Published: August 21, 2018
The Harp in the South caused uproar in 1948 for its portrayal of working-class life. Now Sydney Theatre Company has turned it into an epic stage production
A young woman named Roie, an Irish Catholic progeny of the slums of Sydney’s Surry Hills, is sick with terror in a hospital examination ward. Pregnant, she lies on a high table as male student doctors in white coats crowd around her, staring. “What are they doing here?” she whispers. When she is told the young doctors are there to learn, she shuts her eyes tight.
“No one would dream of subjecting a rich man’s wife to clinical rape,” wrote author Ruth Park, “but the poor man’s wife was different.”
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2OVsY1X
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