Drama News

The Female of the Species

SCEGGS Drama will present a play-reading of Joanna Murray-Smith’s “The Female of the Species” on Wednesday March 8 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 into the home of celebrated feminist icon Margot Mason, challenging her theories and writing.

SCEGGS is delighted to feature Poppy Lynch in the role of Molly. Stage and television veteran Belinda Giblin will play Margot Mason. The cast is completed with Romy Bartz, Mark Humphries, Elijah Williams, and Anthony Phelan. We are indeed fortunate to have engaged actors of such a high calibre.

The reading will be guided by celebrated Director, Gale Edwards. Gale has had an extensive career directing theatre around the world. She was the first woman to direct at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has had productions of musicals on Broadway and The West End.

The reading will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

The SCEGGS community is invited to attend to performance. Admission is free.

This promises to be a most engaging evening of theatre.

Peter Eyers
Head of Drama