Nick Enright

A gripping multimedia drama spanning twenty-eight years, chronicling the secrets and lives of five diverse Australians during the final quarter of the 20th century.

Would you ruin someone's life, separate them from their soulmate and their only son, all the time telling yourself you're doing the right thing? Leaping back and forth between the 1920s and the 1980s, Good Works follows the lives of two women and their two sons as they struggle to cram their complex lives within the narrow confines of Catholic morality. By turns angry, incisive, tender and tragic, Good Works is Nick Enright's most complex and most personal play. 'Enright has fashioned an extremely complex, difficult and complex play, emotionally charged, intellectually challenging. It is without doubt destined to become a major work in the Australian theatre.' Angela Bennie, Sydney Morning Herald, 1994 'Nick Enright's Good Works is one of the most moving, absorbing and powerful new plays produced in Sydney in a long time. It is an exciting work by an experienced writer who has finally found his personal voice.' John McCallum, The Australian, 1994 'It seems to me to be a play we have been waiting for for years now. Passionate, argumentative, yet thoroughly dramatic, realist in its concerns, yet dexterous in its use of symbolism... it is a stunning achievement.' Guy Rundle, The Age, 1995

Turnaround Creek, outback Australia, Boxing Day, 1945. The dust and inertia settle on the town as Harold Slocum of Slocum's Travelling Tent Show becomes stranded in the town, emotions run high and the sedentary life of the town is distributed into wakefulness by the remembrance of an illicit affair.

This adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century comedy The Venetian Twins quickly earned a reputation as one of the most boisterous, vibrant and irreverent works of Australian musical theatre following its initial season at the Sydney Opera House for the Nimrod Theatre Company in 1979. Rooted firmly in Commedia dell'arte yet unashamedly influenced by Kurt Weill, Donizetti and countless others in between, The Venetian Twins is an inspired piece of mayhem and musical pastiche.

It's Toby Ackland's birthday party down near the surf club-and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead-raped by three boys and bashed with a rock. Who is responsible? Blackrock is an intimate and strongly shaped human drama which examines the social forces behind the impulse to violence in individual lives.

1967, Australia. As anti-war protestors march in the streets, it is the end of the school year and boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams. The cadets plan their regimental dinner and the Colonel will attend. Dominic Connolly, a talented, passionate and committed opponent of the war, chooses this time to stage a personal demonstration. His action leads him to the school's infirmary. In this place of healing he must reconcile his impulse for freedom with the need for responsibility: to choose a life of conformity or rebellion, and to live with the consequences.

Felicity and Tom both have busy lives and demanding careers. Tom is travelling when Felicity receives a call from an American boyfriend from her past (2 acts, 3 men, 3 women).