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Print: $24.95 Download: $19.95 David takes us on a journey through a weekend of tragedy, which not even he could alter through misfortunes of fate. As Craig and Sheryl apathetically deal with the death of their love, their three children, David, Michelle and Rick relentlessly struggle with denial, contempt and rebellion. The sibling rivalry abounds with our protagonist David, openly discussing his sexuality within the realms of his family home. David struggles to hold his own place in the world. His circle of friends comforts him; however his longing for acceptance from his family remains poignant.
The wicked web we weave within the family unit; acceptance is as important as is non-acceptance within David's family, yet brotherly love can only show its boundaries once tested and it fails.
The relationship between denial and rebellion build a night of thick tension, exposing itself in the face of sodomy and complacency. Not even David's bloodline can stop the outcome it first set up to accomplish.
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Print: $26.99 Download: $19.95 This book holds a very interesting group of plays. Aunt Ethel's Death Notice takes us through the dirty event of dividing up personal items of a departed loved one. Doped Up Deal provides an insight of the not so glamorous life of cash-strapped everyday city folk and the not so friendly drug dealer who won't take no for an answer. Then, it's Happy Birthday, Christmas Bernii; a thirteen-year old girl with a macabre sense of humour. Separating The Dust is a glimpse into the world of two brothers; the gloves are off after the last mourners have departed their mother’s funeral service; one fights for his lion’s share of the Will and the other fights for his life. Spring is a season of new beginnings but Mrs Wentworth-Brewster feels it's time to spring-clean the tenants of her rooms at her lady's only boarding house. Richly dark and humourous, extreme in its social commentary of the human psyche, this collection of one-act plays will have the audience on the edge of their seats right from page one.
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Print: $19.95 Download: $19.95 Darren Brealey has completed his next full-length stage script, Shattered Reflection. A story of a corporate psychopath, a strong-headed and educated woman with a Masters Degree in Arts Science and Degrees in Business Management. Her role as the Divisional Manager of the Asia Pacific region for an international manufacturing company for truck engines and farming equipment dissatisfies her career goals. She finds the people she works with boorish and common. Without a tendency to commit to relationships and feel for true love, her only outlet for sex is rent boys on a Friday night. She suffers from mental illness and personality disorder and this is exacerbated by her addiction to a cocktail of illicit drugs and alcohol.
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Print: $24.95 Download: $19.95 A few members of the Hainsworth family are arriving for the weekend as Marcie prepares for their arrival. Alfred and two of his children, Elizabeth and Candice are met by Robert, Elizabeth’s boyfriend, at the train station. Alfred, tennis pro turned coach has been invited to a conference on Carbon emissions as their motivational speaker.
Alfred and his wife Julia are two free spirits who enjoy their family life and their individual pursuits of happiness; they share a special arrangement in their intimate affairs. Alfred enjoys his tennis (students) and Julia enjoys her art (students).
This weekend, Elizabeth decides who is eligible to win her heart. Waiting for Elizabeth’s arrival is George, her ex-boyfriend, keen to win back Elizabeth. Candice, the baby of the family sees how much George pines for her eldest sister and devises a plan to overthrow Robert’s stronghold.
Secretly, Alfred’s tennis student Mimi arrives to partake in extracurricular tennis games.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 Meet old school, all-knowing tradesman, Norbert who works hard at keeping ahead of the next crisis in the car repair workshop. He generously takes new kid, Colin, under his wing, tutoring him in the sacred art of mechanical ethics, love and relationships. Norbert knows a lot of things. He knows. In fact, sometimes, he will tell you too many times that he knows. Norbert attempts to educate Colin about the games men and woman play (or at least the games men think women want them to play.) Colin proves he isn’t as stupid as appearances initially indicate.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 The age-old story of office politics, red tape and justification of jobs held by employees in power. Mr Green is the company boss. He meets Carson in the fire stairwell. It’s lunch time, Mr Green is incredibly busy and the lift is broken. Through the two protagonists’ conversation, we learn that the task of getting the lift repaired is anything but a simple one. Finding a simple solution via meetings, faxes, memos, voice mail and the trappings of bureaucracy couldn’t be easier. Could it? The lift is stuck and we meet in the fire stairwell.
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Print: $7.50 Download: $7.50 This is a seriously scary look at filthy, outer suburb, cigarette-smoking scrags called Jenny, Amanda and Sheryl. If you thought boys were crude and disgusting when they mob together, these three dirty skanks will have you dry retching into your stubbie-holder from the word go. Jenny, Amanda and Sheryl could have been the school captain, the vice president of the local council or maybe even a shopkeeper. However, their antics with their boyfriends, Peanut, Booga and Pigface, somehow distract them from their futures as anything but middle class. Meeting at the local cinema for their weekly ritual of movie-going, the three young girls come together to parade their outwardly disgusting habits, language and home secrets.
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Print: $7.50 Download: $7.50 Each Spring Mrs Wentworth-Brewster’s dowdy rooms are Spring-cleaned of their previous occupants. Its dust remains, only its occupants disappear along with their belongings in the vegetable patch.
