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Currency Press Collection

The Currency Press Collection offers 300 plays from Currency Press, Australia's leading publisher of the performing arts and its oldest, independently-owned, active publisher.
Currency Press has published hundreds of titles across a rapidly expanding list of contemporary Australian writers, including indigenous playwrights, alongside genre plays of the colonial period and works from the first half of the twentieth century. The collection, which is exclusive to Drama Online, launched with 201 titles in September 2022, and will complete with a further 99 in 2023.

Available for purchase via annual subscription and perpetual access at institutions worldwide.

Content Highlights

• When complete, this collection will include 300 plays from many of Australia’s preeminent playwrights such as Nick Enright, Lally Katz, Kate Mulvaney, Joanna Murray-Smith, Tommy Murphy, Louis Nowra and Leah Purcell
• The titles included are global and diverse in their origins and themes, offering a dynamic mix of contemporary Australian texts aimed at a global readership
• The first and only exclusive library of Currency Press titles, this collection offers a unique opportunity for students, practitioners and researchers to explore the catalogue of this important drama publisher