by DONALD MARGULIES
Ukaria Cultural Centre
119 Williams Road, Mt Barker Summit
Sunday August 25 @ 2.00 $30/ticket
Ruth Steiner (in the autumn of her career) is a teacher, and respected, much-published, writer of short stories. One afternoon, she is visited by Lisa Morrison - an anxious, bright young thing, ready to storm the book-world barricades - and who soon becomes her protégée. Over the course of six years, as their friendship blossoms and develops, Lisa journeys from insecure student to successful writer.
After publishing a well-received collection of short stories, Lisa writes a novel, based on Ruth’s affair with a famous poet. Unsurprisingly, Ruth is outraged by this betrayal. The two women then have to deal with the dilemma of whether a person’s life events are suitable for another to use in their own creative processes.
David Margulies is a professor at Yale University, and the author of “Dinner With Friends”, “Time Stands Still”, “Brooklyn Boy” and “Sight Unseen”. “Collected Stories” has been successfully produced all over the world. Ruth Cracknell played Ruth in an Australian production, which toured to Adelaide. The London production starred Helen Mirren and Ann-Marie Duff.
Cast – Lyn Wilson and Eloise Quinn-Valentine.
Directed by
ROB CROSER