Miles Franklin's debut novel may have been published way back in 1901, but the story of the 'ratbag' aspiring artist Sybylla Melvyn remains as vibrant as ever.
The creative team behind the My Brilliant Career musical at Melbourne Theatre Company would love to see it tour across Australia.The creators of a new musical based on Miles Franklin 's debut novel My Brilliant Career have all felt like a Sybylla sometimes.
This dilemma is the crux of My Brilliant Career, which has been turned into a movie, a play and even a ballet."It celebrates everyone willing to take a chance to be different and to follow their heart and to do what feels right for them."Bryant and Frank know exactly what that feels like. Bryant's parents discouraged him from dropping out of law to go to drama school after he was accepted into the prestigious Western Australian Academy of the Arts .
Bryant and Frank refined their musical skills with Once We Lived Here, Virgins: A Musical Threesome, The Silver Donkey and the music for TV series Mr and Mrs Murder , and also collaborated on cabaret shows with Christie Whelan Browne .Bryant and Frank are always looking for stories to adapt into a musical, and it occurred to them My Brilliant Career might be the perfect fit.
"It felt very fresh and fun, but with the political heart that I want all my work to have," she says. After the movie , My Brilliant Career was adapted into a play by Kendall Feaver in 2020, and into a ballet by British choreographer Cathy Marston in 2023. A TV adaptation is in development.The movie landed almost 20 years after the contraceptive pill first came to Australia and nine years after the publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, as feminists fought sexual harassment and workplace discrimination.
"It was great to go back into the book and pluck out all the things where she is a contradictory, annoying little piece of work, as all 15-year-olds are.
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