'Set in an Australian university, student and aspiring journalist Nikki Gonçalves is on a collision course with Jo Mulligan, the first female Master of the oldest college on campus. A complaint is made, loyalties are divided, and both women find themselves embroiled in an online media storm where there are no certain winners.
'On the surface, Wherever She Wanders is about the rape culture often reported at Australian university colleges. But it’s also a play about activism in an era when anyone with access to a smartphone can have a political voice, and the resulting removal of nuance from difficult conversations. It is about how unsafe it is to be a woman. At a party. Walking home. Online. Anywhere. But mostly it’s about the increasing disconnect between the politics of female baby boomers and millennials: young women trying to tackle the complexities of systemic and relatively invisible sexism, and an older generation of women who are being implicated as part of the very problem they’ve spent their lives trying to solve.'
Source: Griffin Theatre Company.
Set to be produced by Griffin Theatre Company at the Stables, 10 July - 22 August 2020.
Director: Lee Lewis.
Cast: Emily Havea.
Production cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rescheduled for production by Griffin Theatre Company, 9 July - 14 August 2021.
Director: Tessa Leong.
Cast: Emily Havea, Heather Mitchell, Mark Paguio, and Julia Robertson.
Production postponed, but not initially cancelled, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rescheduled of production by Griffin Theatre Company, 5 November - 11 December 2021.
Director: Tessa Leong.
Designer: Ella Butler.
Lighting Designer: Govin Ruben.
Composer & Sound Designer: James Brown.
Cast: Tony Cogin, Emily Havea, Mark Paguio, Jane Phegan, Fiona Press, and Julia Robertson.
'On the evening of Wednesday, 16 October 1991, after the annual Valedictory Dinner at Melbourne University’s august Ormond College, the Master allegedly made unprovoked sexual advances to two female students. These reported incidents led to a scandal which rocked the Melbourne establishment, caused the exit of the Master (whose conviction on charges of indecent assault was overturned on appeal), and became the basis of Helen Garner’s hugely controversial exploration of sexual politics, class, and power, The First Stone (1995).' (Introduction)
'Set in one of Australia’s oldest university colleges, playwright Kendall Feaver proffers big ideas and prowling debates – with no easy answers'
'Set in one of Australia’s oldest university colleges, playwright Kendall Feaver proffers big ideas and prowling debates – with no easy answers'
'On the evening of Wednesday, 16 October 1991, after the annual Valedictory Dinner at Melbourne University’s august Ormond College, the Master allegedly made unprovoked sexual advances to two female students. These reported incidents led to a scandal which rocked the Melbourne establishment, caused the exit of the Master (whose conviction on charges of indecent assault was overturned on appeal), and became the basis of Helen Garner’s hugely controversial exploration of sexual politics, class, and power, The First Stone (1995).' (Introduction)
