Books published by Currency Press Pty Ltd

Australia''s most popular playwright explores community conferencing -- a process bringing together the victims and perpetrators of a crime to attempt some kind of reconciliation. When same come ''Face to Face'' with the employee who rammed his Mercedes, he must acknowledge responsibility for a series of incidents which helped to provoke the crime. In ''A Conversation'', the family of a rapist and murderer are confronted by the family of his victim. ''Charitable Intent'' focuses on the pressures and contradictions that erupt as workplace values change. This trilogy revels that courage and forgiveness run deeper in the human psyche than many cynics would have us believe.

Felicity and Tom both have busy lives and demanding careers. Tom is travelling when Felicity receives a call from an American boyfriend from her past (2 acts, 3 men, 3 women).

Dan is on a steep learning curve. It is not just that he is in his final year of school. When his parents go to Europe he moves in with his 22-year-old, bass-playing aunt Jacq and her friend Naomi. He should be concentrating on calculus and the fish-tank scene in Romeo and Juliet, but in a desperate bid to impress Naomi, Dan secretly starts memorising some more obscure information. Adapted from Nick Earls' award-winning novel, this is a gently comic tale of intimacy, ornithology and fresh pesto (2 male; 2 female).

A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton's enormously successful novel of the same name. A huge success at the 1998 Sydney and Perth festival, the story follows the fluctuating fortune of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth. Both the novel and stage adaptation have proven to be major works and have each left an indelible mark on the Australian arts scene (3 acts, 20 men, 13 women, extras).

Deals with the clash of cultures when a World War I veteran brings home a Parisian bride to the Victorian mallee country (3 acts, 7 men, 6 women).