Rachel Griffiths will return to the Australian stage for the first time in 25 years in a new play about artist Clarice Beckett.
At home, her last stage role was in the modern classic Proof at MTC in 2002.
Now they are mostly grown, she feels ready to return to the stage, to tell the kind of distinctly Australian story that motivated her to move home after 20 years in the US.
Beckett all but disappeared from Australian art history after her death in 1935, at the age of 48.
In recent years, Beckett has been celebrated with retrospectives in Geelong in 2023 and Adelaide in 2021.
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It's Griffiths's first stage role since 2012. MTC's 2027 season features six new Australian works, including Clarice; the cricket play, titled Rebels; and a new play by Andrew Bovell about the loved ones of people with substance use disorders.
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Rachel Griffiths will return to the Australian stage for the first time in 25 years in a new play about artist Clarice Beckett.
Next year, the Total Control and Muriel's Wedding actor will star as the artist, considered a visionary of Australian modernism, in the play Clarice at Melbourne Theatre Company.
At home, her last stage role was in the modern classic Proof at MTC in 2002.
For the play's six-month run, Griffith juggled her emotionally charged role with raising her three kids.
Now they are mostly grown, she feels ready to return to the stage, to tell the kind of distinctly Australian story that motivated her to move home after 20 years in the US.
Clarice is one of 11 plays in MTC's 2027 season, which also includes a new Indigenous-led adaptation of sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds and a play exploring how then-prime minister Bob Hawke's reaction to a "rebel" cricket tour to South Africa was one of the catalysts for greater sanctions against the apartheid government.
Beckett all but disappeared from Australian art history after her death in 1935, at the age of 48.
For decades, almost 2,000 of her works were stored in an open-sided farm shed near Benalla in rural Victoria before they were uncovered by curator and art historian Rosalind Hollinrake in 1970.
In recent years, Beckett has been celebrated with retrospectives in Geelong in 2023 and Adelaide in 2021. A touring exhibition of Beckett works collected by the National Gallery of Australia opens in Goulburn on September 25.
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