Staged readings of new politicals plays by Mary Brown (Australia) and Karen Malpede (USA)
March 30: Australian Gothic by Mary Brown
examining the tensions between civil liberties and national security from Hitler´s 1933 Enabling Act to recent introduction of new national security laws in Australia.
winner of the 2006 Max Afford Award and the 2006 Griffin Award
March 31: Prophecy by Karen Malpede
a drama of Americans and Palestinian-Lebanese whose lives are bracketed by wars in Vietnam, Lebanon and Iraq.