Image: Looking through a crystal ball by artist Simon Bond.
Like most Australians of her generation Hannie Rayson grew up believing her own sense of culture was not a valid subject for art. That changed but, the way she sees it, it is danger of changing back.
Rayson, who went on to pen some of Australia’s most renowned plays including Hotel Sorrento, Inheritance and Life After George, grew up thinking the theatre was a place for somewhere else. ‘If you wanted to understand the profundity of the human condition, that only happened in Russia in a Chekhov play or in a Jean Genet play in a French prison or in an Ibsen play in a Norwegian lounge room.
