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1:30 – Welcome playwright and actor, Virginia Gay!
2:00 – Writing ‘Cyrano’ as the world shut down to COVID and performing a monologue on Q&A that reflected our universal longing for connection.
5:40 – The immense connection between audience and performers and the unifying experience of theatre.
7:40 – Cyrano as a queer re-writing and the precedent set by reimagining traditional roles.
10:30 – Women sexist teaching placed upon women to be smaller, quieter and prettier.
11:20 – The challenges and benefits of writing about the most explored human experience in the world, LOVE.
17:00 – Welcome singer/ songwriter, Bertie Blackman!
17:20 – What prompted Bertie to write her memoir, Bohemian Negligence.
18:45 – When unresolved issues from childhood reignite when you have children of your own.
20:00 – Bertie’s experience with a “free range” childhood.
26:20 – Storytelling through different mediums.
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Immerse yourself in creative glory with these chats with the glorious Virginia Gay and Australian artistic royalty, Bertie Blackman. Jo Stanley and Nelly Thomas discuss the joys of theatre with Virginia, what it means to connect with the actors as the audience, and how connection was something we all craved when the world shut down. And Bertie Blackman shares the background that was her childhood with famous artistic parents, and how she needed to write about her bohemian life before she became a mother herself.