Cirrus@Austlit

'She Wrote The Letter is a play based on the unlikely real friendship of two teenagers – Ute from East Germany and Tania from New Zealand. Drawn from a 30 year correspondence starting as pen pals in 1979, their letters affectionately map their navigation of the difficult East-West divide. Despite all that should divide them, their connection grows and strengthens and ends up taking them places they never suspected it could.

'A fascinating, funny, joyous and heart-warming new Australian play.'

Source: La Mama Theatre.

'A jockey addicted to cheesecake, an ambitious stockbroker falling asleep on Geelong Rd in the name of a sea-change, a barber still caught in white 1950s Australia, and a stressed bank trainee breaking up with his fiancee over tongue kisses and pork chops…

'Wistful, poignant, startling, eccentric and hilarious, In The Mens is both comic riot and thorough examination of generations of the Australian male psyche.'

Source: La Mama.

'The Truth Is Longer Than A Lie is a research based play adapted from the non-fiction book of the same name by Neerosh Mudaly and Chris Goddard and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in London. A difficult, but crucial subject, this investigative book, formerly a PHD, dissects the world of child abuse within the family and examines professional intervention methods currently practised. The play utilizes two family stories from different socio-economic worlds. Beginning with the abuse still only being known within the household, the play then moves into a world of counselling, dire family consequences and the ways in which the damaged children can continue to live. The play debuts in Melbourne in November 2015. The play-script will be published by Melbourne's Black Pepper Press in October 2015.' (Source: https://newplayexchange.org/plays/36862/truth-longer-lie )

'"The Giraffe's Uncle" is a new one-man comedy drama about idiosyncratic Sydney short story writer and freelance journalist Les Robinson. The former Radio National arts broadcaster, journalist and theatre critic Martin Portus is playing Les, taking on the one-man show after thirty years away from the stage.

Les Robinson was an eccentric figure on Sydney's bohemia scene between the 1920s and 1960s, whose unconventional ways gained him much local notoriety. Refusing to pay rent, he lived in derelict houses and caves around Sydney Harbour, writing, fishing and playing his old gramophone on the rocks. Robinson's comic and absurdist short stories remain unique to Australian fiction - his one and only short story collection in 1933, The Giraffe's Uncle, was re-published recently by Angus and Robertson. He was a contributor and cartoonist to The Bulletin, The Australian Worker, Punch and the Lindsay's magazine, Vision. His work was supported by contemporary Australian literary notables such as Kenneth Slessor, Norman Lindsay, Douglas Stewart, the critic HM Green and many cartoonists.' Source: Emma Collison Publicity (Sighted27/10/2011).