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'I’m not saying – not really – that I can change the world, but maybe – there’s a big part of me that thinks: you know what? I have the privileged education. I have the determination. Maybe it’s not a colossal effect, but maybe – I can alter something. Maybe I can.

'PJ moves to a remote country town to take up a teaching job as part of a prestigious re-training program. She is assigned a difficult student, Sam. As PJ’s life becomes harder, she finds herself forging a bond with her ward, he becomes not only a student, but a project, with a particular fascination.

'As their classes break and rebuild, lessons are taught, rules are broken and a dangerous obsession – a co-dependence – forms. Who is teaching who?' (Production summary)

'Heidi and her daughter are being evicted. Her brother comes to the rescue, offering to drive them to a cabin in the mountains to start afresh.

'As the scenery shifts and the mountains divide, in a series of near-identical motel rooms, Heidi battles with past addictions and paranoia. It seems there’s an unsettling ulterior motive for this trip, but will anyone take the driver’s seat to avert the danger?

'A play of mystical mountains and itchy motel rooms, charged with sexuality and secrets, The Silver Alps rips the hood off the family car and drags things lurking out from under the motel bed.'

Source: Author's website.

'They met online. She’s a nurse in her forties, brats for kids, trapped in a loop of catastrophic debt. He’s in IT, miserably married and trapped in his own loop of nightly porn-trawling. Both of them crave something else – but not necessarily each other.

'Take the plunge into the Too-Much-Information Age. Funny and fiercely written, 'Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography' is a deceptively compassionate cringe-comedy of mid-life loneliness, hidden zip folders and barely concealed desperation.' (Source: Griffin Theatre Company website)