The beloved Australian actor and Play School host has written a special kind of memoir.
with her then-husband, John Jarratt, were an impassioned engagement with the world of popular entertainment, even though they ended with Jarratt going off with another woman.
Hazlehurst was born in Melbourne in 1953, the daughter of middle-class ten-bob poms. Her brother went to Melbourne Grammar and eventually studied Classics at Oxford. It became rapidly clear that Noni needed to transfer to St Leonard’s and her mild, churchgoing parents seem not to have blinked at the expense.The Merchant of Venice
,” said Noni. “Ah, Portia,” said the teacher. “No,” the exultant actor declared, “Shylock.” And so she played that tragic villain with her own concocted accent. She studied drama at Flinders University, where she had the advantage of being taught by the great Wal Cherry. She knew nothing of what was taking place at the Pram Factory with the Australian Performing Group, but at Flinders she was taught by Tim Robertson, one of its veterans, who praised one of the students who had written “bullshit” when asked to define drama because no definition would do.She ended up part of the cast of the period romp.
Well, Noni Hazlehurst has done a formidable job of it along with everything else, and anyone who wants a first-rate account of the splendours and miseries of an actor’s lot should read this book.
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