'Set in the wilds of Tasmania, Marta [Dusseldorp] will play lead character Stella Heikkinen whose fall from grace is as spectacular as it is life threatening.
'Betrayed by her own company and in immediate danger – single mother of two Stella has no option but to move her young family to the last place on earth anyone would expect. This town isn’t the kind of place they put on postcards, this is a tiny community rife with simmering feuds, crime and sometimes, murder.'
Source: Archipelago Productions.
'A new series set in Tasmania gives its characters an edge of humour to negotiate its troubling darkness ‘The island’s landscapes had a troubling strangeness, if you looked beyond the stage sets we had erected,” Tasmanian novelist Christopher Koch wrote of his homeland. “And beyond Port Davey’s last little lights of settlement, in the extreme southwest all normality ended.” This is the setting for the ABC’s new drama Bay of Fires, a small, dilapidated township called Mystery Bay, where signs warn of rabies and “Low Level Radiation”, and the hoarding welcoming visitors, if they were ever to unwittingly arrive, has the Mystery crossed out and replaced with the word Misery.' (Introduction)
'Interesting stories about women can be hard to find on screen and stage, according to actress-turned-producer Marta Dusseldorp.'
'Anika Van Cleef (Marta Dusseldorp) is a high-powered “Toorak Mum”. She is CEO of an investment company she took over from her controlling father and now runs with her new partner, Johann (Nikolai Nikolaeff).' (Introduction)
'From treading the boards on Tasmanian stages as a teenager — via starring in hit television series in New York — actor Toby Leonard Moore is back in the state he used to call home.'
'From treading the boards on Tasmanian stages as a teenager — via starring in hit television series in New York — actor Toby Leonard Moore is back in the state he used to call home.'
'Anika Van Cleef (Marta Dusseldorp) is a high-powered “Toorak Mum”. She is CEO of an investment company she took over from her controlling father and now runs with her new partner, Johann (Nikolai Nikolaeff).' (Introduction)
'A new series set in Tasmania gives its characters an edge of humour to negotiate its troubling darkness ‘The island’s landscapes had a troubling strangeness, if you looked beyond the stage sets we had erected,” Tasmanian novelist Christopher Koch wrote of his homeland. “And beyond Port Davey’s last little lights of settlement, in the extreme southwest all normality ended.” This is the setting for the ABC’s new drama Bay of Fires, a small, dilapidated township called Mystery Bay, where signs warn of rabies and “Low Level Radiation”, and the hoarding welcoming visitors, if they were ever to unwittingly arrive, has the Mystery crossed out and replaced with the word Misery.' (Introduction)
'Interesting stories about women can be hard to find on screen and stage, according to actress-turned-producer Marta Dusseldorp.'
