AustLit

'After 50 years of marriage, these Baby Boomers from Balwyn annoy one another so much… they literally want to kill each other. Meanwhile, Greta Thunberg is on the TV telling them that the world is on fire and it’s all their fault.

'Their comedic dissent into the disappointing abyss of unfulfilled dreams and a mounting fear of ‘what’s outside’ is layered with precision timing, nonsensical absurdity and deadpan delivery.'

Source: fortyfivedownstairs.

'A monologue about not speaking.

'After spending a year in silence, June invites an audience into her world. At times charming, at others shimmering with rage, she arrives fully formed but alters at will. A gentle and challenging play about memory and finding a voice that fits who you have become.'

Source: fortyfivedownstairs.

'As a flight attendant, Kelly Archer has seen it all and solved it all. But passenger 48 has taken it too far. Kelly lashes out and by the time the plane lands she’s an international pariah, shamed online, cancelled and loathed.

'Hiding in her apartment and besieged by the media she cries out for help… and help comes, in the form of a medieval Knight!… or is he?  What follows is a time travel odyssey about courage, forgiveness, duty and the joy of chocolate as the oddest couple in history do battle with their dragons.'

Source: fortyfivedownstairs.

'Ada Munroe rents her two spare rooms to Leon and Francis, two single, aging men who seem to have come to the end of their road. The small country town where they live is slowly dying; local businesses are closing,  familiar faces disappearing. Their narrowing futures seem inescapable. But one night something unexpected happens that shifts how Ada sees her life. And now everything must change.'

Source: fortyfivedownstairs.

'In 1852, the handsome emigrant clipper ship Ticonderoga limped into Port Phillip Bay with a nightmare in her holds. On the 90-day voyage from England, a deadly typhus epidemic swept through her decks, taking nearly 200 of her 800 Scots passengers. Forbidden to enter Melbourne, the Ticonderoga’s passengers and crew were set down on a little beach inside the heads while the ship’s surgeon – assisted by a brave young Highland girl – did their best to heal and comfort.

'One of the biggest stories of its day – now all but forgotten, Michael Veitch plays the surgeon in later life recounting the dramatic saga. But Hell Ship is more than just a maritime tale – the surgeon was Michael’s own great-great grandfather, and the young nurse his great-great grandmother.

'Resonating powerfully with today’s world, and accompanied by original music performed by Michael’s son Thomas Veitch, Hell Ship is a story of hope, love and survival.'

Source: fortyfivedownstairs.