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'And then I found me is the triumphant story of Noel Tovey’s stellar career in London as an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, director and curator. For more than 30 years, his acclaimed stage productions reached audiences across Europe, South Africa and Australia. Martin Luther King’s assassination, the dismantling of apartheid, the criminalisation of homosexuality and the rise of AIDS are the backdrop to this bold and deeply moving recollection of glamour and politics'. (Source: Publisher's website)
Notes
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Epigraph: 'Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recollect. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Dedication: For Jumoke who taught me that there is no age limit when it comes to fighting for what you believe in.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Ballet Dancer Who Leaped into Activism
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 27 March no. 697 2019; (p. 21)'Noel Tovey, now 86 years old, reflects on his life as the first male Aboriginal ballet dancer and LGBTI activist, and a child who was removed as part of past assimilation policies.'
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A Life's Journey : Noel Tovey's And Then I Found Me
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , April 2018;
— Review of And Then I Found Me 2017 single work autobiography -
'And Then I Found Me' by Noel Tovey
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 391 2017; 'Looking back on his career, Noel Tovey writes: ‘I could work in three languages. I had dined in the finest restaurants in Europe and America with pop stars and royalty and I had a career in the theatre that most Australians would envy.’ The man who wrote these words grew up an abused and neglected child. When he was seventeen, he served time in Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison for ‘the abominable crime of buggery’, a fact not always mentioned in online references.' (Introduction)
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A Life's Journey : Noel Tovey's And Then I Found Me
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , April 2018;
— Review of And Then I Found Me 2017 single work autobiography -
'And Then I Found Me' by Noel Tovey
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 391 2017; 'Looking back on his career, Noel Tovey writes: ‘I could work in three languages. I had dined in the finest restaurants in Europe and America with pop stars and royalty and I had a career in the theatre that most Australians would envy.’ The man who wrote these words grew up an abused and neglected child. When he was seventeen, he served time in Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison for ‘the abominable crime of buggery’, a fact not always mentioned in online references.' (Introduction) -
The Ballet Dancer Who Leaped into Activism
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 27 March no. 697 2019; (p. 21)'Noel Tovey, now 86 years old, reflects on his life as the first male Aboriginal ballet dancer and LGBTI activist, and a child who was removed as part of past assimilation policies.'
