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But from a young age, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
I paid for my own ballet lessons from the $4 an hour job at the daggy old Brunswick Heads fish and chip shop and bought the family car at 16 to go to auditions.
As Mum has always said to me, San, you’ve got tenacity. I ended up at one of Australia’s leading drama schools at 17 on a scholarship at the Queensland University of Technology.
My first professional acting job came when one of my most admired role models, the formidable First Nations actor, writer, director, Leah Purcell reached out to me to perform in the creative development of the play,
Domestic bliss becomes a cold, bloody nightmare.
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By Harriet Cunningham
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★★★
“Wild never was until you came”.
Woman is hunting wild dogs for the government bounty on their skins. Dog is her companion, swearing fealty in return for pats and treats. Dingo, meanwhile, is a hungry, cold, tired mother desperate to find her pups. When the three meet Woman’s version of the world, a world where dogs lie by fires and humans eat fruitcake is stripped away, explodes, replaced by a cold, bloody nightmare.
Review: Dogged, directed by Declan Greene. Griffin Theatre Company in association with Force Majeure.
Dingo (Sandy Greenwood, a Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti and Bundjalung actor) stands facing the audience, dressed in a muddied tracksuit with a dingo-like mask. Her opening speech signals concern; a longing for her lost pups.
We then meet Woman (Blazey Best). Woman is of good Scottish heritage, the daughter of homesteaders and sheep graziers. She is out hunting for wild dogs. Woman is preparing a kill, ripping out a souvenir from a bloodied carcass. Her companion is Dog (Anthony Yangoyan), eager for his own reward, a taste of the kill.
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