Category: Playwriting Australia

Photo by Alexandra Nell Lambert House Enterprises, developed with the assistance of Playwriting Australia (PWA) present FLOOD, by Chris Isaacs, at the Old 505, Eliza Street, Newtown, 9 November – 19 November. FLOOD, by Chris Isaacs, is an Australian play first presented in Perth, in 2014. Six young white youths, three women and three men, take off for a camping break out in the wilds of Western Australia. Just driving without a clear mapping identity they find themselves kind of lost and end up setting up camp beside a pool, having disregarded a signpost laying in the dust. Bush noises, kangaroos,…

Playwriting Australia in association with Carriageworks presents NATIONAL PLAY FESTIVAL at Carriageworks. As I had mentioned at the end of my last blog, Dear Diary: The National Play Festival. A four day festival: 12th-15th June. It began with a Keynote Address by Andrew Bovell entitled, HAROLD PINTER AT THE IVY. Here is a link to the speech and I thoroughly recommend that you read and/or watch it. Like the Harold Pinter Nobel Prize Lecture (2005), (which is also on google, and definitely worth knowing), Mr Bovell’s speech is an impassioned, and ethically argued provocation to all the writers, artists, of Australia.…