Currency Press: 215 books

In 2005, the horror film *Wolf Creek depicted the abduction and torture of three backpackers in the Australian outback, and created an immediate industry and media frenzy. Wolf Creek tapped into the myth of the lonely continent, a fear of the country’s hostility and its indifference to suffering,...

Lockie Leonard has arrived in town, but no-one wants to know the city boy whose dad’s the new cop. Things change when he starts going out with Vicki Streeton, the girl of his dreams. But the course of true love is not inclined to run smoothly. Adapted from Tim Winton’s novel of the same name.

A car crash in the Central Desert. A broken man, about to leave his wife. A woman miscarrying her first-born child. *Broken entwines the stories of three complex lives as they unfold on a single fateful night in the heart of the Northern Territory’s desert country. Winner of the Victorian...

Since its inception in 2011, ATYP's Voices Project has been cultivating the talents of the best young Australian actors and writers. Every year, twenty young Australian writers are chosen to each write a seven-minute monologue for a young actor, bringing to audiences the cutting edge of Australian...

Two women live alone but side by side. One day they meet over a jar of buttons and an awkward friendship begins… An intimate show with a wonderful balance of light and dark, humour and contemplation, plus fantastic live music and songs.

Silvio wants to marry Clarice who has to marry Signor Federigo who’s really Beatrice in disguise who’s come to Turin to find her love Florindo and the whole sorry mess is about to get a whole lot sorrier when Florindo and Beatrice both unknowingly hire the same servant—the brilliantly useless...

Gerry is almost 60, and he is going to meet his mother for the first time since he was three. His daughter Sally has had it up to here with him and his problems. The old lady lives somewhere in the UK. So Gerry is going there to find out what made him who he is. Holloway tells the story of the 3,000+...

The wounds of an horrific event are re-opened as Eve tries to navigate a friendship with her ex and his new partner. The play uses both grim sadness and dark humour to challenge perceptions of feminism and self-image in the prism of sexual love. Winner of the 2015 NSW Premier’s Award for Drama in...

Sandy was the only Australian War Horse to return home from World War I. This is his poignant and fragmented war story. Through Sandy we experience the lives of three men who fought in the war. Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges is mortally wounded at Gallipoli, and Sandy is his charger....

*‘An unmarked grave containing the bodies of my great-grandfather, Owen Roe O’Neill, and his young daughter. A little further away lie the graves of all the other family members. All have tombstones and grave sites. Only Owen Roe has nothing.’ Thus begins an exploration of ancestry—a...

*‘It stays with me, one thing… my panache!’ Cyrano de Bergerac is convinced that his outrageously sized nose will forever stop him from being loved by Roxane, his intellectual and beautiful friend. But Roxane is in love—with Christian, a handsome yet inarticulate soldier in Cyrano’s...

In 1945, Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Now, after a half-century apart, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past.

Five plays from around the country that illustrate the rich tradition of Indigenous storytelling as it flourishes in contemporary theatre. *‘Each play is a durable, resilient stone that both builds upon Indigenous traditions but also lays the foundation for the generations that will follow.’...

"Girls, I think your father's dead. I knocked his knees out. I conked his head. I shot that house clown in the neck."In a dirt-dry town in rural Australia, a shot shatters the still night. A mother and her daughters have just welcomed home the man of the house - with a crack in the shins...