Noel Hodda Plays

This collection of plays by actor/playwright/teacher Noel Hodda brings together for the first time plays produced by various theatre companies from the late 1980s to 2022. Three of the plays (The Secret House; Half Safe; Across The Water) form a loose trilogy centred on a family in rural Australia. The fourth play, In This Light, explores reconciliation and forgiveness via a series of interconnected histories spanning twenty years and two continents. The fifth work, Threat (or Norma,...
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This collection of plays by actor/playwright/teacher Noel Hodda brings together for the first time plays produced by various theatre companies from the late 1980s to 2022. Three of the plays (The Secret House; Half Safe; Across The Water) form a loose trilogy centred on a family in rural Australia. The fourth play, In This Light, explores reconciliation and forgiveness via a series of interconnected histories spanning twenty years and two continents. The fifth work, Threat (or Norma, Norm & The Dog), is an as-yet-unproduced series of one-act plays that can be performed in any order or combination. Noel Hodda's plays place universal themes into a distinctly Australian framework. The characters are people who are each at a crossroads in their life, whether they are aware of it or not. Challenges are dealt with via humour, often black, or via avoidance and distraction, but always with a grounding in love. Each play places ordinary people in testing situations, forcing them to confront their humanity and their lost and found dreams. No matter the time or place the plays are set in they are universal and completely resonant and relevant to today.