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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation when I'm.

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Speaker 2: On a school line last night and I never do

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Speaker 2: and it reminded me about how great it is to

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Speaker 2: do it. I wanted to see a show at the

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Speaker 2: Opera House, but I met my friend Catherine beforehand at

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Speaker 2: the Opera bar. Chokers, people everywhere, eating, drinking. There's a

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Speaker 2: whole life that because of these crazy hours we do,

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Speaker 2: I never see during the week.

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Speaker 1: It was so nice and what did you see?

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Speaker 2: Well, this was an extraordinary show that I've heard so

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Speaker 2: much about and I really wondered how does it work.

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Speaker 2: It's called RBG of Many One. It's a story of

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Speaker 2: Ruth Beata Ginsburg. It's a one woman show with one

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Speaker 2: of Australia's most fabulous actresses, Heather Mitchell. And this is

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Speaker 2: a tour de force. I think it is one of

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Speaker 2: the best things I have ever seen. And it starts

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Speaker 2: with Ruth Bata Ginsburg, who was the only the second

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Speaker 2: woman ever to join the Supreme Court in the US

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Speaker 2: and she was so instrumental in advocating for gender equality

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Speaker 2: for reproductive rights. She served well into her eighties I think.

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Speaker 2: Actually she was seventy nine, I think. But she made

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Speaker 2: so many she was part of so many landmark decisions

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Speaker 2: to help women. It was quite her tenure was quite extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: But this one woman show, it's just Heather and it

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Speaker 2: is amazing. It begins with her waiting for President Clinton

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Speaker 2: to phone her to see whether she's made it onto

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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court bench, and then it goes back through

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Speaker 2: other parts of her life and then Heather, I don't

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Speaker 2: know how she does it. She can walk across the

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Speaker 2: stage and then just come back as an eighty year

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Speaker 2: old woman.

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Speaker 1: What's it with a costume change? Like a bit of

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Speaker 1: a stoop?

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Speaker 2: Yes, walking physically just so different, but it's so emotional.

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Speaker 2: And when you look at the term all America is

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Speaker 2: in now with a Supreme Court because this is what happens.

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Speaker 2: You serve while you are able, and if that's till

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Speaker 2: the day you die, then that's to the day you die.

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Speaker 2: And they cover in this she has a meeting with

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Speaker 2: so she joins the bench during Clinton's tenure. Then she

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Speaker 2: has a meeting with Obama, and she's the only performer

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Speaker 2: on stage kind of embodies their voices as well to say,

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Speaker 2: here's what happened, and Obama was saying delicately pretty much

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Speaker 2: to her. Look you're getting really old. If you die

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Speaker 2: when Obama's tenure is up, then what if a Republican

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Speaker 2: gets in, they get to a point someone they want

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Speaker 2: on the Supreme Court. And she says, I've still got

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Speaker 2: so much work to do. So she said, stuff you,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to keep I'm going to stay alive and

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Speaker 2: keep working. And then of course Donald Trump gets in,

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Speaker 2: and so she's trying so hard to stay alive to

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Speaker 2: the end of his reign and of his four years,

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Speaker 2: so that he doesn't get to a point her predecessor.

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Speaker 2: And of course she dies forty days before the end,

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Speaker 2: and he puts Amy Comy. I think her name is

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Speaker 2: in there. And so the whole balance shifted. Reproductive rights

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Speaker 2: have ring recalled. Roe v. Wade is being recoiled, recalled.

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Speaker 2: The whole Supreme Court has shifted so diametrically to the right.

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Speaker 2: And this is what you see during her tenure, Ruth

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Speaker 2: Bader Ginsburg, is that the Republicans and the Democrats admired

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Speaker 2: each other's brains on the Supreme Court. They all they

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Speaker 2: all enjoyed the feistiness of their discussions. It's so splintered now.

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Speaker 2: So this was an incredible moment of history. It's written

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Speaker 2: by an Australian woman, Heather Mitchell. It's the role of

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Speaker 2: a lifetime. It's on till the thirtieth of March at

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Speaker 2: the Opera House. If you get a chance, go and

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Speaker 2: see it. It was so incredible and emotional and amazing.

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Speaker 2: Really my best night of theater I've ever had.

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Speaker 1: Son's sent in One Woman in Place since I saw

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Speaker 1: Shirley Valentine with Amanda Mankleton. Yeah, like I remember like

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Speaker 1: seeing it like and she was great up. But there's

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Speaker 1: a bit where you come back at half time she's

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Speaker 1: just in the news.

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Speaker 2: It is unusual because in the actual movie her moment

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Speaker 2: of liberation happens right at the end of the film,

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Speaker 2: with that moment of jumping off the boat. When you

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Speaker 2: come back at half time, you don't expect to.

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Speaker 1: See her came back from the chock top.

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Speaker 2: Jeez, I thought you'd walked into the wrong theater. When

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Speaker 2: I saw it, there was a drunk guy. Actually maybe

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Speaker 2: it was the same night as you a sleep in front.

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Speaker 2: He wakes up having been asleep for most of the

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Speaker 2: play to see a naked woman in front of him.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't just thought he'd gone to heaven.