David Cole
Playwright
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PREY
Two sisters are staying in an isolated rural farmhouse. Predators arrive. (This play is in development)
Blood River
Two bodies are found in the river on the outskirts of a remote Australian village. A new teacher starts to lose his mind as he discovers there may be an ancient curse on the land.
The Russian Doll
This gothic drama centers on Peter, who is placing his fiery mother into aged care. But what is real as the layers of their relationship come apart, like pieces of a doll?
Two elderly hippies band together to face a world that wants to control them.
Irene has a final wish. She needs her friend Stuart to help, but her daughter Julie is supsicious of Stuart's motives.
The Ballad of Mary Ann Browlow
The haunting true story of a woman hanged in Goulburn in 1854 for the murder of her husband.
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