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Currency Press

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9319 5877

Address: 164 James St 2016 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: https://www.currency.com.au

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25.01.2022 Congratulations to all the nominees for this year's AWGIES! Including a whole host of brilliant playwrights whose work we've had the pleasure of publishing at Currency Press...

23.01.2022 ‘Maybe if I was older. Maybe if I was larger. Or smaller, or prettier, or uglier, or gruffer. Maybe if I was something else I would feel like I existed.’ Little Girls Alone in the Woods by Morgan Rose, is a whip-smart adaptation of The Bacchae that puts a contemporary feminist lens on the Greek legend of Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, festivity, theatre and ritual madness. It dares us to go into the woods and seek out what knowledge lies beyond the border of respec...tability and rules. What worlds await us? . Available through Currency Press now. . Cover by @alissadinallo matched here with spring flowers in the Currency office courtyard See more

22.01.2022 Well done Meyne! 'The Wongutha-Yamatji man is the first Indigenous artist to win any of the prizes on offer at the Archibald prize in its 99-year history. Already a widely recognised actor, Wyatt made headlines when he performed a powerful four-minute-monologue from his play City Of Gold on ABC’s Q&A in June...... Most of all I want to thank my mum, who encouraged me to enter the Archibald prize in the first place and gave me the courage to be so bold, Wyatt said. In a way, that is the essence of the painting and what it reflects to be bold.'

22.01.2022 Rogers’ scintillating writing is brought to life by Shari Sebbens’ dynamic and vigorous direction. The show brims with passion, offering emotional intensity from start to end. - Suzy Goes See Superheroes, by Mark Rogers, has been playing to covid-safe audiences and rave reviews, and they’ve released more tickets! Grab a seat and grab your copy of the prize winning script through Currency Press!

19.01.2022 Katie Pollock's play NORMAL opens at Canberra Youth Theatre tonight! ~~~~ The play is inspired by the story of nearly two dozen girls in Le Roy, New York who began to experience involuntary twitching in 2011. A controversial diagnosis of mass psychogenic illness followed, which found the symptoms were a result of heightened attention from news and social media... "I think it's quite a provocative play. It asks quite provocative questions at quite a deep level, disguised as t...his mystery of how this thing happened. Really the invitation is there for audiences to enter it and think deeply about those questions. Questions about capitalism, about society, about social responsibility, about ... expectations on our young people," Pollock said. Actor McKenzie Battye-Smith said the parallels did not stop at exploring viral transmission. "The play deals with so many of the social anxieties that coronavirus has activated in our communities - fear, vilification, and the othering of those who are seen as a threat," Battye-Smith said.

19.01.2022 Stand Up for Literature! Drama and pedagogy heavyweights John O’Toole and Julie Dunn bring the principles and practice of Drama to the English classroom in this hands-on, practical guide for teachers. Stand Up for Literature eloquently makes the case for using dramatic, embodied approaches to teaching literature - be it prose, poetry, film or plays - and provides a whole series of classroom-ready exemplars and resources that can be applied to any text. A must have for all English and Drama educators Available now through Currency Press!

16.01.2022 Kate Mulvany has been awarded the 2020 Mona Brand Award, Australia's only prize for women stage and screenwriters, for her outstanding body of work. Congratulations Kate!!

16.01.2022 Check out these wonderful readings of 'This Was Urgent Yesterday', a collection of short works by emerging regional playwrights, broadcasted as part of the Young Writers Festival over the weekend and now available to stream. The following two sessions are in the comments below...

12.01.2022 Congratulations John O'Toole and Julie Dunn - whose book, 'Stand Up for Literature: Dramatic Approaches in the Secondary English Classroom', will be launched tonight at Avid Reader in Brisbane! Register to attend the event on Zoom via the link below . This joyful resource book brings the classroom to life, and students and teachers on to their feet, to experience all literature (not just drama) with their bodies, minds and emotions (not just their eyes). Join its launch by John Saunders, President of Drama Australia and Sherilyn Lennon, Patron of English Teachers Association of Queensland.

11.01.2022 THE GREAT, on which the hit @netflix series by the same name is based, was first written by Tony McNamara and produced for @sydneytheatreco in 2008 - and published by Currency Press, where it’s just become available as an ebook! Link in bio ^^^

04.01.2022 Sign up to do an online, 6 week master class with one of Australia's most preeminent play-writing masters, Joanna Murray-Smith!

01.01.2022 Looking forward to this one Chookas to the cast and crew!!