Currency Press: 215 books

I consider Brumby Innes to be in a class by itself' wrote theatre director Gregan McMahon in 1927. 'It is a very remarkable work, comparable to some of the best of Eugene O'Neill's, and it is, moreover, essentially Australian.'Written in the 1920s, Brumby Innes confronts the turbulent relations between...

Taboo is both a warning to young people who might make themselves sexually vulnerable through date rape, and a celebration of a young woman brave enough to tell her story. It looks at the varying degrees of sexual exploitation in the modern age.

An entertaining drama from 1980 written in defense of women facing judges who make the presumption that a lesbian parent is likely to be harmful to a child. The ebook is taken from the print compilation Australian Gay & Lesbian Plays (978-0-86819-455-4), there are a few other individual ebooks from this print compilation.

When wealthy property developer Michael Devine goes missing, his wife Anne and daughter Amy fear the worst. As the pieces of Michael’s disappearance start falling into place, the picture reveals a scandalous secret. On the other side of town, Paula and Gary Anderson have an unwanted visitor. Regretting...

Written in Australian poetic vernacular, *Boy Out of the Country tells a story of land, family and belonging. A family property, worthless for generations, is suddenly zoned as part of a regional housing estate to accommodate an ever-increasing urban sprawl. At this moment of shifting economies...

A brilliant surgeon can no longer bear to touch the living. Two voices connect fleetingly over the phone. A desperate mother begs to embrace her son one last time. A young woman seeks atonement. Disparate lives interweave, intersect, collide and connect in the most unexpected of ways in Caress...

*‘¿Como sabes que esto no es el sueño? (How do you know this is not the dream?) How do you know this is not the nightmare?’ Mortido is a remarkable crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play all rolled into one. Jimmy is a small-time dealer and Monte is a biggish-time distributor....

Two couples set out to betray their partners. A lover returns from the past and a husband doesn’t answer the phone... A woman disappears and a neighbour is the prime suspect... Contracts are broken between intimates and powerful bonds are formed between strangers. In Andrew Bovell’s...

Homo parentithicus. Found in most urban parts of Australia. Prone to roam in pairs. Overprotective towards their offspring. Parents! Fossils turns the spotlight on the complex relationship between teenagers and their parents.

The Stones is based on the true story of two boys charged with manslaughter after throwing rocks from a freeway overpass and killing a motorist. Were the boys old enough to be responsible for their actions?

Robots have taken control of the planet and executed most of the human race. Those who survived have been forced to work in mines. When Executive Bot writes a play, he drags Giles, a theatre director, out of the mines and orders him to direct a production for a robot audience.

The Harp in the South Trilogy follows the trials and tribulations of the Darcy family over thirty years, from country New South Wales in the 1920s to the inner-city slums of Surry Hills in the 1950s. The beating heart of this exuberant play is its carousel of characters. From hard-boozing Hugh Darcy...

This extraordinary play for young people is an adaptation of Li Cunxin’s picture book The Peasant Prince—the true story of Mao’s Last Dancer. Adapted by Monkey Baa, Australia’s leading theatre company for young audiences, The Peasant Prince has toured nationally, performing to tens of thousands...

Hayaat and her family spend their days dodging curfews, trying to buy a week’s groceries before the sirens blare, remembering their home among the olive groves before it was taken from them. But when the curfew breaks and her beloved grandmother Sitti is taken to hospital, Hayaat sets out on a mission...