Cirrus@Austlit

'Meet Alice Anderson – a gay mechanic and entrepreneur in 1920s Melbourne

'Meet Joy Hester – a fierce, angry, larger-than life artist in 1940s Melbourne

'Meet Elizabeth Gould – mother, lover, wife, artist of colonial Australia in the 1800s

'Meet Dawn Faizey-Webster – a woman with locked in syndrome completing her PhD with the blink of an eye.

'These remarkable women have been relegated to the sidelines of history and it’s time to bring them centre stage. In four interweaving, funny, moving, thought-provoking monologues, two actors – Mary Steuten and Tess Parker – inhabit these extraordinary women, telling their stories with truth, rawness and vulnerability.'

Source: Melbourne Fringe.

'VICTORIOUS was presented as a two-part theatrical event. Scripts written in response to the 2020 worldwide pandemic were showcased at VICTORIOUS, which was intended as a celebration of MWT writers and their need, desire, and right to keep writing at this time, but also served as a celebration of their status as playwrights living in Victoria. Victoria proved to be the state whose many communities, including their arts community, were hardest hit by government-imposed funding cuts, restrictions and successive lockdowns – but our own artists have indeed emerged Victorious, and we hope that the Recordings below will serve as a reminder of their resilience, creativity, and desire to still have their voices heard, during this unprecedented moment in history.'

Source: Melbourne Writers' Theatre.