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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Sirrho begins at the heath Ledger Theater tomorrow and runs

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Speaker 2: until March the fifth. You can get your tickets through

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Speaker 2: black Swantheater dot com dot au and joining us now.

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Speaker 2: The star of the show, Jold Jackson, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning. How are you both? You're good? Good good.

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Speaker 2: No, there are some people who think I don't know

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Speaker 2: anything about Sereno de Bergerak, And yet you do because

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Speaker 2: you might have seen Roxanne.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you do know about Sarah Yeah, and even the

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Speaker 3: more recent one with Peter Dinkline. But it was all

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Speaker 3: the musical elements. It was great. But I before I

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Speaker 3: even got this role in Sirina, I was watching Roxanne

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Speaker 3: with like mates and stuff around before like a holiday.

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Speaker 3: What is this? What is this? This is great? What's

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Speaker 3: this based on something that was in the eighteen fifties?

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, so this is seminal literature? Oh cool, But

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Speaker 3: it's so much of it has been used throughout other

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Speaker 3: literature and through other stories, and that that story of

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Speaker 3: the thing of going using somebody else to seduce somebody

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Speaker 3: and using their body with your language and teaming up

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Speaker 3: and how that isn't ever going to end well, and

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Speaker 3: all those things. So it's it's very fun to make

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Speaker 3: it a bit more modern and to put some music

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Speaker 3: to it and bring it to Perth.

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Speaker 1: Oh very nice. I saw a bus back sign for

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Speaker 1: this and ad for this show, and I saw Virginia

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Speaker 1: Go's face. And she's much loved in Perth, not just

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Speaker 1: for all saints and winners and losers, but she's come

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Speaker 1: quite a bit for Telethon. So tell us about how

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Speaker 1: much work she's put in for this one. Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: I was watching a bunch of interviews of her just

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Speaker 3: yesterday to kind of actually get prepared for this, to

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Speaker 3: actually pay homage to her. She's an amazing writer, actor,

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Speaker 3: entertainer in every sense of the word. She is a

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Speaker 3: beast of theater, a beast of what we do. You

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Speaker 3: walk into a room and treade the boards with her,

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Speaker 3: and you quake not only with not only with trepidation,

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Speaker 3: but with excitement.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. But her story about how

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Speaker 3: this came to be, she wrote this adaptation.

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Speaker 2: She was she flipped Sarah and I she is Roxander

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Speaker 2: is still Roxanne.

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Speaker 3: Roxanne is still rock Sanne. I am Christy Yann and

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Speaker 3: you're young And so she was watching James McAvoy perform

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Speaker 3: cyen Oda Burgerack in London, which he ended up winning

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Speaker 3: like the Olivier Awards or something for and two scenes

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Speaker 3: in she goes, I've got to play that role. But

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Speaker 3: in order to do that, the story changes, and in

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Speaker 3: order to do that, I need to write it. So

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Speaker 3: she went back and started writing it all and inevitably

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Speaker 3: came across that thing where Cyrano's body is stopping him

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Speaker 3: from being the best version of himself or getting everything

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Speaker 3: that he wants because of his large extremities.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's conscious.

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Speaker 3: But as Virginia started to write it, she realized that

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Speaker 3: inside of her version, it's actually from the female perspective.

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Speaker 3: There's a real modern thing of going. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 3: an incredible writer, fighter, poet, speaker, entertainer, leader, but there's

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Speaker 3: something in me or my body is stopping me from

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Speaker 3: actually getting everything that I want. And so there's this beautiful,

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Speaker 3: beautiful modern twist of actuality where audiences in Melbourne were

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Speaker 3: coming out weeping because it's this idea of speaking to

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Speaker 3: a modern affliction rather than it being something that is

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Speaker 3: you know, a nose is an extremity, sure, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: without the nose. We don't have any strange prosthetics, which

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Speaker 3: is great. It puts it onto the character and you

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Speaker 3: can really empathize with it all. So it's a very heartfelt,

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Speaker 3: raucous piece that she's that's impact, that's unreal. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: really special. You sit around and you read it when

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Speaker 3: we did line reads, and everyone's like, Okay, that's.

