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This holiday season get your family and friends tickets to
Wander Production's: Once Were Leaders and save money with group
bookings!
09 FEBRUARY 2015– 14 FEBRUARY 2015
Venue: Playhouse, Sydney Opera House
Presented by: Wander Productions
Is Australia suffering a leadership deficit? There was a time when
politicians could inspire us. But were they really better than the
current crop or has our perception benefited from the passage of time?
Is it a case of the more things change the more they stay the same?
Max Gillies has been a keen observer of the political combat zone for
half a century. His fascination with the ups and downs of political
leadership has seen him parody everyone from Hawke to Howard to Thatcher
and many more. In Once Were Leaders, he goes through his extensive
catalogue of works to share some of his most infamous characters.
Once Max used to apply make-up, wigs and prosthetic enhancements in
order to disguise himself. He doesn’t have those items anymore. But what
he has accumulated is a rich collection of pen portraits. Join Max as
he shares his memories of a life spent on the fringes of power mining
the archive for his favourite speeches, orations and soliloquies.
Once Were Leaders is an intimate evening with Max Gillies. You will
see him up close, unmasked and witness as he explains his processes of
creation of some of our most loved and hated leadership personalities.
“Once were Leaders provides the opportunity to observe a great
character actor at work. Decades of refining and practising his art
allows Gillies to instantly disappear into the core of his subject, who
then inhabits the room before your very eyes”
Bill Stephens - Australian Arts Review
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