just #reminiscing about the good ole days before #melbourne was over-gentrified right out if my price range (i feel like an exile, some times)
#TheMonthly (an independent publication) has a catch-up with #SophieLee (Tracy Kerrigan in #TheCastle, Tania in #Muriel’sWedding)… i knew she retreated to a world of mohterhood and manuscripts, but it seems she’s now living in London. a link to the short article is below, if you are inteested
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reminiscing mainly cos i always thought Sophie Lee was under-rated, under-used, typecast and cursed perhaps by her looks. saw her at #LaMama one night in 1994 in a play called Tanya and Kit. i used to see lots and lots of small productions dirt cheap — even bad shows are interesting if they are live, cos there is something magical about live theatre, and maybe the small space adds to it?
anyway, Tanya and Kit was spellbinding.
Tanya and Kit by Harry Cripps, La Mama, REVIEW, 7 May 1994
THEATRE
At La Mama, until June 1994
Reviewer: Kate Herbert around 7 May 1994
This review was published in The Melbourne Times after 7 May 1994
Two women meet in an apartment and both believe they live there. They become intimates, familiars, inseparable. Harry Cripps' Pintersque script is interesting, involving and funny. It comes to life with the two actors, Sarah Chadwick and Sophie Lee who have a great rapport on stage.
Chadwick plays Tanya, a "sleek and dangerous" woman with an unspecified executive position. Her performance is masterly, her presence magnetic, her timing and delivery impeccable. Lee has a charming ingenuousness as Kit.
This is a quirky play which works on many levels although it incorporates some improbable left-field plot elements.
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