The Red Room

Kathleen Stewart

Okt 2011 · Bolinda · Kimesimuliwa na Susan Lyons

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Eleanora has had a failed marriage and she lives with her mother, a religious woman. They take in a house boarder. This is all simple enough. Yet the past that slowly reveals itself is eating this family of sorts alive, and draws Eleanora to a room, and a place within herself which she may not survive...

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Kathleen Stewart was born in Sydney in 1958. She is the author of seven novels: The Black Butterfly, The Red Room, Nightflowers, Spilt Milk (shortlisted for the 1995 NSW Premier's Literary Awards), Louis: A Normal Novel, Victim Train, and Waiting Room; and has published two collections of poetry: Snow (shortlisted for the 1994 Banjo Awards and the 1994 Age Book of the Year), and The White Star. Her most recent work The After Life was shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award. She currently resides in the Blue Mountains.

Susan Lyons is an Australian actress whose television appearances include A Country Practice, Police Rescue, Murder Call, Farscape, Something in the Air and All Saints. Her film appearances include Winds of Jarrah, No Worries, Crackers, In a Savage Land, Black and White, Corroboree and Martin Four. She was also an artistic consultant on the 2004 Broadway production of I Am My Own Wife directed by Moisés Kaufman. She is married to Tony Award-winning theatre and film actor Jefferson Mays.