First woman to run Melbourne Theatre Company commits to telling stories from new perspectives

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The first season from Anne-Louise Sarks features plays about a bohemian art museum founder, the way the legal system fails women, and two sisters seeking revenge.

I Wanna Be Yours by Zia AhmedBloom by Tom Gleisner and Katie Weston Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill by Lanie RobertsonThe season also features two plays that were originally scheduled to premiere in 2021 under Sheehy: Declan Furber Gillick's play Jacky, about an urban Aboriginal man whose little brother follows him to the city; and Anthony Weigh's Sunday, inspired by the bohemian life of arts patron Sunday Reed, the co-founder of the Heide Museum of Modern Art.

Hossain won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Direction of an Independent Production for Yellow Face. Sarks attributes some of her passion for the theatre to that formative experience, where she was exposed to both the work and what was going on behind the scenes.As a child, she learned ballet and tap dancing, and she performed in plays such as Alice in Wonderland and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie throughout primary and high school.

A year after she graduated from the VCA, she joined Melbourne-based independent theatre company The Hayloft Project. Sarks says: "I got to test all these aspects of myself, to learn about theatre from every angle, but also to really find my voice."Speaking to ABC Arts earlier this year

 

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This is a huge article that is effectively a bio... Good to know where my taxes are going at least

Oh I can hardly wait for the output! I’m thinkin’ the woke, metoo, girly, bloke-hating perspective. Maybe a production where Craig McLachlan, John Jarrett, Geoffrey Rush star ad are all subjected to a ‘solo woman’ inquisition.

Let me guess. Would it be from a woke perspective? So much diversity of ideas

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