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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Sunday
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'Muse and mentor, Sunday Reed was the founder of Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art, and the heart of a circle of artists that included the likes of Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester. In this world premiere MTC commission, Nikki Shiels (Home, I’m Darling) embodies Reed’s passionate and unconventional spirit, bringing to life an audacious fantasy of her fateful affair with Nolan, her unbroken devotion to her husband, and the devastating price she paid for living and loving on her own terms as a woman in mid-20th century Australia.

'Sunday Reed isn’t like most women. In fact, she’s not like most men. Outspoken, uninhibited, adventurous, she has a laser eye for the new – in life and in art. When struggling artist Sidney Nolan arrives at Heide, the idyllic utopia Sunday is creating with her beloved husband John Reed on the outskirts of 1940s Melbourne, what ensues will haunt all three to their dying days. And in the aftermath, Australian art will never look the same.'

Source: Melbourne Theatre Company.

Production Details

  • Scheduled for production by Melbourne Theatre Company, from 18 September to 23 October 2021.

    Production cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Director: Sarah Goodes.

    Set Designer: Anna Cordingley.

    Costume Designer: Harriet Oxley.

    Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson.

    Composer and Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward.

    Cast: Matt Day (John), Mark Leonard Winter (Nolan), Raidzo Mambo (Joy), Nikki Shiels (Sunday), and Alfie Hughes (Sweeney).

    Rescheduled for production by Melbourne Theatre Company at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, 16 January - 18 February 2023.

    Director: Sarah Goodes.

    Set Designer: Anna Cordingley.

    Costume Designer: Harriet Oxley.

    Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson.

    Cast: Matt Day (John), Raidzo Mambo (Joy), and Nikki Shiels (Sunday).

    Presented by Sydney Theatre Company. Performed at Sydney Opera House, Drama Theatre : 28 October - 7 December 2024.

    Director: Sarah Goodes.

    Set Designer: Anna Cordingley.

    Costume Designer: Harriet Oxley.

    Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson.

    Composer & Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward.

    Assistant Director: Sonya Suares.

    Assistant Sound Designer: Danni A. Esposito.

    Intimacy Coordinator: Amy Cater.

    Fight Choreographer: Lyndall Grant.

    Cast: Matt Day, Ratidzo Mambo, Josh McConville, Nikki Shiels.

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First known date: 2021
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Works about this Work

Theatre Review: Sunday, MTC Vanessa Francesca , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , January 2023;
— Review of Sunday Anthony Weigh , 2021 single work drama

'The loose boundaries of art and love are explored in this portrait of Heide Museum founder, Sunday Reed.'
MTC’s Sunday Robert Reid , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4-10 January 2023;
— Review of Sunday Anthony Weigh , 2021 single work drama 'Sunday, Melbourne Theatre Company’s drama about Heide’s artistic circle, risks erasing history in favour of sentimental romance. By Robert Reid.' 
Sunday Review – A Masterful and Moving Portrait of a Woman Who Railed against Conformity Tim Byrne , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 21 January 2023;
— Review of Sunday Anthony Weigh , 2021 single work drama

'This world-class production anchored by superb central performances brings Sunday Reed back to shimmering, incandescent life'
An Imaginative Unfolding of a Life, a New Play Asks : Would Sidney Nolan Have Become the Artist He Became If Not for Sunday Reed? Kate Hunter , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 January 2023;
— Review of Sunday Anthony Weigh , 2021 single work drama

'Sunday is a glimpse into the private world of the philanthropist and art patron Sunday Reed.'
An Imaginative Unfolding of a Life, a New Play Asks : Would Sidney Nolan Have Become the Artist He Became If Not for Sunday Reed? Kate Hunter , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 January 2023;
— Review of Sunday Anthony Weigh , 2021 single work drama

'Sunday is a glimpse into the private world of the philanthropist and art patron Sunday Reed.'
Sunday Review – A Masterful and Moving Portrait of a Woman Who Railed against Conformity Tim Byrne , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 21 January 2023;
— Review of Sunday Anthony Weigh , 2021 single work drama

'This world-class production anchored by superb central performances brings Sunday Reed back to shimmering, incandescent life'
MTC’s Sunday Robert Reid , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4-10 January 2023;
— Review of Sunday Anthony Weigh , 2021 single work drama 'Sunday, Melbourne Theatre Company’s drama about Heide’s artistic circle, risks erasing history in favour of sentimental romance. By Robert Reid.' 
Theatre Review: Sunday, MTC Vanessa Francesca , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , January 2023;
— Review of Sunday Anthony Weigh , 2021 single work drama

'The loose boundaries of art and love are explored in this portrait of Heide Museum founder, Sunday Reed.'
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  • Heide, Bulleen, Doncaster - Templestowe area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,
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