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It is December 1948. While their husbands self-sacrificingly remain at work in town, Sarah and her sister-in-law Jennifer spend yet another summer by the sea, watching the children in the deep water and trying to avoid the annual judgement-by-mother-in-law at the hands of the indomitable Alice. Secret relief comes for Jennifer when she meets an older man, Henry, who listens to her and provides an occasional oasis of sanity in the midst of her holiday madness. At the same time, Sarah is determined to put their family back on track by smartening up its image and exposing its atavistic ills to the disinfectant of sunlight and the open air. When Henry is discovered to be at the centre of this family’s business, the dynamic daughters-in-law have to stand firm and defy Alice, who guards their tragedy with all the calmness of the self-justified.

Helena, grand dame of the Melbourne and Sydney theatre scene, thinks she has settled nicely into a restful performance regime of comedy classics in judiciously subsidised spaces. When her somewhat intense undergraduate daughter, Emmeline, hurls an asylum seeker/detention centre drama at her, Helena’s professional certainties are shaken not so much by the play’s contents as by its lead actor, Violet. A student of Australian theatre, Violet has chosen Helena to be her mentor and she sets about procuring her idol with disturbing intensity. Besieged and exhausted by the emotional demands of these two passionate young women, Helena finds herself facing a choice between biting on the burnt chop of desire and doing something really reprehensible.

Max and Marion are usually the sort of friends who can go for a year without seeing each other and catch up on everything in a second once they do. In these four strange and amusing encounters, however, something new seems to be happening. Max finds himself increasingly flummoxed by his interesting friend, as Marion plays about with various scenarios in which she side-steps work, suspends the kids and liberates her life partner while making a direct and long overdue approach towards more time meditating under the Me Tree.

Athena, an Australian nurse working overseas, is raped and murdered. Her father, John, must decide whether to grant clemency to her murderer, who is facing execution by beheading. Margaret, an ex-school teacher on a career change as a junior Australian Government official, is sent in to counsel and assist the grieving man. When the situation proves predictably challenging, Margaret’s daughter, Nina, provides a clarity of counsel and assistance that is so irresistibly logical it may well prove to be the most practical solution.

When internationally renowned and self-confessed soloist Rachael Marlin comes to live with Holly and James in their Salon d’Art, everyone falls madly in love with her. Only Joy, a young doctor, sounds a note of caution when she sees Rachael’s effect on her fiancé, Matthew, and her potential to turn their little salon d’Artinto a large theatre of the absurd. As Joy anticipates, when Rachael’s affections and creative energies turn closer towards her instrument than to her hosts, she reveals herself to be not quite the promised protégé. Spurred on by Holly, all have to work quickly to meet the danger and construct a ménage in which art and, above all, honour can be satisfied.

Los venerados poetas y filósofos persas de los siglos XIII y XIV, tales como Saadi o Hafez, escribían poemas líricos llamados ghazal, que narraban historias de amor en todo su esplendor y drama. El amor descrito era diferente al concepto occidental del amor. Los ghazales hablaban sobre separación y dolor que exigían entrega absoluta y total sacrificio.Felices y Coloridos Sueños, Señor es una adaptación contemporánea de los poemas líricos de antaño. Es una obra llena de metáforas y simbolismo. Nos lleva hasta una isla donde un mágico chamán, un desafortunado pero misterioso incapacitado, una hermosa joven y una cocinera de galletas encantadas se enfrentan a un dilema que requiere una solución.Esta es una obra que invita a la reflexión, y a su vez es sumamente simple en su narración. Cualquier lector que se haya enamorado se identificará con los peligros y perjuicios que un dolor tal puede ocasionar. Le dejará reflexionando sobre la compleja situación sentimental a la que todos debemos enfrentarnos de forma inevitable.La primera traducción al español de la obra de Masoud Shakarami, dramaturgo y actor ganador de varios reconocimientos, promete divertir y deleitar."Solo hay una forma de comprender un ghazal, y no es estudiándolo durante años, visitando diferentes países o siéndonos familiares grandes poetas. Para comprender un ghazal basta con beber vino y ENAMORARSE."Así que sírvase un vaso y sumérjase en una obra que no trata sino de amor.

Showfolk duo Joan and Peter defer the usual pre-lunch cocktail and anxiously await the arrival of their bright new young director. Reviewing their career high and lowlights to date, this exciting new project promises them a big break in the face of their comically fast-maturing professional viability. At this point, when their careers are about to go over the top, the action of the play retreats 40 years to the world of personal and professional security they enjoyed in the 1970s. Married less to their respective spouses, Ian and Audrey, than they are to the spotlight, Joan and Peter are about to discover that they have been paying no attention to what has been going on in the real world back-stage. Shock and bemusement are bits of business they can perform, but little convinces us that Joan and Peter achieve any insights about love or life in this backstory to the show that inevitably and incessantly goes on.

Every weekday April has the 4WD waiting at the school gate well before 3.30pm and a raft of after-school activities in hand to keep them all occupied.  But seven years’ worth of long lunches with her single friend Louis and two half days a week at the gallery have left this doctor’s wife wondering if there is anything else.  When Jeremy the private tutor comes into her life, and her foster daughter May comes of age, April begins to feel like a hothouse orchid, although she longs to be a wildflower.

Ellen hasn’t done a show since well before she had kids. Why she allowed herself to be roped-in at the last minute to sing, play the cello as well as the lead in Glenn’s one-night stand production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a mystery. By the end of the first rehearsal she is floundering, by the end of the second, she is in love. Or, at least, she has a crazy thing for Lana, an utterly relaxed and experienced actor with no apparent responsibilities. The problem is, with one rehearsal to go, Ellen can’t really fathom her own heart, or Lana’s. All she can say for certain is, “I'd really just like to get her into a hotel room for a weekend and see what happens!”

Finally, the new play is up and running but Ellen's problems are just beginning. Imogen, her daughter and primary theatrical asset, is tiring of the spotlight. Glenn, her co-producer with privileges, is demanding something more. Then on opening night, Lana appears. Ten years ago, she walked into Ellen's life, changed it and left. Ever since Ellen has been wondering why. Now she is also wondering what Lana wants with Imogen.

The revered Persian poets and philosophers of the 13th and 14th century, (such as Saadi and Hafez) wrote lyrical poems called Ghazals, that recounted tales of love in all its splendour and tragedy. The love described differed from western notions of love. Ghazals spoke of separation and pain that demanded complete surrender and total sacrifice.Have Colourful Dreams, Sir is a contemporary adaptation of the lyrical poems of old. It is a play steeped in symbolism and metaphors. It takes us to an island where a magical shaman, a hapless yet mysterious cripple, a beautiful maiden and a baker of enchanted cookies are faced with a dilemma that demands a solution.This is a play that is thought-provoking yet remarkably simple in its telling. Any reader who has ever fallen in love will identify with the dangers and perils that such an affliction can bring. It will leave you pondering the complex condition of the emotion which we all must inevitably face.Award-winning actor and playwright, Masoud Shakarami’s first English translation of the play, which won first prize in the Fajr International Theatre Festival, will be sure to entertain and delight."There is only one way to understand a Ghazal, and it is not to study it for years, nor visiting various countries nor becoming familiar with the great poets. To understand Ghazal, you only have to drink wine and fall in LOVE.”So pour a glass and immerse yourself in a play all about love.