Play Library
Through the CONNECT program, Theatre Republic and State Theatre Company South Australia are setting up a Play Library, featuring scripts by local writers that have won or been nominated for awards, or have had a production, but are as yet unpublished.
The Play Library is designed to be a community resource that illuminates the theatrical storytelling of South Australian playwrights, both as a record of past work and a path to potential future productions. Plays are held in a hard copy reference library in the Theatre Republic office.
The Play Library can be accessed by artists, students and the general public, in person, on request.
Play Library opening hours
STANDARD HOURS: Wednesdays 10am-4pm
WHERE: Theatre Republic, Room 209 (Level 2), Edments Building, 38 Gawler Place, Adelaide 5000 (entrance behind HYPE, just off Rundle Mall).
Please email peter@theatrerepublic.org to book a time to come in.
PLAYS currently AVAILABLE
(We expect this list to grow over time.)
RECALIBRATE by Lucy Combe, shortlisted for Jill Blewett Playwrights Award 2022, first produced Adelaide Fringe 2023.
BOXING DAY TEST by Michael Hill, shortlisted as ‘Poor Brother’ for Jill Blewett Playwrights Award 2002, first produced by Junglebean Theatre 2010.
PYTHON by Jamie Hornsby, runner up for Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award 2020, finalist for Patrick White Playwrights Award (STC), Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting (AWG) and Stoddart Playwright Prize, staged reading Off-Broadway for Australian Theatre Festival NYC 2024.
WOLF HUNGER by Duncan Graham, shortlisted for Griffin Playwriting Award c2012.
REBEL by Fleur Kilpatrick, first produced by Ian Potter Centre for the Arts 2022.
BURNING by Verity Laughton, winner of Griffin Playwriting Award 2001, first produced by Griffin Theatre Company 2001.
LAST OF THE CORTSETIERES by Rebecca Meston, HotHouse Theatre’s Solo Monologue Competition 2015.
SYMPHONIE OF THE BICYCLE by Hew Parham, shortlisted for Ruby Award Best Theatre Production Outside a Festival 2024, first produced as ‘Symphonie de la Bicyclette’ by Brink Productions 2023.
ALL THE THINGS I COULDN’T SAY by Katherine Sortini, winner of Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE Award, first produced Adelaide Fringe 2022.
HOW NOT TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA by Emily Steel, winner of House of Oz Purse Prize 2026, first produced by Theatre Republic 2021.
DUST by Charlaina Thompson, winner of Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE Award, first produced Adelaide Fringe 2025.
PROUD by James Watson, first produced by Famous Last Words 2023.
For more information on the Play Library, please read the FAQs below. Any further questions? Email peter@theatrerepublic.org
If you’d like us to contact you when submission rounds open, please add yourself to our artist database: