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Scenes Seen: An Actor's Life in Australia

Scenes Seen: An Actor's Life in Australia

Daly, Jim

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ISBN10: 1763716104
ISBN13: 9781763716100
Publisher: Jim Daly
Published: Mar 1 2025
Pages: 524
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A stage animal, Jim Daly has been throwing on the greasepaint and wiping it off over seven decades in the dog-eat-dog world of Australian performance. With significant credits across both theatre and screen forms, from the daring plays of Jack Hibberd and Barry Dickins to the celebration of the Brecht centenary year (1998), appearing in both the acclaimed The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Belvoir and in Arturo Ui at the Melbourne Theatre Company, he has ploughed on into the Twenty-First Century with seven seasons of the Aboriginal play Coranderrk, the ground-breaking headphone verbatim theatre of Roslyn Oades' Hello, Goodbye, and Happy Birthday, and a raft of independent works in 'dirty spaces', including his own performance-research work on the Katyń massacre. In between, in the scenes seen in this memoir, is the need to survive and support a family, a necessity spinning him through rocky teaching and hospitality scenes, and picking up a PhD for good measure. This is not a warm story of luck. In a country where performers need a lot of it, his story here brings alive the spiky Australian performing world from the working-actor's point of view. This memoir is a personal career history coloured with dollops of the recent history of Australian performance, theatre especially.

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