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1 Pining for St Kilda Instead of Moscow : The Cherry Orchard Grapples with Our Cultural Inheritance Leah Mercer , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 3 March 2021;
— Review of The Cherry Orchard Adriane Daff , Katherine Tonkin , 2020 single work drama

'Stories get told over and over, each version sitting atop every other in a never-ending palimpsest. Extracting and extending the metaphors of Anton Chekhov’s classic 1904 play The Cherry Orchard, this production adapted by Adriane Daff and Katherine Tonkin and directed by Clare Watson is as much about its staging at a former hospital as it is about the story and characters.' (Introduction)
1 Fully Sikh Review : A Charismatic, Generous Performance about Growing up Sikh in Australia Leah Mercer , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 October 2019;
— Review of Fully Sikh Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa , 2019 single work drama

'The foyer is adorned with colourful fabric and bunting. We’re welcomed by the sounds of Indian music while members of the Sikh community offer to tie turbans (Dastaar) around our heads.' (Introduction)
1 5 The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins Marcel Dorney , Leah Mercer , Margi Brown Ash , Stacey Callaghan , Carol Schmidt , 2005 single work drama
— Appears in: Independent Brisbane : Four Plays 2008; (p. 52-102) The Australian Play Bundle # 2 2013; 'Explores the many lives of P.L. Travers, the Queensland-born writer of Mary Poppins. Travers remade herself and her history countless times throughout her life. She was also an actress, a writer of erotic poetry, a journalist and a spiritualist. Before she was 'Disney-fied', Travers' Mary Poppins was a study in contradictions: comforting and threatening; conventional and peculiar; down to earth and literally out of this world. As contradictory as her heroine, Travers sought order via her spiritual practices, but lived her life in a way that propelled her from one extreme to another. Punctuated by the biographical details of Travers' life, this new work follows the transformation of memory and experience into story, inviting the audience into the surreal world of her imagination, at twilight, in the crack between day and night, where enchantment and magic and fairy tale characters come out to play. ' (Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre website http://www.diningout.com.au/show_event.asp?fmt=b&event_id=10564 sighted 17.8.05)
1 Inheritance Leah Mercer , Melissa Western , 2000 single work drama 'Set in the beginning of the third millennium, Cracka Theatre Troupe's production of "Inheritance" traces the lives of three young Australians-a trombone nerd, a hockey jock and a hippie chick-given the task of writing the new Australian national anthem. Their challenge is to create an anthem that reflects the multi-faceted Australian identity.' Source: http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/ (Sighted 04/12/2008).
1 `A Fairly Hybrid Talent': An Interview with John Romeril Leah Mercer (interviewer), 1990 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 17 1990; (p. 51-57)
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