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The Season at a glance

Please find below a snapshot of the twelve plays in the 2009 Season.

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  Grace

  Opens Friday 2 January Closes Saturday 14 February

  Scientist Grace Friedman has fought irrational belief her entire career, becoming the country’s most vocal advocate for atheism. So it comes almost as a personal affront when her own son, Tom, decides to become an Anglican priest. And why aren’t her husband and Tom’s fiancée as upset as she is? Yet when tragedy falls, she finds that having all the arguments is not the same as having all the answers.
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  Poor Boy

  Opens Wednesday 21 January Closes Sunday 8 March

  Jem Glass is an untroubled little boy until his seventh birthday, when he suddenly announces that he is really a grown man called Danny, who died some years before. How can his parents indulge his conviction that he must find his real family? And how can his eerie insistence on his true identity not resurrect painful memories for Danny’s widow?
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  Moonlight and Magnolias

  Opens Saturday 21 February Closes Saturday 28 March

  The greatest movie in Hollywood history has script troubles and movie mogul David O Selznick is bleeding a fortune. Five days, he figures, is all he has before his goose is cooked. But he’s got Hollywood’s best rewrite guy, Ben Hecht; he’s got big-time director Victor Fleming; he’s got a typewriter; he’s got a supply of bananas; and he’s got the key to the office door. No one’s going nowhere until the script is fixed.
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  The Year of Magical Thinking

  Opens Wednesday 4 March Closes Saturday 11 April

  As one of America’s most perceptive novelists and essayists, Joan Didion had often examined suffering with her firm, analytical gaze and her well-developed sense for the cruel ironies of life. Then, within a year, her beloved husband and her only child die, and the suffering she finds herself examining in appalled fascination is her own.
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  Realism

  Opens Saturday 4 April Closes Sunday 17 May

  It is the summer of 1939 and in a small Moscow theatre a company of actors begin rehearsals of a new play to commemorate Stalin’s sixtieth birthday. It is a tough gig, because for Soviet artists working towards the Radiant Future the old showbiz maxim ‘The show must go on’ is an order you can’t refuse.
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  August: Osage County

  Opens Saturday 23 May Closes Saturday 27 June

  So what that Mom pops pills like circus peanuts? Or that these three sisters would be Chekhov’s worst nightmare? Who needs happy marriages and kids who make you proud? Good or bad, family is family. So when the Old Man goes missing, it’s up to everyone to drop what they’re doing and haul their burdens of resentment and their sorry asses back home to Osage County, Oklahoma.
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  The Man from Mukinupin

  Opens Saturday 6 June Closes Sunday 19 July

  In the wheat-belt town of Mukinupin, east of the rabbit-proof fence, the shopkeeper’s daughter Polly is in love with young Jack Tuesday. Her parents disapprove, but in this friendly community of battlers, you feel that love will overcome all. Still, every town has its dark side and Mukinupin keeps hers well-hidden.
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  The Birthday Party

  Opens Friday 19 June Closes Saturday 1 August

  In the snug little bolthole he has found for himself in Meg’s seaside boarding house, Stanley can forget the failures of the past and indulge his comforting fantasies. But when two new lodgers come to stay, a chill shadow falls across his cosy life. Who are they? And why are they so keen to celebrate his birthday?
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  Rockabye

  Opens Saturday 8 August Closes Sunday 20 September

  Sidney can feel her career slipping down the plughole. No one loves a pop star when she’s forty – not if she isn’t Madonna or Kylie. So unless she wants to join the ranks of the has-beens on the casino circuit, she better get herself a hit. But what if she regains the whole world and still feels that something’s missing?
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  God of Carnage

  Opens Saturday 29 August Closes Saturday 3 October

  In the neighbourhood park the other day, little Ferdinand whacked his playmate Bruno with a stick, breaking two teeth. So it is important that the parents of the boys set the right example and sit down to discuss the matter calmly and reasonably. After all, nothing will be gained by behaving like children ...
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  When the Rain Stops Falling

  Opens Wednesday 7 October Closes Sunday 22 November

  It begins with a miracle. On a rainy day in Alice Springs in 2039 a fish falls like manna from heaven to bless the reunion of a father with his long lost son. Perhaps it is a sign that the pattern of betrayal and abandonment that began on another rainy day in London in 1959 will come to an end.
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  Godzone

  Opens Saturday 5 December Closes Sunday 17 January

  There’s a fervour in the revivalist tent, where Reverend Kevin of Rudd Ministries, in a sermon from the German translated via Mandarin, tells his congregation that religion is the new politics and vice versa. Called up to testify, his guests, drawn from the Great and the Good, will each bear witness to the powerful spirit moving across this land.