Currency Press

23/10/2025

Coming soon to Griffin Theatre Company, in association with Sydney Theatre Company!

No internet. No intruders. No clothes.

Far from the trappings of civilisation, a group of nudist baby boomers have created their very own off-grid bush eco-paradise. An unseasonably hot summer approaches, but no worries! They’ve got enough preserves, pickles and psychedelic rock to get them through it … probably.

Enter Evangeline—a chronically online Gen Z eco-warrior, on the run from something terrible. She’s loud. She’s over-sensitive. And she wants to stay.
Set in a time of unforgiving drought, with hot winds foretelling worse times ahead, an all-nude, all-legendary cast takes you on an hilarious journey of hope and delusion in the face of disaster.

Playwright Ang Collins (Blueberry Play, Spewy) makes her mainstage debut with a work of glittering comic absurdity. Teaming up with Artistic Director Declan Greene (The Lewis Trilogy, S*x Magick), Naturism takes an irreverent and deeply messy look at just how much heat our squishy, naked little bodies can take.

Pre-order now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/black-comedy/naturism/

23/10/2025

Get excited for the upcoming summer of tennis with 'Sunshine Super Girl', a play about Wiradjuri tennis champion Evonne Goolagong. Resource out now! 👉 https://buff.ly/PMGxgJM
✏️ Written by Andrea James
📖 Published by Currency Press
🎓 Year 10
💭 Belonging and identity, overcoming adversity, sport

20/10/2025

Coming soon to Melbourne Theatre Company 🥀

When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017.

With honesty and unsentimental clarity Taylor confronts the swamp of anxiety and despair that traditionally surrounds death and opens the door to the bright clear-eyed vision it ultimately grants us. Learning to face death is, in the end, learning to live fully.

Equally moving and hilarious, Taylor’s last work has been adapted with great care by writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law, who brings a loving ear to this most intimate tale. Dying: A Memoir invites you on a potent and playful journey to explore the essential things that are put into perspective as we all approach the finishing line.

Pre-order a copy now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/adaptations/dying-a-memoir/

25/09/2025

Congratulations, Andrea James! From all of us at Currency Press.

Griffin Theatre Company is delighted to share that our beloved Associate Artistic Director, Andrea James has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company!

Andrea is a proud Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai woman who joined us in 2021 as our Associate Artist, supported by the Robertson Foundation, and stepped into the role of Associate Artistic Director in 2023, with support from the Griffin Women's Initiative. Andrea directed several of our acclaimed productions during her tenure—GHOSTING THE PARTY by Melissa Bubnic, JAILBABY by Suzie Miller and SWIM by Ellen van Neerven, and was one of the playwrights of DOGGED alongside Catherine Ryan. Her exceptional abilities as a playwright and director have guided countless Griffin projects from page to stage.

While we're sad to farewell Andrea, we're incredibly excited to see her lead ILBIJERRI Theatre Company. We know she will continue to create powerful, engaging theatre that amplifies the voices of First Peoples artists and celebrates their Cultures and communities.

📸: Brett Boardman

24/09/2025

Pick up this gem of a play, commissioned by Canberra Youth Theatre, here: https://www.currency.com.au/books/drama/rosieville/

02/09/2025

Coming soon to Belvoir St Theatre! Adapted from Virginia Woolf, by Carissa Licciardello and Elsie Yager 🥀

Orlando is young, rich and handsome. A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, he sets out in search of love, life, and a fabulous destiny – but he has to travel through 400 years to find it. He dashes through time, from wars and revolutions, to the decadence of the Restoration and the rise of industrial capitalism under Queen Victoria, to modernity – and as the world changes, so does Orlando. Who are they – woman? man? or something which defies all the old orders?

Pre-order a copy now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/adaptations/orlando-2/

30/08/2025

On now at Ensemble Theatre!

It’s 1985. TV prime time. Across Australia, millions of tear-stricken eyes are glued to their television sets in disbelief. A Country Practice’s beloved Molly Jones takes her final breath. Fade to black and she’s gone.

Inside the story room, in a creative flurry powered by coffee, ci******es and Fantales, the eccentric squad of TV writers have nailed it – they’ve written the perfect death for Australia’s darling. Hearts around the country are broken and forty years later, the pain is only just subsiding.

In this new comedy with Georgie Parker, A Country Practice addict and self-professed fanatic Melanie Tait, imagines what it was like for the writers to pen the episode that became a defining cultural moment in the nation’s TV history. Whether you’re a diehard fan of this iconic TV series or simply a lover of a cracking Australian story, you’ll be rolling in the aisles with laughter at How to Plot a Hit in Two Days.

How to Plot a Hit in Two Days is a fictional play imagining the machinations of a hypothetical writers’ room. It is not affiliated with the television show A Country Practice.

CO-PUBLISHED WITH ENSEMBLE THEATRE

Pick up a copy now: https://www.currency.com.au/books/australian-history/how-to-plot-a-hit-in-two-days/

28/08/2025

A farewell to our lovely Sian (in red on the right), who has been with Currency Press for almost 17 years 💕 Sian has seen our publishing house through huge changes (including changing national distributors!), having worked across accounts, contracts and trade sales. She’s been a wonder in implementing and streamlining new systems so that we stay organised and on top of all the orders that come in to support Australian playwrights. We’ll dearly miss how calmly and fairly she approaches solving any problem, and the humour and thoughtfulness she always brings to the office. Wishing you all the best in your retirement, Sian!

22/08/2025

Come see our Currency Press catalogue in the flesh! Our 2025 Festival of Playwrights kicking off in just a moment at Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) 🤭

Not too late to grab tickets: https://www.currency.com.au/australian-playwrights-festival/