My Brilliant Career review – a joyously angry take on Stella 'Miles' Franklin's complicated legacy

Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
New stage adaptation sees Nikki Shiels inhabit Franklin’s heroine Sybylla in storm of wild romantic adolescence

My Brilliant Career is a joyously angry work – and a new adaptation for the stage by Kendall Feaver is bringing that anger to life. Here before us at Sydney’s Belvoir, so alive and hungry to be heard, is Sybylla Melvyn (Nikki Shiels), the young dreamer with a cloud of strawberry curls and a tempest of moods who wants more from life. She wants to be an artist (a pianist, an actor, a writer), not a wife or a mother. She wants to travel the world – or at least to Sydney – but Sybylla is the eldest daughter of a struggling family in rural New South Wales, where opportunities are few.

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