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With Judy Davis Sam Neill Wendy Hughes Robert Grubb. My Brilliant Career is a new musical by Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank based on the iconic Miles Franklin novel.

My Brilliant Career Judy Davis As Sybylla Melvyn My Brilliant Career Australian Actors Actors

My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel written by Miles Franklin.

. Judy Davis stars as Sybylla Melvyn the eldest daughter of an impoverished New South Wales farming family. Cast Judy Davis Sybylla Melvyn Sam Neill Harry Beecham Wendy Hughes Aunt Helen Robert Grubb Frank Hawdon Patricia Kennedy Aunt Gussie Max Cullen Mr. Harris Robert Austin Willie McSwat Julia Blake Mother Simone Buchanan Mary Anne McSwat Aaron Corrin Jimmy. A would-be novelist struggles for independence and a career in turn-of-the-century Australia.

My Brilliant Career. Blazey Best Jason Chong Tom Conroy Emma Harvie Tracy Mann Nikki Shiels Guy Simon. My Brilliant Career - Full Cast Crew. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn Judy Davis in a star-making performance.

Stream songs including Prologue Life as We Know It and more. My Brilliant Career. Her novel is remembered. Commissioned developed and produced as part of the Jeanne Pratt Artist in Residence program at Monash University the musical had a week of performances.

Directed by Gillian Armstrong. Dates 5 December 2020 31 January 2021. I first saw My Brilliant Career in 1980 as a college sophomore tramping to the local theater in Northampton Mass for a Friday night away from the dorm. Sybylla Judy Davis a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia has the.

It is the first of many novels by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin 18791954 one of the major Australian writers of her time. 1 hr 38 mins Comedy G. Supported by City of Sydney. A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.

Listen to My Brilliant Career Original Cast Recording by Dean Bryant Mathew Frank on Apple Music. 1979 Directed by Gillian Armstrong. The Original Cast Recording of this thrilling pop-rock. In 1901 the new federation of Australia produced its first ever novel.

Album 2020 19 Songs. Belvoir has been granted an exemption under the Public Health COVID-19 Restrictions on Gathering and Movement Order No 5 2020 under the Public Health Act 2010 NSW to increase our audiences for My Brilliant Career up to 75. In October last year a new Australian musical by Mathew Frank and Dean Bryant based on Miles Franklins 1901 novel My Brilliant Career had its first stage outing at Monash University in Melbourne. Here before us so alive and hungry to be heard is Sybylla Melvyn Nikki Shiels.

For her award-winning breakthrough film director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklins novel a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. It was written while she was still a teenager as a romance to amuse her friends. 37 rows My Brilliant Career 1979 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors. Miles Franklins 1901 novel My Brilliant Career features a feisty woman in a mans world and although the story takes place during what we now acknowledge as being the first wave of feminism Sybylla seems terribly alone in her defiance.

Judy Davis as Sybylla Melvyn Sam Neill as Harry Beecham Wendy Hughes as Aunt Helen Robert Grubb as Frank Hawdon. Class is examined through dancing and love is examined through class and sexism is examined through love. Previous Next Show Grid. The original cast recording of new musical My Brilliant Career is now available to stream on iTunes Spotify and all major platforms.

Growing up in the Australian outback creative and headstrong Sybylla Melvyn Judy Davis dreams of becoming a famous writer despite long odds. Judy Davis Sam Neill Wendy Hughes Robert Grubb Max Cullen Aileen Britton Peter Whitford. Bold and determined in a time of sexist ign. McSwat Haylely Anderson Rosie Jane McSwat Aileen Britton Grandma Bossier Max Meldrum Mr.

Previous Next Hide Grid. My Brilliant Career Belvoir Graced by a uniformly excellent cast Kate Champions assured directorship bounteous humour and an evocative finely toned production Kendall Feavers adaptation of My Brilliant Career is in a word brilliant. Judy Davis Sam Neill Wendy Hughes Robert Grubb Max Cullen Aileen Britton Peter Whitford Patricia Kennedy Alan Hopgood Julia Blake David Franklin Marion Shad Aaron Wood Sue Davies Gordon Piper Basil Clarke. 1 Video.

In wide wilderness open fields muddy holes candlelit servant quarters squalid hovels elegant mansions sprawling estates open pastures in dead or living trees in the river or in the impossible gardens wielding pillows or words. MY BRILLIANT CAREER 1979 Director. For better or worse Franklin casts a long literary shadow.