'They can’t bring you down. You can fight. For what you believe. For who, and what, you love.
'It takes a lifetime to build a career with integrity and a single tweet to unravel it. Anna Kay, top rated television journalist, mother and wife is now a news subject herself, and the haters are piling on. Her decision to leave her marriage and pursue a passionate affair with a recent source incites the wrath of the masses and threatens her credibility, all as she prepares to break the biggest story of her career. Truth at all costs, but best stay in your lane.
'Starring Caroline Craig (Underbelly, Blue Heelers), directed by Carissa Licciardello, and written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer recently on London’s West End), Anna K weaves a breakneck story of romance, power, and tenacity. In a world promising equality and autonomy, why isn’t the fight over?' (Publication summary)
Performed at Merlyn Theatre, Southbank , Melbourne : 12 August - 4 September 2022.
Director: Carissa Licciardello.
Cast: Callan Colley, Caroline Craig, and Louisa Mignone.
Set and Costume Designer: Anna Cordingley.
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson.
Sound Designer: Joe Paradise Lui.
'A modern day interrogation that riffs off Anna Karenina and explores how women are treated in the public arena.'
'Australian playwright Suzie Miller, a mainstay of independent stages both in Australia and overseas, is having something of a breakthrough year. Two of Miller’s play are having their mainstage premières – Anna K and RBG, Miller’s ode to American jurist Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Sydney Theatre Company, October–December) – and her Griffin-award-winning play Prima Facie (2019) has been a sell-out smash in London’s West End and broadcast around the world as part of the prestigious NT Live initiative of Britain’s National Theatre. Other productions of Prima Facie, including a season on Broadway and a possible film version, are also in the works, and deservedly so.'(Introduction)
'As a feminist interrogation of Tolstoy’s classic, Anna K is a disappointingly cosmetic treatment. By Alison Croggon.'
'As a feminist interrogation of Tolstoy’s classic, Anna K is a disappointingly cosmetic treatment. By Alison Croggon.'
'Australian playwright Suzie Miller, a mainstay of independent stages both in Australia and overseas, is having something of a breakthrough year. Two of Miller’s play are having their mainstage premières – Anna K and RBG, Miller’s ode to American jurist Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Sydney Theatre Company, October–December) – and her Griffin-award-winning play Prima Facie (2019) has been a sell-out smash in London’s West End and broadcast around the world as part of the prestigious NT Live initiative of Britain’s National Theatre. Other productions of Prima Facie, including a season on Broadway and a possible film version, are also in the works, and deservedly so.'(Introduction)
'A modern day interrogation that riffs off Anna Karenina and explores how women are treated in the public arena.'
