Salome

Seductive, sassy, and sacrilegious, Salome, one of Oscar Wilde’s rarely performed plays, is a telling of the biblical story of a capricious princess in the court of Herod Antipas. “Something terrible will happen…”

February, 2012 (Sydney)

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Stuck

An Australian play by Andrew O’Connell, having its world premiere in Perth in 2018, Stuck is about the distinctly different frustrations of three young adults, and their painful transitions from the follies of youth to the responsibilities of adulthood. Sex, violence, indifference, self-esteem, and issues of immigration are all issues in this intense - and very tense! - play.

March 2018 (Perth); September, 2018 (Sydney)

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No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist classic about three people in hell, each wondering what their eternal punishment will be as they become increasingly frustrated with one another. “Hell is other people”. Performed INSIDE a bespoke shipping container!

October 2021 (Perth); January, 2022 (Perth - Fringeworld)

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Venus in Fur

Thomas Novachek, a director/playwright, has suffered through a long day of abysmal auditions for his adaptation of the German sadomasochistic novel Venus in Furs, until Vanda, a crass and pushy actress, stumbles into his audition room, and ends up displaying a surprising understanding of the material…

November 2023 (Perth); February, 2024 (Perth - Fringeworld)

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Oleanna

Carol, a university student, ploughs headlong into institutional power, when she takes on university professor John, unpicking the subtle and kicking it from its dormancy. The drama is a high stakes, age-old conflict, with two immutable opposing forces unleashed on each other while contained within the glass cage of a tertiary institution.

January/February, 2016 (Perth)

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Diary of a Madman

Clerk of the nine grade’, Aksentii Ivanovitch Poprishchin is a nobody going nowhere. But perhaps that’s not true. Perhaps he’s is actually a Count, or or a General, and only seems to be a clerk of the nine grade. Meanwhile, strange goings on in Spain…

March, 2019 (Perth)

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Le Sorelle (‘The Sisters’)

A new Australian (and Italian!) play written by Andrew O’Connell.

Two Italian sisters live together in a sizeable farmhouse in northern Italy. One of the sisters has dreams of creating a new life for herself in Australia but not if the other sister can help it. Into this toxic relationship walks Australian ex-pat, Mack.

February 20212 (Fremantle); February, 2023 (Perth - Fringeworld)

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Thom Pain

Nominated for a Fringeworld Theatre Award in 2017, the one-man show Thom Pain is “A surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life's worth.” (Charles Isherwood, NY Times Theatre review.)

February, 2017(Perth) September, 2018 (Sydney)

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Professional Premises

A new Australian play by Andrew O’Connell. “Professional Premises” is the story of a theatre director who ends up clashing with one of his actors. Trying to rehearse Shakespeare’s The Tempest, things are not going well. If only they could all just take a moment, take a breath, and work things out civilly…but they don’t, and one of them will suffer life-long consequences because of it.

October, 2020 (Perth)

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“Art” (a play by Yasmina Reza)

Three friends argue about a white painting! Serge has bought an almost entirely white painting, much to the chagrin of his friend, Marc. Their friend Ivan tries to keep them from arguing about the painting but he only makes things worse!

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