Reviews

The Hate Race is a magnificent adaptation of Clarke’s memoir which charts her experience of growing up as an Australian of Afro-Caribbean descent. Her story chronicles her experience of otherness and provides a moving insight into the emotional turmoil caused by the daily episodes of discrimination. However, Clarke’s book is emphatic about rising above this through pride in your heritage. This show is much more than a mere adaptation of the novel. It is a clever, creative, and compelling reimagining of the story for the stage.

Mark wants to be a writer – like his mum – and he spent his childhood reading books and writing alongside her. Now he’s moved out of the family home and into a share flat – and he’s still writing: letters to his mum, who eagerly writes back on distinctive yellow note paper.

She lay on her death bed; the Catholic matriarch of the household ruled her brood, and as one generation passes, old secrets are revealed, grievances tackled, and love reunited. 7 CAPTIVA ROAD was written in 2004, an Italian American playwright/screenwriter by Andrea Ciannavei, brought to the Melbourne stage by Bronwen Coleman, Artistic Director of Anthropocene Independent Theatre Company, and directed by Cathy Hunt.

Jane Smiley loves Shakespeare.

She studied his work at High School and University so much that she calls him Uncle Bill.

Interviewed by Will Yeoman of Writers WA, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author spoke of adapting King Lear into her novel, A Thousand Acres (for which she won the Pulitzer in 1992) which allowed her to give the three sisters more say in the outcome of their lives. 

A 1997 film was based on the novel, starring Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards.