A comedy based on a real-life incident involving author Germaine Greer comes to life at Melville Theatre for its final season of the year.

Written by Joanna Murray-Smith and directed by Lars Jensen, The Female of the Species is a satire about celebrity feminists.

Margot Mason is author of the best-selling The Cerebral Vagina – but the academic and mother is struggling with her latest deadline.

Idealistic student Molly Rivers, the daughter of Margot’s biggest fan, suddenly walks into the writer’s country house and turns her life upside down.

First performed in 2006, the play is on the literature syllabus for Year 11 students in WA and Year 12 drama course in the eastern states.