No bang in the play that began with promise
Frances confronts the Governor’s family. Photo: Helen Drum. Theatre / ”The Governor’s Family”, Canberra Repertory Society, at the Canberra Rep Theatre until July 17. Reviewed by PHILLIP MACKENZIE. Playwrights Conference in Canberra, followed in 1997 by a season at Belvoir Street. Since then, the play seems to have faded into obscurity until Canberra Rep, directed by Tony Llewellyn-Jones, took it on last year – but, as a result of covid restrictions, held it over until now. A gang-rape in 1886 Sydney ostensibly provides the historical basis of the play. Public outrage ran high and m...
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