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1 y separately published work icon Underland Alexandra Collier , 2015 Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2015 11972532 2015 single work drama

'Violet and Ruth are bored as hell in their small town Australian high school, where there’s nothing but red earth, hurricane fences and the far off whirring of the quarry. But when a new teacher arrives, the borders of the town are no longer the limit of where a girl can go. If only they can escape to Melbourne or Paris or Tokyo before the sinister creature lurking at the edges of the town snatches them up and feeds them to the insatiable earth.
 
'Underland is a new Australian play that cracks open the desert to reveal mythic beasts, Chekhovian love triangles and big sky blues, while giving the finger to everything you thought you know about "down under" from Fosters' commercials. Underland was developed at Sydney Theatre Company.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Sisters : A Quarreling Pair Alexandra Collier , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 119-120)
— Review of A Quarreling Pair : A Triptych of Small Puppet Plays Jane Bowles , Cynthia Troup , Lally Katz , 2004 selected work drama
1 Still Waiting Alexandra Collier , 2003 single work drama 'If I haven't written my first novel, released a platinum album, had a hit film, Oscar nomination, donated my life to starting a charity organisation, met the man/woman of my dreams, travelled the world, studied the great texts, been nominated as young Australian of the year by the time I'm 25 then what am I?' The pressure cooker is rising. It's Madeleine's last day at the restaurant. Her last day of waiting. Or is it? Can she resist the smooth-talking waiter and the rough-as-guts chef? Still Waiting. How will she become a woman of her own making?
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