Not in Print: playwrights off script - on inspiration, process and theatre itself

Alana Valentine reads her response to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler. It’s called An Ever-Changing Idiom a... Read more

Gary's failed in everything he's attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with h... Read more

Alana Valentine—one of Australia’s most renowned and respected playwrights, whose work includes Parramatta Girls, Eyes t... Read more

John McCallum reads his introduction to Gary’s House, by Debra Oswald. McCallum is one of the country’s most respected c... Read more

In Norm and Ahmed a rather ocker, white Australian male encounters a well-mannered Pakistani student with revolutionary ... Read more

Toby Leon reads an article Alex Buzo wrote for Quadrant Magazine in 2004. It’s called ‘Wary Asians on a Theme: Dramatisi... Read more

Each night two hoods ride a train to a wrecking yard on the outskirts of the city. Here, in this cemetery of stories, th... Read more

At times funny, bizarre and confronting, cultures and ideologies collide in this intimate and innately Australian explor... Read more

Roslyn Oades reads the transcript of a speech she gave at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, where she was invit... Read more

An odd-couple story—a friendship between two musicians stuck in an immigration detention centre. There’s the drummer who... Read more

A fast-moving, wisecracking commentary on 1980's materialism, urban mores and morals, and the rivalries and passions to ... Read more

William Thornhill: Born into brutal poverty in London in the late 18th century and transported to the Colony of New Sout... Read more

Brothers Wreck is about life, even though it begins with a death. On a hot morning under a house in Darwin, Ruben wakes ... Read more

Cressy, Mae and Nona are half sisters with little in common bar the ghosts from their childhood. They return to their ch... Read more

Louis Nowra reads his introduction to his play, Radiance. It’s called Women on the Mud Flats and it charts the journey o... Read more

They met online. She’s a nurse in her forties, trapped in a loop of catastrophic debt. He’s in IT, trapped in his own lo... Read more

It’s a classic odd-couple story. Meet Ana—a battle hardened Hungarian-Australian veteran of the twentieth century. Cathe... Read more

Aspiring archaeologist, Sophie, left home when she was 20, much to the shame of her traditional Jordanian mother. Years ... Read more

Election night 1969: Don and Kath hope for a change of government and give a party to watch the results. But as the tide... Read more

Toby Leon reads H.G. Kippax’s preface to Don’s Party. From the mid-1960s on, Kippax was the authoritative critic at the ... Read more