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My Sister Jill: Patricia Cornelius' new play is a blistering post-war social and cultural commentary

Sarah Walker/MTCEmerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between director Susie Dee and playwright Patricia Cornelius, My Sister Jill is a contemporary homage to George Johnston’s classic 1964 Australian novel My Brother Jack. Both these works are set in post-war suburban Australia in the 1960s. But instead of the longing for the classic values of an older Australia that valorise war heroism and stoic masculinity, My Sister Jill centres the perspecti

My Sister Jill: Patricia Cornelius' new play is a blistering post-war social and cultural commentary

My Sister Jill disrupts ideas of colonial glory with a troubling depiction of family violence, PTSD, homophobia and the ruinous intergenerational impacts of patriarchal oppression on everyone.

My Sister Jill: Patricia Cornelius' New Play Is A Blistering Post-War Social And Cultural Commentary

Theatre review: My Sister Jill, Southbank Theatre

Based on Patricia Cornelius' semi-autobiographical book of the same name, My Sister Jill is the latest endeavour from the powerhouse partnership of Cornelius and director Susie Dee.

My Sister Jill review – Patricia Cornelius's family drama cries out for social realism | Australian theatre

The playwright’s stage adaptation of her semi-autobiographical novel explores Australia’s changing attitude to war, but it never rises above the schematic