Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

KILLING THE DUCK AND EATING IT TOO
By Estelle Webster

‘Tonight a woman is going to be murdered and ducks will fall from the sky.’

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

SHAME ON YOU, BETTY BUCKNELL
By Gavin Roach

Shame on You, Betty Bucknell introduces audiences to the grand dame of Australian television, Betty Bucknall, the shoot from the hip star of the iconic long running legal series, “I’ll Be The Judge Of That.” Betty Bucknell has long since vanished from Australia’s screens but with an honorary plaque being erected on her childhood home and the rumours of a comeback circulated in the press, the spotlight of attention is once again shone Betty’s way. And Betty is enjoying every minute of it.

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

MY WIFE PEGGY
By Gavin Roach

It’s his birthday. It's George's birthday. Well was. Yesterday, it was his birthday. 42. He's 42 years old. And god does he feel it. His wife keeps me young though, Peggy, and the girls. His girls. He's got two little girls. Little rat bags more like. But he loves them. Can't imagine a life without them. But tonight, on his birthday, he might just have to face death after all...

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

HUNGRY CREATURES
By Kotryna Gesait

Hungry Creatures is a play about the way experience travels through generations. With themes of eating disorders, body image, nature vs nurture and our place in the socially prescriptive roles of gender, Hungry Creatures is a play about the cycles of pain, love and need that follow us from generation to generation.

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

Seagull King
Michael Griffith
Thursday 26 July, 6pm-7pm. Free entry. Gasworks Theatre Foyer.

Unable to financially support himself, Wallace Wood an old actor who never cracked the big time, is residing in a nursing home. The world thinks he has Alzheimer’s but Wallace is only acting; superbly. To date it is the best performance of his life. Trouble is, amongst the soggy party pie dinners and incontinence pads Shakespeare has found him. Can Wallace find the courage to leave the sanctuary of this chicken coup and through Lear become the greatest of the dreamers . . . The Seagull King?

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

Two Hearts
Laura Lethlean
Wednesday 20 June, 6pm-7pm. Free entry. Gasworks Theatre Foyer.

Our eyes meet, across the kitchen, full of bodies pressing against each other: olives in a jar.
The third floor of an old townhouse in Darlington. It’s hot. They’re single. Why not? But what about love? Would it be a waste to fall in love now, so early in life? What if it all goes right? or worse, what if they waste it? Is love just distraction? Does it come out in the wash, in the daily waste?

Can you ever really rid yourself of the people you once loved?

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

PHILTRUM
by Anthea Greco
Director: Angus Cameron

Thursday 19 March, 6pm-7pm. Free entry. Gasworks Theatre Foyer.

When a salt of the Earth family is reunited with its favourite member, love, joy and backhanded insults abound. Blink and you’ll miss the moment that through the chaos, an insidious finger is unwittingly lifted from the Philtrum.

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

胡蝶
Hú Dié
by Dan Walls
Director – Wayne Pearn

Thursday 15 March, 6pm-7pm. Free entry. Gasworks Theatre Foyer.

A beautiful bird is the only kind we cage (Chinese proverb)

Set in a run-down suburban massage parlour in Melbourne, Hú Dié is a powerful and topical story that looks at the fraught relationship that develops between a young Chinese International student and middle aged Australian man.

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

The Mutant Man
by Christopher Bryant
Director – Jessica McLaughlin Cafferty
Wednesday 21 February, 6pm-7pm. Free entry. Gasworks Theatre Foyer.

The Mutant Man is a “dark and expressionistic thriller” (British Theatre Guide) exploring the life and identity of Harry Leo Crawford (née Eugenia Falleni), accused of murder at the turn of the 20th century in NSW.

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:
SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

Resilient Lotus
by Tony Avard
Wednesday 15th November, 6pm-7pm. Free entry. Gasworks Theatre Foyer.

Enlightenment can be hard. Especially when life gets involved. A group of seven people, mostly strangers, come together to find calm in their hectic lives. “resilient lotus” is a new play about the realities of trying to make the world ‘Woke’, when diversity comes into play, it may just be a little harder.

Gasworks Arts Park & Key Conspirators Present:

SCRIPT NIGHTS
NEW IDEAS | NEW SCRIPTS | NEW ART

Be part of the process. Join us at Gasworks Arts Park for rehearsed reads. Exploring new works by local Australian writers. Followed by Q&A.

Quite Drunk, Very Jesus-y
by Grace De Morgan

Wednesday 25th October, 6pm-7pm. Free entry. Gasworks Theatre Foyer.

Four friends from youth group. Four very different faith journeys. One snug log cabin. ‘Quite Drunk, Very Jesus-y’ is a new play exploring how teenage faith plays out in adult life and what the logical breaking point of any childhood friendship should be. Best enjoyed with a (large) glass of Shiraz.