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Posted by Jacqui Bonner | 30/09/2024
The Kingdom of Eucalypts
The enigma of Miles Franklin A new Australian play by Alice Spigelman 30 October To 17 November 2024Bondi Pavilion Theatre Book now! Playwright: Alice Spigelman Dramaturg: Timothy Daly Director: Moira BlumenthalActors: Beth Daly, Sarah Greenwood, Alice LivingstoneLloyd Allison-Young and James Coetzee Miles Franklin returns to Sydney in 1932 after years in Chicago and London. She […]
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Posted by Jacqui Bonner | 16/05/2024
New Australian Play to premiere in October
The writer Miles Franklin returns to Sydney in 1932 after years in Chicago and London. Frustrated by living with her elderly mother, a lack of money and still striving for acceptance, she is desperate to reignite the height of fame she reached with My Brilliant Career when she was only twenty. Hope glimmers when she […]
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Posted by Jacqui Bonner | 06/06/2022
Her Brilliant Career by Alice Spigelman
Miles Franklin was an enigma, writing her diaries in code to hide her thoughts from her mother. The code was recently cracked at the State Library of NSW. Through the prism of their love/hate relationship, the play brings to life Miles’ stellar rise to fame as a young girl and why she was never able […]