Drama Online - Currency Press Collection

Currency Press Collection

This exciting collection, exclusively available via Drama Online, offers 300 plays from Currency Press, Australia's leading publisher of the performing arts and its oldest, independently-owned, active publisher.

The collection launches with 201 titles and 99 further titles will follow in 2023.

Currency Press has published hundreds of titles across a rapidly expanding list of contemporary Australian writers, including indigenous playwrights, alongside genre plays of the colonial period and works from the first half of the twentieth century.

The front cover of Ladies Day by Alana Valentine depicting a man with an extravagant gold floral hat on

Three women with pony tails and pink jumpers on the front cover of Atlantis by Lally Katz

A smiling man sitting in a crate of oranges holds a stick on the front cover of Cloud Street by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo

A white woman in a high collared dress appears on the front cover of The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell

Four feet can be seen behind a red curtain which has been set on fire on the front cover of Cosi by Louis Nowra

Front cover of the anthology Contemporary Indigenous Plays, including Bitin' Back by Vivienne Cleven, Black Medea by Wesley Enoch, King Hit by David Milroy and Geoffrey Narkle, Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison, and Windmill Baby by David Milroy

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Download title list*

*This title list is for the first 201 titles, launched in September 2022

About the collection:

When complete, this collection will include 300 plays from many of Australia’s preeminent playwrights such as Nick Enright, Lally Katz, Kate Mulvany, Joanna Murray-Smith, Tommy Murphy, Louis Nowra and Leah Purcell
The titles included are global and diverse in their origins and themes, offering a dynamic mix of contemporary Australian texts aimed at a global readership
The first and only exclusive library of Currency Press titles, this collection offers a unique opportunity for students, practitioners and researchers to explore the catalogue of this important drama publisher