Elise

Female | 20s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 20

EXTRACT: Hi my name’s Elise, thanks for coming. Recently I decided to move back in with my parents. I know, right. I eat cheese. I also have this thing where I know that other girls are prettier than me. You know, I was never the pretty one. Talking about sex makes me feel weird. It’s weird right? So I make up words to talk about my vagina. So I caught my boyfriend cheating on me, well I didn’t catch him but I saw a text message on his phone to this girl and he finished it with xox

Brian

Male | 40s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 47

EXTRACT: But we can’t all fight. You know, there’s other ways, to contribute. Be a man. You get on. And you’re grateful, of course. And you’re out running. It’s so quiet. I mean there’s traffic, but no real noise. The whistle, I mean we’ve all seen that film, right, the one friend he’s running, sprinting to deliver the changed orders, but too late, the whistle. And up they go, up and over, running, all of them running. Not my story, I can’t imagine, I mean the blood and gore, the flies and dysentery and the trench foot.

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///Playwright Emilie Collyer's Dream Home is a funny, yet profoundly sad, new work. In some ways it feels like a spiritual inheritor to Patrick White's The Season at Sarsaparilla, sharply rendering contemporary anxieties; holding misanthropy and compassion in equipoise as it skewers, and finds unexpected poignancy in, our futile attempts to keep the Great Australian Emptiness at bay./// ★★★★ Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald.

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