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Speaker 2: A great story. And it's great story for anyone likes words.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a real wordy show.

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Speaker 1: I like it, yeah, and I'm a word nerd.

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Speaker 3: So there's the whole sequences of people just going what's

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Speaker 3: your favorite word? But then there's a yeah, and then

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Speaker 3: there's this beautiful thing of my character Christianne hates words. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know it has and I'm complete opposit, but Roxanne

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Speaker 3: loves him. He loves rox Ham. But there's this also

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Speaker 3: great explanation of people who who go to theater and

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Speaker 3: sometimes feel left out, Like the player is so aware

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Speaker 3: that it's theater. So my guy has this beautiful piece

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Speaker 3: where it's like I just don't get it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: don't understand why, Like I get bodies, I do this thing,

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Speaker 3: but why is that necessary? You know? So there's this

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Speaker 3: great meeting of the minds and people, all people who

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Speaker 3: love theatre, regardless of it for the words or the

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Speaker 3: physical entertainments. It ticks all the boxes.

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Speaker 2: No, you're not just in town for sir, and oh

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Speaker 2: you're in town for Katie Steele as well. Our first

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Speaker 2: family of music. They are you, Katie and the per

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Speaker 2: Symphony Orchestra.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm still pinching myself every time that somebody says

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Speaker 3: it to me. I'm like, I'm going to get a

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Speaker 3: phone call saying I signed the wrong contract and it's

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Speaker 3: not going to go ahead because I've been playing live

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Speaker 3: music for fifteen years and mainly doing cover gigs. Three

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Speaker 3: are sets at pubs four nights a week and case

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Speaker 3: o mate play flame trees. Nice Dad would always come

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Speaker 3: to sets and just be like, play free all the time,

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Speaker 3: all the time. The primary school principle at Karthas saying

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Speaker 3: like Kartha High would just come in and be like, mate,

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Speaker 3: play freeback, sit down you. So this is like for me,

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Speaker 3: it's it's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful opportunity to finally get

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Speaker 3: your music the way that you want it to be

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Speaker 3: heard and to be seated in a theater with you know, however,

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Speaker 3: many I think it's a nine hundred seater theater to

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Speaker 3: be able to have the opportunity of a wall of

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Speaker 3: sound of music that you've created. We haven't heard the

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Speaker 3: arrangements yet, right, And the tickets are only they start

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Speaker 3: at forty five dollars, So that for a ticket to

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Speaker 3: see an orchestra, Yeah, that's so accessible, and to see

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Speaker 3: even Katie Steele. So I'm I'm kind of waking up

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Speaker 3: every day and going, yeah, okay, practice practice.

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Speaker 1: Here, yeah, bitter, pitch yourself, pitch yourself.

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Speaker 3: But also like you've been working towards this for a

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Speaker 3: very long time, and it's I can't wait to see that.

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Speaker 2: The ASTA Theater is a beautiful old theater, just full

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Speaker 2: of you know, feeling. In fact, does driving I drive

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Speaker 2: past the aster when I'm driving to work, and they

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Speaker 2: were up with a bit of scaffolding, doing a bit

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Speaker 2: of work. They must be doing it in preparation of

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Speaker 2: you and Katie.

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Speaker 3: I think they're doing it for Katie ye rolling out

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Speaker 3: all the stuff, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, putting up some big names.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like no Cholls played in pubs and Bloody.

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Speaker 2: String Sessions is at the theater March twenty nine. Tickets

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Speaker 2: for that one is through through tic Tech and tickets

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Speaker 2: through black Swan Theater dot com dot Au for Syrno,

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Speaker 2: which begins at the heath Ledge of Theater tomorrow and

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Speaker 2: runs until March fifth. Thank you for coming in.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having the wonderful chat.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know, I always lovely the chat. And while

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Speaker 1: you've got the MI, I don't know if it's a

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Speaker 1: permanent fixture. You have to do, you have to play

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Speaker 1: or Flynn it's going to work.

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Speaker 3: They've already made I know, not very well because my

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Speaker 3: ex girlfriend's brother played in Yeah, and so it's always

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Speaker 3: this point of contention because I'm like, could have done that?

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Speaker 3: Goodnes See. Thanksgag