Jackie became an artist and pilot living the bohemian dream with her beloved Marco (Tony Poli).
It’s a portrait of a simpler era when going to university was considered a waste of time for girls who were expected to leave school at 15, get a job, and pay board until they married.īut times change and by the early ’60s these four women are travelling to London for their grand tour with the spicy hope of meeting The Beatles.īonded for life by shared experience rather than common interest, they remain friends, meeting once a year, well into old age. Their hapless teacher (Lewis Fitz-Gerald) in his long socks and shorts, is powerless to prevent Jackie (Di Smith) who can “draw a bit” from jumping naked into the river to rescue a stray dog. They are ostensibly drawing landscapes for an art class, but really, they’re discussing the mystery of how babies are made and whether you can get pregnant from eating ice-cream. Jackie, Frances, Susan and Elizabeth are 13-year-old schoolgirls in 1956 when we first meet them in the bush by a river. “WILD Thing” by Australian writer, Suzanne Hawley, is a play about war babies, the generation born between 19 who have now grown old. At Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, April 28. cast members from left, Di Adams, Katrina Foster, Di Smith and Helen O’Connor.
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