Let’s be honest: You want a PDF for convenience—to search for quotes like “Fear is a story you tell yourself” or to project the play onto a classroom screen. Here is the better way to get it without breaking copyright laws (which hurts authors like Debra Oswald).

Debra Oswald’s Stories in the Dark is a landmark of Australian youth theatre. It explores the harrowing reality of two strangers—a cynical teenage boy and a terrified younger girl—trapped in a basement during a civil war. To survive the night and the surrounding violence, the boy tells the girl a series of folk tales.