By Jodie Symonds
The Memo will welcome Hannie Rayson to the stage on Wednesday 5 April – and she’s got some big stories to tell.
The Melbourne award-winning playwright and newspaper columnist will bring her hilarious, yet intriguing performance, Hello Beautiful, to Healesville.
Rayson wrote successful playwrights including Hotel Sorrento and Life after George.
She told ‘The Mail’, the stories in Hello Beautiful date back to her childhood in 1960s suburbia, share-houses in Fitzroy and the book is based on her 2015 memoir of the same name.
“It’s just a whole series of funny stories and things that have happened,” Rayson said.
Hello Beautiful is told through 43 vignettes.
“People always said to me that I should make Hello Beautiful into a show,” Rayson said.
“It’s very direct, and intimate.”
Rayson appeared at the Culture Tracks launch on Monday 5 February and said she cannot wait to be back in Healesville.
“I just loved being at The Memo and I thought it’s such a great use of a memorial hall,” she said.
For more information, or to book, visit www.ach.yarraranges.vic.gov.au
