An astounding production dealing with the very emotional story of changing gender and what it means to live an authentic life. Based on interviews this production takes us through Catherine’s life to explore the issues she has had to deal with as she made her way as a public figure from male to female. It’s personal, raw and very funny. And what a cast!

December 11, 2015 was unseasonably cold in Hobart. I can still recall the snow atop Mount Wellington being rendered all the more incongruous by the presence of the “Calypso Cricketers” from the Caribbean at Bellerive Oval for the opening Test Match of their tour of Australia.

The chill merely compounded my gloom and fatigue. It had been a long, demanding year. Like most of my friends among the cricket media, I had covered the Ashes series in England during the Northern Summer as well as the recently concluded rubber against New Zealand here.

Now the transgender journalist, cricketer and former military officer is the subject of a new play in development at the Sydney Theatre Company.

Acclaimed actor Heather Mitchell will play McGregor in Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story to premiere at the STC in April 2018.

Writer-director Priscilla Jackman wrote the script after she met McGregor in 2015 and was captivated by her life story.

Two years ago, if you’d ask me what I thought of Catherine McGregor, you may well have received a lengthy and self-righteous ear-bashing about any number of issues – “she’s involved in the military, she didn’t support Safe Schools, she likes Tony Abbott, she did this, she said that, I heard that she blah blah blah …”

Two weeks ago I met Cate for the first time during her visit to the rehearsal room for Still Point Turning: the Catherine McGregor Story.

We greeted each other, shook hands, she showed us all some cricket moves, and I all but dissolved into tears of respect and gratitude.

“The tone is heightened-real verging on the poetic. Vercoe, an exceptional communicator, delivers the script… interrupted only by the enigmatic appearance from an opera singer, the universal spirit of motherhood.”
Jason Blake
Sydney Morning Herald

“Angelica is played by Kym Vercoe, an actor full of energy, magnetism and acuity. Under Priscilla Jackman’s direction, Vercoe delivers an astonishing performance rich with insight and emotion. The show’s rhythms shift dynamically and beautifully through the duration… Sophisticated projections by Velinda Wardell are introduced judiciously to add texture, and to inspire our imaginations. It is an involving production that speaks carefully and clearly to its audience.”
Suzy Wrong
Suzy Goes See

“It has a terrifically well created performance from Kym Vercoe as a kind of self-reflective anti-everywoman. Vercoe’s Angelica is fully formed. She engages and the audience with ease, has excellent command of voce and emotion and endows Angelica with a conflicted yet not capricious search for inner peace. Director and Co-creator Priscilla Jackman has foregrounded Vercoe’s exceptional physicality. She jumps and leans and bounces. She shreds at a Mountain, Tree or Warrior Pose and after a little settling she brings out the humour of the piece.”
Judith Greenaway
Sydney Arts Guide

“Who would have thunk it? An opera singer opening a show at the Kings Cross Hotel? It is one of the marvellous conceits and inventions of The Angelica Complex, a thrilling theatrical voyage into pregnancy, post-partum and parenting.”
Richard Cotter
Aus Stage

In 2013 Priscilla was invited as specialist guest on The Weekend Arts Program ABC Radio National to discuss her methods of inspire a passion for Shakespeare amongst young people.

Checkout the interview on the ABC website

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