Vanessa O’Neill is a playwright, performer and teacher. She has worked for theatre companies throughout the UK and Australia. Her one-woman-show Happy With Half Your Life toured nationally and internationally. Her play In Search of Owen Roe had two seasons at La Mama Theatre and toured with Regional Arts Victoria. Vanessa was awarded a Fellowship by the University of Melbourne to research a play based on the Germaine Greer Archive. The Greer Effect was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award and received The Varuna Eric Dark Fellowship for outstanding non-fiction.
Saturday 25 October
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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