Mark Colvin's Kidney

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Mark Colvin's Kidney is a stage play by playwright Tommy Murphy.

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Plot

The Sydney Morning Herald journalist Andrew Taylor described the play in a recent article: "Mary-Ellen Field's kidney is one of the better known body parts in Australia. Its new owner, veteran ABC journalist Mark Colvin, is one of this country's more notable organ recipients. Field is also notorious as the business advisor sacked by Elle Macpherson for allegedly leaking information about the supermodel that was later found to have been obtained through phone hacking.

Their relationship offered a dramatic arc that attracted playwright Tommy Murphy. "This is a story about a radio journalist who reaches out to an interviewee on Twitter, a woman who has been the victim of intrusions into her privacy via hacking," Murphy says. "For the most part they are pen pals, via new technologies. And then she saves his life." [1]

Premiere production

The play opened at Sydney's Belvoir on 25 February – 2 April 2017. [2] The director for the premiere production was David Berthold.

John Howard played Mark Colvin. Sarah Peirse was Mary-Ellen Field. Helen Thomson played Elle Macpherson and other roles. Peter Carroll, Kit Esuruoso and Christopher Stollery played multiple roles. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Taylor, Andrew (September 2, 2016). "Belvoir's 2017 season seeks to provide an antidote to grim times". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Mark Colvin's Kidney". Belvoir. June 20, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
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