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2011 Main Season     

2009 Studio Season     

2006 Main Season     

2002 Main Season     

2011 Studio Season 

2008 Main Season 

2006 Studio Season 

2001 Main Season 

2010 Main Season 

2008 Studio Season 

2005 Main Season 

2000 Main Season 

2010 Studio Season 

2007 Main Season 

2004 Main Season 

 

2009 Main Season 

2007 Studio Season 

2003 Main Season 

 

2011 Main Season

Name 

Playwright 

Don Parties On 

David Williamson 

A Behanding in Spokane 

Martin McDonagh 

Apologia 

Alexi Kaye Campbell 

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)  

Sarah Ruhl 

Next to Normal 

Music by Tom Kitt, Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey 

The Gift 

Joanna Murray-Smith 

The Joy of Text 

Robert Reid 

Hamlet 

William Shakespeare 

Rising Water 

Tim Winton 

Clybourne Park 

Bruce Norris 

Return to Earth  

Lally Katz 

The Importance of Being Earnest 

Oscar Wilde 

2011 Studio Season

Name 

Playwright 

The Dream Life of Butterflies  

Raimondo Cortese 

The Water Carriers 

Ian Wilding 

Circle Mirror Transformation  

Annie Baker 

2010 Main Season

Name 

 Playwright 

The Drowsy Chaperone  

  Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison 

 Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar 

The Swimming Club  

 Hannie Rayson 

Madagascar  

 J.T. Rogers 

The Grenade  

 Tony McNamara 

Richard III  

 William Shakespeare 

Boston Marriage  

 David Mamet 

Dead Man's Cell Phone  

 Sarah Ruhl 

Let the Sunshine  

 David Williamson 

All About My Mother  

 A play by Samuel Adamson 

 Based on the film by Pedro Almodovar 

Life Without Me  

 Daniel Keene 

Songs for Nobodies  

 Joanna Murray-Smith  

 

2010 Studio Season

 

Name 

 Playwright 

The Ugly One                

 Marius Von Mayenburg, translated by Maja Zade 

 

2009 Main Season

 

Name 

 Playwright 

Grace  

 Mick Gordon and AC Grayling 

Poor Boy, a play with songs  

 Matt Cameron and Tim Finn 

Moonlight and Magnolias  

 Ron Hutchinson 

The Year of Magical Thinking  

 Joan Didion 

Realism  

 Paul Galloway 

August: Osage County  

 Tracy Letts 

The Man from Mukinupin  

 Dorothy Hewett 

The Birthday Party  

 Harold Pinter 

Rockabye  

 Joanna Murray-Smith 

God of Carnage  

 Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton 

When the Rain Stops Falling 

 Andrew Bovell 

Godzone 

Guy Rundle and Max Gillies 

2009 Studio Season

 

Name 

 Playwright 

Savage River 

The Colours 

Apocalypse Bear Trilogy 

The Dame on the Ten Dollar Note  

 Steve Rodgers 

 Peter Houghton 

 Lally Katz 

 Beverley Dunn 

2008 Main Season

 

Name 

 Playwright 

Don Juan in Soho  

 Patrick Marber 

The Season at Sarsaparilla  

 Patrick White 

Rock 'n' Roll  

 Tom Stoppard  

Love Song  

 John Kolvenbach 

Holding the Man  

 Adapted by Tommy Murphy from the book by Timothy Conigrave 

The 39 Steps  

 John Buchan and Alfred Hitchcock; Adapted by Patrick Barlow 

Frost/Nixon  

 Peter Morgan 

Scarlett O'Hara at the Crimson Parrot  

 David Williamson 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  

 Tennessee Williams 

Ninety  

 Joanna Murray-Smith 

The Hypocrite  

 A new version of Molière’s Tartuffe by Justin Fleming 

2008 Studio Season

 

Name 

 Playwright 

Blackbird  

 David Harrower 

2007 Main Season

 

Name         Playwright 
Entertaining Mr Sloane       Joe Orton 
Don’s Party               David Williamson 
All My Sons          Arthur Miller 
The Ghost Writer      Ross Mueller 
History Boys      Alan Bennett 
The Pillowman         Martin McDonagh 
Enlightenment     Shelagh Stephenson 
Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons      Roy Smiles 
The Glass Soldier     Hannie Rayson 
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?       Edward Albee 
The Madwoman of Chaillot    By Jean Giraudoux, Adapted by Maurice Valency 

2007 Studio Season

 
 
Name     Playwright 

Thom Pain (based on nothing)    

 Will Eno 

   

2006 Main Season

 
 
