AustralianPlays.org

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AustralianPlays.org is an initiative of the Australian Script Centre, which is a non-profit organisation which has been selectively collecting, promoting and distributing contemporary Australian plays in manuscript form since 1979. The Australian Script Centre grew out of an initiative of Barbara Manning and the Salamanca Theatre Company, called the Salamanca National Script Resource Centre. It ran successfully throughout the 1980s, and in 1993 separated from the Salamanca Theatre Company to become the Australian Script Centre. It is recognised by the Australia Council for the Arts as a Key Organisation providing essential infrastructure services to the theatre sector, and is a significant cultural and historical resource. The Centre also houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of unpublished contemporary Australian playscripts in the world. AustralianPlays.org is an ecommerce website providing playwrights a global distribution and marketing network for their work as well as giving producers across the world a simple access point for professionally written and production-ready Australian plays. It also supports the work of drama educators, students, and theatre companies. Link to catalogue record.

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