Drama News

The Female of the Species – play-reading

SCEGGS Drama will present a play-reading of Joanna Murray-Smith’s The Female of the Species tomorrow, Friday May 28 at 7:00pm in St Peter’s Playhouse.

This special event has been produced to support our HSC Drama students in their study of the play under the syllabus topic “The Voice of Women in Theatre”.

Murray-Smith states that she set out to see if she “could make feminism funny”. Her comic farce tackles a contrast of feminist theories as the disgruntled Molly arrives unannounced in the home of celebrated feminist icon Margot Mason, challenging her theories and writing.

SCEGGS is delighted to welcome back Zoe Terakes in the role of Molly. Australian theatre legend Geraldine Turner will play Margot Mason. The cast is completed by Romy Bartz, Elijah Williams, Mark Humphries and Andrew McFarlane.

The reading will be guided by celebrated Director, Gale Edwards, and will be followed by a Q&A, chaired by Theatre Reviewer, Diana Simmonds.

Limited tickets will be available for the reading. The event is set up in Trybooking. The booking link is here. 

Bookings will close at 12.30pm on Friday 28 May. This is a free event.

It promises to be a most engaging evening of theatre. We hope to see some of you there.

“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”
Sanford Meisner

Peter Eyers
Head of Drama