Pamela Rabe reveals final episodes explore Joan and Vera’s relationship
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New Idea Magazine – Wentworth PAMELA & SUSIE: ‘FANS WILL LOVE THE ENDING’
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New Pamela Rabe Q&A for The Weekend Australian Magazine
Q&A: Pamela Rabe, actor & director, 62 Many Australians know you as a murderous psychopath after your long-running role in prison drama Wentworth. How do they react when you meet?…
Time Served | The Australian Women’s Weekly
When Pamela Rabe landed an audition for the role of Joan “The Freak” Ferguson on a re-envisioned take on classic Aussie drama Prisoner, she squealed. Not the reaction you’d expect…
Wentworth The Final Sentence: We Have Questions For Pamela Rabe And Marta Dusseldorp
Having worked together many times in the years since meeting in 1996 on the set of Australian film Paradise Road, last year saw long-time friends Pamela Rabe and Marta Dusseldorp…
The Wentworth cast’s special reunion
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Pamela Rabe & Marta Dusseldorp Foxtel Magazine Interview
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A Chekhov classic bears new fruit for a world in a state of crisis
Belvoir St Theatre’s artistic director Eamon Flack remembers the moment he first read The Cherry Orchard by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
“It was on a verandah in Perth in my first year in drama school,” he says. “I was lying in a friend’s hammock. That was exactly 20 years ago. I remember a funny feeling of familiarity I had with it and some sort of excitement. It’s funny, I haven’t thought about that for a long time.”
Flack’s connection with the 117-year-old play, which he is directing from his own adaptation for a season at Belvoir St Theatre that starts on Saturday, came from memories of his peripatetic childhood.
“My father had a knack for getting retrenched or fired, or for resigning in high dudgeon,” he says. “And so we kept having to leave where we were at. You’d connect to a place and then you get kicked out of it and you have to move on to the next one. I moved five times before I was eight and my response was just being a dreamer.” (more…)