'A premiere Australian play based on actual events, showing just how startling real-life can be.
'Mary-Ellen Field is a successful Australian business consultant in London – until she’s accused of betraying the secrets of her clients to the press. Her life comes crashing down, and she starts to wonder if she’s losing her mind. Then it emerges that her phone was being illegally tapped by reporters, and she sets out on a campaign to restore her reputation.
'But along the way, her ideas of redemption change – she’s been interviewed by a journalist on the other side of the world, and his story puts everything into a new perspective.' (Production summary)
Co-produced with Playwriting Australia. Performed at Belvoir Theatre, Surry Hills, New South Wales : 25 February - 2 April 2017.
Director: David Berthold.
Lighting Designer: Damien Cooper.
Cast including Sarah Peirse.
'The theatre has given us mutilation, Titus Andronicus comes to mind, and cannibalism in Thyestes and Sweeney Todd, but as far as I am aware there is no dramatic genre based on organ donorship. After Tommy Murphy’s Mark Colvin’s Kidney, this may well change.' (Introduction)
'For more than 40 years, Mark Colvin brought the news to Australians from all over the world.'
'Now, the respected ABC journalist is in his own story.'
'Colvin is the subject of a new play that details his life-saving organ transplant, aptly named Mark Colvin's Kidney.'
'For more than 40 years, Mark Colvin brought the news to Australians from all over the world.'
'Now, the respected ABC journalist is in his own story.'
'Colvin is the subject of a new play that details his life-saving organ transplant, aptly named Mark Colvin's Kidney.'
'The theatre has given us mutilation, Titus Andronicus comes to mind, and cannibalism in Thyestes and Sweeney Todd, but as far as I am aware there is no dramatic genre based on organ donorship. After Tommy Murphy’s Mark Colvin’s Kidney, this may well change.' (Introduction)
