Explore our selection of Australian plays and musicals. From hilarious comedies like Feedem Fighters and MILF the Musical to gripping dramas based on historical events such as Gossamer and her holiness, these works offer diverse stories, unforgettable characters, and themes that resonate deeply with audiences. Browse our suggested titles and playwrights below and let us know if you'd like more details or assistance with licensing a production.

FEEDEM FIGHTERS
by Dorian Mode
Full Length Play, Australian, Comedy, Present Day
Cast: 5M, 1F
Daryl Lucas is a fat, happily married soft-drink salesman living on the NSW Central Coast, until the day he walks in on his cheating cougar wife and her young Pilates instructor.
While he plots to divorce her, she arranges for Daryl to be kidnapped by a group of disparate lunatics calling themselves 'Feedem Fighters'. Inspired by shows like Extreme Makeover and The Biggest Loser, these calorie terrorists kidnap fatties and keep them captive in a soundproof room for three months, forcing them to lose weight.
Can Daryl convince them he's only being held so his wife can drain his accounts and run off with her Pilates instructor?

GOSSAMER
by John Misto
Full Length Play, Drama, 1910s / WWI, 1970s
Cast: 4M, 3F
It began as an innocent game. In 1917, two young British girls experiment with a camera and capture images of themselves with dancing fairies. They are playing a joke ? but no one is laughing.
Their photographs attract the attention of the two most famous men in the world ? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini.
Now the girls, Elsie and Frances, find that their joke has backfired with terrifying consequences. Conan Doyle elevates them to the status of living saints while Harry Houdini is grimly determined to expose them as frauds.  Soon all four are entangled in a fairy-spun web of gossamer, a web from which there is no escape.

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THE GREAT EMU WAR
An Imagined Version of a True Event
by Xavier Coy
Full Length Play, Comedy, 1930s
Cast: 5M, 2F
It's 1932 in Warralakin, Western Australia. The Australian Government has given land to veterans who returned to Australia after the First World War. There?s a problem however, the emu. Emus are running wild and destroying wheat crops all throughout Western Australia. The Royal Australian Artillery send two Privates ? Kelly and Brown ? along with five thousand rounds of ammunition and a Lewis Machine Gun to start the cull on the farm of Clementine and Billy Westlake.
As winning the war effort begins to look more and more unlikely The Royal Australian Artillery send out reinforcements and a tank in order to cull the emus. Can the might of The Royal Australian Artillery take down the strange looking native bird or will the bird fight back?

 
her holiness
by Melvyn Morrow and Justin Fleming
Full Length Play, Period Piece / Historical, Drama, Australian, 19th Century, New Millennium/21st Century
Cast: 11M, 6F
her holiness combines humour and drama in dealing with life and death battles and survival in Australia - then and now.
PENOLA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1867 -- All Mary MacKillop wanted was to live the dream. But to others -- the staunch male hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church -- she was a nightmare. What MacKillop didn't count on was the degree of obstruction that would stand in her way.
THE VATICAN, 2008 -- One hundred and forty years after Mary MacKillop, in 2008, another young Australian woman, Anna, goes to Rome with a passionate mission to seek an audience with Pope Benedict XVI to push for the final steps of Mary MacKillop's case to be Australia's first Saint. But Anna has a few boundaries to cross.
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MILLIE'S WAR
by Dorian Mode
Full Length Play, Australian, Comedy, 1910s / WWI, 1980s
Cast: 4M, 3F
Based on historical events, Millie's War is set in the 1980s, when a number of women attempted to join official ANZAC Day marches across Canberra to commemorate women raped in war. Fourteen women were arrested. The following year, again in Canberra, around 250 women attempted to join the tail of the official ANZAC Day march facing arrests and police action under hastily enacted laws.
The story unfolds in the boardroom of a local RSL Club, where members meet with feminist protestors to prevent disruptions to their sacred remembrance parade. Tensions rise when the club's crotchety president discovers his granddaughter is among the protestors. With tempers flaring, the play explores the clash between tradition and the fight for inclusivity in commemorating war's victims.
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LIP SERVICE aka Madame Rubinstein
by John Misto
Full Length Play, Drama, Australian, 1960s, 1950s
Cast: 1M, 2F
In John Misto's hilarious new play, Lip Service, Australian cosmetics tycoon, Helena Rubinstein, is locked in a power struggle with rivals Elizabeth Arden and Revlon. When Helena hires a battle-hardened war-veteran as a personal assistant, her life is turned upside down. As her professional and family conflicts reach fever pitch, will the ghosts of her past topple the world's richest businesswomen? Or will war-veteran, Patrick, save her from herself?
Inspired by real events, Lip Service is a bright new comedy where the nails are painted and the gloves are off. Yet when the lipstick bleeds and the makeup fades, what is there left to hide behind?
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MILF - THE MUSICAL
by Sally Knight
Full Length Musical, Romantic Comedy, Australian, Contemporary
Cast: 3M, 3F
MILF the Musical is a hilarious comedy about Kate Esther, a mother, wife, and former fashion designer turned influencer, known as @FashionEsther. Kate's life takes a chaotic turn when her husband, Jason, lands a major fashion account, sparking unexpected tension. Meanwhile, her mother dives into online dating, her sister Cleo navigates divorce, and Kate saves her best friend Frankie?s drag show with her design skills. Through relatable family dynamics, witty humor, and a vibrant score, the musical celebrates resilience, authenticity, and the courage to follow one?s passions, leaving audiences laughing and inspired by Kate?s unforgettable journey.
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