Joanna Murray-Smith’s Julia is one of the highlights of Sydney Theatre Company’s new season. | gmaddox juliagillard
“Excited and terrified”: Justine Clarke will play Julia Gillard in a new play announced for Sydney Theatre Company’s 2023 season.is described as “an intimate and compelling insight” into the country’s first female prime minister “and a reflection on the experience of women in contemporary politics”. It includes excerpts from the famous speech a decade ago.
Artistic director Kip Williams says Murray-Smith responded to an approach about writing a play on leadership in this country that was also a portrait of Gillard. “She’s creating this extraordinary portrait ... that traverses her full life but really focuses in on the lead-up to the misogyny speech,” he says.
While Murray-Smith has been speaking to Gillard, Williams says, “It’s certainly not the case that this is Julia giving her imprimatur to the piece”, adding: “I think it’s quite healthy for us to have a level of critical distance”.
She sees it as a story about leadership and “about looking back and examining the political and cultural impact of our first female prime minister and the historical moment she represents”.“I think Julia Gillard was born to lead and I’m intrigued by this,” Clarke says. “There is no doubt that her speech and the global attention it brought changed the course of conversation.”, a planned telemovie starring Rachel Griffiths as the former prime minister has never been funded.
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