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As a childhood Christmas Day ritual, Kate Mulvany, her younger sister Tegan and parents Danny and Glenys would load up the family car with presents , then drive six hours south to Perth to spend Christmas with Glenys’ younger sister, Jan.
The US part of the equation came about because Mulvany recently played Sister Harriet opposite Al Pacino in two seasons of the Nazi revenge drama. But she’s also nurturing her second career as a playwright and mostly used the US as a “writing room”. While it snowed outside the couple’s New York window, she turned her attention to adapting D’Arcy Niland’s classic 1955 outback road novelKate Mulvany wears Acler dress, Zara shoes.Mulvany knows Australia’s rural roads well.
‘The blood in shared genetics, in shared trauma, in shared joy, in tradition and most of all in sharing of culture, of story, of song – that’s gravy to me.’I ask Mulvany whether she thinks gravy is a metaphor for glue, for family bonds. “I would say blood,” she replies. “The blood in shared genetics, in shared trauma, in shared joy, in tradition and most of all in sharing of culture, of story, of song – that’s gravy to me; a big blood songline.
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