Plays » Australian & Oceanian

Dreamers - the play    by B E Turner
Price: Free! 14410 words. Language: English (New Zealand dialect). Published on May 29, 2013. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

Thomas, the proprietor of a second hand bookshop is middle aged and has seen better days. Kate, who is half his age, comes into his shop to by an old volume to prop up a table in a school play. There is an instant attraction however they can only come together in the mystical world of dreams. This play has been converted into a short novel which is available at Smashwords.
Chrissy    by B E Turner
Price: Free! 4420 words. Language: English (New Zealand dialect). Published on May 27, 2013. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

Chrissy is a one act play concerning the attitude of society to the disadvantaged. Chrissy is an attractive young woman with mental problems. We see how a do-good couple, a hoon of a boyfriend and the medical establishment react to her. The play had a successful production at BATS theater in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Cranial Equity Loan    by Charlie Canning
Price: $2.99 USD. 11340 words. Language: English. Published on April 23, 2013. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

A three-act satire of modern life, the banking industry and consumer credit played against the backdrop of the Melbourne Cup, the most prestigious horse race in Australia and possibly the biggest fashion event of the year. Horseplay in three acts.
Three Points of Contact    by Shaun Charles
Price: $2.99 USD. 17960 words. Language: English. Published by Lucy & Ruth  on March 6, 2013. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

A ferocious black comedy by Australian playwright, Shaun Charles. Samantha and Michael have everything: great incomes, great apartment, great views of the Brisbane River and great sex. If only they could get rid of Lucy, the house guest from hell ... oh and then there's the issue of a rogue lion roaming the streets of Brisbane.
Penalty Shot    by Daynan Brazil
Price: $2.99 USD. 10030 words. Language: English. Published by Lucy & Ruth  on January 23, 2013. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

Football is a religion to Rudi and his mates - who are all back in Sydney. Lee hates football, he hates sport full stop. He’d rather be jamming with his punk band in Brisbane. But at a new school – in a new town – what can you do? A play for teenage audiences, Penalty Shot has toured NSW and Victoria and was nominated for an Australian Writers’ Guild award (AWGIE) in 2008.
The Sorrows and Suffering of Young Werther: A Stage-play    by Dr D. Bruno Starrs
Price: $2.99 USD. 14030 words. Language: English. Published on January 20, 2013. Plays » European / German.

This two act stage-play is an English translation and stage adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 novella "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". It was first published in the April 2004 issue of "Ygdrasil: A Journal of the Poetic Arts" (online, Ottawa, Canada. K. Gerken [ed]). There are no fees to perform this play so long as all actors have a legally obtained copy.
His ... Or Her ... Suicide.    by Dr D. Bruno Starrs
Price: $0.99 USD. 1400 words. Language: English. Published on January 6, 2013. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

(4.00 from 1 review)
A short play about suicide, written in the absurdist tradition. First published in "Antithesis" by the University of Melbourne English Department, 14, 2004, pp. 151-155. There are no fees for production of this play, as long as the author is correctly attributed, no major changes are made without permission from the author and the author is informed of the play's public performance/s.
All Fours    by Dr D. Bruno Starrs
Price: $0.99 USD. 1430 words. Language: English. Published on January 6, 2013. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

(5.00 from 6 reviews)
A short play about gender differences, written in the absurdist tradition. First published in "Movimiento Paroxista Revista Literatura" (online) by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the University of North Carolina, 1.1, 2011, pp. 17-25. This play is royalty free.
Grace & Another Dead Rock Star    by Shaun Charles
Price: $1.99 USD. 7240 words. Language: English. Published by Lucy & Ruth  on December 5, 2012. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

A macabre and absurd double-bill by Shaun Charles. In Grace a lonely woman throws a party to show her neighbours she is coping with a tragic loss but it’s not quite the celebration everyone was expecting. In Another Dead Rock Star Sebastian and Neil are depressed flatmates who come up with a plan to give their lives meaning and direction.
Boletus    by Pen Avram
Price: Free! 7110 words. Language: English. Published on November 25, 2012. Plays » Australian & Oceanian.

Hendrych and Kroupa take to stage again, in their second play.