Mish Grigor’s deconstruction of My Fair Lady examines the myth of Australia’s classless society.
You’ll enjoy glasses of sparkling wine. There will be printed menu cards and three-tiered porcelain trays of odd but edible hors d’oeuvres, presented on linen-draped tables., exploring the myth of Australia as a classless society – will be unobscured.Credit:Everyone else gets a standard seat with no frills. They are a lower class. Grigor, who performs“Turning a mass into two groups suddenly, having them considering each other in different ways, is one of the inroads to the piece,” she says.
“But then there’s the material aspects of wealth and poverty. If you face any kind of adversity – if you get sick, if someone in your family gets sick; if you’re raising a young person or taking care of an old person – well, you can kind of run off a cliff. There’s nothing underneath you.“I’m lucky. I had these structures that allowed me to be an artist. I got to make those choices. But I can’t stop because if I stop there’s no kind of safety net.
“I consciously hid a lot of my working-class past,” she says. “I didn’t talk about the rougher sides of my upbringing with my friends at drama school because I didn’t feel like it belonged in the world of art.
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