Carefully wrapped in paper, tucked in a chest of drawers in a house in Malvern East, is the skeleton of possibly the first ever retractable umbrella. By NickdMiller
have the Knirps appearing in 1927, invented independently by German mining official Hans Haupt).Driftwood
“I couldn’t believe what I found,” she says. “I didn’t know what was hidden. Half of it Mum didn’t even show Dad: her early drawings, some of her paintings. I began to search through documents and letters and began to read them.” “She had never told me anything ... It was a challenge. A huge challenge. It took me ages to get it all in my head.”Singer and entrepreneur Tania de Jong sees her grandmother’s umbrella as a symbol of shelter – but Eva prefers to see it as the symbol of a woman who was ahead of her time and forced to make sacrifices for her family .
And now Tania de Jong has inherited these stories, precious gifts she has nurtured into a musical, to open on May 13 at Monash University and then transfer to Chapel Off Chapel, with a script from Jane Bodie and music by Anthony Barnhill, directed by Gary Abrahams.“The story is so theatrical,” says de Jong. “It’s wonderful to read it as a literary work, but to actually see it evolve into a piece of musical theatre is really quite powerful.
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