Cirrus@Austlit

'Alone in the goalsquare. About to seal the premiership. What could go wrong?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'What if you fell in love with the person who publicly shamed you? Turning the ‘boy meets girl’ formula on its head, Minneapolis is an ‘almost’ love story set in a world conditioned to hate. Asking complex questions around privilege, harassment, and internet shaming, the play looks at what it means to be a pariah in our clickbait times.'

Source: National Playwrighting Festival program.

'Boon is smart. Really smart. He's skipped four years of school, possesses a photographic memory and was playing Mozart and Beethoven aged two. So why is it so hard for him to wake up?

'Coma Land tells the story of a fifteen year old boygenius who finds himself trapped in a world between life and death. There, he meets Penguin, a young girl determined to fly, and they quickly become friends. But when her protective father stands between them and their escape, Boon soon learns that the one thing you can never outsmart is the truth.'

Source: Black Swan Theatre Company (2017 season).

'Glowing. Stunning. Dominant. Forceful. Magnetic.

You not only have the right to be all these things…

You have the responsibility to be all these things.

'Wren is driven.

Driven to be special.

So driven she wants to up, leave and never come back – to Earth that is.

'From the frenzied world of celebrity to the rampaging cult of ‘self-fulfillment’, The Mars Project looks to unravel the absurdities of our Me-First age. The award-winning team who brought you Great White now present a story about chasing your dreams – whatever it takes.

'The Mars Project explores what it takes to be superhuman, and asks just how much we’d sacrifice for the chance at a new life.' (Production summary)

'Tonsils and Tweezers are best friends, have been since high school. All that changes on the day of their 10 year high school reunion, when Tweezers reveals that he has a sure fire plan to make sure no one talks about “what they’ve been up to…”'

Source: Production summary, Fringe World.