Event Description
- Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes – including interval.
- Content advice: Mature themes, sexual references and theatrical haze.
Miles Franklin’s classic novel as you’ve never seen it before, with a live soundtrack that’s equal parts contemporary pop, folksy bush band and barnstorming pub rock.
Beloved by audiences and showered with five-star reviews, 'My Brilliant Career' was Melbourne’s most in-demand ticket in 2024. “Brimming with abundant heart and soul” (Time Out), this uniquely Australian story has captivated a new generation and will have its Sydney premiere in 2026.
The “outrageously talented” (Australian Stage) Kala Gare plays Sybylla Melvyn, a fiercely intelligent and individual young woman in 1890's Australia who rallies against the idea that her ambition should start and end at finding a wealthy husband. Forced to choose between romance and her career, a family and a future that she defines, she decides she’s having it all.
With a joyfully fresh adaptation by Sheridan Harbridge, Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank, expert direction by Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, and stunning set and costume design by Olivier and Tony Award-winner Marg Horwell (The Picture of Dorian Gray), My Brilliant Career transforms an iconic literary figure into an effervescent rockstar heroine for the modern age.”
- A New Musical Based on the Novel by Miles Franklin
- Book by Sheridan Harbridge and Dean Bryant
- Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
- Music: Mathew Frank and Lyrics by Dean Bryant
- Cast includes: Cameron Bajraktarevic-Hayward, Lincoln Elliott, Victoria Falconer, Kala Gare, Raj Labade, Ana Mitsikas, Christina O’Neill and Jarrad Payne
