Cirrus@Austlit

Mayne Textiles has a new business manager who borrows money from everyone in the firm, flirts with the switch girl, "improves" the office, and eventually marries the boss's daughter. His co-workers do not approve.

'The 'late' Uncle Heber and his solicitor, Sam, dreamed up a scheme to entice 'man-hating' Julia into marriage.' (Source: the Helen Haenke Short Stories Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)

'A wife is looking for love and affection from her husband. She wants a child conceived in love not simply the result of a sexual encounter.' (Source: Adapted from the Helen Haenke Short Stories Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)

'An account of the possible birth and death of a disabled child. The "child" is most likely the author's efforts at writing.' (Source: Adapted from the Helen Haenke Short Stories Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland) 

Eleanor and Noel decide to have a 'real' experience and go to spend the night under a bridge together. They meet two thieves and an Aboriginal girl, Daisy, who has just left her job as a nurse maid. Eleanor and Noel decide this rough living isn't for them after all, but Eleanor begins to question the differences between herself and Daisy.

'This appears to be a piece written as part of a university course — it features well-known UQ academic Arlene Sykes. Inspired by "Six Characters in Search of an Author"' (Source: Helen Haenke Plays Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)

A mysterious woman sits in on a university drama tutorial. She evades the students' and lecturer's questions of who she is and what she is doing there. 

A musical version of the original story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. A slight twist at the end regarding Limpy, the only child left after the Piper leads the children away.

Frances has been "sent to Coventry" by the girls in her class (they're not speaking to her), because she is a prefect even though she has been at the school for less time than they have. The headmistress solves the problem.

'A middle-aged working class widow feels put upon by her two children in their early twenties and fears loneliness when they leave home. She remembers the time when she couldn't even eat an orange in case the kids would have to go without. She reads the personal columns seeking a man v.m. The neighbours suspect that she is having an affair with the postman she has known all her life. She has met a man and the postman brings her his letters surreptitiously, but she is having second thoughts because he's a Lutheran and church and wowserism don't appeal. The son gives her an orange, she crumples the letter and goes back to the personal notices.' (Source: Helen Haenke Plays Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)

Two acts as monologues. In act one, Lily is 27 years old, on the eve of her wedding. She wonders about her life up to that point and how it will change as she becomes a married woman and grows up. In act two, Lily is 89 and her husband is dead. She looks back on her life with a more pessimistic attitude than when she was young.

A quick-talking comedy that features multiple women selling wares on a street stall. The villain maintains that "women's place is in the home", and he is disgruntled when any of the women challenge this notion.

'The Griffiths are hosting a dinner party for George's work colleagues and his boss who is expected to offer George a partnership. A toad appears, unmoving, in the hall and is left there as an omen. Couple by couple the guests cry off leaving the parents, their son and his new girlfriend and the 'help' who is expecting her first grandchild. The daughter arrives, fleeing from her husband.' (Source: Helen Haenke Plays Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland) 

'A chaotic afternoon before the first performance of Harriet's new play by the local Drama Group that evening. Crisis after crisis between the cast of 8.' (Source: Adapted from Helen Haenke Plays Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)

A new teacher, not yet graduated from university, starts her job at a girls' boarding school. Meanwhile the Deputy-Head's ex-husband comes back into her life.

Granpa and Lady live alone in the tenement and have always schemed to keep it that way. Lady becomes fond of their newest tenant, Lad, but eventually he goes too. After Lady commits manslaughter against the milkman, she leaves and Granpa gets the place to himself.

'George Angell, the captain of Australia's test cricket team, has made a record score in defeating England at Lords. In celebration, his mates have deposited a rather inebriated George in a mausoleum. He blows his trumpet in celebration and summons up two sets of ghosts — one Royalist couple and their puritanical descendants. The old and modern have little understanding of each other and the ghosts do not see eye to eye on morality.' (Source: Helen Haenke Plays Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)

The stage is divided in two, with separate scenes playing alongside each other. One side of the stage is an office with two women making calls to warn of an unscheduled power stoppage. The other is a matron's room at a private hospital where a male patient is in a critical condition. The office women cannot get through to the hospital as a nurse tries in vain to telephone the wife of the patient. The power goes out, and eventually the patient dies.

'Felicity, who has just finished school, lives in a 'Time-warp' house with her father and aunt. Her mother has lived overseas for ten years. The father is in line for a job appointment to London and his daughter will be required to be hostess, even though she would prefer to go to university — which father thinks would be wasted on a woman. (The play is set in 1959 and echoes the social mores of the time). Is the boss's son who has arrived and taken an interest in Felicity his father's son?' (Source: Helen Haenke Plays Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)

'Described by the author as "a crazy mixed-up anachronism", this romp lies somewhere between a spoof and a satire. An impoverished royal family struggles with red tape and bureaucracy. The Prince wants to marry the foundling taken in by his parents at birth, but King Coal wants him to marry a rich pickle heiress. The magic Golden Sword is the solution to all their problems but has not been used, for no obvious reason, until now!' (Source: Helen Haenke Plays Table - Fryer Library, University of Queensland)

Mayne Textiles has a new business manager who borrows money from everyone in the firm, flirts with the switch girl, "improves" the office, and eventually marries the boss's daughter. His co-workers do not approve.