Three new young and fresh female students arrive to seek out their own accomplishments, ready in time to start University next year. They seek inspiration, love and self esteem, meaning in their lives, whilst Mrs Wentworth-Brewster seeks redemption.
Mrs Wentworth-Brewster attends to her vegetable patch, along with her imaginary friend, Marjorie believing the talents from the buried girls make their way into the vegetables she consumes, absorbing their talents.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 A ridiculously silly melodrama of major proportions. Lady Mallet longs to have her son, Master Lauderdale married to a daughter of a wealthy land owner. Murgatroyd, a petty criminal plots to have his despondent daughter, Sally seduce her way into Master Lauderdale’s heart. Little do they know, Master Lauderdale is besotted by a commoner girl, Penny Phonetic, a penniless girl.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 In the days when older women took on the role of turning a young girl into a lady, these lunatic women would find any excuse for a party. Titiana finds there is nothing worse than waking up from passing out due to narcolepsy, and not remembering where she is, or who she’s with. On day three of Lord Florien Thrust’s house party, held in honour of Fergus, his Valium-medicated dog, Titiana wakes up to find she is in a mysterious house. Gertrude attempts to save Titiana from herself, and lure Florien into donating a large sum of money to her ‘cause’. Lucinda tries to lure Florien into the same fate, yet he dismisses their attempts. Florien becomes smitten for Titiana when she says she likes Fergus.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 Set in a nursing home, this is a practical look at the subject of growing old and the not-so-attractive consequences. Mavis is a lonely soul who finds solidarity in comforting her husband, Alfred. She fills the boredom of her days by reading and engaging in one-sided arguments with an inert Alfred. When the ambu¬lance officers arrive to take Alfred away, we discover the reason for Alfred’s inertia and witness Mavis’s frustration and helpless¬ness.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 Two everyday suburbanites dream of a day when their cash worries will be over. Their initial plan of earning extra cash on the side started off as a good idea. Who will help stop the generosity of a murderous thug who knows when he’s got it good?
When money is short and request for payment of bills is relentless, these two unfortunate souls meet a man with an endless supply of money. Their immediate worries are over after the first deposit of cash arrives, but when their savour continues in his giving ways, the deal of a lifetime becomes more trouble than it’s worth. Living in suburbia isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be and the law of safety in numbers only applies when your neighbours answer the cry for help. Keeping the debt collectors at bay can prove to be hell, but this debt collector won’t leave without a deposit in cash or blood.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 A death notice appears in the newspaper advising the passing of Mrs Ethel Lane, 82 years old who leaves behind a loving and caring family.
Three of her distant relatives, having read the death notice attend her home and ultimately to her belongings as her funeral service takes place at St. Peters Church, where she lay in state.
Once they realise who each other are, they feel at home until their grievances decree their right of ownership to Ethel’s personal belongings. As their relationships, integrity and wits disintegrate, their understanding of Ethel’s passing seems somewhat contrived when Ethel returns home with an employee of the local Nursing Home where she has finalised arrangements for her stay. The grieving relatives come to realise they have misunderstood the death notice for another Mrs Ethel Lane, 82 years old, who has left behind some other loving and caring family.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 (Sensitive New Age Guys: men who reject normal male roles and perform duties such as child care, and become stay-at-home parents.)
Mark and Geoff are a couple of testosterone-fuelled, beer-and-pizza talking, far-from-sensitive new age guys, who bring back all the repressed memories of sharing house. Two young males coexist in a rented house: Geoff studies at university and Mark works full-time. They are a couple of blokes searching for their true love, whilst simultaneously hindering each other’s quest. Mark realises his fated relationship with Stephanie when Geoff tells him the secret about his toys.
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 These two darlings are the epitome of all that is offensive with the society set. Preened, primped, cut and set, the pair meets at one of the in places in order to see and be seen. While they keep an eye out for their well-heeled colleagues and guzzle down champagne, we are privileged to have an insight to our high society pages and ladies of the high-class set. The correct social functions, birthdays, opening nights at the Opera and the Ballet can prove to be hell. One must make sure the correct attire is worn in hats, gloves, shoes, jewellery and shawls to mix and match.
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Print: $7.50 Download: $7.50 After the funeral service for Mrs Virginia Cromwell, her sons, Michael and Chad discuss their mother’s Final Will and Testament. The mourners have left, their kind thoughts exchanged. The sandwiches and tea have been served. It’s no secret to the boys their late mother’s Final Will and Testament has been divided equally. Chad makes his announcement to contest the Will for his lions share; Michael defends his ground. Chad’s wife, Raelene makes her true feelings known about Michael to both of them, which only aggravates the underflow of smouldering years of unspoken hatred between the three of them. The little church on the hill where the funeral service for Mrs Virginia Cromwell was held prepares for another funeral service to be held at five
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Print: $7.95 Download: $7.95 Uba, having walked for ten days has found an abandoned hamlet in the mountains. Uba hears a news report on his transistor radio, describing his home town of Azag being overrun with enemy soldiers and tanks. Uba’s mobile phone rings. He answers it to hear his wife’s voice, before long the connection cuts out; was that a bomb that exploded in the background or has her phone lost power?
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