The Library

Season 2006

Mr Bailey's Minder

March 14 - 19
Abusive, cantankerous and burned out by booze, Leo Bailey is Australia's greatest living artist. Holed up inside his house, a fabulous hovel built into a cliff overlooking Sydney Harbour, Leo can no longer take care of himself.

Windmill Baby

April 29 - May 5
Against the Kimberley landscape of red dirt and azure blue skies, Aboriginal woman Maymay Starr returns to an abandoned cattle station to tell the story of a life lived beneath the flickering presence of the station windmill - an all-seeing witness to tales of humour, violence, lust, love and loss.

Embers

July 13 - 22
Overnight on 7 and 8 January, in the year 2003, a dry storm ignited over 80 fires in Victoria's northeast and Gippsland. From exhaustive interviews with residents of the region, Campion Decent has fashioned an extraordinary account of the fires; the heart-stopping tales of survival, the awe-inspiring courage and endurance of communities put to the test.

I Am My Own Wife

October 10 - 15
I Am My Own Wife tells the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and her escape from persecution during the second world war. What makes the story so astounding is that Charlotte was a man, and she lived her defiant, distinctive life adamantly on her own terms. The most awarded play of the 2004 Broadway season.

The Messiah

December 7 - 17
Two rather incompetent, over-ambitious amateur actors attempt to produce the ultimate Christmas story with a cast of two, an over-zealous opera singer and very little else. Each actor plays a myriad of roles, from Mary and Joseph, King Herod, the Archangel Gabriel via Balthasar, the wisest of all the wise men of all time, and various street vendors in downtown Bethlehem to . . . well, God.