Melanie Tait is one of our finest playwrights, writing gently observant theatre featuring well drawn, easily recognisable characters.
Tait’s play THE APPLETON LADIES’ POTATO RACE was commissioned by Kirribilli’s Ensemble Theatre and first performed in 2019, the year in which …
I cried. That’s it really. Except perhaps to add that the younger woman sitting in front of me did too, and the elder lady beside me was quietly mopping herself off as the house lights came up. THE SECRET SINGER …
THE SECRET SINGER is in all of us perhaps. After all, an engineer will tell you that bathrooms really do have better acoustics than the rest of the house. But only rarely does the secret inside burst into public spaces. …