'With the transformation of Muriel’s Wedding for the stage, some of the film’s winsome ugly-duckling charm has been lost, and along with it the story’s emotional reality.' (Article summary)
'The London-based literary agent Ed Victor once said to the writer Susan Johnson that he’d never come across a people more insecure about their relationship with their homeland than Australians – except, of course, the Russians. So perhaps it makes sense that an Australian should tell this story of a Jewish Russian émigré struggling to reinvent herself while missing what was best about the old country.' (Introduction)
