Quick questions on Contemporary Australian theatre voices: HSC Drama core

A family of four adult children and their parents in suburban Adelaide. Adapted by Bovell working with Frantic Assembly (the British physical-theatre company). Toured internationally.

Bovell ranges across themes from colonial Australia to contemporary working-class politics.

Three sisters return to their family beach house on the Mornington Peninsula. One has written a controversial novel about the family. The play won the AWGIE Award and was filmed by Richard Franklin (1995).

A Mallee farming family across decades. The play examines the politics of farming, land, and family loyalty.

Two brothers in Australian Labor politics, loosely modelled on the contemporary Labor split. The play became controversial for its perceived political portraiture.

Continued domestic and political range.

Three families on a beach holiday at Christmas 1967. The Vietnam War is in the background. The play uses three stages of Shakespeare reference (The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear) to structure the family dynamics.

Gow's later work has been more sporadic but is regarded as substantial.

A marital betrayal play that has been produced internationally.

Six monologues for one actress on women's lives.

A feminist hostage thriller modelled loosely on Germaine Greer.

A two-hander between Patricia Highsmith and a young editor.

Ageing characters in a nursing home build a metaphorical climbing expedition.

Three working-class women in an unflinching study of the language and lives of marginalised Australian women.

Cornelius's career has been more visible at La Mama and Melbourne Workers Theatre than at the major state companies, although the bigger institutions have begun to produce her work more regularly in the 2010s and 2020s.