Currency Press

29/01/2025

Spot us in this year's VPLAs 💝 Congratulations as well to Emily and Angus!

Our new revised edition of Nathan Maynard's 37 available now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/full-length/37/

24/01/2025

‘Throws a disturbing spotlight on the ways in which this country profits from Indigenous culture without giving back in return … sharp and formidable’ — The Guardian

‘I walked away from the show in awe of Maynard’s ability to apply history to the stage’ — The Conversation

Back in a shiny new revised edition, for a return season at Melbourne Theatre Company! The local footy team of the small coastal town of Cutting Cove have spent so long at the bottom of the ladder they might as well be welded to it. This year, a new hope arrives for the Currawongs: the Marngrook cousins, Sonny and Jayma. Nicknamed after the Aboriginal game that inspired AFL, their natural talent promises the team’s best chance at bringing the flag home for the first time ever. What will come with that flag, however, is the cruel reminder of a far greater loss in this country’s colonial history.

Nathan Maynard’s 37 serves up a searing critique of Australia’s relationship with sport, set within the era of Adam Goodes’ war cry and the country’s ensuing debate on racism. In the land of the fair go, the rules of the game will always be fairer for some than others. Who decides these rules, when not everyone wants to play clean? Can you possibly ever win, when the system is rigged against you?

Available for pre-order now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/full-length/37/

16/01/2025

A huge congratulations to all nominees for the Australian Writers' Guild 57th Annual AWGIE Awards! If you've not spotted them already, there were some Currency Press titles on the list 😎

Nominees for Stage – Original include: Miss Peony by Michelle Law, My Sister Jill by Patricia Cornelius, S*x Magick by Nicholas Brown and Summer of Harold by Hilary Bell. Rosieville by Mary Rachel Brown is also a nominee in Theatre for Young Audiences.

All available on currency.com.au! We look forward to celebrating with all of you on 13 February!

14/01/2025

Due to high demand, a new reprint of an older gem has just landed!

Inspired by true events that occurred in a south-western NSW town, Skate is about a group of kids battling their local council to get a skate park built in their home town of Narragindi. In the midst of this struggle, they are forced to deal with the sudden death of one of their friends. They attempt one final stand; the skate park holds the promise of renewing local youth pride and self-esteem.

Skate is a turbo-charged, moving and funny account of the mates, mothers, tricks and traumas of a group of young skaters. Enhanced by live skateboarding, the play is full of the emotional awkwardness of adolescence, its adrenaline, compassion and humour, and reflects the hopes and aspirations of young people in regional Australia.

Available now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/comedy/skate/

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14/01/2025

Come and join the next generation of Griffs!

The 2025 Griffin Ambassadors application deadline has been extended to February 1st. Woo!

Griffin Ambassadors is our annual access-all-areas program for year 10, 11 and 12 students. As a Griffin Ambassador you’ll get to attend all Main Season productions in Griffin’s 2025 Season as well as dedicated workshops attached to each production where you’ll learn about a specific theatre craft.

Learn more and apply via the link below. Applications close 5pm Saturday 1 February.

https://griffintheatre.com.au/creative-programs/griffin-ambassadors/

06/01/2025

New year, new books 😇 Our office and our warehouse are back to work after the holiday break, ready to rumble in 2025. All orders can be made at currency.com.au!

19/12/2024

Our site wide discounts don't come by very often 👋 Visit currency.com.au to snap up some books before Christmas Eve!

Orders will be shipped in the new year.

19/12/2024

The automated out of office responses are on, and that’s a wrap for 2024! Thank you all for supporting Australian playwrights this year. We’ll see you on the stage, on the screen and on the page in 2025.

With thanks,
the Currency team x

18/12/2024

16/12/2024

NEW REVISED EDITION // 'Here it comes. Closer, closer. The ocean has come to kiss my feet. Let the waves come, let them eat away at this rock, my home, my cave, my cage. Let the ocean move in and bring with it all the world, the ancient whirlpool of our histories.'

A little mermaid trades her voice for legs. She dreams of a human world bathed in sun.

A group of teenagers trade stories about life in 2020. They dream of all the worlds that could have been.

Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairytale is radically re-imagined by a collective of teenage and adult theatre makers in The Mermaid by Cassandra Fumi. A surreal tapestry of history, poetry, tragicomedy and pop culture milieu is cast over us, woven together by many hands from many threads: H20: Just Add Water. Planting trees. Private dreams. Global protest movements. Mythology. Murder. Jest. Love.

