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How the power of teenage girls makes Playing Beatie Bow an enduring classic
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In a small cabin in Broken Hill, Sofia Nolan propped her phone up on a cereal box and was preparing to audition over Zoom for her first lead mainstage theatre role.
âIt was really dark and I really struggled to get the light in, because the sun kept moving,â she recalls. âAnd I was like, âIn what universe is this going to go well?ââ
Catherine VÄn-Davies (left) and Sofia Nolan tap into their natural chemistry for their lead roles in Playing Beatie Bow.
Alex Dimitriades star in the premiere of the heartwarming and powerful new drama series,
Amazing Grace, on Wednesday, March 3, at 9.00pm on Nine and 9Now.
Behind the doors of St Brigid’s birthing centre is a captivating world of new life, love and deceit, and right at its heart is Grace (
Kate Jenkinson), a beautifully flawed midwife whose world is turned upside down when Sophia (
Alexandra Jensen), the daughter she gave up for adoption 17 years ago, arrives unannounced and pregnant.
Sophia’s arrival rocks Grace’s world and brings into question all the decisions that have brought her to this point in life.
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For Valentine s Day, six writers on love, sex, passion and desire â in life and literature
In 2001, Eleanor Wachtel was joined by Ian McEwan, A.L. Kennedy, Clare Boylan, Rosemary Sullivan, Shyam Selvadurai and Esta Spalding to talk about romance and writing.
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Clockwise from top left: Rosemary Sullivan, Esta Spalding, Ian McEwan, A.L. Kennedy, Shyam Selvadurai, Clare Boylan.(Susanna Gordon, Denise Estes Photography, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Geraint Lewis, Kevin Kelly, Liz Robbins)