Cirrus@Austlit

'The plot follows darknet grifter Dougie, who is recruited by his stepdad to work security at a detention centre, where he is drawn into an operation blackmailing detainees to fight for profit. When tragedy strikes champion Iranian fighter Azad and his young sister Hamasa is left alone, Dougie locates his hitherto dormant conscience and takes a stand.'

Source: IF magazine (https://www.if.com.au/first-time-director-maziar-lahooti-gets-ready-to-go-below/). (Sighted: 22/11/2018)

'Sydney 2061: Ewan has just busted out of prison. Branded a war criminal he's out to clear his name.

'Stepping into a post-greenhouse world of biotech monstrosities, technologically super-charged idealism and corporate-government hybrids, Ewan vows to stop a cargo-load of humans apparently destined for off-planet mining.

'With most of the planet either dug-up or burnt-up is Ewan saving humanity or hastening its damnation?

'Ewan may have picked the wrong day to break out of prison.

'From the creative team that brought Quack to the Griffin Theatre Company last year, Rare Earth, prequel to the Patrick White Playwrights Award winning Forever Seven, is Blade Runner meets The Fly meets An Inconvenient Truth - an ecological sci-fi horror romantic thriller comedy for our times.' (Source NIDA website)

'Fanny wants out. Her outback town is all mining and money, no one will read her short story about a stallion, and now the people of the town are getting sick. Old Doctor Littlewood's reverse orchiectomies aren't helping. But when the dashing and visionary Doctor Waterman turns up, Fanny might just have a reason to stay. Until the sick start devouring the living.

'Fanny will have to take a radical approach to healthcare if she wants to get out of town alive.'

Source: Griffin Theatre website, www.griffintheatre.com.au/ (Sighted 16/08/2010).

'Dave reckons he's quite the ladies man. With Barry White on the stereo and a bottle of tequila on the shelf, he knows how to create a mood. But Kate, the hairdresser he meets one night in his karaoke bar and brings back to his place, is a hard case. She's deep, she's defensive, she's troubled. Sure, Dave can break through, but can he deal with what is on the other side?'

Source: Melbourne Theatre Company website, mtc.com.au (sighted 29/09/2010)

'Tim, an airline pilot and Angela, his young, beautiful wife, live the successful urban dream in a streamlined apartment in the inner city. One night a friend of Angela's, Dez, pays them a visit. There's just one problem: Angela flatly denies she's ever met him, and despite Dez's growing protestations, she wants him out. Rejected and humiliated, Dez leaves. But not before making some seemingly ominous threats. Now Angela and Tim are having trouble readjusting. Dez has thrown their comfortable lives out of kilter and fear of future incursions escalates.

'Enter Dick, private eye - smarmy and menacing by turns, a Man who Makes Things Happen. Though he charges by the hour and his approach is definitely unconventional, Dick may be exactly what the situation requires...' (Publisher's blurb)