Hannie Rayson is a playwright, screenwriter and columnist. Her works—including Hotel Sorrento, Inheritance and Life After George—have been performed around Australia and internationally. She has been awarded two Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her play Life After George was the first play to be nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her memoir Hello, Beautiful! was adapted for the stage and performed as a one-woman show around the country. In 2023, Hannie and her husband Michael Cathcart created Hello, Queenscliffe!
Saturday 18 October
11.15am
Bestselling, award-winning author and political commentator Jane Caro will talk about her new crime novel Lyrebird and how she weaves her real-life advocacy into her fiction, creating worlds that are uncannily familiar while crafting plot twists and absorbing mysteries to keep readers guessing. With Hannie Rayson.
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4.30pm (bar from 4pm)
The Greer Effect is an interrogation of one of Australia’s most audacious thinkers. For over fifty years, Germaine Greer has been a consistently fearless and deliberately provocative figure. This play is based upon unprecedented access to the Germaine Greer Archive, portraying Greer at key points in time, giving voice to the many and varied responses she has provoked. This playreading of Vanessa O’Neill’s exciting new work is a fascinating exploration of one of Melbourne’s most formidable daughters, featuring actor Louise Siversen (Rosehaven, Utopia, Rake) as Germaine Greer. Q&A after the reading facilitated by Hannie Rayson.
Presented in partnership with Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
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