Only such a storied tapestry could have been woven together by young devisors who, like the little mermaid, were forced to confront and enact their own transformations in a year of being locked down. But where she relinquished her voice, they find theirs.

'A free-wheeling critique of the figure of the mermaid in popular culture… explores the hybridity of identity with an enigmatic smile.' — The Sydney Morning Herald

Available now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/adaptations/the-mermaid/

10/12/2024

Don't leave it too late if you want your books to arrive this year, we're going on holiday too 😇

Our 20% OFF SITE-WIDE discount will be running until 24 December! Enter discount code 'XMAS20' at checkout.

Please note: all orders made at currency.com.au before Tuesday 17 December 2024 will be shipped before we close! Orders after this date will be shipped on Monday 6 January 2025.

DM us for any questions x

05/12/2024

We love working with new emerging artists! 🙌💗

ISBN: 9781760629465 Author: Donna Hughes Publication Date: 9/12/2024 Edition: Standard Publisher: Currency Press Extent: 66pp. Availability: NYP

01/12/2024

Available for pre-order now! One of our last titles for 2024 📲

Gifted coder Sam Turing has stepped out of line. For that, the Algorithm decides he must be relocated to a new school. High school is hard enough as it is, let alone being named a threat to the System.

In the not-too-distant future of Donna Hughes’ Trackers, society is divided into Zones that live under the watchful eye of the Algorithm. Your friends are decided for you. Your tastes are decided for you. Your life is decided for you. Thus, Sam Turing is enrolled at C-Zone High School, the last stop in the Algorithm’s plans for society: Alignment.

At C-Zone, the students seem odd, the teachers dangerous, the walls ever watchful. Something terrifying is at play, picking off the students one by one.

To survive the Algorithm and perhaps more importantly, high school, Sam needs to make some true friends, beyond the screen.

Pick up a copy now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/drama/trackers/

30/11/2024

29/11/2024

This warm-hearted hug of a play returns to the stage tonight at Ensemble Theatre!

In the old CFA hall on the outskirts of town, a small group of locals come together to sing, and to connect. Aseni, Barbara, Mack, Savannah and Totty have splintered from their original choir on a matter of principle and are intent on forging their own path. With their latest recruit Peter along for the ride, they have a new name, a space to rehearse in and a public debut booked. All they need now is to right the wrongs of the past … and to find a song that pairs perfectly with the local winery’s Sangiovese. Originally brought to the stage for Melbourne Theatre Company, The Heartbreak Choir is a joyful, song-filled snapshot of a devastated community learning how to heal.

Pick up a copy now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/drama/the-heartbreak-choir/

20/11/2024

Opening tomorrow night at Civic Theatre Newcastle 💫 Fairy-tales reworked, funny, furious and fantastic, as tales of the marginalised.

Original fairy-tales were about bravado, fortune, destiny and courage. But always, watching from the edges, were the quiet ones. The bit characters. The weary mothers, the ugly sisters, the irrelevant queens, the grandmothers.

In The Magic Hour, they get their chance to shine.

From beach shacks and caravan parks, in Housing Commission towers and old school discos, in backyard gardens ... Welcome one and all to "the twilight hour, the dreaming hour, The Magic Hour"

Written and directed by Vanessa Bates, featuring Louise Chapman and Jan Hunt with live music by Amy Vee, all award winning Novocastrian creatives. Pick up a copy now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/adaptations/the-magic-hour/

"Vanessa Bates’ play is full of unlikely fairy-tale damsels in distress – bleeding, coarse and filled with rage, hope and hot desire… relentless energy and humour" — The Guardian

18/11/2024

COMING SOON // ‘I am the protector. Watching over the boys as they sleep. Guiding them in their dreams. This is my story. This is our yarn from this country.’ — ‘My River Country’, Brodie Murray

Was and Will Be braids together an array of Aboriginal narratives spanning monologues, dialogues, choruses and dynamic movement sequences — designed to be accessible and enriching for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors, creatives, educators, students and theatre enthusiasts. Generously shared by First Nations playwrights Tracey Rigney, Tom Molyneux and Brodie Murray, these stories touch upon ancient and contemporary legacies of ceremony, community-building and truth-telling, among other topics. They offer a moment in time for Indigenous and non-Indigenous performers to explore, experiment and connect with the storytellers that have long preceded us in this country. We were the chosen ones, from those who lived before, Rigney writes; to which Molyneux adds, ‘And every year, on January 26th, there are more of us.’

Available for pre-order now: https://currency.com.au/books/indigenous-playwrights/was-and-will-be/