Cirrus@Austlit

'It follows Vivian Cunningham, who winds up helping people who come too close to the edge as she endures her own comedic catastrophes like accidentally burning down her brother's vegan food truck with a vape.' (IMDB)

'A SINKHOLE HAS OPENED IN THE GROUND. THIS IS THE STORY OF A WOMAN WHO CLIMBS INTO IT. AND WHAT SHE FINDS.

'In a thrilling fever dream told by Alison Whyte (Cloudstreet, The Bloody Chamber), a woman and her guide journey into a chasm that has opened in a city and stolen her sister. As they plunge into the subterranean depths; and on the knife’s edge of panic, the woman refuses the urgent pleas of her guide to turn back—how can she when she knows her sister is so close?     

'But they are not alone.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'An epic of love and freedom

'When Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published in 1848, it became an instant sensation. The stirring and groundbreaking story of Helen Graham and her mysterious arrival in the town of Lindenhope – a young son in tow, no husband in sight and a painful secret in her past – so shocked and galvanised English society with its frank depiction of an abusive relationship that Brontë’s equally famous sister (Jane Eyre’s Charlotte Brontë) sought to prevent its republication.

'Playwright Emme Hoy last shared her spectacular gift for shining new light on classic texts with the original monologues she penned for STC’s 2018 production of Saint Joan. Now, almost two centuries after The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’s scandalous publication, Hoy mines this pioneering classic to produce an entrancing, ingenious, and passionate period drama for the twenty-first Century.

'Taking inspiration from sources as diverse as Fleabag and Pride and Prejudice and starring Tuuli Narkle (Black is the New White tour) and Remy Hii (The Golden Age, Crazy Rich Asians, Netflix's Marco Polo), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall will be directed by STC’s Resident Director Jessica Arthur (Grand Horizons, Wonnangatta) in a whip-smart production that will bring this lush, beautifully-told, and, at times, dark story into the present to share with a brand new generation.' (Production summary)

'Year 10 Art teacher Mrs Bathory is most definitely a reincarnation of the sadistic, serial-killer Countess, Erzebet Báthory. It’s pretty obvious to her class of seven —yes, seven — girls. The last remaining survivors. When the students in 10F decide to pull the prank of the century and destroy the beast for good, there’s just one thing that stands in their way. The private schoolboys from Judas Gents have arrived, and they don’t feel so comfortable with murder.

'Girls vs. boys. Public vs. private… And an undead woman of the night. Things were never going to end well.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Oozing with heart but stricken with the politics of familial duty and responsibility, Chorus is about the unending pressures on women to conform to certain roles -- and the potentially tragic results when they break that mould: when they want too much. When they go a step too far.'

Source: Red Line Productions.

'In a spotless kitchen buried deep underground a covert experiment is headed toward its public unveiling. Rachel and Wells are its subjects, and they can almost pass for human now. Although there’s still something not quite right about them…

'And beneath the civilised surfaces, tensions are rising. Wells is growing stronger, Rachel is learning faster than predicted, and Duncan and Marlow’s hold on their subjects – and on power – is proving more fragile and slippery than they thought. As their carefully controlled experiment comes to a head, it twists into a dark psychological battle that threatens to erupt into violence.

'Extinction of the Learned Response is a taut psychological thriller that asks, what really separates human from animal – or from monster?'

Source: 25A.

'A woman’s children die in infancy. A farmer’s estates are eaten away by bad weather, bad luck and the government parcelling out his land to migrants. A servant is whipped, and a boy is forced to keep his sexuality a secret. A wife discovers that her husband doesn’t love her anymore. Welcome to Salem, a town seething with resentment, fear and grief – a community that’s just about to be shattered by the blood and smoke of the witch trials. Abigail Williams is a girl with a fire inside her, and all it will take to set off the explosion is a single spark. Then the man she was in love with stands up before the town and calls her a whore – sparking a vicious, public fight for dominance that leaves destruction in its wake.'

Source: NIDA.