Performance Dates
28 Nov 2003 – 20 Dec 2003November 2003
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Details
- Playwright
- Ruth Park & Leslie Rees
- Director
- Pamela Whalan & Rebekah Jennings
Address420 Kent Street Sydney
FROM REVIEWS
SYDNEYSCENE
"THE current offering at the intimate little theatre that is the Genesian is an ambitious production of Ruth Park's novel The Harp in the South, which won a Sydney Morning Herald competition in 1946, and was later, in 1949, adapted for the stage by Park and Leslie Rees.
The story is of a transplanted Irish family, the Darcys, living in the poor suburb of Sydney's Surry Hills in the later 1940s.
Compressing a full-length novel into a two-hour stage production is always a perilous endeavour. The advantage in this stage adaptation is that Park herself was involved in this effort.
....... So it is to the credit of the directors (Pamela Whalan and Rebekah Jennings) and the various members of the cast (that the production succeeds. ....."
ANNALS MAGAZINE
..... "And well worth seeing if only for the towering performance of Karen O'Brien-Hall as Murnma Darcy. She gives us a portrait of a remarkable women, poor, living in a slum in Surry Hills in 1947, with a hard drinking husband (admirably played by Darran Moran), two daughters (Fiona Brown and Emily Hoare) and an almost impossible but lovable Irish mother (Elizabeth O'Connor). Ms. O'Connor is another remarkable actress. Her old Irish Grandma, full of life and spirit but with a body nearing the end, is a joy. Then there is the hard spoken woman who lives upstairs, Miss Sheily, played with malevolent gusto by Frances Milat. .....
As usual, the set is splendid, giving us a glimpse of 1940's slum poverty. This is a production you will enjoy and remember."
Please note Sunday performances at 4.30pm
SYDNEYSCENE
"THE current offering at the intimate little theatre that is the Genesian is an ambitious production of Ruth Park's novel The Harp in the South, which won a Sydney Morning Herald competition in 1946, and was later, in 1949, adapted for the stage by Park and Leslie Rees.
The story is of a transplanted Irish family, the Darcys, living in the poor suburb of Sydney's Surry Hills in the later 1940s.
Compressing a full-length novel into a two-hour stage production is always a perilous endeavour. The advantage in this stage adaptation is that Park herself was involved in this effort.
....... So it is to the credit of the directors (Pamela Whalan and Rebekah Jennings) and the various members of the cast (that the production succeeds. ....."
ANNALS MAGAZINE
..... "And well worth seeing if only for the towering performance of Karen O'Brien-Hall as Murnma Darcy. She gives us a portrait of a remarkable women, poor, living in a slum in Surry Hills in 1947, with a hard drinking husband (admirably played by Darran Moran), two daughters (Fiona Brown and Emily Hoare) and an almost impossible but lovable Irish mother (Elizabeth O'Connor). Ms. O'Connor is another remarkable actress. Her old Irish Grandma, full of life and spirit but with a body nearing the end, is a joy. Then there is the hard spoken woman who lives upstairs, Miss Sheily, played with malevolent gusto by Frances Milat. .....
As usual, the set is splendid, giving us a glimpse of 1940's slum poverty. This is a production you will enjoy and remember."
Please note Sunday performances at 4.30pm
Bookings
This production has concluded. Contact details are not available for past events.