Cirrus@Austlit

'‘You gonna sell your soul for a fist full of diamonds?’

'First Nations heritage, a family curse and ghosts at the dinner table. David’s been keeping a safe distance from all these things but now work is calling him home. To make things worse, he’s approving a new mine site, on his own Sacred Ground. This is all a secret from the rest of his family, who think he’s come home for the anniversary of his Dad’s death.

'Kangaroo Stew will give you an insight into the life of a modern Aboriginal family. There will be love, punch ups, Creedence Clearwater Revival (Uncle Foggerty!) and of course, the spirits of ancestors past.

'Written by Martu/Yamatji/Murri writer Zac James (Ice Land: A Hip H’Opera), this is a story about family and love, grief and Culture, Native Title and the ghosts of our relatives. This is Kangaroo Stew!' (Publication summary)

'There’s a Watch and Act warning in place. Leave now, if the way is clear.

'Katie has OCD and is in love with Julia Roberts in Notting Hill. She used to read out Watch and Act emergency warnings but now the whole world is burning and her life is on fire.

'Reflecting on Black Summer and the Wooroloo bushfires, Watch and Act is a dark comedy about what our own personal crises might tell us about the climate crisis.'

Source: Perth Cultural Centre.

'Based on three stories by Franz Kafka that explores legal limbo, border paranoia, and offshore detention and torture.' (Production summary)

'Hey d*#kface,

'I know where to find a dead kangaroo. There’s one in the bush near my house. Want to see it? I’m going tonight. Sneaking out my window. Unless you’re scared. Are you scared? Are you nervous? No? Meet me at the fallen tree.

'Lucy and Arnold are 13. Both outcasts. Both have seen hard times. Both irrevocably changed from one adventure into the bush looking for a dying kangaroo. Now they must navigate a wasteland of broken hearts, peed pants and carrot spew. It’s homework, hormones and homicide.

'A hit of The Blue Room Theatre 2019 season, this modern suburban coming-of-age story explores how we hurt each other, how we help those that are hurting, and how your music taste is never better than when you’re a teenager.'

Source: Black Swan State Theatre Company.

'Penthouse parades you through the vulgar reality that surrounds high-end living; the numbness of wealth, the need for power, and an unquenchable thirst for entertainment.

'Griffin, the billionaire tycoon, is ruthless in his pursuit of stimulation; price is no issue, and when you’re the elite there are no rules either. Griffin’s protégé Cal is determined to score a slice of his wealth, and so seems the same with Finn, the striving musician Griffin takes under his wing. How far will they go for a taste of the 1%?'

Source: Blue Room Theatre.

'A fisherman catches himself a wife, and so begins this charming love story. The Inconsequential Lives of Little Fish is an unlikely romance set in a world filled with corruption and greed.

'With two mouths to feed and another on the way, our fisherman takes a job at the helm of a delivery boat headed towards the big city. On the journey a storm wrecks the boat and leaves our couple with an enormous debt. They are conned into bonded labour – the fisherman is trafficked and his wife is put to work in a fish processing factory.'

Source: Blue Room Theatre.