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The Man from Mukinupin
By Dorothy Hewett. Company B Belvoir, Sydney. April 1. Tickets: $56. Bookings: (02) 9699 3444. Until May 17.
A MAGNIFICENTLY grand play by one of our greatest playwrights in a glorious new production: this show is a triumph for everyone involved.
Dorothy Hewett's play was written as a commission for Western Australia's sesquicentennial celebrations in 1979. It was a contentious choice: Hewett had been the cause of much anguish in her home state. What she produced was a marvellously sweeping carnival celebration of rural traditions, Australian history and of the theatre. Set in a drought-stricken wheat-belt town "with the salt rising", it has two sides: one light and romantic, like...