Writing

The Spare Room
Judy Davis makes her return to the stage in Belvoir St Theatre’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s The Spare Room. My review for The Saturday Paper considers the production in the context of Garner’s life works.

Betty Can Jump at the Pram Factory: the radical 1970s play that built a scene – and changed Australia
In this piece for The Guardian, I describe finding myself on federal election day in 2022 handing out how-to-vote flyers with the film and TV actor Bruce Spence, and I look at how federal arts policy has nurtured the arts since the 1970s.

Friday essay: ‘with men I feel like a very sharp, glittering blade’ – when 5 liberated women spoke the truth
This article for The Conversation contains edited extracts from Staging a Revolution: When Betty Rocked the Pram