This list represents a broad selection of plays that have been developed through the National Play Festival since 2008. Stay tuned for the latest plays as they become available.
National Play Festival Scripts
Do Not Go Gentle
by Patricia CorneliusIn this wondrous play, Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition is a metaphor for the elusive journey of five elderly people facing the final leg of their journey. Scott's passage across the Antarctic, as he confronts a landscape of ice and perilous weather, powerfully parallels...
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
by John FraserPat and Ronnie work the lighthouse at Muckle Flugga—neighbour to 46,000 gannets, 200,000 puffins and endless stacks of rocks. Gale-force winds fuel waves that lash the lighthouse twenty-one hours a day, a lighthouse that sits on a rock 70 metres above the deep North Sea....
SWAMPLANDS
by Van Badham
Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd
by Lally Katz
HELLY'S MAGIC CUP
by Rosalba Clemente| HEAVEN by Kit Brookman When a schoolgirl, Angela, dies in a random road accident Max gathers a ragtag group of te... | add to cart | |
| EIGHT GIGABYTES OF HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY by Declan Greene They met online. She’s a nurse in her forties, brats for kids, trapped in a loop of cata... | add to cart | |
| DIRTYLAND by Elise Hearst What won’t Anya do to get away from her dirty, dirty land? Anya has chipped her t... | add to cart | |
| SMALL LIFE by Zoe Hogan One child teaches a younger one the complexity and intricacy of begging on a street corner... | add to cart | |
| REVOLUTION by Jonathan Ari Lander A play that takes a running leap at a disenfranchised, bleak and bloody future. What if... | add to cart | |
| QUIVER by Kit Lazaroo A small group of underground scientists attempt to re-green the Earth’s now toxic su... | add to cart | |
| STUDENT BODY by Alana Valentine Kai Chai is a student who has come to Australia for a university education. So have Fon an... | add to cart | |
| RUST AND BONE by Caleb Lewis Three men, each a ball of tightly coiled fury. Eddie is a fighter, too old and broken to w... | add to cart | |
| THE NEW BLACK by Robert Reid The New Black was prompted by two media events during 2008—the first being the contr... | add to cart | |
| THE REAL WORLD by Melissa Reeves Frank: I believe in no god and I don’t need one. I don’t know why we’re ... | add to cart | |
| 19 TRAINS by Angus Cerini Writer's notes: A young man performed in a play I had written. His extraordinary skill ... | add to cart | |
| SWEETEST THINGS by Kate Rice Through interviews, emails, letters and legal documents a playwright pursues the truth lef... | add to cart | |
| WATER FALLING DOWN by Mark Swivel Water Falling Down is an intimate two-hander, a closely observed portrait of a father and ... | add to cart | |
| CROSSED by Chris Summers Five initially disparate urban Australian lives intertwine and intersect, ultimately all l... | add to cart | |
| THE MAN WITH THE SEPTEMBER FACE by Kylie Trounson It’s 1983. Jesse wants to make it big in roller skates. His coach (and Mum) Naura, r... | add to cart | |
| A BEAUTIFUL GESTURE by Ross Mueller St Paul’s Church sits beside “Ground Zero”. A tiny building on Broadway,... | add to cart | |
| THERESE RAQUIN by Gary Abrahams Newlyweds, Therese and Camille, have just moved to Paris with Camille’s mother. Pari... | add to cart | |
| IN THE VIOLET TIME by Sue Smith Set in inner city Sydney in 1931, and narrated by 12-year-old Violet, In the Violet Time t... | add to cart | |
| TILT by Catherine McKinnon Tilt is an exploration of a question: How does terror influence the people we love and the... | add to cart | |
| WAR CRIMES by Angela Betzien What do you do when your country is at war, your town is at war, your friends are at war a... | add to cart | |
| WIREDANCER'S WALTZ by Sven Swenson Elderly, deaf Artie Fuchs leaves his door key out each day for home helpers. Today he̵... | add to cart | |
| BONDI DREAMING by Sam Atwell Two young Aussies await execution in a south-east Asian prison cell for drug smuggling. Th... | add to cart |