VEGEMITE KEBAB

‘VEGEMITE KEBAB’ is a social drama about a 20 year old protagonist who has grown up in the Sutherland Shire. Sarah is a poster child for The Shire. A true-blue beach babe and extremely prejudiced, though oddly a little dark in complexion. Sarah has a past that she doesn’t even know about.

Set during the Cronulla Riots of 2004 Sarah’s world turns upside down after witnessing a violent beating on that dark December afternoon. What follows is debilitating panic attacks that keep Sarah out of uni and forces her to miss out on her dream Internship as a news presenter at a prestigious television station.

Months later she returns to uni and reluctantly accepts an Internship assisting a freelance journalist with a documentary about Lebanese migrants and their reaction to the riots. Begrudged, Sarah must listen to countless stories about the horrific Lebanese Civil War and suddenly she struggles with a severe case of eczema. The condition worsens and she winds up in hospital where complications follow and her illness becomes life threatening.

Suddenly secrets from the past come to haunt her when her father accidentally let slip she is adopted. The pandemonium spirals out of control when her parent’s reveal she was orphaned at three when her birth parents were killed in their homeland during the Lebanese Civil War. Sarah discovers she is her own enemy.

Sarah is dangerously ill when she finally accepts that her condition is symptomatic of deep seated trauma. To survive, Sarah must confront and unravel horrific sufferings from the past.

Hokey Pokies

‘HOKEY POKIES’ is a social drama/ satire about Janine, a street kid desperate to change the direction of her life. Constantly on the run, she decides to settle temporarily in Sydney, taking a job as a bar useful at an RSL club. Her best friend Simon, also a street kid, tags along for the ride eventually digging himself into deep trouble as time goes by.

The story paints a satirical picture of the work-life at a traditional RSL Club, which allows for a lot of laughs along the way.

With the past seemingly behind her, Janine performs exceptionally well at the RSL and is promoted to supervisor. Simon moves to Western Australia and ends up on the streets again. His eventual demise serves to strengthen more than ever Janine’s hopes to save her own life.

Janine accidentally unravels a major fraud at the RSL and diligently proceeds to report it; sadly she is forced into silence through blackmail. She grapples for her final shot at redemption tackling head on the choice to act lawfully or unlawfully. Her decision changes her life in the worst and best way.

Forsoula

‘FORSOULA is a social drama, travel adventure and romance story about Soula, an Australian-Greek girl growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney during the late 1970’s. Its love story genre is not limited to romantic love, but extends itself to the love of family; friends and more significantly love for life.

Soula agonises over her struggle to fit in with her Anglo-Australian friends at school, in particular her best friend Kate, without upsetting her overly protective and traditionally Greek migrant parents. Soula’s fascination with art and dream to some day travel the world helps distract from a depressing situation. In due course Soula’s father ends her friendship with Kate; limiting Soula’s world to school and family. With her parents blessings she meets and ends up dating George, a Greek-Australian man.

Working as a waitress two years on Soula is engaged to be married to George.   Out of the blue she runs into Kate and their friendship is rekindled and suddenly Soula’s life takes a turn. Through Kate her passion for life is reignited and Soula shocks everybody by calling off the wedding. Instead she travels to Greece with Kate using the tickets that were meant for her and George’s honeymoon.

Soula’s initial struggle with bouts of homesickness is distracted when she meets and quickly falls in love with Thomas, an American serviceman stationed in Greece. His issues around sacrificing what he wants from life to placate family are comparable to Soula’s. Whilst in Greece Soula forms a newfound passion for life and to Kate’s dismay and Thomas’ delight she decides to stay in Greece for a while before travelling to London where Soula hopes to find work as a waitress to fund her dream trip to travel through Europe. After several months of bliss she reluctantly leaves Thomas and sets off for her adventurous and frightening train trip to London. She finally makes it to London and finds work as a waitress. Months pass with no word from Thomas and she sadly must accept she may never see him again. After a life changing event Thomas decides to leave the Air force and share with Soula her plans to travel. Things couldn’t be better when tragedy strikes and Soula receives word from home that her mother has had a stroke forcing Soula to return to Australia; sadly unravelling her plans to finally be with Thomas.

Months pass and Soula is stuck at home too afraid to leave her mother despite her good recovery from the stroke. Thomas’ pleads with Soula to change her mind and even follows her to Australia to make one last attempt to persuade her. Soula must decide on whether to stay with her mother and ultimately sacrifice her own life or go with Thomas and finally have a life for Soula.