Maggie Stone (Paperback or Softback)

'Back in Kenya-in the camps-they say we can stay there for free. But everybody wants something. The journalists want our stories; the NGOs want us to sing in their choirs; the SPLA wants our sons as soldiers. The spirits of our ancestors want us to honour them...'

Maggie Stone is a battle axe. She's rude, prickly and doesn't owe the world a thing. This makes her an ideal loans officer. But when a family of strangers finally awakens her compassion, Maggie will learn firsthand the politics of charity. For even favours require gratitude, investment requires returns, and an outstanding debt awaits satisfaction. And soon the life Maggie borrowed will need to be paid for.

Maggie Stone is about loneliness and debt, the risk that comes from asking others for help and the cost of living a life owing nobody. Nominated for the Western Australian Premier's Script Award, this play paints an unflinchingly honest yet ultimately empathetic portrait of modern Australia.

CALEB LEWIS is a multi-award-winning playwright, theatremaker and experience designer. Plays include Nailed, Men, Love and the Monkeyboy, Dogfall, Death in Bowengabbie, Rust and Bone, Songs for the Deaf, Bluebottles, Crystal, Aleksander and the Robot Maid, The Honey Bees, In a Dark Dark Wood, Six Million Hits, The River at the End of the Road, Maggie Stone, and Clinchfield, which won the inaugural Richard Burton Award for New Plays. Games, installations and interactive entertainments include Exclusion Zone, Across a Crowded Room, Half an Hour Visit, and the multi-platform If There Was A Colour Darker Than Black I'd Wear It ' winner of the 2013 Ruby Award for Innovation. A resident artist at Griffin Theatre, Australia's premier new writing theatre, Lewis was mentored by Nick Enright (Blackrock, Lorenzo's Oil) and Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). He is the winner of an Inscription Award, the Philip Parsons Award (in absentia), and the inaugural AWGIE (Australian Writer's Guild Award) for Digital Narrative. Lewis' work has been commissioned and/or produced by Bell Shakespeare, Black Swan Theatre Company (WA), State Theatre Company of South Australia and numerous small to large companies across the country as well as overseas. Current projects include commissions for Hothouse (VIC) and Sport for Jove (NSW) as well as a triptych of interactive projects for the series, Uncertain Playgrounds. Reviews and further production details are available at http: //caleb-lewis.com/.