The Toorak Rules

13/11/2019

Love, loyalty and conflict across two generations.
The Catholic/Protestant divide and emerging feminism in the Menzies era.

In Post-War Melbourne the separation between Catholics and Protestants was reflected in separate schools, clubs, political parties and businesses. Those who crossed that divide often faced huge obstacles, and paid a heavy price.

What’s on the dark side of the moon?
What’s on the dark side of a parent?t

THE TOORAK RULES - St Martin's Theatre - Irene Mitchell Studio from Wednesday 13 November 2019 to Sunday 24 November 2019
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13/11/2019

Douglas Wilkinson (played by James Martin) is Catherine and Richard's only son. He is a friendly, naive, honest young man learning to sell real estate in Toorak.
Annie Brophy (played by Amy Leigh Raffe) is the youngest child of Jack Brophy. She is sweet natured and has a considerable wit, inner strength and great sense of purpose.
It's the relationship between Douglas and Annie that really heats up the action in the play.
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12/11/2019

Meet Claire Nichols who plays the role of 'Edwina Wilkinson' in THE TOORAK RULES.
Edwina is Richard and Catherine Wilkinson's eldest child. She is a robust, left-wing school teacher who, unlike her parents, is moving with the times towards a more liberal and tolerant society. She likes to shock!
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Wednesday 13 November - Sunday 24 November 2019

12/11/2019

Meet Ezra Bix who plays the role of 'Tommy Fraser' in THE TOORAK RULES.
Tommy is an ex RAF, and a war hero. He is a well educated, charming Englishman who has unfortunately been badly bruised by life. Tommy has a secret that is about to be exposed.
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Wednesday 13 November - Sunday 24 November 2019

11/11/2019

'I was born in 1945. I do not think anyone from my generation could write a play such as this one without thinking of their own family. I certainly did. Whilst it is true that I knew people who resembled most of the characters in my play, it is nonetheless a work of fiction. But writing it did cause me to reflect both on the secrets that my parents harboured, and how the society I knew actually functioned through the late 1950s and early 1960s. Indeed, I came to realise just how very far we have come from those days. And a good thing, too!' - Andrew Joseph, Writer - THE TOORAK RULES
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Opens Wednesday, Nov 13 - Sunday, Nov 24

10/11/2019

Meet Darren Mort who plays the role of 'Jack Brophy' in THE TOORAK RULES.
Jack is an Irish Catholic family man who becomes involved in a bitter dispute with 'Richard Wilkinson', a staunch Protestant, over the most primal of interactions.
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Wednesday 13 November - Sunday 24 November 2019

06/11/2019

Meet Richard Wilkinson, played by Alec Gilbert actor, a former RAF squadron leader and Battle of Britain hero, businessman, politically minded, pragmatic and conservative.

06/11/2019

So what happened when, against a background of a fundamental divide between Catholics and non-Catholics, two families, one catholic and one not, clash over the most primal interactions? Come along and find out!

Love, loyalty and conflict across two generations. The Catholic/Protestant divide and emerging feminism in the Menzies era. In Post-War Melbourne the separation between Catholics and Protestants was reflected in separate schools, clubs, political parties and businesses. Those who crossed that divide...

04/11/2019

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31/10/2019

Anita Torrence plays Catherine Wilkinson in 'The Toorak Rules'
Catherine has carefully chosen a husband based on prudence rather than romance and hides a very dark secret.