‘Love, hate and stench’: Marta Dusseldorp and Essie Davis unite for Genet’s The Maids

In an arts scene upended by the pandemic, two of Australia’s queens of the screen have returned to their theatrical roots

“The dominoes just fell,” Marta Dusseldorp says in her distinctive, dry timbre. She’s remembering the early days of the pandemic, when job after job in her industry toppled.

The star of Janet King and A Place to Call Home sits with her latest co-star, Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, True History of the Kelly Gang), in a light-filled corner of Hobart’s heritage Detached Gallery during a rehearsal break. Soon they’ll appear on stage together, for the first time, in a production of Jean Genet’s The Maids.

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