MOTOR-mouth loves suck-face

This musical is suitable for young casts and big ensembles. It’s about time travel, zombies, the power of friendship, and rebellion in the face of global warming, overcoming anxiety + falling in love.

TRIBE

This musical is suitable for young casts and big ensembles. Featuring a pop score, it explores themes including bullying, cancel culture, hypocrisy and immigration. It’s about the power of belonging .

superfreaks

This musical is suitable for young casts and big ensembles. Featuring a pop score, it explores themes including identity, retail culture, and holding on hope. It’s about living your dreams and resilience.

VINCENT: AN A CAPPELLA OPERA

This seventy-minute music theatre/opera is sung completely unaccompanied. It’s about the artist Vincent Van Gogh and is suitable for ensembles with strong musical skills.

The Villain of flowers

Commissioned by NIDA and set in country Victoria, this rock musical tells the story of a young man who returns home to investigate the murder of his mother, many years before. It explores themes of xenophobia, denial and forgiveness. It features a Greek chorus of singers. It requires a five-piece rock band and a strong male lead.

the wild blue

This musical is non-narrative in form and won a Victoria Premier’s Literary award for best music theatre script. Featuring a contemporary score, this show is suitable for big ensembles.

NATHANIEL STORM

This musical was commissioned for NIDA and was performed during the Olympic Festival of the Dreaming in 2000. It requires involvement of First Nations actors and a First Nations creative team. It tells the story of a young First Nations man who has returned to his community, and a white woman determined to build a hospital on sacred land.

the journey girl

This musical is for a solo performer and piano. It tells the story of Annie, a young back-packer on a journey through Europe, confronting obstacles funny, absurd, personal and life-changing.

supernature

This musical comedy/drama is based on the legend of Borley Rectory - ‘the most haunted house in England’. Set in 1920, it follows the adventures of Harry Price, paranormal investigator, who finally comes across a real ghost and must confront his own demons to save the day. The show features strong female roles and a cast of six which could be expanded.

THE FRAIL MAn

Steven Saken, on the cusp of the biggest business merger of his career, is struck down with a mysterious cancer. A Muslim woman is savagely murdered outside his house. Meanwhile two ghosts of Australia's convict past escape and set about trying to survive in a strange, terrifying new land. Winner of the 2002 Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award / 2004 Malcolm Robertson Prize / 2005 New Dramatists Award.

shadow passion

Catherine and Robert Harrow are an upper middle class couple living in Canberra, Australia. Catherine is a surgeon, Robert a high level public servant working for the Department of Immigration. They appear successful and comfortable yet they live their private life in anguish because they cannot conceive a child. Into this volatile situation arrives Ali Hadji, an Iraqi refugee recently released from an Australian detention centre on a temporary visa.

when sand becomes glass

An educated Indonesian man flirts with a young Australian girl on a Bali beach. A policemen recounts the horror of a terrorist bombing, a muslim woman rages at late night television and two drug traffickers have second thoughts in a cheap hotel room. Set on the eve of the Bali Bombings - each of these stories and many more are interwoven through-out the play, creating a tapestry of modern Australia, culminating in the event that shook the nation.

redepmtion

One night in a forgotten country parish – two priests are reunited. Ben is sent to investigate a retired Monsignor accused of sexually abusing a boy, thirty years ago. Terry is his neglected mentor, approaching retirement, a priest who believes the mercy of Christ can redeem even the most heinous of sinners.

motor-mouth & suck-face - the play

Motor-mouth and Suck-face are two teen-age geeks in love and lust. Then one day at school - a new kid shows up - the mysterious Blasko Tupper - who knows something that none of her classmates know - the world is going to end in three days time. Welcome to my party, prepare to die.

pretty white lies and the velveteen undertow

Pretty Whites and the Velveteen Undertow is part fantasy, part horror, part romance. Utilising puppetry and shadow, stage fighting and poetic language it tells the tale of five soldiers upon a quest to destroy a creature despised and vile in an allegorical carnival of morality and folly.