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    • Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Other Times

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…

    • The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Kid Stakes

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    The beginning of a 17-year odyssey. Set in 1937, Kid Stakes is the chronological beginning of Lawler’s trilogy, the start of a theatrical odyssey set on Lawler’s home turf, in Depression-era Carlton. It’s where we first meet Roo, Barney, Olive and Nancy, long before they realise how entwined their lives will become.…
    The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Kid Stakes

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    The beginning of a 17-year odyssey. Set in 1937, Kid Stakes is the chronological beginning of Lawler’s trilogy, the start of a theatrical odyssey set on Lawler’s home turf, in Depression-era Carlton. It’s where we first meet Roo, Barney, Olive and Nancy, long before they realise how entwined their lives will become.…
    The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Other Times

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    It’s 1945, Roo and Barney are back in Melbourne, only this time, rather than the heat of cane plantations, it’s the fury of the battlefield from which they return. World War II has shaped Australia’s sense of place in the world, forever changing the young men fighting in it and…
    The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Other Times

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    It’s 1945, Roo and Barney are back in Melbourne, only this time, rather than the heat of cane plantations, it’s the fury of the battlefield from which they return. World War II has shaped Australia’s sense of place in the world, forever changing the young men fighting in it and…
    The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    It’s 1953 and once again Roo and Barney are making their annual layover pilgrimage from the cane fields to Melbourne. For the past 16 years it has been a time of romance and sexual exploration, but times are changing for our characters while others resist the inevitable march of aging.…
    The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    It’s 1953 and once again Roo and Barney are making their annual layover pilgrimage from the cane fields to Melbourne. For the past 16 years it has been a time of romance and sexual exploration, but times are changing for our characters while others resist the inevitable march of aging.…