Name       Playwright 
Dumb Show    Joe Penhall 
Spelling Bee   Music & Lyrics by William Finn 
Book by Rachel Sheinkin 
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman 
Ray’s Tempest      Steve Rodgers 
Doubt        John Patrick Shanley 
A Clean House    Sarah Ruhl 
The Give and Take   Tony McNamara 
I Am My Own Wife       Doug Wright 
Festen   A dramatisation by David Eldridge 
Based on the Dogme film and play  
By Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bo hr. Hansen 
The Female of the Species   Joanna Murray-Smith 
Tomfoolery    Music, book and lyrics by Tom Lehrer  
Adapted by Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray  
Musical Arrangements by Chris Walker and Robert Fisher 

2006 Studio Season

 
 
Name    Playwright 
A Single Act     Jane Bodie 

 

2005 Main Season

 

Name 

Playwright 

The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead 

by Robert Hewett 

Things We Do For Love 

by Alan Ayckbourn 

Cyrano De Bergerac 

by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Andrew Upton, from a translation from Andrew Upton and Marion Potts 

Cruel and Tender 

by Martin Crimp, after Sophocles’ Trachiniae 

Two Brothers 

by Hannie Rayson 

Boy Gets Girl 

by Rebecca Gilman 

Influence 

by David Williamson 

King Lear 

by William Shakespeare 

Cheech or the Chrysler Guys
are in Town
 
 

by François Létourneau, English translation by Rick DesRochers 

Hitchcock Blonde 

by Terry Johnson 

End Of The Rainbow  

by Peter Quilter 

The World’s Wife 

by Carol Ann Duffy 

2004 Main Season

 

Name 

Playwright 

Les Liaisons Dangereuses 

by Christopher Hampton, adapted from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos 

Hinterland 

by Matt Cameron 

The Glass Menagerie 

by Tennessee Williams 

Urinetown, the Musical 

by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis 

Honour 

by Hannie Rayson 

The Memory of Water 

by Shelagh Stephenson 

The Daylight Atheist 

by Tom Scott 

Amigos 

by David Williamson 

Dinner 

by Moira Buffini 

Take Me Out 

by Richard Greenberg 

The Sapphires 

by Tony Briggs 

Bombshells 

by Joanna Murray-Smith (Return Season) 

 

2003 Main Season

 

Name                                                      Playwright 

Cloud Nine 

by Caryl Churchill 

The Blue Room 

by David Hare, freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde 

The Goat, or who is Sylvia? 

 by Edward Albee 

Inheritance 

by Hannie Rayson 

Birthrights 

by David Williamson 

Frozen 

by Bryony Lavery 

The Christian Brothers 

by Ron Blair 

The Visit 

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 

Metamorphoses 

by Mary Zimmerman, based on a translation by David Slavitt of Ovid’s Metamorphoses 

Coup D'Etat 

by Justin Fleming 

Humble Boy 

by Charlotte Jones 

Blithe Spirit 

by Noël Coward 

 

2002 Main Season

 

Name 

Playwright 

Bombshells   

by Joanna Murray-Smith 

Sweet Bird of Youth 

by Tennessee Williams 

Blue/Orange 

by Joe Penhall 

Life x 3 

by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton 

True West 

by Sam Shepard 

Proof 

by David Auburn 

The Recruit 

by Tony McNamara 

Soulmates 

by David Williamson 

Copenhagen 

by Michael Frayn 

Great Expectations 

by Charles Dickens, adapted by Simon Phillips 

Laughter on the 23rd Floor 

by Neil Simon 

2001 Main Season

Name                                                                     Playwright 

Man the Balloon 

by Matt Cameron 

Art 

by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton 

Betrayal 

by Harold Pinter 

Design for Living 

by Noël Coward 

The Tempest 

by William Shakespeare 

Three Days of Rain 

by Richard Greenberg 

Up For Grabs 

by David Williamson 

The Rain Dancers 

by Karin Mainwaring 

The Seagull 

by Anton Chekhov 

The Duchess of Malfi 

by John Webster, adapted by Kate Cherry 

Stones in his Pockets 

by Marie Jones 

The Aunt’s Story  

by Patrick White, adapted by Adam Cook 

 

2000 Main Season

Name                                                            Playwright 

Life After George 

by Hannie Rayson 

Company Book 

by George Furth, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim 

The Beauty Queen of Leenane 

by Martin McDonagh 

Measure for Measure 

by William Shakespeare 

The Chairs 

by Eugene Ionesco, translated by Martin Crimp 

Piaf 

by Pam Gems 

Trelawny of the Wells 

by Arthur Wing Pinero 

Death of a Salesman 

by Arthur Miller 

The Great Man 

by David Williamson 

Collected Stories 

by Donald Magulies 

Art and Soul  

A program of short plays