Maggy Franklin has been involved in theatre and musical theatre in Sydney for many years. She has a teaching diploma in Speech and Drama, has attended Darlo Drama classes, acted and directed in Crash Test Drama, directed at Short and Sweet Sydney, is a regular judge at Short and Sweet and has directed in the Sydney Fringe Festival.
She runs the large internet based social theatre group Theatre Time Sydney which organises groups to attend and support independent theatre. An ex-high school teacher, she works in aged care, plays tennis, gets to the cinema whenever possible, and is a Lifeline volunteer.
She believes one can never go to too much theatre, and there is always something to be experienced at every production.
Miranda Musical Society’s new production is a very good revival of the show ALTAR BOYZ helmed by Osman Kabbara. ALTAR BOYZ premiered at the 47th Street Theatre in New York City in September 2004 and then went Off Broadway in …
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE is a two-character play by Terrence Mc Nally first performed off-Broadway in 1987 and then on Broadway in 2002/3. This tender and romantic comedy produced by Castle Hill Players engages the audience …
4000 MILES by Amy Hertzog was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2013 and received the Obie Award for Best New American Play 2012.
Herzog’s play tells a moving story focusing on the relationship between Leo and his feisty grandmother Vera. The …
SEEING UNSEEN is a fascinating exploration of three days and nights in the lives of a trio of misfits who live primarily in their own world, and yet are also partly watching the outside world and also partly being watched …
FALLOUT, the first full length play by Lauren Pearce, examines a number of subjects around the end of civilisation brought on by profit-motivated callousness, corporate negligence and governmental complacency. The writer examines how the characters face the certainty of death …
THE BIG FUNK by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright John Patrick Shanley asks what will one choose, love & life over death and neurosis?! The play cuts through our human delusions, striping society to its core and holds up a mirror …
Nick Enright’s 1989 play DAYLIGHT SAVING is a great night’s entertainment at the Pavilion Theatre.
The play is set in the late 1980s on the first day of summer, when the clocks change and Sydney-siders gain an extra hour to …
The setting sun over Balmoral Beach on a warm summer’s evening provided the perfect backdrop for a highly enjoyable night’s entertainment of Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST presented by Bard on the Beach.
For 25 years Shakespeare by the Sea was a …
Now into its fourteenth year, Short+Sweet Theatre is set to provide yet again an exciting array of plays from different writers, directors and actors – both experienced and new. This year over 160 new scripts will be performed at two …
WASN’T TOMORROW WONDERFUL? is an entertaining, fun story of young love with some twists and turns. A collaboration between writer/director Malcolm Frawley and producer Jordy Shea, led to a reviving of Frawley’s 2007 play which was originally staged for Sydney …