THE SATURDAY PAPER: Best stage performances of 2019

Article by Alison Croggon for The Saturday Paper

A student production at the Victorian College of the Arts was a rare treat: a chance to see one of the United States’ most significant playwrights, Pulitzer prize-winning Suzan-Lori Parks, who is almost never produced in Australia. 

Fucking A, a take-no-prisoners Brechtian version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, was given a superb production, directed by Candy Bowers. Most of all, it reminded me how free writing can be, and how sheer exhilaration rises in your soul when a production picks that freedom up and runs with it.

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