Programmed into Belvoirs 1993 season and directed by Rosalbe Clemente, Radiance was a box-office hit. Five years later, the big-screen adaptation made a star of Deborah Mailman, who for her performance became the first Indigenous woman to win an AFI Award. Now, 22 years after its debut, Radiance is getting a second life at Belvoir, where it is being hailed as an exuberant black sabbath for three great Indigenous dames. But it was never meant to be, Rhoda Roberts says. Radiance is an accidental Aboriginal classic. We just wanted to show we could act, Roberts says. At that time, we were getting a lot of acting work but it was all about the missions or it was showing Aboriginal women as victims, or lazy or drunks. We wanted better roles than that. We wanted to perform in a psychological drama that was universal and not just about being black. Radiance opens on Wednesday at Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney!
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 03:05:44 +0000
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