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Margaret Harvey (actress)

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Margaret Harvey
Occupation(s)Actor, Writer, Thinker, Director

Margaret Harvey is an Australian writer, director, thinker and performer.[1] She is of Saibai Island blood and English heritage and is passionate in the reclamation of Indigenous narratives that support the continued survival, dignity and well-being of a people. For her performance in RAN Remote Area Nurse she was nominated for the 2006 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama.[2]

Harvey has a successful stage career,[3] both as an actor and as a director. In 2005 she played Medea in Belvoir Street Theatre's Black Medea, Wesley Enoch's reworking of Medea.[4][5][6] In 2022 she directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for State Theatre Company South Australia, giving it a new subtext by "colour-conscious casting".[7][8][9]

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  1. ^ "'Who's afraid of the truth?' — An Indigenous director tackles an American classic". abc.net.au. ABC Radio. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Suburban Mayhem sweeps AFI's", The Age, 20 October 2006
  3. ^ Margaret Harvey, AusStage
  4. ^ Black Medea, AusStage
  5. ^ Richardson, Owen (22 May 2005), "Black Medea", The Age
  6. ^ McCallum, John (15 April 2005), "Mum could kill for some peace", The Australia
  7. ^ McDonald, Patrick (18 September 2021), "Woolf in racial clothing", SA Weekend
  8. ^ Cathcart, Michael (7 September 2021), "'Who's afraid of the truth?' — An Indigenous director tackles an American classic", ABC Radio National
  9. ^ Keen, Suzie (22 September 2021), "Finding fresh truths in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", INreview
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