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.
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH by Lally Katz takes place in the year between Kevin Rudd’s election as Australian Prime Minister and Barack Obama’s as US President. It is based around the development of an unlikely friendship between Ana, a battle hardened Hungarian …
THE GIRL/THE WOMAN playing at Riverside Theatres is an eclectic mixture of theatrical styles – words, movement, drama, pathos, laugh out loud humour and comic antics.
This exciting and absorbing production, written by Aanisa Vylet, who is also one …
Though AIR, the present production on at the Old 505 Theatre in Newtown, is written around the themes of death and grief there is much black comedy throughout the play to lighten the mood. The audience is absorbed in the …
The joy of this production of THE WINSLOW BOY, from The Castle Hill Players, is the skill of the cast who so successfully portray the darker and more serious themes of the play yet highlight the witty and clever writing.…
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER is part romantic comedy and part Comedy of Manners by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. It was originally called Mistakes of a Night, for its rather convoluted plot unravels …
For a vibrant and rocking night at the theatre get along to Hornsby Musical Society’s production of WE WILL ROCK YOU at Hornsby RSL Club – but be quick as it is only on till Sunday 22 April. Though …
Don’t miss the opportunity to join this magical trip under sea with Birdie Productions THE LITTLE MERMAID. This is a truly delightful and colourful fantasy which all ages will love from the start to its ‘happily ever after’ finish. The …
Always providing their audiences with high class shows Castle Hill Players has raised its own bar even higher with this excellent production of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy HARVEY by Mary Chase.
Harvey is the story of a perfect gentleman, …
In week seven Top 80 of this eight week festival of short plays we are presented with another nine highly entertaining and varied plays. From a talk show gone wrong to a moving tribute to ANZAC, through an office romance …
CAGE is a well written, dark and intense piece by up and coming playwright Jordan Shea. It focuses on three young Australian tourists visiting Thailand for very different reasons, and the dreadful consequences of a drunken spree one night. …