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'Muse and mentor, Sunday Reed was the founder of Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art, and the heart of a circle of artists that included the likes of Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester. In this world premiere MTC commission, Nikki Shiels (Home, I’m Darling) embodies Reed’s passionate and unconventional spirit, bringing to life an audacious fantasy of her fateful affair with Nolan, her unbroken devotion to her husband, and the devastating price she paid for living and loving on her own terms as a woman in mid-20th century Australia.
'Sunday Reed isn’t like most women. In fact, she’s not like most men. Outspoken, uninhibited, adventurous, she has a laser eye for the new – in life and in art. When struggling artist Sidney Nolan arrives at Heide, the idyllic utopia Sunday is creating with her beloved husband John Reed on the outskirts of 1940s Melbourne, what ensues will haunt all three to their dying days. And in the aftermath, Australian art will never look the same.'
Source: Melbourne Theatre Company.
Production Details
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Scheduled for production by Melbourne Theatre Company, from 18 September to 23 October 2021.
Production cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Director: Sarah Goodes.
Set Designer: Anna Cordingley.
Costume Designer: Harriet Oxley.
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson.
Composer and Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward.
Cast: Matt Day (John), Mark Leonard Winter (Nolan), Raidzo Mambo (Joy), Nikki Shiels (Sunday), and Alfie Hughes (Sweeney).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Heide, Bulleen, Doncaster - Templestowe area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,