Within a year the 25-year-old Australian playwright will have premiered three works on main stages from Melbourne to London
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King is on a tight schedule. This year alone, the 25-year-old’s plays have taken her to opposite sides of the world: from London’s Royal Courthouse, where she premiered her first full-length play, White Pearl, to the Melbourne Theatre Company, where The Golden Shield has just finished up its run. To put it in King’s own words, it’s been “fucking crazy”.
Now, King’s in rehearsals for two shows simultaneously: Slaughterhouse (part of Belvoir Downstairs’ independent programming, 25A) and the Australian premiere of White Pearl, a co-production between Sydney Theatre Company and the National Theatre of Parramatta. That’s where I catch her, as she’s describing her daily commuting plans between theatre venues at two ends of Sydney, as – most simply – “cooked”.
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