Category Archives: About the text

  1. “They’ll be no match for the Sisters-in-da-Hoods!”

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    March 27, 2014 by wandalusst

    L – R  Nursie-Nurse (Caroline Lee) takes cover as Mannie McKenzie (Tracy Bourne) leads the sisters-in-da-hoods into battle against Rabbit’s …
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  2. Matron, Manifested

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    March 25, 2014 by wandalusst

    L – R: Nursie-Nurse (Caroline Lee) cowers, as Matron Rosemma Gascoyne (Wilhelmina Stracke) completes her Dance of the Seven Hospital …
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  3. In Consolation

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    March 23, 2014 by wandalusst

      In the Bindery, an act of resistance turns desolation into hope. Lisa Maza as The Weaver leads The Quire, …
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  4. Plot complications (and bad puns)

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    March 19, 2014 by wandalusst

    L – R: The Architect (Peta Murray) looks on as The Lady Typist, Mannie McKenzie (Tracy Bourne) tries to defend …
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  5. Later, in the Sanitarium

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    March 17, 2014 by wandalusst

    L – R: Architect, Peta Murray, in sash and head torch, watches Verity (Marg Dobson) and Orlando (Wil Stracke) in …
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  6. The Visitation (or is it the Annunciation?)

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    March 15, 2014 by wandalusst

    The Writer, Verity (Marg Dobson), receives gifts, writing tips and prophesies from St Lisbeth, the Jolly, Matron Saint of Late …
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  7. The arrivals

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    March 12, 2014 by wandalusst

    L – R Alice Prowse (Costumier), Rachel Burke (Lighting Designer), seeking refuge, and Liz Welch (Actor), newly summoned from the …
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  8. The Artist’s Talk

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    March 10, 2014 by wandalusst

    Peta Murray, as The Architect, surrounded by props and artefacts from “the show that never was”, gives an Artist’s Talk about …
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  9. Peta W or Peta M? – a guide for the bewildered

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    August 8, 2013 by wandalusst

    It’s come to our notice that certain singers are perplexed by the plethora of Petas on this project. For our …
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  10. Show and Tell #5

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    November 11, 2012 by wandalusst

     In this photo by Jane Murphy, writer Peta Murray, seated downstage of The Quire pays extra attention to a passage …
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The ADVENTURES of Mannie McKenzie

Follow Mannie on her crafty ADVENTURE

Songs for the Struggling Artist

An artist wrestling with the artist stuff

TTFO

TTFO, Things That Fall Over, concerning the creative development of an (anti-) musical of a novel inside a reading of a play, with footnotes, and oratorio-as-coda.