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'Explores the many lives of P.L. Travers, the Queensland-born writer of Mary Poppins. Travers remade herself and her history countless times throughout her life. She was also an actress, a writer of erotic poetry, a journalist and a spiritualist. Before she was 'Disney-fied', Travers' Mary Poppins was a study in contradictions: comforting and threatening; conventional and peculiar; down to earth and literally out of this world. As contradictory as her heroine, Travers sought order via her spiritual practices, but lived her life in a way that propelled her from one extreme to another. Punctuated by the biographical details of Travers' life, this new work follows the transformation of memory and experience into story, inviting the audience into the surreal world of her imagination, at twilight, in the crack between day and night, where enchantment and magic and fairy tale characters come out to play. ' (Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre website http://www.diningout.com.au/show_event.asp?fmt=b&event_id=10564 sighted 17.8.05)
Production Details
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Presented by Theatre Activ8 and Brisbane Powerhouse at the Visy Theatre 17 - 20 August 2005. Director: Leah Mercer.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Fly High with a Whimsical Bio Told by a Famous Creation
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 May 2009; (p. 10)
— Review of The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins 2005 single work drama -
Write of Passage
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 May 2009; (p. 11) -
In Search of Mary Poppins
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 August 2006; (p. 11)
— Review of The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins 2005 single work drama -
Spoonful of Sugar Lost on the Voices
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 August 2005; (p. 12)
— Review of The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins 2005 single work drama -
Exceptional Act
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 August 2005; (p. 15)
— Review of The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins 2005 single work drama
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Exceptional Act
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 August 2005; (p. 15)
— Review of The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins 2005 single work drama -
Spoonful of Sugar Lost on the Voices
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 August 2005; (p. 12)
— Review of The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins 2005 single work drama -
In Search of Mary Poppins
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 August 2006; (p. 11)
— Review of The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins 2005 single work drama -
Fly High with a Whimsical Bio Told by a Famous Creation
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 May 2009; (p. 10)
— Review of The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins 2005 single work drama -
Write of Passage
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 May 2009; (p. 11)
Last amended 28 May 2009 10:19:08