisters who have followed separate paths reunite for their mother's funeral, where memories of their family history and their relationships with her surface.
In a Melbourne housing estate in 1962, fourteen-year-old Lewis uses fantasies of alien invasion to make sense of adolescence and the changes around him. His father’s return and his friend Dulcie’s secret unsettle the family, while Lewis’s memories frame a three-act coming-of-age story about identity, sexuality, prejudice and change.
A single continuous scene unfolds at night in the living room of the Boyce family mansion while patriarch Beauchamp lies dying upstairs. His three sons and their wives gather below.
Engineer Francis Morris and geologist Peter become lost in Tasmania and find a community isolated since the mid-19th century, with its own language and Regency-era social conventions. Authorities force the group into society and then confine them in an asylum; after wartime service, Francis returns and chooses to live with the surviving member, Betsheb, in the wilderness.
As property magnate Malcolm Boyce faces terminal illness, his youngest son Luke tries to prove he can run the family company. Drawn into its underworld connections, Luke falls for a campaigner seeking to expose his father's wrongdoing.
In a single continuous scene in a large Edwardian hotel room in the Blue Mountains, Malcolm Boyce, his wife, their three sons, and neighbour Alice struggle for love, power, and happiness.