Theatre
Playing Beatie Bow
A new adaptation of Ruth Park’s classic
Sydney Theatre Company
by Polly Simons •
Ruth Park’s novels were as much about Sydney as the people who live there. In Park’s famous The Harp in the South trilogy, the slums of Surry Hills are almost as lively and characterful as the Darcy family, whose story it relates. In Playing Beatie Bow, the changing face of The Rocks underpins every part of the narrative.
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