Currency Press: 215 books

Sam and Kelly live out west. They spend their lives waiting for texts, for boyfriends and those bitches in Year Ten to leave school so they can have somewhere decent to hang. But the longest wait is till the end of school, and waiting can be deadly. Bored one recess and with double maths looming,...

Darwin, 1942. A town collapses under the threat of invasion. Mothers and daughters, sisters, friends, and entire cultures are torn apart by the secrets that start to fall. Is Mr Takahashi to blame?Japan unleashes a wave of attacks on Northern Australia, and Darwin is hit with more bombs than Pearl...

Jandamarra is a legend of the Bunuba people. He was only in his mid-twenties when he was gunned down in 1897, but in his short life he created a legacy that will never be forgotten. He led one of the longest and most successful campaigns to defend Aboriginal country in Australian history.

A monologue about a recovering anorexic and bulimic, taking the audience into the reality of a woman who lives with eating disorders. Based on Sancia Robinson’s own experiences. Published with teachers’ notes.

The human and political story of the last man to be executed in Australia, *Remember Ronald Ryan won the 1995 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Dickins portrays the man behind the legend as loveable, cheeky, courageous, and wretched. This edition includes a new monologue spoken from Ryan’s perspective that ‘speaks to a new audience from his poor and unmarked grave’.*

In the countdown to Christmas the disappearance of a young girl rocks a small town community instigating a chain of events that will alter the lives of everyone involved. For Simon, the world he has built here was a second chance; though still ridden with guilt, in the eyes of the law he has paid...

Seventeen is about the cusp of adulthood and has been specially written for a rollcall of the country’s great senior actors— Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden and Barry Otto—all playing a group of teenagers, drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying and maybe even pashing, their way through their last night of childhood and their first night of adulthood.

One of the seminal films of the 1970s, *Alvin Purple depicts Alvin’s struggles with his irresistibility to women—from his school days and time as a waterbed salesman to his short-lived career as a sex therapist. The ‘definitive ocker comedy’, Alvin Purple survived a critical mauling and went...

It can be argued that nothing good, not one damned thing, came out of World War I. This play is a pillar of that contention. Based on a true story of a young soldier who was returned home so badly damaged he was unrecognisable, apart from a single tattoo, Patient 12 tells the story through...

An epic play about two young hikers who accidentally discover a lost community deep in the forests of Tasmania. Lost in time, the group clashes with the culture of modern Australia, with tragic consequences.

As the world’s honeybees disappear, a family-owned apiary struggles to keep up with overseas demand. Driven by matriarch Joan’s iron will, the business continues to grow. And then Melissa arrives out of the blue. The Honey Bees is a tale of family and empire; action and consequences; and what happens when the bee finally stings.

A family of three generations is guided through their last hours. With fear, loathing and existential guilt all present in the perverse relationships, can Everyman realign these individuals so warped and deranged? Bizarre and fun yet hideously confronting, will Everyman lure everyone around a pole where there is nothing a good dance won’t fix?

Edgy, provocative and emotionally honest, each of the twelve plays of *Roulette explores the nuances and subtleties involved when two people meet. Based on the ancient Chinese cosmology, The Twelve Branches of Life, the plays are a revealing mosaic of human interaction across a range of emotional...

Burnt is a bush yarn, born and bred out of the true stories of people from regional Australia struggling with prolonged dryness. It looks at the stresses and strains of continued drought on families and young people.