The Stage Show is back from sabbatical! On this episode, star playwright Suzie Miller speaks to Michael about Inter Alia, her gripping new play that takes you into the mind of a feminist judge, who’s also a mother, forced to confront a terrible reality. It’s just wound up a big season at London’s National Theatre, starring Rosamund Pike.
Lisa Pellegrino is part of a family that migrated from Italy and Scotland to Australia and recorded everything. From having funerals professionally photographed, to recording each other singing, reminiscing and celebrating. So how has she turned that archive of memories and migration into a story for the stage? Her one-woman show We Keep Everything is on at Darwin's Browns Mart Theatre.
Karen and Natasha Vickery are mother-and-daughter performing in a gender-reversed Taming of The Shrew. How does this transform Shakespeare's problematic comedy -- and what does their own dynamic bring to the play? It's a production by the Playwrought Project.