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Currency Press Collection

This exciting collection, exclusively available via Drama Online, offers 305 plays from Currency Press, Australia's leading publisher of the performing arts and its oldest, independently-owned, active publisher.

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
An upset man crouching looking at clothes on the floor appears on the front cover of Transparency by Suzie Miller
A white woman in a high collared dress appears on the front cover of The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
A little girl on a white gown standing with red red trees on the background appears on the front cover of Holy Day by Andrew Bovell
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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About the collection:

  • This collection offers plays from many of Australia’s preeminent playwrights such as Andrew Bovell, Nick Enright, Lally Katz, Suzie Miller, Kate Mulvany, Joanna Murray-Smith, Tommy Murphy, Louis Nowra, Debra Oswald, Leah Purcell and David Williamson.
  • 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.