Voss & The Twyborn Affair

Two dramatisations of novels by the Nobel prize winner Patrick White. Patrick White was an Australian novelist and playwright. He sharply divided Australian critics due to his satirical take on Australian society. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the only Australian to be awarded this prize and his first published novel, Happy Valley (1939), was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. This collection consists of two of his award winning novels dramatised with a full cast. Voss- Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. Laura, waiting in Sydney, moves through the months of separation as if they were a dream and Voss the only reality. Voss: Robert Menzies Laura Trevelyan: Pamela Rabe Other Cast: with Bob Homery, Julia Blake, Tammy McCarthy, Paul English, Celia De Burgh. Michael Carman, Brian Lipson, John Dicks. Jerome Pride and Stanley McGeagh. The Twyborn Affair - As the London Blitz begins, a tangled tale of sexual identity unfolds. Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition. Dramatised by DJ Britton Producer/Director Alison Hindell Eddie: Julian Rhind-Tutt Eadie: Penny Downie Joan: Hattie Morahan Don: Philip Quast Marcia: Leigh Funnelle Angelos: John Rowe Rod: John Rowe Curly: David Henry Greg: David Henry Peggy: Manon Edwards Ada: Manon Edwards Driver: Piers Wehner Bridie: Emerald O'Hanrahan Philip: Joseph Cohen-Cole